Zia Lennard holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and a Master’s of Business Administration Degree in Global Marketing from University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis, France. He has over 10 years of management experience across 3 continents in product and market development, manufacturing and logistics of licensed fast moving consumer goods, customer engagement analytics, digital and retail marketing strategy, operational process improvements, and quality assurance roles. He founded and grew a Shanghai-based branding and supply-chain consultancy from plan to profitability, and is genuinely passionate about sociological empowerment through responsible research and development commercialization.
Zia is the co-founder of R2M France. He works on FP7 and H2020 projects for specific expertise in business models, market analysis, and event management. Zia is fluid throughout the various teams in R2M and resides happily in the innovation division.