The second director in a week is leaving online fashion retailer Asos after human resources director Michelle Emmerson resigned.
She is understood to have signed her compromise agreement with the firm as recently as last week. It follows the resignation of executive director product and trading Kate Bostock which was announced by the company on Tuesday last week.
Emmerson joined two years ago in July 2011. She sat on the senior management board, the level below the executive board, so the company does not have to make a stock exchange announcement.
Chief executive Nick Robertson responded to suggestions by the Sunday Times that Emmerson’s departure reflected an erosion of talent by saying: ‘If it appears there is a lot going on, there is. We have employed 400 people in the past 18 months.’
Robertson last week said Bostock departure was not over strategy but a factor of 'cultural fit and time of life'. He said: 'Our average age is 27 or 28. People get to a stage in their career where they're either up for a very big challenge or they're not.'
Her appointment last October coincided with several departures. They included product director Robert Bready, design director Sarah Wilkinson, buying director Caren Downie, ecommerce and product lead Nick Cust - now ecommerce director at Net-A-Porter.
Finance director Jon Kamaluddin also left in April after nine years.
She is understood to have signed her compromise agreement with the firm as recently as last week. It follows the resignation of executive director product and trading Kate Bostock which was announced by the company on Tuesday last week.
Emmerson joined two years ago in July 2011. She sat on the senior management board, the level below the executive board, so the company does not have to make a stock exchange announcement.
Chief executive Nick Robertson responded to suggestions by the Sunday Times that Emmerson’s departure reflected an erosion of talent by saying: ‘If it appears there is a lot going on, there is. We have employed 400 people in the past 18 months.’
Robertson last week said Bostock departure was not over strategy but a factor of 'cultural fit and time of life'. He said: 'Our average age is 27 or 28. People get to a stage in their career where they're either up for a very big challenge or they're not.'
Her appointment last October coincided with several departures. They included product director Robert Bready, design director Sarah Wilkinson, buying director Caren Downie, ecommerce and product lead Nick Cust - now ecommerce director at Net-A-Porter.
Finance director Jon Kamaluddin also left in April after nine years.
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