23-9-2019
Richard J. Whitby, senior vice president of De Beers Global Sightholder Sales has joined ALTR Created Diamonds as the company’s CFO.
Whitby worked for De Beers for 11 years and is experienced in marketing, supply chain, and sales-and-distribution operations. Leaving the mined diamond industry, he said in a statement “Lab-grown diamonds are a major innovation that is breathing new life into the diamond industry, and I look forward to applying my expertise to the future of this field at this exciting time.”
Since this year, there are two veterans of De Beers including Whitby and Toby Cruse has ventured into the lab-grown diamond industry. Former CEO of Dominion Diamond, Patrick Evans has even started a lab-grown diamond company at the start of the year.
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