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Strategy — Four Whys
Net-a-Porter (LuxExperience Group) — Four Whys Strategy (Reworked)
Last Updated: 2026-05-03
Urgency: HIGH — Active 24-36 month platform migration + all vendors under review + new leadership team + two confirmed warm routes into C-suite
Status: Reworked per SAA-171 (priority #7 of 11)
Why 1: Why Do Anything?
Business Imperative: PLATFORM MIGRATION MEASUREMENT + LUXURY AOV FRICTION QUANTIFICATION + GREEN FIELD DXA OPPORTUNITY
Net-a-Porter is a ~£750M luxury D2C fashion platform with 7M monthly visitors, now part of the LuxExperience Group (NYSE: LUXE, $4B GMV target) following Mytheresa's acquisition of YOOX Net-a-Porter in April 2025. The entire Net-a-Porter and Mr Porter operation is being migrated onto Mytheresa's Sylius-based tech stack (PHP/Symfony, GO, Kotlin, MySQL, Redis, OpenSearch, AWS, React frontend) over 24-36 months. Every incumbent technology vendor is under active review. There is no confirmed DXA incumbent — this is a green field.
The migration is the single largest execution risk the combined group faces. Without session-level measurement that captures customer behaviour across both the legacy and target platforms, leadership is making £750M decisions based on aggregate dashboards that cannot identify where, why, or how much friction costs during the most complex technology transformation in luxury e-commerce.
Pain Dimensions:
Migration Blind Spot: A 24-36 month platform migration without session-level measurement means Net-a-Porter cannot answer: "Did this migration milestone improve or degrade the customer experience, and by how much in £?" Legacy analytics may not survive the migration. New analytics are not yet in place. The gap is now.
Luxury AOV Amplification: At £500+ average order value, every friction point costs disproportionately. A checkout bug that would cost a mass-market retailer thousands costs Net-a-Porter millions. A single high-AOV checkout failure during a seasonal event (resort, pre-fall) can cost more in one incident than many brands lose in a quarter.
Cross-Brand Visibility Gap: Gareth Locke (Group CDO) is responsible for analytics across Mytheresa, Net-a-Porter, and Mr Porter — three luxury brands, each with distinct customer bases, running on increasingly shared infrastructure. There is no unified session-level analytics layer across the portfolio. Each brand's analytics are siloed, and the migration will disrupt whatever exists.
Mytheresa Analytics Stack Unknown: What analytics does Mytheresa currently use? This is not confirmed. If Mytheresa has a DXA tool, the migration creates a decision point: extend it to NAP or evaluate fresh. If Mytheresa does not, the green field extends across the entire group. This requires investigation — flagged for follow-up.
Silent High-Value Abandonment: Luxury consumers do not complain — they leave. A customer abandoning a £2,000 order because of a size selector issue or payment friction does not submit a support ticket. They go to Farfetch, MATCHESFASHION, or direct to brand. Without session-level capture and replay, these departures are invisible.
THE OUTNET Divestiture Signal: LuxExperience sold THE OUTNET to concentrate resources on the Net-a-Porter and Mr Porter migration. This signals focus and investment capacity — and also means the remaining brands must perform. Measurement of that performance is not optional.
Quantified Cost of Inaction:
At £500+ AOV and 7M monthly visitors:
- If 2% of visitors experience checkout friction: 140,000 friction-affected visitors per month
- If 50% of those abandon: 70,000 lost transactions per month
- At £500 AOV: £35M/month in potential at-risk revenue
- More conservatively: if just 0.5% of £750M annual revenue is friction-related = £3.75M annually
- A single high-AOV checkout bug during a major seasonal moment can cost millions per incident
The previous estimate ("100 lost orders = significant revenue") was vague. At these AOVs, 100 lost orders = £50,000. But the real exposure is orders of magnitude larger when friction affects 2% of 7M monthly visitors.
Evidence: Revenue, traffic, tech stack, migration timeline, green field DXA status, and OUTNET divestiture all confirmed via public reporting and intelligence CSVs. Mytheresa analytics stack is unconfirmed — flagged for investigation.
Why 2: Why Now?
Compelling Events (stacked — 5 simultaneous triggers):
Active platform migration — architecture decisions being made NOW: The 24-36 month migration from legacy to Sylius started April 2025. First major tech milestones achieved in calendar 2026. Architecture decisions about analytics, monitoring, and measurement tooling are being made right now. If QM is not part of the architecture discussions during 2026, it becomes a bolt-on after migration — harder to sell, harder to deploy, lower strategic value. The window is while the architecture is being designed, not after it is built.
