CAMPBELL, CA, USA, Nov 3, 2025 – Dassault Systèmes announced the appointment of Fabrice Canonge, 53, as Chief Executive Officer of its brand Centric Software. Canonge succeeds Chris Groves, who founded Centric Software in 2004 and will now move into a senior advisory role with Dassault Systèmes.
Canonge will be responsible for defining and expediting the brand’s strategic software as a service roadmap to meet customers’ evolving demands, and for expanding its market leadership with a new generation of AI-powered solutions on the cloud.
With nearly three decades of experience in business development in the software industry, Canonge brings specific expertise in the apparel, high-fashion, luxury goods and retail sectors. He joined Centric Software in 2004 to lead its European operations, and was later named Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing before becoming Chief Operating Officer and President. He has played a major role in the growth of Centric Software, particularly in its go-to market strategy, its expansion to 56 countries, and in securing many of the world’s most visible brands as customers, such as Hugo Boss, Lacoste and Asics.
Centric Software delivers integrated, AI-powered enterprise solutions in the fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, consumer electronics, food and beverage, cosmetics and personal care as well as multi-category retail sectors. Customers worldwide can plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, sell and replenish products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Earlier this year, Centric Software acquired planning, pricing and inventory, product experience management (PXM) and market intelligence functionalities, boosting its position as the concept-to-e-commerce platform provider.
About Centric Software
From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, market, sell and replenish products.
- Centric PLM, the leading PLM solution for fashion, outdoor, footwear and private label, optimizes product execution from ideation to development, sourcing and manufacture, realizing up to 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.
- Centric Planning is an innovative, cloud-native, AI solution delivering end-to-end planning capabilities to maximize retail and wholesale business performance, including SKU optimization, resulting in an up to 110% increase in margins.
- Centric Pricing & Inventory leverages AI to drive margins and boost revenues by up to 18% via price and inventory optimization from pre-season to in-season to season completion.
- Centric Market Intelligence is an AI-driven platform delivering insights into consumer trends, competitor offers and pricing to boost competitivity and get closer to the consumer, with an up to 12% increase in average initial price point.
- Centric Visual Boards pivot actionable data in a visual-first orientation to ensure robust, consumer-right assortments and product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time.
- Centric PXM, AI-powered product experience management (PXM) encompasses PIM, DAM, content syndication and digital shelf analytics (DSA) to optimize the product commercialization lifecycle resulting in a transformed brand experience. Increase sales channels, boost sell through and drive margins.
Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, appearing regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research. For more information, visit centricsoftware.com.
About Dassault Systèmes
Dassault Systèmes is a catalyst for human progress. Since 1981, the company has pioneered virtual worlds to improve real life for consumers, patients and citizens. With Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, 370,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, can collaborate, imagine and create sustainable innovations that drive meaningful impact. For more information, visit www.3ds.com.
