René founded Lepaya, with the global ambition to provide high impact soft skill trainings at the career points professionals on a measurable blended way. Prior to that, René was Executive Vice President at Lazada Group, the globally fastest growing e-commerce Group which was aquired by the Alibaba Group. Rene was responsible for HR (5000+ employees in 8 countries). He oversaw all aspects of human resource management, learning and development, practices and operations for the organization.

His career began at the Boston Consulting Group, where he specialized in emerging markets strategy / go-to-market, as well as strategy execution. He worked across Africa, Middle East, Asia and Europe.