Executive Profiles

Fabrizio Freda is President and Chief Executive Officer, The Estée Lauder Companies, the global leader in prestige beauty. He joined the Company in March 2008 as President and Chief Operating Officer. Since assuming the CEO position in July 2009, Mr. Freda has been responsible for the Company’s overall vision, strategy, financial objectives and investment priorities. Mr. Freda is a member of the Company’s Board of Directors.

In his current role, Mr. Freda is a key architect of the Company’s long-term strategic plan, which is focused on gaining share in the global prestige beauty industry and delivering sustainable, long-term, profitable growth. The strategy includes prioritizing resources to the most promising opportunities, making further investments in consumer knowledge, driving innovation and creativity through products and services, and expanding the Company’s distribution and geographic penetration. Mr. Freda has led strong integration across the Company’s brands, regions, channels and functions to create cost efficiencies and leverage scale. Under his leadership, the Company’s multiple engines of growth have delivered record sales and profits.

Mr. Freda is a strategically-focused, financially-disciplined, results-oriented leader with a proven track record in the consumer products industry. Prior to joining The Estée Lauder Companies, Mr. Freda had an impressive 20-year career at Procter & Gamble (P&G), where he was responsible for numerous operating, marketing and strategic efforts spanning different geographies and categories. Mr. Freda also spent more than a decade in positions of increasing responsibility in the Health and Beauty Care division at P&G. During that time he led the launch and expansion of a P&G hair care brand in several European countries. Notably, in his last role at P&G as President, Global Snacks, he restructured the business, orchestrated its successful turnaround and managed employees, factories and research and development centers around the world.

Prior to P&G, Mr. Freda directed marketing and strategic planning for Gucci SpA. Mr. Freda attended the University of Naples Federico II and holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration.

Mr. Freda joined the Board of Directors of BlackRock, a global asset management company, in 2012.  In 2013, he was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Global Business Initiative at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. In 2015, Mr. Freda was presented with Italy’s Cavaliere del Lavoro by President Sergio Mattarella, and in 2018, Mr. Freda was named to Barron’s exclusive list of the World’s Best CEO’s.

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Executive Vice President, Global Research and Development (R&D), Corporate Product Innovation, Package Development

Carl Haney is Executive Vice President, Global Research and Development (R&D), Corporate Product Innovation, Package Development, a position he has held since January 2012.

Since joining The Estée Lauder Companies, Mr. Haney has led a world-class team of talent to drive the Company’s robust consumer-inspired and creativity-driven pipeline of products. Under Mr. Haney’s leadership, the Company has expanded its local relevance efforts through innovation centers in Korea and California, fueling innovation across the Company’s brand portfolio and helping to bring emerging consumer and technology trends to market. Mr. Haney has helped to establish partnerships with best-in-class internal and external collaborators and significantly increase the Company’s patent holdings and speed to market.

Mr. Haney joined The Estée Lauder Companies following a more than 25-year career at The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G). During his tenure at P&G, Mr. Haney held numerous leadership positions around the world in the Home, Health, Grooming and Beauty categories, including Vice President, R&D, Male Grooming, Gillette, Braun and Devices, where he led teams across innovation, product, packaging, process development and engineering.

Raised in Venezuela, Mr. Haney moved to the United States and attended Vanderbilt University, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He has served and advised on multiple boards, including the New England Conservatory’s Board of Overseers & Visitors, Corium International, and a number of digital start-ups across education, technology, marketing, media and clean energy.

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Jane Hertzmark Hudis is Group President, The Estée Lauder Companies, a global leader in prestige beauty with over 30 brands and net sales of over $12 billion.

As Group President, Ms. Hertzmark Hudis is responsible for leading the Company's Estée Lauder, La Mer, Bobbi Brown, AERIN, Darphin, Origins, Aveda and Bumble and bumble brands globally. Reporting directly to the President and Chief Executive Officer, she also serves on a number of key leadership committees within the Company, including the Executive Leadership Team and the Investment Development Committee.

As one of the most accomplished, visionary executives in the prestige beauty industry, Ms. Hertzmark Hudis is regarded for her proven track record of leading and building global brands. Her remarkable strategic insight, expertise in local relevance and unparalleled talent for identifying cutting-edge beauty innovations and trends has helped top beauty brands attract consumers across generations, from ageless to highly influential millennials. A passionate advocate of leadership development throughout her career, Ms. Hertzmark Hudis founded the Company's Women's Employee Resource Group to inspire and engage women across the organization globally to become exceptional leaders and mentors.

