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Axel Adida

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Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Beiersdorf
📍 Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Axel Adida is the Chief Digital Officer at Beiersdorf, driving digital transformation for iconic skincare brands like Nivea and Eucerin. His career spans leadership roles at Sanofi, BCG, and LOréal, consistently focusing on leveraging technology and data to align major consumer brands with modern consumer behaviors. He holds masters degrees from EDHEC, ESCP, and CentraleSupélec.

Axel has been a technology enthusiast since childhood, falling in love with an Apple II at age 10 and later launching two software startups. He is now an active angel investor, backing promising founders and ideas with a focus on companies that disrupt established markets through innovative branding, fresh products, and digital traction.

Unique fact: At the age of 8, Axel attended his first-ever search engine training.

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Experience
28 Years
Current Role
Chief Digital Officer (CDO)
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Digital Transformation
His entire career is built on leading large-scale digital transformations for global consumer goods companies like L'Oréal, Sanofi, and now Beiersdorf.
Iconic Consumer Brands
He specializes in evolving heritage brands such as Nivea and Eucerin for the digital age, focusing on making them "Digital Love Brands. "
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Career

Work history

6-2022
Chief Digital Officer (CDO)
Beiersdorf
3-2011
Angel Investment
Crispian bros
1-2013 - 2-2014
Advisor
Crispian bros
1-2021 - 6-2022
Head Of Digital
Sanofi
12-2019 - 12-2020
Senior Advisor
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
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Media appearances

269. Axel Adida, Chief Digital Officer at Beiersdorf: The Zeitgeist. Featured in YouTube
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Beiersdorf's Axel Adida on Global Commerce Shifts. Featured in ADWEEK
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Education
1990 - 1993
Master in management
EDHEC Business School
2004 - 2005
Master
ESCP Business School
1993 - 1994
Master
CentraleSupélec
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