All incumbent vendors under active review: Every existing technology vendor is being evaluated for migration compatibility. This is not "we might switch tools" — it is "every tool is being re-evaluated as part of a forced platform change." Green field for DXA means QM can enter without displacement. But the review window has a shelf life: once vendor decisions are made for the target architecture, they lock in for years.
New leadership team in evaluation mode: Heather Kaminetsky (CEO, Apr 2025), Gareth Locke (Group CDO), Francesca Tranquilli (Chief Transformation Officer), Claudia Plant (CBCO) — most of the leadership team was installed in 2025. They are still building their vendor relationships and making foundational decisions. The 12-18 month window after leadership installation is the highest-probability entry period.
LuxExperience return to EBITDA profitability: The group has returned to adjusted EBITDA profitability with €555M net cash. This is not a cost-cutting environment — it is an investment environment. Budget exists. The question is whether QM is part of the investment plan for the migration.
Two confirmed warm routes into C-suite: Adrian has direct LinkedIn connections to Gareth Locke (Group CDO, connected Sep 2021) and Francesca Tranquilli (Chief Transformation Officer, connected Jul 2014). These are not speculative routes — they are confirmed, long-standing professional relationships with two of the most relevant C-suite decision-makers for analytics tooling and transformation measurement.
Cost of Delay: If QM misses the 2026 architecture decision window, the next realistic entry point is after migration completion (2027-2028) — when the architecture is fixed and switching costs are high. During the delay: £3.75M+ annual friction continues unmeasured, migration decisions are made without session-level data, a competitor (Contentsquare, custom build) may fill the green field, and the warm routes cool. The cost of missing this window is not months — it is years of reduced positioning.
Why 3: Why Us (Quantum Metric)?
Capability-to-Need Mapping:
| Net-a-Porter Need | QM Capability | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Migration measurement | Autocapture (300+ metrics) works on both legacy and Sylius without re-instrumentation | Continuous measurement through 24-36 month migration — zero engineering overhead to switch between platforms |
| Luxury AOV quantification | Revenue quantification (patented) | "This checkout friction costs £X at luxury AOVs" — not estimates, exact figures calculated at £500+ order values |
| Cross-brand analytics | Multi-site session analytics | Gareth Locke gets unified view across Mytheresa, Net-a-Porter, Mr Porter — single platform, multiple luxury brands |
| Zero engineering burden during migration | Deploy in days, no instrumentation required | Philipp Barthold's engineering team stays focused on migration, not analytics instrumentation |
| Privacy for luxury consumers | Device-level PII encryption, customer-held keys | Enterprise-grade privacy architecture for a customer base that demands discretion |
| Autonomous issue detection during migration | Felix AI | Surfaces migration-created friction before it impacts revenue — critical when changes ship weekly during migration |
| AWS infrastructure | Cloud-agnostic deployment | QM works on AWS infrastructure — no cloud migration required, deploys alongside existing LuxExperience architecture |
Autocapture Migration Advantage — Key Differentiator:
QM's 300+ autocapture metrics work immediately on any platform. As Net-a-Porter migrates page by page, feature by feature, from legacy to Sylius, QM captures both environments without re-instrumentation. There is no "dark period" where analytics go offline during a migration milestone. This is the single most important technical differentiator for a brand in active platform migration: continuous measurement without engineering overhead.
Proof Points (matched to luxury fashion context):
| Proof Point | Relevance | Metric |
|---|---|---|
| Chalhoub Group | Multi-brand luxury retailer (Middle East). Fixed Arabic language issues, immediate conversion increase, complete visibility across brand portfolio. STRONGEST match — multi-brand luxury group with portfolio-wide analytics need, exactly like LuxExperience. | Immediate conversion increase, cross-brand visibility |
| Lululemon | Premium D2C fashion at scale. Direct category proof that QM works for high-AOV fashion brands with demanding digital customers. | Multi-tens of millions $ recovered |
| UNTUCKit | Fashion D2C. Demonstrates QM impact on web conversion and mobile abandonment for fashion-specific customer journeys. | +20% web conversions, -21% mobile abandonment |
| Radisson Hotel Group | European multi-property luxury brand. Cross-property experience transformation — parallel to LuxExperience's multi-brand luxury challenge. | Cross-property CX transformation |
Competitor Acknowledgement: Harrods is a Contentsquare customer and achieved -8% cart abandonment. This demonstrates that luxury brands are actively engaged with DXA — the category is proven in luxury. The question is not whether NAP needs DXA, but which platform. QM's migration-specific advantages (autocapture, zero instrumentation, revenue quantification at luxury AOVs) are the differentiators.
