Meet our dedicated team that's passionate about CSR and making a social impact and is innovating to make our world a better place.
It all started when Charlie Graham-Brown, Jeremy Grandjean and Benoît Luthy met at the startup weekend Lausanne 2012. After several hours of brainstorming and an impressive pitch, the team won 1st prize and Cherry Checkout was born. Since then, the concept has proven itself and has won over experts from the fields of e-commerce and communications looking to make a social impact. Since then, Cherry Checkout has gone from strength to strength as it continues to grow. Do you feel inspired by our project? Join us on the adventure as an e-commerce professional, e-shopper or partner charity.
Cherry Checkout's mission is to help raise donations for charity through its simple and innovative concept. As online shopping has exploded over the past few years, Cherry Checkout strives to give online shoppers the opportunity to make a social impact as effortlessly as possible. We also seek to encourage and reward online shoppers who give to charity by holding a prize draw and giving the lucky winners a discount voucher.
Cherry Checkout is committed to providing a fun, responsible and charitable online shopping experience. Who said you can't have your cake and eat it too? Cherry Checkout ensures that everybody involved in its unique initiative does exaclty that! We provide e-commerce businesses with a unique and original solution, we give online shoppers the chance to win a reward for doing a good deed and we help charities to collect donations. You could say we're the cherry on the e-commerce cake!
Jérémy Grandjean
CEO
Jérémy Grandjean
CEO
Jeremy receieved his masters degree in Nanotechnology engineering in 2012. He then started his career as a business development manager with a watch company. It was after winning a Start-up Weekend competition the same year that he decided to found Cherry Checkout. More in lign with his real values, today he spends his time growing the "cherry" on a mission to make all of our daily purchases socially responsible.
Thien-Lan Weber
Advisory board member
Thien-Lan Weber
Advisory board member
A graduate of HEC Paris, Thien-Lan has worked for over 17 years on every issue imaginable in marketing. She has worked at the strategic level for Accenture, at a more operational level for Clarins and Johnson & Johnson and 100% digital for eBay and PayPal. Thien-Lan's international career has spanned from North America to Asia-Pacific. Today she lives with her husband and two children in Oslo where she is CMO of OneStepCheckout, a leading extension on the Magento platform.
Vincent Mani
Advisory board member
Vincent Mani
Advisory board member
Holder of a Federal Public Relations Specialist and a Bachelor's degree in Communications & Marketing, Vincent speaks, eats and dreams communications. Thanks to his 6 years of experience as head of Buxum Communication, a well-known communications agency in Geneva, he brings to Cherry Checkout the optimum approach to strategic thinking in marketing and communications.
Laurent Dewez
CTO
Laurent Dewez
CTO
When Laurent got his engineering diploma in electronics and industrial computing at the Polytechnic School of Sophia Antipolis, he started his career as a web developer consultant for major French groups where he successfully managed several projects. Looking to take on new challenges, Laurent decided to join the Cherry Checkout adventure where he could apply his skills and work in a field he's passionate about.
Perrine Quatrehomme
Digital Marketing Manager
Perrine Quatrehomme
Digital Marketing Manager
With a 360 communication training, Perrine first took on the challenge of developing the brand image of Bernard Magrez's Grands Crus Classés. Thanks to this experience, she turned to digital marketing at Intermarché. There, she specialised in SEO and traffic management. In particular, she developed two tools: a platform for automating digital campaign briefs for the 1,800 points of sale, and an SEO traffic reservoir. After living in Paris for a few years, she decided to settle down in Switzerland and at Cherry Checkout. Passionate about her work, this Digital Marketing Manager takes up the challenge of making charitable giving a digital practice rooted in buying habits.
Marc Aeschlimann
Advisory board member
Marc Aeschlimann
Advisory board member
Marc graduated with a bachelor's degree in business management and a master's degree in business services engineering and began his career working for ROLEX SA. Nowadays he's the founder of SMOOD.CH in 2012, a foodtech specialised in the food delivery business (25 employees, 300 partner restaurants and market leader in home delivery in Switzertland). The company is profitable and keeps growing, 3 new cities will be opened in 2017. SMOOD.CH is the first website to have integrated Cherry Checkout into user experience and chose to support Action Against Hunger for 3 years raising more than 5,000 CHF in donations.
Want to be part of the Cherry checkout adventure? We're always looking for new talent. Feel free to send your application!
It was in Geneva that Cherry Checkout chose to settle, where the term "sustainable development" was coined for the first time and, as the land of NGOs, Switzerland is home to numerous global charities. Active in different fields ranging from human rights, to peace, to health, these organisations are committed to saving our world everyday. The United Nations, whose second most important headquarters is based in Geneva, has defined 17 global sustainable development goals designed to change our world by 2030.
Cherry Checkout wants to be an ambassador for charity organisations worldwide and help them to achieve the 17 sustainable development goals! We wish to actively participate in the implementation of this programme by bringing together e-commerce websites, charity organisations and individuals who are committeded to change.
Your trust is our priority, that's why we carefully select and evaluate all of our partner charities to make sure that they meet our strict criteria. We strive to ensure that each and every pound donated to charity is well spent and contributes to making a positive social and environmental impact so we leave a better world for our children
Answers to all your frequently asked questions.
Cherry Checkout allows you to support a charity and, in return for your support, you're entered into a prize draw.
You can add "the Cherry On Top" at the checkout page when you shop with any of our e-commerce partners.
No unfortunately, once you've completed the payment your donation is well on it's way to making a difference.
As soon as the winner of the prize draw is selected at random, all participants instantly receive an e-mail notifying whether they've won or not.
The draw is performed by a random computerised and automated process.
All donations raised through Cherry Checkout are distributed to their respective charities on a monthly basis. Charities, e-commerce websites and online shoppers all have real-time access to the Cherry Checkout dashboard where you can follow the journey of your donations. You can create your own account here. Also follow us on social media to be up to date with our latest achievements and those of our partners!
We're available to answer all your questions!