Nadine Pichelot

Chief Financial Officer Akeneo

Last Reviewed: September 27, 2026

Executive Summary

Nadine Pichelot is Chief Financial Officer of Akeneo, the product information and product experience software company whose customers include brands and retailers such as CarParts.com, Arc’teryx, DSW and TaylorMade. Akeneo appointed her in November 2023 to build the infrastructure and processes for profitable, sustainable growth. She came from Anaplan, the planning software company, where she held senior finance roles from 2015, and before that from a long career in finance and operations at large American technology groups including Apple, Cisco and Dell, followed by a move to the much smaller company Cloudwatt.

Career Highlights

• Chief Financial Officer of Akeneo since November 2023, listed on the company’s executive team.
• Senior Vice President of Finance at Anaplan, having joined in 2015 as Vice President of Finance for EMEA.
• At Anaplan her remit extended beyond finance, accounting and controlling to legal, purchasing and human resources.
• Around 25 years in finance and operations leadership before Anaplan, including at Apple, Cisco and Dell.
• Moved from those large groups to Cloudwatt, a much smaller company, before joining Anaplan.

Professional Journey

Pichelot built her career in the finance and operations functions of large American technology companies. A biography published with her writing describes some 25 years in leadership roles at groups such as Apple, Cisco and Dell, where she says she learned rigour in execution and teamwork. She then moved to Cloudwatt, a far smaller business, where finance had to create structure and value rather than run inside an established machine.

She joined Anaplan in 2015 as Vice President of Finance for the EMEA region. The role was broad: alongside finance, accounting and management control she was responsible for legal, purchasing and human resources, aligning talent with the company’s strategic aims. She was later Senior Vice President of Finance, the title she held when writing about women in finance leadership in April 2023.

Akeneo appointed her Chief Financial Officer in November 2023, announcing it the following month alongside a new Chief Product Officer. The company, which lists co-founders Fred de Gombert and Benoit Jacquemont among its leaders alongside chief executive Romain Fouache, said at the time that it had more than 850 customers worldwide, including CarParts.com, Arc’teryx, DSW, Nautica, TaylorMade and Chico’s, had more than doubled its US business in 2023 and had acquired Unifai, an AI platform for product data enrichment. Her brief, in the company’s words, was to support Akeneo through its next phase by implementing the infrastructure and processes that support profitable and sustainable growth.

Education

No education record was found in a first-party source.