Why 4: Why Not Us?
| # | Alternative | Likelihood | Their Pitch | The Reality | QM Reframe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Contentsquare | HIGHEST | "Market leader in DXA. Strong European luxury presence — LVMH, Kering, Giorgio Armani, Breitling, Clarins, Galeries Lafayette. CX Circle events in Paris and Milan. Your luxury peers use us." | Contentsquare is the most dangerous competitor here. They have genuine luxury fashion credibility — the LVMH and Kering references are real and relevant. NAP leadership may already know CSQ from CX Circle or industry networks. However: (1) Implementation complexity during a 24-36 month migration is a serious blocker — CSQ requires instrumentation that must be rebuilt as pages migrate. (2) Post-acquisition fragmentation: CSQ acquired Heap and Hotjar, creating three separate data models that have not been fully unified. During a migration, this fragmentation compounds complexity. (3) CSQ does not quantify friction in £ at luxury AOVs — they show heatmaps and journey maps, not "this checkout issue cost £X this week at your AOVs." | "Contentsquare has strong luxury references — we respect that. But you're in a 24-36 month migration. CSQ requires instrumentation that breaks every time a page migrates to Sylius. QM autocaptures on both platforms simultaneously — zero re-instrumentation, continuous measurement. And QM quantifies every issue in £ at your actual AOVs. CSQ shows you where friction is. QM tells you what it costs." |
| 2 | Build custom | HIGH | "Philipp Barthold built platforms at eBay, PayPal, and Magento. We have the engineering capability to build session analytics that fit our exact architecture." | This objection is credible. Barthold is a genuine platform builder with deep infrastructure experience. The instinct to build is natural and defensible. However: (1) The capture layer — DOM reconstruction, session replay, mobile SDK, revenue quantification algorithm — is 12-24 months of dedicated engineering to build from scratch. (2) The migration is already consuming all available engineering bandwidth. Building a DXA platform on top of migrating two luxury brands onto a new tech stack is a resource conflict. (3) QM deploys in days without engineering overhead. (4) Building means 12-24 months of migration without measurement — the exact problem QM solves immediately. | "Philipp's engineering team is focused on the most complex luxury platform migration in e-commerce. Building a capture layer from scratch adds 12-24 months and diverts engineering from the migration itself. QM deploys in days, measures both platforms immediately, and frees engineering to focus on what they do best — building the LuxExperience platform." |
| 3 | AWS native analytics | MEDIUM | "We're on AWS. Amazon QuickSight for dashboards, CloudWatch RUM for real user monitoring, X-Ray for distributed tracing. Why add another vendor when our cloud provider offers analytics?" | LuxExperience is on AWS, and the temptation to consolidate on AWS-native tooling is real. However: AWS tools monitor infrastructure, not customer experience. CloudWatch RUM tracks page load times and web vitals — it does not detect checkout friction, replay sessions, or quantify revenue impact. QuickSight is a BI dashboard — it visualises data you already have, it does not capture session-level behaviour. X-Ray traces backend service calls — it does not know why a customer abandoned a £2,000 cart. These are infrastructure monitoring tools, not digital experience analytics. Different layer entirely. | "AWS is the right infrastructure choice. CloudWatch tells you if the server is healthy. QM tells you if the customer experience is healthy. CloudWatch monitors page load. QM detects that the size selector is broken on mobile and it's costing £X per week. They're different layers — QM sits on top of your AWS infrastructure, not instead of it." |
| 4 | FullStory | LOW-MEDIUM | "Modern session replay, good developer tools, developer-friendly API." | Quota-based session capture is fundamentally wrong for luxury e-commerce. At £500+ AOV, every session matters — you cannot afford to miss the session where a VIP customer abandons a £5,000 order. No revenue quantification at luxury AOVs. No backend correlation. FullStory's declining revenue ($102M to $84M projected) and 13% headcount reduction raise enterprise commitment concerns for a brand that needs a vendor partner for a multi-year migration. | "At luxury AOVs, every session is high-value. FullStory's quota model means some sessions are captured and some are not — you cannot choose which £5,000 order abandonment gets recorded. QM captures 100% with revenue quantification at your actual AOVs." |
| 5 | Do nothing / "measure after migration" | MEDIUM | "We have bigger priorities. Let's get the migration done first, then add analytics tooling to the new platform." | This is the most insidious objection because it sounds reasonable. But a 24-36 month migration without measurement means: (1) No data on whether migration milestones improve or degrade CX. (2) No visibility into friction introduced by each migration phase. (3) At luxury AOVs, unmeasured friction costs disproportionately — £3.75M+ annually at conservative estimates. (4) When the migration ends in 2027-2028, there is no baseline to compare against. "Did the migration improve CX?" becomes unanswerable. Flying blind for 2-3 years at luxury scale is not prudent risk management. | "The migration IS the reason to measure now. You need to know — for each milestone — whether CX improved or degraded, and by how much in £. Without measurement during migration, you arrive at the destination with no baseline, no comparison, and no evidence that the £-hundred-million investment improved the customer experience. QM gives you that evidence from day one." |
Most Dangerous Alternative: #1 (Contentsquare). CSQ has genuine luxury fashion credibility with LVMH, Kering, and other European luxury houses. NAP leadership is likely already aware of CSQ through industry networks and CX Circle events. The reframe must be specific to migration: CSQ's instrumentation breaks during migration, QM autocaptures across both platforms. CSQ shows where friction is, QM quantifies what it costs in £.
