
Global Consumer, Media, and Licensing CEO Across Asia and North America
The operator behind the coach
Jonathan Seliger is a three-time multinational luxury goods CEO in Asia, a start-up CEO who sold his company to WeWork, and an advisor and investor with more than 30 years of experience, most of it spent living and working in Asia.
As Managing Director of Richemont Asia Pacific, the world’s second largest luxury goods group, and later as President & CEO of Coach China, he built and led multinational brands through rapid growth, scaling Coach China from $40 million to $500 million in four years. He then became CEO of the largest PE-backed co-working operator in Asia and sold the business to WeWork for $500 million. As Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, he supported the deployment of capital and value creation across the fund’s consumer portfolio in Asia.
His areas of expertise are scaling high-growth brands and businesses, strategy, operations, digitization, and business development.
Jon is an active angel investor in several start-ups across Asia and North America, serves on the Advisory Board of Geneva-based Digital Luxury Group, and is an investor and NED with YouKuai Group, a leading plant-based protein business in China. Jon joined the Board of Lever Style Inc., a Hong Kong main board-listed innovator in fashion supply chain digitization and sustainability.
Since relocating to the U.S. in the fall of 2023, Jon has done project-based work with Bain Capital, Partners Group, and Sequoia China Capital, advising on retail transformation and international business development. He coaches in English and Mandarin Chinese.
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Jonathan Seliger, Global Consumer, Media, and Licensing CEO Across Asia and North America, is especially valuable to CEOs focused on scale, transformation, and exit prep.
Three-time Multinational Luxury Goods CEO in Asia and CEO of Co-Working Startup Acquired by WeWork
Direct, operator-driven, and rooted in real P&L experience. Jonathan Seliger coaches CEOs the way a former operator coaches, focused on the decisions that actually move the business, the metrics that expose the truth, and the leadership behaviors that compound over time.
Jonathan Seliger is based in New York, NY and works with CEOs across North America and internationally through 1:1 coaching, board observation, and on-site strategic offsites as part of the CEO Coaching International team.
Companies coached by CEO Coaching International for two or more years have averaged 22.8%/yr revenue growth and 37.5%/yr EBITDA growth, roughly 2-3x U.S. benchmarks. Jonathan Seliger coaches to the same operating standard: measurable growth, real leverage on the CEO's calendar, and a leadership team that can execute without you.
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