Prior to her promotion to Group President, Ms. Hertzmark Hudis served as Global Brand President, Estée Lauder for seven years. As the leader of the Company's namesake brand, Ms. Hertzmark Hudis spearheaded Estée Lauder's modernization and digital evolution to reach and influence the next generation of digital native consumers. While at the helm, she solidified Estée Lauder's position as a global leader in high-performance prestige skin care and makeup, growing the brand's net sales by more than 40 percent and establishing Estée Lauder as the number one prestige brand in its distribution in Asia.

Prior to her leadership of the Estée Lauder brand, Ms. Hertzmark Hudis served in a number of key leadership roles at the Company, including President of Origins as well as BeautyBank, a brand innovation think tank she founded in 2003.

Ms. Hertzmark Hudis received her B.A. degree from Vassar College and her M.B.A. from Columbia University. She serves as a Director of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) Foundation as well as a member of FIT's Executive Committee of the Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing and Management Graduate Program. A recipient of Cosmetic Executive Women's (CEW) Achiever Award in 2008, she also serves on the Advisory Board of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. In 2010, she received the HELP Hero Business Leadership Award from HELP USA, a nonprofit charity providing services to the homeless, for her commitment to helping women succeed in business. In 2016, WWD Beauty Inc. honored Ms. Hertzmark Hudis with the inaugural Beauty Newsmaker Award, which recognizes industry leaders who have dominated the beauty headlines.

Ms. Hertzmark Hudis and her husband raised two sons, and reside in Manhattan. She was honored with the 2017 Outstanding Mother Award from the National Mother's Day Committee and Save the Children, which recognizes female executives for their commitment to mastering a balance between work, motherhood and family.

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Leonard A. Lauder is Chairman Emeritus of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. and is currently the senior member of its Board of Directors.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Mr. Lauder also studied at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He formally joined the Company in 1958, when it had annual sales of $800,000. Mr. Lauder consistently developed and implemented innovative sales and marketing programs and increased the Company’s sales and profits. He created its first research and development laboratory and brought in professional management on every level. He also initiated The Estée Lauder Companies’ international expansion, which began in 1960 with the opening of the Estée Lauder account at Harrods in London.

Mr. Lauder served as President of The Estée Lauder Companies from 1972 to 1995 and as Chief Executive Officer from 1982 to 1999. He added the title of Chairman in 1995 and served as Chairman through June 2009. Under his leadership, the Company launched many brands, including Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series and Origins. Beginning in the mid-1990s, the company also began expanding through acquisitions, including Aveda, Bobbi Brown, Jo Malone London, La Mer and M·A·C.

In addition to his activities with The Estée Lauder Companies, Mr. Lauder is extremely involved in the worlds of education, art, politics and philanthropy. He is Emeritus Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and a founding member of the Board of Governors of its Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies. Mr. Lauder became a Trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City in 1977 and currently serves as its Chairman Emeritus. He is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation; Co-Chairman of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation Board of Directors; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman Emeritus and Lifetime Trustee of the Aspen Institute Board of Directors, as well as former Chairman of the Aspen Institute International Committee; and a member of the President’s Council of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital. Mr. Lauder served on the Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations under President Ronald Reagan. Among his honors, he has been named an Officier de la Légion d’Honneur by France and recognized by the U.S. Navy Supply Corps Foundation with its Distinguished Alumni Award. The Lauder family received the esteemed 2011 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in recognition of its long-standing commitment to philanthropy and public service. Mr. Lauder was the 2013 recipient of the Palazzo Strozzi Renaissance Man of the Year Award. Most recently, he was named a 2014 Living Landmark by the New York Landmarks Conservancy.

Mr. Lauder was married to Evelyn H. Lauder (Senior Corporate Vice President for The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.) from 1959 until she passed away in 2011. They had two sons together, William (Executive Chairman, The Estée Lauder Companies) and Gary (Managing Partner, Lauder Partners LLC), and five grandchildren.