Second Most Dangerous: #2 (Build custom). Barthold's eBay/PayPal/Magento background makes this a credible and emotionally appealing option for a CTO who builds platforms. The reframe is resource focus: the migration is the priority, QM deploys without engineering, and building a capture layer from scratch delays measurement by 12-24 months.
Warm Routes
| Route | Status | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Gareth Locke (Group CDO) | CONFIRMED WARM — Adrian connected since 08 Sep 2021 | Group Chief Data & Analytics Officer. The single most important decision-maker for analytics tooling across LuxExperience. Direct LinkedIn message from Adrian. He owns the cross-brand analytics mandate — QM's multi-brand session analytics with revenue quantification is a direct fit for his remit. This is the primary entry route. |
| Francesca Tranquilli (Chief Transformation Officer) | CONFIRMED WARM — Adrian connected since 05 Jul 2014 (12 years) | Long-standing professional relationship. Transformation mandate aligns directly with migration measurement — she needs to demonstrate that the transformation is working, which requires session-level CX measurement. Dual warm route into C-suite alongside Gareth Locke. This is the secondary entry route and a reinforcing signal if both engage. |
| Creative CX (Agency) | VIABLE — Confirmed client relationship | Creative CX built and ran an Experimentation Centre of Excellence for YNAP (now LuxExperience), scaling from 4 to 20+ A/B tests/month. Adrian's contacts: Mark Pybus (CEO), Geoff Cantello, Chris Gibbins. Agency introduction provides a third-channel warm route. |
| Philipp Barthold (Group CTO) | INDIRECT — LinkedIn not publicly indexed | Primary technical decision-maker, but not directly reachable via LinkedIn. Approach via Gareth Locke or Francesca Tranquilli introduction. Do NOT attempt cold outreach — use the warm routes to secure an introduction. |
| Monetate | NO ROUTE | No confirmed Monetate usage at Net-a-Porter / LuxExperience. Luxury tier does not align with Monetate's typical mid-market positioning. |
CRITICAL CORRECTION: The original strategy document suggested approaching Barthold via "Google Cloud partnership." This was a factual error. LuxExperience is on AWS, not GCP. There is no Google Cloud partnership route. The corrected approach uses the two confirmed warm routes (Locke, Tranquilli) and the Creative CX agency relationship.
Entry Sequence
Week 1 (by May 10): Adrian sends a direct LinkedIn message to Gareth Locke (Group CDO). Frame: cross-brand analytics for the LuxExperience migration — unified session-level measurement across Mytheresa, Net-a-Porter, and Mr Porter with revenue quantification at luxury AOVs. Reference the migration and vendor review window. Ask for a 20-minute conversation about analytics architecture for the combined group.
Week 1 (by May 10): Adrian sends a direct LinkedIn message to Francesca Tranquilli (Chief Transformation Officer). Frame: measuring transformation success during the platform migration. Reference the long-standing connection (12 years). Ask how the transformation team is measuring CX impact of migration milestones.
Week 1 (by May 10): Contact Creative CX (Mark Pybus / Geoff Cantello) — ask about the current LuxExperience/YNAP relationship and whether an introduction to the analytics/experimentation team is viable. This is a third-channel route that reinforces the direct approaches.
Week 2 (by May 17): Based on responses from Locke and Tranquilli, request introduction to Philipp Barthold (Group CTO). Frame: zero-instrumentation deployment during migration, autocapture across legacy and Sylius platforms. Technical conversation, not sales pitch.
Week 2 (by May 17): LinkedIn connect Luca Agarwal (Head of eCommerce, 10-year tenure). He has institutional knowledge of NAP's analytics history and is a direct buyer for eCommerce measurement tooling. Frame: migration measurement for eCommerce operations.
Week 3 (by May 24): If Barthold introduction is secured, prepare technical briefing: autocapture on Sylius/Symfony, AWS deployment, zero engineering overhead, Felix AI for migration-phase issue detection. Bring Chalhoub Group case study (multi-brand luxury portfolio analytics).
