E.l.f. Skin Pledges $50,000 to Billie Jean King Leadership

21 Sep

In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Billie Jean King’s milestone “Battle of the Sexes” win over former number-one tennis player Bobby Riggs, E.l.f. Skin is donating $50,000 to the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative. Established by King and fellow tennis player Ilana Kloss in 2014, the nonprofit goals to advertise inclusivity and equal pay across the workforce. “Billie Jean King has spent her life championing women and impacting positive change,” said Patrick O’Keefe, vp of integrated marketing communications at E.l.f. Beauty. In 1973, King formed the Women’s Tennis Association and won equal prize money for female tennis players on the U.S. Open. Shortly after, other major tennis tournaments followed suit. “[E.l.f.] has a vision to force multiply with like-minded disruptors...

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29 May

Pfizer’s Dr. Albert Bourla on Leadership, Agility in Crisis

by Beautifaire101

Beauty, Featured

After overseeing the event of a coronavirus vaccine in record time, Dr. Albert Bourla, chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer Inc., isn't any stranger to driving progress at lightning speed. On the 2023 WWD Beauty CEO Summit, in conversation with Jenny B. Nice, executive editor, beauty, WWD and Beauty Inc, Bourla recounted the vaccine creation process through the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to the changes it caused at Pfizer. “What makes differences within the culture are the unwritten rules. It's the mindset that individuals are having in the meanwhile,” Bourla said. “Once I took over the corporate, it was in very good condition, my predecessors had done a implausible job. My transformation was to position the corporate...

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19 May

E.l.f. CEO Tarang Amin’s Three-Part Leadership Strategy – WWD

by Beautifaire101

Beauty, Featured

For Tarang Amin, chief executive officer of E.l.f. Beauty, the third time’s the charm. During his third time speaking at WWD’s annual Beauty CEO Summit, the chief who has led E.l.f. through 16 consecutive quarters of growth said it’s taken him his a long time spent in consumer goods to search out his winning strategies. “I’ve been in the buyer space for 32 years, helping construct brands in sectors as varied as food to paper to home care,” he said. “I spent eight years on Pantene as a part of a team that moved sales from $50 million to $2 billion, a forty-fold increase, and I’ve now been CEO of E.l.f. Beauty for over nine years, helping grow shareholder equity from $135...

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10 May

Estée Lauder Cos. Backs Group CEO, Leadership Team in

by Beautifaire101

Beauty, Featured

NEW YORK — The Estée Lauder Cos. board of directors and Lauder family has strongly backed group president and chief executive officer Fabrizio Freda and the corporate’s leadership team in an internal memo sent to employees Tuesday, which was obtained by WWD. In a move to quell any concern produced by a recent report that the Estée Lauder Cos. could soon face pressure from a billionaire activist investor, William Lauder, the Estée Lauder Cos. executive chairman, wrote the memo on behalf of the board and his family. As previously reported, on Sunday The Recent York Post published an article saying that Nelson Peltz is considering making Lauder his next activist play after the Walt Disney Co., including potentially pushing a sale of...

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