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28 Oct

Sephora’s Zena Srivatsa Arnold on Her Move to Retail

Zena Srivatsa Arnold’s LinkedIn page reads like a meteoric rise through the blue-chip business world. Procter & Gamble, Kellogg, Google, Kimberly-Clark. Present and accounted for. What’s not on there's one of the vital formative experiences of her young profession — as a Lancôme beauty associate at a Dillard’s department store in Cincinnati. The time was the early 2000s, and Srivatsa Arnold was a young graduate armed with a level in computer science just because the dot.com scene imploded. Quite than let her mope across the house, Srivatsa Arnold’s mother drove her to the local mall and told her to search out a job. The experience turned out to be transformational. “I went into it pondering, ‘It’s retail. It’s going to be easy....
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3 May

Sephora U.S. Names Zena Srivatsa Arnold Chief Marketing Officer

Zena Srivatsa Arnold has been named chief marketing officer of Sephora U.S. She most recently served as senior vp, carbonated soft drinks at PepsiCo. Before that, she held senior marketing and management positions at Kimberly-Clark, Google, Kellogg Company and Proctor & Gamble. Sephora Americas president and chief executive officer Jean-André Rougeot noted in a memo seen by WWD that “with a knack for disruption, Zena brings extensive experience in not only constructing and growing brands, but driving initiatives that reach clients digitally. She brings that rare experience of each traditional consumer marketing and performance marketing.” Her appointment will take effect early summer, and follows a period of worldwide C-suite reshuffles at Sephora. Srivatsa Arnold’s predecessor, Deborah Yeh, transitioned solely to global chief purpose officer...
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