Aviv Group, CEO
Company background
AVIV Group is one of Europe’s largest digital classifieds businesses, operating leading real estate and automotive platforms across France, Germany, Belgium and Israel. As a core pillar of Axel Springer’s digital strategy and backed by KKR, the Group had reached significant scale with strong profitability and a clear mandate to further digitise the end to end real estate transaction.
With the business at a pivotal moment of transformation, AVIV sought a new CEO to unify its multi brand, multi country organisation and lead the next phase of strategic, commercial and product driven growth.
The approach
Up was appointed to identify an exceptional digital operator with a proven track record scaling large, complex, international businesses. The brief required a leader with strong commercial acumen, deep product and customer sensibilities, and experience driving transformation across sizeable P&Ls and distributed teams.
The ideal candidate needed to bring operational rigour, a data driven approach, and the ability to strengthen go to market execution while accelerating innovation across product and technology. Cultural fit was paramount: a low ego, high integrity leader capable of inspiring teams, shaping culture and building momentum across borders.
The impact
Up appointed Ait Voncke, a seasoned global executive with extensive experience scaling high growth digital platforms.
Previously at Expedia, he led the Lodgings business, overseeing 6,000 employees across 170 locations and powering the majority of the Group’s revenue. He introduced data and AI driven systems that strengthened commercial performance, improved partner experience and increased operational efficiency.
Known for his analytical, low ego and people focused approach, Ait brought deep scaling expertise and operational discipline to AVIV as it advanced its strategy, strengthened its operating model and accelerated its path to long term value creation.