On January 1, 2015, Mr. Lauder married Judy Glickman Lauder, an internationally recognized philanthropist and photographer whose work is represented in more than 300 public and private collections including the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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Ronald S. Lauder is the younger son of Estée and Joseph Lauder and, like his brother, Leonard, learned the family business at the dinner table. He formally joined the company in 1964, beginning his career in the Oevel, Belgium factory. His executive roles began when he became General Manager of Clinique Laboratories in 1985, and he has served as Chairman since 1994. Mr. Lauder was instrumental in the creation of Prescriptives and served as Chairman of Estee Lauder International from 1992 to 2002. He also served as a member of The Estée Lauder Companies’ Board of Directors from 1968 to 1986 and 1988 to 2009. He was re-elected to the Board in November 2016.

In 1983, Mr. Lauder took a leave from The Estée Lauder Companies to serve in the U.S. Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs. In 1986, he was appointed Ambassador to Austria by President Ronald Reagan. Upon his return from Vienna in 1987, he established the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, which now has 35 Jewish schools, kindergartens and summer camps throughout 15 countries in Eastern Europe. Over 7,500 children attend these schools today, and 2,500 children attend the summer camps. Over the years, the Foundation has educated more than 30,000 children in a region that was devoid of Jewish scholarship and has helped build thriving Jewish communities throughout this area. Mr. Lauder also created an International Student Exchange Program between Jewish high school students in New York and Vienna.

In addition to his international interests, Mr. Lauder has long been committed to civic causes and public policy issues at home. A political activist on the state and national level, he was a contender for Mayor of New York City in 1989.

In June 2007, Mr. Lauder was elected to lead the World Jewish Congress, and has served as the organization’s President ever since. In this capacity, Mr. Lauder meets with heads of countries, diplomats and religious leaders, representing Jewish communities in 100 countries around the world.

In February of 1999, Mr. Lauder was elected Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. His selection by the Conference followed his election in 1997 as President of the Jewish National Fund of which he now serves as Chairman.

Mr. Lauder also serves as Chairman of the International Public Committee of the World Jewish Restitution Organization; Chairman of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Committee; Chairman of the Jewish Heritage Council; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sakharov Archives at Brandeis University; Director of the International Board of Governors of the International Society for Yad Vashem; and is a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the Board of Directors of the Jewish Theological Seminary; the Board of Directors of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; the Board of Trustees of the Anti-Defamation League Foundation; the International Auschwitz Council; and the International Board of Governors of the Tel Aviv Museum.

Mr. Lauder is the Founder and Chairman of the New York based Water Holding Group RWL Water, LLC, an international water company. He is also Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1998, Mr. Lauder co-founded the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation together with his brother, Leonard A. Lauder. They serve together as co-Chairmen of the Foundation.

A renowned art collector, Mr. Lauder has established one of the world’s greatest private collections. He was Chairman of the Museum of Modern Art from 1995 to 2005 and now serves as the museum’s Honorary Chairman. In 2001, he established the Neue Galerie New York, of which he is President. The museum is dedicated to German and Austrian art. Mr. Lauder established the Commission for Art Recovery in 1997, which advocates and fights for the recovery of Nazi looted art.

Among his honors, Mr. Lauder received the International Emmy Directorate Award by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2006. He received, together with his wife, Jo Carole Lauder, the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2011, and in 2013, Mr. Lauder was named an Officier de la Légion d’Honneur by President Hollande of France. He was decorated with Germany’s highest honor, the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit, in 2015 and was awarded the Guardian of Zion prize by the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar Ilan University in 2016. Mr. Lauder also received honorary doctoral degrees from Ben Gurion University in 2009 and from Yeshiva University in 2011.

Mr. Lauder was born on February 26, 1944. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in New York and holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Business from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Paris and received a Certificate in International Business from the University of Brussels. Mr. Lauder married Jo Carole Knopf in July of 1967. They have two children and two grandchildren. The family resides in New York City.

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William P. Lauder is a son of Leonard and Evelyn Lauder and a grandson of Estée and Joseph Lauder. Mr. Lauder became Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2009. He was Chief Executive Officer from July 2004 through June 2009. During his five-year tenure as Chief Executive, he expanded the company’s international presence and distribution channels and greatly strengthened the brand portfolio.

He joined the company in 1986 as Regional Marketing Director of Clinique U.S.A. in the New York metro area. In 1990 he led the creation of the Origins brand and its innovative store-within-a store concept. He subsequently was promoted to several senior leadership positions; he led the worldwide businesses for Clinique and Origins and oversaw the company’s free standing stores and Internet business. In 2003 he became Chief Operating Officer, with oversight of all the company’s global operations, as well as nine specialty brands and the retail business.