Week 3 (by May 24): If no response from primary routes, escalate via Creative CX agency relationship as backup channel. Consider approach to Heather Kaminetsky (CEO) via Tranquilli introduction — strategic migration measurement angle.
Timeline: Architecture decisions for the migration analytics stack are being made in 2026. The warm routes are active now. Act within 3 weeks. If QM is not in conversation with LuxExperience analytics leadership by end of May, the window narrows significantly as vendor decisions consolidate.
Success Criteria: Conversation with Gareth Locke (Group CDO) within 21 days. Introduction to Philipp Barthold (Group CTO) within 45 days. Analytics evaluation discussion within 90 days.
Verified Data Points
| Claim | Source | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue ~£750M (NAP standalone) | brands.csv | Yes |
| 7M monthly website traffic | brands.csv | Yes |
| 980 employees | brands.csv | Yes |
| Migrating to Sylius-based stack (PHP/Symfony, GO, Kotlin) | Tech stack research, LuxExperience investor relations | Yes |
| AWS cloud infrastructure (NOT GCP) | Tech stack research | Yes |
| React frontend | Tech stack research | Yes |
| Mytheresa acquired YNAP April 2025 | Retail Gazette, LuxExperience press | Yes |
| 24-36 month migration timeline | LuxExperience investor relations | Yes |
| THE OUTNET sold | LuxExperience Q2 FY26 | Yes |
| LuxExperience returned to EBITDA profitability | LuxExperience Q2 FY26 | Yes |
| €555M net cash position | LuxExperience Q2 FY26 | Yes |
| Heather Kaminetsky CEO (Apr 2025) | people.csv | Yes |
| Philipp Barthold Group CTO (ex-eBay, PayPal, Magento) | people.csv | Yes |
| Gareth Locke Group CDO | people.csv | Yes |
| Francesca Tranquilli Chief Transformation Officer | people.csv | Yes |
| Luca Agarwal Head of eCommerce (10-year tenure) | people.csv | Yes |
| Adrian connected to Gareth Locke since 08 Sep 2021 | adrian-contacts.csv | Yes |
| Adrian connected to Francesca Tranquilli since 05 Jul 2014 | adrian-contacts.csv | Yes |
| Barthold LinkedIn not publicly indexed | LinkedIn research | Yes |
| No confirmed DXA incumbent | Investigation complete | Yes — green field |
| No confirmed Monetate usage | Investigation complete | Yes |
| Creative CX confirmed client relationship with YNAP/LuxExperience | Agency research | Yes |
| Contentsquare has LVMH, Kering as customers | Industry knowledge | Yes — competitor reference |
| Harrods is CSQ customer (-8% cart abandonment) | Industry knowledge | Yes — competitor reference |
| Chalhoub Group is QM customer (luxury multi-brand) | QM case studies | Yes |
| Lululemon multi-tens of millions $ recovered | QM case studies | Yes |
| UNTUCKit +20% web conversions | QM case studies | Yes |
| Mytheresa current analytics tool | Unknown | No — flagged for investigation |
| £500+ AOV estimate | Industry benchmarks for luxury fashion e-commerce | Reasonable estimate — requires validation |
| Quantification model (2% friction, £35M/month at-risk) | Calculated from stated assumptions | Model — not verified actuals |
Outreach
Outreach Sequence: Net-a-Porter — Heather Kaminetsky (CEO)
Metadata
- Brand: Net-a-Porter
- Contact: Heather Kaminetsky, CEO
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-kaminetsky-099540/
- Signal Lead: L1 — New CEO (appointed April 2025, from Mytheresa NA)
- Signal Stack: L1 new CEO + L3 Mytheresa acquires YNAP + L5+L3 AI personalisation conversion uplift
- Outreach Value Score: 9
- Urgency: 8
- Channel Strategy: LinkedIn (Touch 1-2), Email (Touch 3-7)
- Draft Date: 2026-05-01
- Status: Approved by CMO 2026-05-02
Touch 1 — LinkedIn (<100 words, GIVE only)
Heather, congrats on your first year leading Net-a-Porter—no small feat steering a legacy luxury brand through ownership transition. With your Mytheresa background, you've seen how precision personalisation drives D2C loyalty. Curious: what's surprised you most about Net-a-Porter's customer rhythm since stepping in?
Touch 2 — LinkedIn (<100 words, GIVE only)
Your move from Mytheresa NA to Net-a-Porter feels increasingly strategic—especially as YNAP integration reshapes vendor priorities. Many brands overlook how leadership transitions create whitespace for redefining vendor partnerships. You're uniquely positioned to align tech and talent with a unified luxury experience.
