Our leadership

Gatien Gillon has been our Chief Operating Officer and member of the Executive Board since February 2018. He joined Brammer in April 2017 as Group Transformation Director and led the turnaround of Brammer before heading the Integration Management Office of IPH-Brammer in September 2017.

Gatien started his career as a consultant at McKinsey in 2005, before launching his own business process outsourcing company. Following the sale of that company, he joined PE firm Bain Capital as Vice President in 2012, where he was in charge of improving operating performances of portfolio companies. In 2014, Gatien joined one of Bain Capital’s portfolio companies, Securitas-Direct, as Group Director in charge of Products, Technology Partnerships & Innovation.

Gatien holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Free University of Brussels.

Helen joined Rubix in October 2021. She has previously held GC roles in many international businesses, including at Helios Towers plc, a pan African telecommunications towers business where she was the legal lead in its successful London IPO, and most recently at GardaWorld for the Middle East and Africa division.

Having completed her training with Linklaters, she worked for law firms Slaughter & May (in Singapore) and Freshfields before moving in-house to the Vita Group, an international foam and plastics PE-backed manufacturer.

Helen has an MA in Law from Cambridge University.

David Morkeberg joined Rubix as Group HR Director in March 2018. He was previously Group CHRO for Inchcape Shipping Services and has previously held Divisional HRD roles in A.P. Moller – Maersk, Baker Hughes and Rexam plc.

With a background in HR leadership positions in shipping, oilfield services and manufacturing, he has worked with leadership teams to build growth through both acquisitions and organic opportunities. David has an MSc in Business Administration and Human Resource Management from Copenhagen Business School and an Executive MBA from London Business School and Columbia Business School.

Keith Reville joined Rubix in July 2018. Before joining us he served as the COO at Grainger Global Online Businesses, a division of WW Grainger, a Fortune 500 global industrial supplier.

Prior to his time at Grainger, Keith served on the Executive Board of Electrocomponents Plc (trading as RS components globally, and as Allied Electronics in the USA) as General Manager of eCommerce, and Chief Marketing Officer.

In his earlier career Keith held P&L responsibility for pure play, and multichannel businesses in Thomas Cook, Hilton International, Orange, and Everything Everywhere respectively. Keith has extensive, international, large-scale, leadership, digital transformation, business change, technology and strategy experience, as well as a strong track record of delivering profitable sales growth.

He holds an honours degree in engineering from Heriot-Watt university in Edinburgh.

Jesper Mikkelsen joined Rubix as Group VP, Services, in August 2019. He is responsible for the strategy, quality and consistency of our value-added services.

Jesper has worked extensively on the transformation of companies throughout his career. Previously, he was responsible for global excellence centres at ISS, where he also held roles leading group corporate affairs and service excellence within country operations. Before that, he was a consultant at Accenture. His career started in the Danish army where he was a captain.

Jesper has an MSc in Planning and Technology Management from the Technical University of Denmark.

Pierre Allard-Couluon joined Rubix as Group Chief Sales Officer in March 2020. He is responsible for key accounts, sales effectiveness and sales performance across the branch network.

Pierre has extensive international commercial experience with a strong track record of driving profitable sales growth. He was previously regional director for France, Benelux, Middle East and Africa at Wabtec. Before that, he spent seven years at Rexel as business unit general manager and then as VP for business transformation. Earlier in his career he was a management consultant with Arthur Andersen before holding a number of senior international sales roles with Alcatel-Lucent.

He has an engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale de Telecommunication de Paris, and completed the leadership development programme at IMD Business School.

Ralf Maurer joined Rubix as Group Chief Product Officer in November 2020. He leads category management across Rubix.

Ralf has extensive board-level experience from market leading retail and wholesale organisations. He has delivered multiple category management transformation programmes and established exclusive brands at a number of B2B businesses. Previously he was managing director of the aftermarket business at BPW Group. Before that, he held senior executive roles at Europart and Carglass.

Ralf holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Cologne.