Under his leadership, Clinique’s Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion became the best-selling prestige skin care product in U.S. department stores and Clinique launched its first anti-aging product.

Prior to joining the company, Mr. Lauder completed Macy’s Executive Training Program in New York City and was Associate Merchandising Manager of the New York Division/Dallas store when it opened in 1985.

He is a member of the Boards of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and an Emeritus Trustee on the Trinity School Board in New York City, his alma maters. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Fresh Air Fund, a member of the Boards of Directors of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the 92nd Street Y, the Partnership for New York City and the Advisory Board of Zelnick Media. In 2012, Mr. Lauder received a lecturer appointment to the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches “Decision Making in the Leadership Chair,” a course he designed for second-year MBA students.

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Sara Moss is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Estée Lauder Companies, responsible for the Company’s worldwide Legal organization. As an Executive Officer of the Company and a trusted strategic advisor to Executive Management, Ms. Moss’s responsibilities span a myriad of areas, including: Board of Directors; corporate governance; acquisitions; intellectual property; licensing; litigation; and global security.

Ms. Moss’s executive leadership extends enterprise-wide. She is a member of the Company’s Executive Leadership Team and also serves on a number of internal corporate committees, including the Investment Development Committee, Fiduciary Investment Committee, and Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Additionally, Ms. Moss chairs the Ethics and Compliance Committee.

Ms. Moss has been with The Estée Lauder Companies in roles of increasing responsibility for more than 14 years. She began her career as a clerk for the Honorable Constance Baker Motley, U.S. District Judge in the Southern District of New York, and then became a litigator at Davis Polk & Wardwell. She went on to serve as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York where she prosecuted a wide range of federal cases. Moving back to the private sector, Ms. Moss was a senior litigation partner at Howard, Darby & Levin (now Covington & Burling) and then Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Pitney Bowes Inc.

Ms. Moss’s passion for the law, higher education and community engagement reaches far beyond her position at the Company. She is Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society and serves on other distinguished Boards including New York University Law School, the New York Common Pantry, the M·A·C AIDS Fund, The Estée Lauder Charitable Foundation and the Board of Overseers of the International Rescue Committee.

Throughout her career, Ms. Moss has been recognized with many industry awards and honors, including: the New York Law Journal Lifetime Achievement Award; the Legal Aid Society Servant of Justice Award; the Chambers Outstanding In-House Lawyer of the Year Award; the NYU Outstanding Alumna Award; the Anti-Defamation League Human Relations Award; the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund “Aiming High” Award; the Minority Corporate Counsel Diversity Award; the Pro Bono Partnership Outstanding Contribution Award; and the Anastasia D. Kelly Transformative Leadership Award.

Ms. Moss is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Massachusetts and New York University Law School. She lives in New York with her husband, Michael Gould, and has four adult children.

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Michael O'Hare is Executive Vice President, Global Human Resources, at The Estée Lauder Companies, one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. Mr. O’Hare has held this position since September 2013. He reports to the Company’s Executive Chairman, William P. Lauder, and President and Chief Executive Officer, Fabrizio Freda.

Overseeing a global network of Human Resources (HR) professionals, Mr. O’Hare works closely with all business operations of the Company, directing the recruitment, retention, compensation, and development of the Company’s 44,000 employees. Mr. O’Hare has more than 20 years of experience directing and guiding teams around the world.

Before joining The Estée Lauder Companies, Mr. O'Hare was Global Chief Human Resources Officer for the Netherlands-based company Heineken N.V. As a member of Heineken’s executive committee, he helped integrate acquired operations in Mexico, Brazil, Southeast Asia, Ethiopia, Haiti and Nigeria. Working closely with Heineken’s board of directors, Mr. O’Hare led the company’s governance, compensation and talent development programs, establishing a top HR function that supports Heineken’s more than 85,000 employees across 70 countries.

Prior to his time at Heineken, Mr. O’Hare spent 13 years at PepsiCo Inc., where he held a variety of senior HR roles culminating in the position of Chief Personnel Officer/Vice President for Asia Pacific. In this role, he oversaw all HR activities in the region across more than 40 business units and joint ventures.