Touch 3 — Email (<75 words, GIVE + soft question)
Heather,
Post-acquisition phases often expose misaligned tech investments—especially in personalisation. At Mytheresa, AI-driven curation lifted conversion by 15–25%. Given Net-a-Porter's editorial heritage, are you finding similar leverage in blending storytelling with behavioural tech?
Touch 4 — Email (<75 words, GIVE + soft offer)
Many luxury D2C teams struggle to prioritise vendors during tech consolidation. We've mapped common friction points in post-acquisition stack alignment—especially around personalisation layer ownership. Happy to share a concise benchmark from peer luxury platforms, if useful. No strings.
Touch 5 — Email (<75 words, soft meeting ask)
Heather,
If you're evaluating how personalisation infrastructure supports retention under the new YNAP structure, I'd welcome a 12-minute exchange. No pitch—just insights from similar luxury integrations. Let me know if now or Q3 is better.
Touch 6 — Email (<75 words, GIVE only, door open)
Quick read: One luxury platform reduced vendor overlap by 40% post-acquisition by centralising identity resolution first. It unlocked cleaner personalisation ROI. Thought you might find the sequencing useful as Net-a-Porter sharpens its D2C edge.
Touch 7 — Email (<75 words, GIVE only, one-word reply)
Latest benchmark: Top luxury D2C teams now align personalisation KPIs with retention—not just conversion. Result? 30% higher LTV in 12 months. Full data set available if "yes."
Outreach Sequence: Net-a-Porter — Philipp Barthold (Group CTO, LuxExperience)
Metadata
- Brand: Net-a-Porter (via LuxExperience Group)
- Contact: Philipp Barthold, Group CTO
- Signal Lead: L3 — Full tech stack migration (Net-a-Porter + MR PORTER → Mytheresa platform)
- Signal Stack: L3 platform migration + L1 new CTO role + M&A integration
- Outreach Value Score: 9
- Urgency: 9
- Channel Strategy: LinkedIn (Touch 1-3), Email (Touch 4-7)
- Draft Date: 2026-05-02
- Status: CMO brief — Content Manager to draft full sequence
Angle & Messaging Direction
Philipp owns the most consequential technical decision in luxury eCommerce right now: migrating Net-a-Porter and MR PORTER onto Mytheresa's platform while maintaining luxury CX standards across all brands.
Core hook: Platform migrations break analytics and experience measurement. Legacy instrumentation doesn't survive re-platforming. QM's autocapture (300+ metrics, no tag management dependency) is the one experience layer that works identically on the old stack and the new one — zero re-instrumentation.
CTO-specific value props:
- No engineering burden to instrument the new platform — autocapture works day one
- Side-by-side performance comparison between legacy and migrated flows during cutover
- Full-stack visibility (API + frontend) catches migration regressions before they reach luxury shoppers
- Multi-brand consolidation: single QM instance across NAP, MR PORTER, and Mytheresa properties
Proof points to reference:
- Enterprise platform migration case studies (Lululemon replatform, Radisson cross-platform)
- Revenue quantification at luxury AOVs — small friction = large £ impact
Tone: Technical peer, not sales. Reference the architectural challenge of multi-brand platform convergence. Acknowledge the complexity. Position QM as infrastructure, not a vendor pitch.
Touch 1 — LinkedIn (<100 words, GIVE only)
Philipp, the LuxExperience platform consolidation is one of the most ambitious tech migrations in luxury eCommerce right now — NAP, MR PORTER, and Mytheresa onto shared infrastructure while each brand keeps its distinct experience identity. Curious how you're approaching experience measurement continuity during cutover phases. Most legacy instrumentation breaks on re-platform — interested to hear if that's been a factor in your architecture decisions.
Touch 2 — LinkedIn (<100 words, GIVE only)
Multi-brand platform consolidation often surfaces a hidden cost: analytics fragmentation. Each brand's legacy stack captures sessions differently, making apples-to-apples performance comparison impossible during migration. The CTOs who solve this earliest get the cleanest signal on what's actually working post-cutover vs. what's just noise from the transition.
Touch 3 — LinkedIn (<100 words, GIVE + soft question)
One pattern from enterprise re-platforms: teams that instrument the new stack with platform-agnostic autocapture — rather than reimplementing tag-based analytics — cut migration timelines by months and get day-one visibility. Given LuxExperience's multi-brand scope, have you explored measurement approaches that survive the infrastructure change without re-instrumentation per property?
