Gilles Redard, Sixt’s former fleet manager, will become OK Mobility Group’s new Chief Supply Chain Officer. Redard will therefore lead the new Supply Chain team, which was created to encompass the vehicle’s entire life cycle with the greatest vertical integration possible.
The new Chief Supply Chain Officer, a completely innovative position in the mobility sector, will offer 360 degree vision of all disruptive business which characterises OK, and his scope of action will be international. The company is currently present in 6 countries: Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, France and Greece, and new destinations will be added soon.
Othman Ktiri, OK Mobility Group’s Founder and President assures that “Redard’s experience and professionalism will allow us to continue to make continuous improvements to our processes, to achieve greater efficiency and efficacy when managing our fleet. The creation of a unique and exclusive Supply Chain will allow us, on the one hand, to continue to make progress in our vertical integration “from the right source to the Retail door”; and on the other hand, to boost our current geographical expansion plan”.
The new Chief Supply Chain Officer, Gilles Redard, is very keen to be a part of the OK Mobility Group. “I’ve followed their spectacular evolution for a while now. I am excited to join this project, which is the most exciting of its kind at the moment in the mobility sector, and I am keen to contribute towards making OK Mobility the number 1 mobility provider in Europe in under a decade”.
Having completed his studies at the Institut Supérieur de Gestión de París, France, Gilles Redard started to work in Auditing. He then went on to manage different centres of the company Norauto, which was in its expansion phase in Spain. Attracted by the rent a car sector, he spent several years working in Hertz Spain, where he ended up supervising the area of Maintenance and buy back.
He joined Sixt Spain in 2007 as Fleet Manager, and has worked there ever since. He has made a significant contribution to the German company’s spectacular development.