Vincent Perriard

Watch brand HYT (Hydro Mechanical Horologists), launched in 2012, is managed by five partners, with Vincent Perriard as their CEO. A graduate of the Neuchâtel business school, he started out working for communications group Trimedia before joining Audemars Piguet in 1995 as communications director. He moved to Hamilton in 1999 as international vice-president for marketing, and in 2000 became one of the co-founders of the Brand DNA agency, working as its CEO for six years. After a spell as president of Concord Watch and then CEO of TechnoMarine, Vincent Perriard was seduced by the revolutionary HYT project in 2011, where he was CEO until 2016.