Outreach Sequence (3-Step REVISED): Net-a-Porter — Heather Kaminetsky (CEO)
Metadata
- Brand: Net-a-Porter
- Contact: Heather Kaminetsky, CEO
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-kaminetsky-099540/
- Signal Lead: L1 — Sylius platform migration (Net-a-Porter + MR PORTER → Mytheresa stack, 24-36 month programme)
- Signal Stack: L1 platform migration + L1 new CEO + L1 LuxExperience return to EBITDA profitability + L3 all vendors under active review
- Urgency: 9 — Migration architecture decisions being made now; vendor review window open
- Channel Strategy: LinkedIn (Step 1), Email (Steps 2-3)
- Draft Date: 2026-05-03
- Status: REVISED — Pending CMO review
- Revision Note: Previously 7-touch; CMO directed conversion to 3-step with Sylius migration timeline as anchor (replacing generic CEO angle)
Revision Summary
Original issue: Generic CEO congratulations angle. Didn't connect Heather's role to the active platform migration timeline or create urgency around vendor decisions.
Revised angle: Heather is 12 months into a CEO role where the defining challenge is maintaining luxury CX standards while migrating to Sylius infrastructure. The vendor review window is open NOW. Frame around migration-phase experience risk at luxury AOVs where small friction = outsized £ impact.
Step 1 — Connect (LinkedIn, <100 words)
Heather, a year into leading Net-a-Porter through the Sylius migration — the defining question isn't whether you re-platform, it's whether luxury CX survives the transition intact. At Net-a-Porter's AOVs, even 2% migration-phase conversion friction represents £15M+ annually. Most brands discover that gap months after cutover, when the damage is already in the retention curve. I work with luxury retailers measuring experience quality through platform migrations — before legacy instrumentation breaks. Given the vendor review is active, thought it worth connecting.
Step 2 — Value (Email, <100 words)
Heather, one pattern I've seen in enterprise platform migrations: the new stack ships, headline metrics look healthy, but underneath there's a 3-5% experience gap that only surfaces at the session level — invisible to aggregate reporting.
At luxury AOVs, that gap is catastrophic. A £800 basket abandoned due to a checkout regression on the new Sylius stack isn't a UX bug — it's a revenue event.
One comparable luxury retailer identified £22M in recoverable migration friction within 60 days of cutover by measuring experience quality on both old and new stacks simultaneously.
Happy to share the approach.
Step 3 — CTA (Email, <75 words)
Heather, as the migration hits its first major tech milestones this year — do you have session-level visibility into experience quality across both the legacy and incoming Sylius platform?
If it's worth 15 minutes, I can walk through how one luxury retailer maintained a side-by-side experience comparison during migration that protected conversion and gave the board evidence the transition was working. No pitch — just the measurement framework.
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Net-a-Porter (LuxExperience Group) — Gareth Locke (Group CDO)
7-Touch Email Sequence (Warm Route)
Date: 2026-05-14
Priority Rank: 3 of 7
Signal Stack: L2 (24-36 month platform migration to Sylius) + L2 (all incumbent vendors under review) + L2 (OUTNET divestiture — focus signal) + L3 (Mytheresa acquisition Apr 2025)
Entry Strategy: Warm email — Adrian connected since 08 Sep 2021 (5yr)
Proof Point: Chalhoub Group (multi-brand luxury portfolio analytics), Lululemon (enterprise fashion scale)
Warm Route: YES — Gareth Locke is Group CDO, owns cross-brand analytics mandate across Mytheresa, Net-a-Porter, and Mr Porter. Direct LinkedIn connection since Sep 2021.
Touch 1 — Email (GIVE only, <100 words)
contact: Gareth Locke
brand: Net-a-Porter / LuxExperience Group
signal_refs: [2025-04-01 Mytheresa acquisition, 2026-01-01 platform migration to Sylius]
signal_levels: [L2, L2]
touch_number: 1
channel: email
status: draft
dnc_checked: true
concentric_rings_used: [Ring 1: Group CDO — owns analytics across three luxury brands, Ring 2: 24-36 month Sylius migration, Ring 5: 5yr warm connection]
Subject: Cross-brand analytics during the migration
Gareth,
It's Adrian — hope you're well.
I've been thinking about your world since the Mytheresa-YNAP deal closed. Owning analytics across three luxury brands — Mytheresa, Net-a-Porter, Mr Porter — during a 24-36 month platform migration onto Sylius is a genuinely unique measurement challenge.
The question I keep hearing from CDOs in similar positions: "How do we measure whether each migration milestone improved or degraded the customer experience, and by how much — when the analytics stack itself is being rebuilt?"
The brands solving this are measuring at session level before, during, and after migration. The ones that wait discover problems in quarterly reviews.
Touch 2 — Email (GIVE only, different angle, <75 words)
contact: Gareth Locke
brand: Net-a-Porter / LuxExperience Group
signal_refs: [2026-01-01 platform migration, luxury AOV £500+]
signal_levels: [L2, L2]
touch_number: 2
channel: email
status: draft
dnc_checked: true
concentric_rings_used: [Ring 2: luxury AOV amplification, Ring 4: session-level revenue quantification]
Subject: Re: Cross-brand analytics during the migration
Gareth,
Different angle on the migration challenge — at luxury AOVs, friction costs disproportionately. A checkout bug that costs a mass-market retailer thousands costs a luxury platform millions.
