About
About Simone Gibertoni
A career across strategy, beauty, genetics, luxury, hospitality and health.
I am Simone Gibertoni, CEO of Clinique La Prairie and co-founder of Clinique La Prairie Holistic Health.
My route here was not a straight line: banking, then a decade in strategy and organisational consulting for Italian and international companies, then general management and chief executive roles in cosmetics and innovation, businesses built in Asia, and finally health. Finance taught me discipline, consulting taught me structure, cosmetics taught me product, brand and the consumer. Health added a deeper responsibility: the possibility of changing a human life.
What connects those experiences is an interest in how ideas become businesses, how businesses become institutions, and how institutions remain relevant as the world changes.
Since 2016 I have led Clinique La Prairie. The work has involved developing the Montreux flagship, expanding internationally with Health Resorts and Longevity Hubs, creating Clinique La Prairie Holistic Health and supporting the Longevity Fund. The three things I would name, in order, are building the right team, concentrating the company on longevity as its core philosophy, and taking a ninety-year-old Swiss institution abroad.
I am not a physician or a scientist. My contribution is strategic and operational: bringing together experts, teams, capital, brand and execution.
Alongside my executive roles I write, teach, invest and speak about longevity, leadership, brand building and business transformation. I hold a degree in economics from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. I live in Switzerland with my family, and I try to live by what I believe: consistency over intensity, an hour every morning for movement, meditation and thinking, and the question I ask myself most often, how can I be useful?
How I work
Five operating principles
Curiosity
Look beyond the conventions of one industry. Curiosity is a form of vitality.
Growth
Whoever stops growing starts moving backwards.
Responsibility
Give important work a clear owner, and lead by example: ask nothing you would not do yourself.
High standards
Maintain high expectations without losing respect for people. What matters is an upward trajectory.
Long-term thinking
Build institutions, not temporary successes.
In their words
What colleagues and friends have said
“Finally I think I need only one word to fully express the great regard I have for him. I trust Simone.”
Adrian ZechaFounder of Aman Resorts, GHM and Azerai
“I have always been impressed by Simone’s wide curiosity for and foresight into the changes taking place in the business world.”
Stéphane GirodProfessor of Strategy and Organizational Innovation, IMD
“A combination of skills and humanity rare in this ever changing world.”
Sue Harmsworth MBEFounder of ESPA
Quotations as published on simonegibertoni.com.
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