Executive team

As CEO, José is responsible for driving the ASOS multi-year plan to scale and grow the business across all territories, supported by the Board and senior leadership team. He leads over 4,000 ASOSers.

José joined the company in 2021 as Chief Commercial Officer, where he was responsible for leading and driving ASOS' product and trading strategy globally.

Prior to joining ASOS, José was chief executive officer at Portuguese fashion company, Salsa Jeans for almost two years (2019-2021). Before that, he led on commercial strategy for high-profile brands including Esprit (2012-2018), Carrefour Spain (2007-2012) and Inditex (2004-2007) during his 23-year career.

José has extensive multichannel experience, having worked across both online and physical retail, with expertise in trading, merchandising, price, and promotion. He started his career at McKinsey & Company where he worked for seven years (1997-2004).

As Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Mat is responsible for Group Finance, Procurement, M&A, Investor Relations, Governance and Corporate Communications, as well ASOS’ Supply Chain function, a new addition to his remit in April 2021. In this expanded role, he is responsible for ensuring the successful running of ASOS’ operations, as well as driving the business's multi-year plan to scale, grow and innovate across all territories. 

Mat has extensive international experience as well as leading major functional improvement and transformation programmes. Prior to joining ASOS in April 2019, he held leadership positions at EMI Music, SABMiller plc and South African Breweries, before becoming Chief Financial Officer at Britvic plc. 

Cliff Cohen joined ASOS as Chief Information Officer in May 2015. Prior to ASOS, Cliff spent 8 years delivering major technology change for Marks and Spencer across their Stores, Buying, Infrastructure and On-line; his final role at M&S was interim CIO. Prior to this Clifford spent the first 12 years of his career delivery major technology transformation programmes with Accenture within their retail industry group. At ASOS, Cliff is responsible for driving the technology strategy, delivery and operations globally, encompassing all of our customer on-line experiences, data platforms, operational and internal business systems. He oversees all of the architecture, engineering, product management, data science and technology operations as well as cyber security & fraud; leading a team of more than 1,200 people across 5 office locations. While at Asos Cliff has overseen the rebuilding of our core customer experience platforms to a modern, agile and scalable micro-service platform as well as the transformation of our core operational and business systems from our original legacy platforms.

Anna is General Counsel & Company Secretary, leading ASOS’ Governance function. Her remit includes Legal, Company Secretarial, Data Protection, Business Assurance and Corporate Responsibility, including ASOS Foundation. As Company Secretary, Anna supports the ASOS Plc Board and Committees. She is also Executive Sponsor for ASOS’ ‘Fashion with Integrity’ programme, which includes supporting the ESG Committee and chairing both the Governance Working Group and FWI Steering Committee.

Anna joined ASOS in February 2014. Formerly IP Manager at Virgin Group, she has spent much of her career in London and Geneva.

She trained and qualified as a UK solicitor at Taylor Wessing LLP, practicing in TW’s market-leading Intellectual Property & Media Team for 5 years.

As Group Supply Chain Director, Matt is responsible for overseeing and managing a global supply chain across 239 countries. Leading 58 employees, he plays a fundamental role in delivering a strong fashion experience and tailored proposition for ASOS’ fashion-loving 20-something customers.

Matt joined ASOS’ in 2013 as Head of Delivery Solutions and Inbound Supply Chain, and over the past nine years has held a variety of roles within the Supply Chain function before moving into his current position in April 2021. Prior to ASOS, he gained experience in roles at House of Fraser, DHL and Yusen Logistics.

Katy joined ASOS in February 2021 as Director of Group Finance and has been interim Chief Financial Officer since October 2021. Previously, she was Group Financial Controller at Inchcape.

Prior to Inchcape, Katy was Head of Finance Consumables at Amazon UK and before that Finance Director of Home Affairs and Secure Field Services respectively at Serco. She joined Serco from Proctor and Gamble where she spent more than a decade in a series of senior finance roles.

Caroline joined ASOS as Interim Chief People Officer in May 2022 leading our People Experience function. Prior to ASOS, Caroline was Group Chief People Officer for Flutter Entertainment PLC. She was responsible for all areas of the People strategy across the Flutter Group, a FTSE 40 company, as well as organisational culture and creating HR synergies across the Flutter brands.

Caroline’s areas of expertise are building inclusive cultures, people development, leadership and change management.

Previously, Caroline led the People function at Moneysupermarket Group PLC, a FTSE 250 digital company, where she was responsible for HR, internal comms and workplace design as Chief People Officer. Then before joining Flutter in February 2020, Caroline spent two years at Channel 4 where she was Chief Human Resources Officer, responsible for leading the people and HR functions across the organisation.

Katja joined ASOS as interim Director of Corporate Affairs in February 2022. Previously, she was Chief Corporate Affairs and Marketing Officer at Capita, responsible for communications, public affairs, marketing and responsible business.

Prior to joining Capita, Katja was Group Head of External Affairs and Sustainability at HSBC, where she was responsible for external communications, public affairs and sustainability. Prior to HSBC, Katja was Deputy Director-General at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and led CBI’s policy development and advocacy work in the UK and internationally.

Katja is a Non-executive Director at the Office for Students, the regulator for higher education in England.

Michael joined ASOS in June 2022 and is responsible for driving our customer experience strategy and delivery alongside our ASOS Reimagined transformation programme. He is a Partner at EY and is their Head of Business Transformation & Innovation in UK and Ireland. He has joined ASOS under a secondment arrangement.

Michael has over 25 years’ experience of delivering customer focused enterprise wide transformation across a range of sectors and geographies. He specialises in the design, build and optimisation of customer experience platforms to deliver growth. He was also CEO of EY Seren a global research and design consultancy headquartered in London.  Prior to EY he was a Managing Director at a leading global technology services company with a focus on the media and technology sectors.