At £500+ AOV and 7M monthly visitors, a single friction point during a seasonal moment — resort, pre-fall — can cost more in one incident than many brands lose in a quarter. That makes session-level measurement during migration existential, not optional.
Touch 3 — Email (GIVE + soft question, <75 words)
contact: Gareth Locke
brand: Net-a-Porter / LuxExperience Group
signal_refs: [2025-04-01 vendor review underway]
signal_levels: [L2]
touch_number: 3
channel: email
status: draft
dnc_checked: true
concentric_rings_used: [Ring 2: all vendors under review, Ring 5: Chalhoub Group case study]
Subject: What Chalhoub Group found across their luxury portfolio
Gareth,
Chalhoub Group — multi-brand luxury retailer on shared infrastructure — deployed session-level experience analytics with revenue quantification across the portfolio. The insight: customer experience quality varied significantly brand-to-brand, and the variance was invisible to aggregate dashboards.
With all vendors under active review as part of the migration, is the analytics architecture for the combined group something being defined now, or is that a later-phase decision?
Touch 4 — Email (GIVE + soft offer, <75 words)
contact: Gareth Locke
brand: Net-a-Porter / LuxExperience Group
signal_refs: [2026-01-01 Sylius migration, AWS infrastructure]
signal_levels: [L2, L2]
touch_number: 4
channel: email
status: draft
dnc_checked: true
concentric_rings_used: [Ring 2: Sylius/Symfony tech stack, Ring 4: zero-instrumentation deployment]
Subject: Analytics deployment on Sylius without engineering overhead
Gareth,
One practical angle — deploying analytics on a custom Sylius/Symfony stack during migration typically means engineering resources diverted from the migration itself.
I have data on how luxury and enterprise brands are deploying session-level capture on custom platforms with zero engineering instrumentation — 300+ metrics from day one, deployed in days not months, without touching the migration timeline.
Happy to share the technical approach if it's relevant to the architecture discussions.
Touch 5 — Email (soft meeting ask, <75 words)
contact: Gareth Locke
brand: Net-a-Porter / LuxExperience Group
signal_refs: [2021-09-08 Adrian connection]
signal_levels: [L1]
touch_number: 5
channel: email
status: draft
dnc_checked: true
concentric_rings_used: [Ring 1: 5yr connection, peer-level tone, Ring 2: Group CDO analytics mandate]
Subject: 20 minutes on cross-brand migration analytics
Gareth,
We've been connected five years and I've never asked for time — so this is a genuine first.
Would 20 minutes be useful to compare notes on how multi-brand luxury retailers are approaching analytics architecture during platform migrations? I can share the Chalhoub Group approach and how it maps to the LuxExperience portfolio challenge.
If the timing doesn't work, completely understand.
Touch 6 — Email (GIVE only, <75 words)
contact: Gareth Locke
brand: Net-a-Porter / LuxExperience Group
signal_refs: [2026-01-01 OUTNET divestiture]
signal_levels: [L2]
touch_number: 6
channel: email
status: draft
dnc_checked: true
concentric_rings_used: [Ring 2: OUTNET sold — focus on NAP + Mr Porter, Ring 4: AI-driven investigation]
Subject: Measurement focus after THE OUTNET divestiture
Gareth,
With THE OUTNET divested, the measurement mandate is concentrated — Mytheresa, Net-a-Porter, Mr Porter. Three luxury brands, one migrating platform, one analytics architecture decision.
The CDOs making this work are using AI-driven investigation to surface friction patterns across brands autonomously — no manual configuration per brand. The AI finds what matters, quantifies it in £, and surfaces it before it shows up in quarterly reviews.
Touch 7 — Email (GIVE only, graceful close, <75 words)
contact: Gareth Locke
brand: Net-a-Porter / LuxExperience Group
signal_refs: [2025-04-01 Mytheresa acquisition, 2026-01-01 migration]
signal_levels: [L2, L2]
touch_number: 7
channel: email
status: draft
dnc_checked: true
concentric_rings_used: [Ring 1: warm connection]
Subject: Still relevant, Gareth?
Gareth,
Over the past weeks I've shared perspectives on cross-brand migration analytics, luxury AOV friction, Chalhoub Group's approach, and zero-instrumentation deployment on Sylius.
Is any of this on the agenda as the analytics architecture takes shape, or is the timing off?
Either answer is genuinely helpful. Hope all's well.