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Kristen Laina White

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Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Canyon Bicycles GmbH
📍 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Kristen is the Chief Digital Officer at Canyon Bicycles, leveraging over 25 years of experience from her time at Nike and Estée Lauder. She specializes in digital transformation, e-commerce, and customer experience, and holds a Bachelors degree from Boston University. Colleagues describe her as extremely smart and a true digital native.

Kristens social media activity reveals a strong passion for professional cycling, regularly posting about major tours and celebrating the athletes and teams her company supports. This suggests her professional role aligns with a personal interest in the sport and its culture.

During her tenure as VP/GM at Nike, she drove a 4X increase in digital commerce revenue into the billions.

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Experience
29 Years
Current Role
Chief Digital Officer (CDO)
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Digital Transformation
A core theme of her career, she led digital transformation at scale for over a decade at Nike and now brings that experience to Canyon Bicycles.
DTC E-Commerce
Her entire career, from Nike to her current CDO role at direct-to-consumer brand Canyon, is focused on building and scaling digital commerce platforms.
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Career

Work history

8-2024
Chief Digital Officer (CDO)
Canyon Bicycles GmbH
8-2023 - 7-2024
VP Digital Commerce, Marketing and Data, EMEIA
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
1-2018 - 11-2022
VP/GM NIKE Digital Commerce (DTC), EMEA
Nike
9-2016 - 1-2018
Sr. Director, Digital Commerce Platform Growth, EMEA
Nike
7-2014 - 9-2016
Sr. Director, Global Digital User Experience
Nike
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Canyon Bicycles hires former Nike digital specialist as CDO. Featured in OI Compass
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Education
9-1992 - 1-1996
Bachelor's degree
Boston University
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