In a rare public reprimand, chairman Johann Rupert told Richemont employees and managers at a town hall meeting last month that he had dismissed the idea of the luxury group recruiting a "chief happiness officer".
The plan had been floated a few weeks earlier on LinkedIn by Patricia Gandji, who has been Richemont's human resources director for the past four years.
Richemont's Chief People Officer suffered another setback with the July announcement of the departure of Cartier CEO Cyrille Vigneron. Gandji
