Business: Interview / Geneva
Person of interest
With a CV boasting leadership positions at leading luxury brands, Chabi Nouri has made a big leap to take on a new role as a private equity partner with Mirabaud. She explains why there’s money to be made from sustainability.
It’s a suffocatingly hot July day in Geneva when monocle arrives at the immaculately kept headquarters of the Mirabaud Group private bank. The few people outside who haven’t escaped for the summer are in beachwear, but five floors up, in an expensive-looking (and mercifully air-conditioned) conference room that points towards the lake, Chabi Nouri is a picture of composure in an emerald jumpsuit.
Her CV is just as eye-catching. Nouri spent 24 years working for heavyweight luxury brands and most of that time with the Richemont Group, one of the…