NEW YORK - Tuesday, October 7th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS
WIRE) -- The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE:EL) announced today the
appointment of Nancy Mahon to Senior Vice President, Global Philanthropy
and Corporate Citizenship, reporting directly to William P. Lauder,
Executive Chairman, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Ms. Mahon will
continue as Global Director of the M•A•C AIDS Fund, for which she
reports to Group President John Demsey and M•A•C Global President Karen
Buglisi Weiler.
In her new role, Ms. Mahon will design
and implement a global corporate citizenship strategy, encompassing all
philanthropic, cause-marketing, and employee engagement programs across
the Company. She will have responsibility for synergizing best practices
in these areas across the Company’s brands, regions and functions,
further integrating citizenship into the Company’s strategy. She will
also play a leadership role in measuring and communicating the business
and societal impacts of these initiatives on brand awareness, consumer
engagement and loyalty, and employee recruitment and retention.
“Nancy
is a seasoned leader with a unique combination of experience spanning
the corporate philanthropy, legal, and public policy fields,” noted
Executive Chairman, William P. Lauder. “With Nancy’s proven ability to
create positive social impact, her appointment is exciting for our
Company, our philanthropic partners, as well as the communities we
touch.”
“I am inspired both by the Lauder Family
heritage of philanthropy and The Estée Lauder Companies’ commitment to
being an active and engaged corporate citizen in the communities in
which it does business,” said Ms. Mahon. “Businesses have more
opportunities than ever before to create meaningful change,
opportunities that need to offer both business and societal value. With
the support of The Estée Lauder Companies, I'm committed to ideas that
inspire action from our employees, partners, and consumers and,
hopefully, other businesses looking to make corporate citizenship a
priority."
Ms. Mahon will succeed Deborah Krulewitch in
this role. Ms. Krulewitch, Senior Vice President, Corporate
Administration, has overseen philanthropic contributions since joining
the Company in 1988. She will continue to oversee Executive Office
Administration, Office Services, and the Company’s partnerships with the
Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Fund.
“I’m
thrilled that Nancy has agreed to take on this new role,” said Ms.
Krulewitch. “Philanthropy and citizenship are part of our Company’s DNA,
and I’m excited to watch this area of our business continue to grow
under Nancy’s proven leadership.”
Ms. Mahon joined The
Estée Lauder Companies as Vice President, M•A•C Cosmetics and Executive
Director of M•A•C AIDS Fund in 2006. Over the past eight years, she has
implemented best-in-class grant-making strategies while overseeing a
four-fold increase in M•A•C AIDS Fund’s charitable contributions budget,
creating a global online database and instituting rigorous metrics and
evaluation processes. She also launched M•A•C’s first global employee
volunteer day, which, last year engaged more than 3,100 employees on
World AIDS Day. In recognition of M•A•C’s proven leadership for this
cause, Ms. Mahon was appointed by President Obama as Chair of the
President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS in 2011, a role she continues
to serve in today.
Ms. Mahon was promoted to Senior
Vice President, M•A•C Cosmetics in 2009. In 2011, she was named to
Senior Vice President for Philanthropy and Social Initiatives and given
responsibility for cause-marketing programs for Bobbi Brown, Jo Malone
London and La Mer, in addition to M•A•C.
Prior to
joining The Estée Lauder Companies, Ms. Mahon served as Executive
Director of God’s Love We Deliver and as Senior Program Executive with
George Soros’s Open Society Foundation. She also served as Private
Delegate to the UN Commission on Women, Founding Member of the National
Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Global Private Public Partnerships and
is a member of the Board of Directors of the Parsons School of Design,
The Museum of the City of New York and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights
AIDS.
Ms. Mahon graduated magna cum laude from Yale
University and NYU School of Law, where she was Editor of the Law Review
and a Root-Tilden Scholar.
About The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
The
Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers
and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care
products. The Company’s products are sold in over 150 countries and
territories under the following brand names: Estée Lauder, Aramis,
Clinique, Prescriptives, Lab Series, Origins, M•A•C, Bobbi Brown, Tommy
Hilfiger, Kiton, La Mer, Donna Karan, Aveda, Jo Malone, Bumble and
bumble, Darphin, Michael Kors, Flirt!, GoodSkin Labs, Tom Ford, Coach,
Ojon, Smashbox, Ermenegildo Zegna, Aerin Beauty, Osiao, Marni and Tory
Burch.
Contacts
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Jacob Fisher, 917-606-3250
jfisher@estee.com
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