Mr. O’Hare was born in Northern Ireland and has lived and worked in Europe, the United States and Asia. After graduating from the University of Dundee in Scotland, he went on to receive a Master of Economics from the London School of Economics and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

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Gregory F. Polcer was named Executive Vice President, Global Supply Chain, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., in 2008. In this role, Mr. Polcer oversees the Company’s end-to-end supply chain, including procurement, manufacturing, planning, quality assurance and logistics.

Mr. Polcer, a member of the Company’s Executive Leadership Team, is a seasoned business leader with more than 30 years of experience across multiple disciplines, including supply chain, finance and brand general management. Since joining the Company, Mr. Polcer has led numerous enterprise-wide efforts to increase efficiency and operational effectiveness and drive value for the organization, including overseeing the Company’s Strategic Modernization Initiative globally. With a unique combination of supply chain, finance and category management experience, Mr. Polcer is focused on continuing to increase efficiencies and enhance the Company’s operating effectiveness.

During his tenure with the Company, Mr. Polcer has infused his team-based approach to business to develop strong teams worldwide and advance collaboration across business areas. Under his leadership, the Global Supply Chain has successfully created a fully integrated organization driving best practices in manufacturing, procurement, quality and safety across all brands and regions.

Mr. Polcer collaborates with R&D and the Company’s technology community to leverage emerging trends, drive innovation and improve current processes.

Prior to joining The Estée Lauder Companies, Mr. Polcer was Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at Unilever. During his tenure there, he led the development of a corporate-wide initiative for defining the processes, project plan and delivery of a center-led procurement capability. In this role, Mr. Polcer was successful in delivering a sustainable cost and overall long term value benefit. Prior to his time with Unilever, Mr. Polcer worked with Playtex Inc. and J.C. Penney in various roles.

Mr. Polcer earned his Master of Business Administration degree from St. John’s University and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration from Dowling College. He lives in New York with his wife, Maureen.

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Cedric Prouvé became Group President, International, for The Estée Lauder Companies in January, 2003. Mr. Prouvé is responsible for sales and profits for the Company in all markets outside of North America and for all activities of its sales affiliates and distributor relationships worldwide. He collaborates closely with the Company’s Group and Brand Presidents and functions to integrate all global marketing strategies in the international markets. He also oversees the Company's Travel Retail business.

Previously, Mr. Prouvé was President and General Manager of The Estée Lauder Companies’ Japanese affiliate from August 2000 to December 2002. In this role he better positioned the Company to meet the challenges of the rapidly changing Japanese cosmetics market.

From April 1997 to August 2000, Mr. Prouvé was Vice President, General Manager, Travel Retailing Worldwide. In this position he effectively met the challenges of the abolition of duty-free trading within the European Economic Community and the 1998 currency shocks in Asia/Pacific, while proactively managing the opportunities arising from the introduction of new brands and specialized marketing programs for the Travel Retail channel. He joined The Estée Lauder Companies in 1994 as General Manager, Travel Retailing, Asia/Pacific Region, and was given the added responsibility of General Manager of the Company's Singapore affiliate in 1995.

Prior to joining The Estée Lauder Companies, Mr. Prouvé spent nine years with the L’Oréal Group in sales and management positions of increasing responsibility in the Americas and Pacific Rim.

Mr. Prouvé was born in France and educated in France and the United States. He holds a Master of Science degree in Marketing Research and Marketing Management from the University of Kansas and he completed Harvard University’s Advanced Management Program. He lives in New York with his wife, Blanca, and their two children.

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Tracey Travis was named Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of The Estée Lauder Companies in August, 2012 with responsibilities for Global Finance, Accounting, Investor Relations, Information Technology and Strategy and New Business Development. Previously, Ms. Travis was Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Ralph Lauren Corporation from January 2005 to July 2012, with responsibility for worldwide corporate finance, inclusive of accounting, financial planning and analysis, treasury, tax and business development as well as investor relations and information technology. During her tenure, Ms. Travis led work related to the acquisitions of licensed brands/geographies, capital structure efforts, strategic business plans, investor relations strategy, and a major global systems transformation.

Ms. Travis was with Limited Brands in Columbus, Ohio, first as Chief Financial Officer of Intimate Brands Inc. from 2001 to 2002 and as Senior Vice President of Finance for Limited Brands from 2002 to 2004, with responsibility for operational finance for all divisions, corporate capital planning, corporate forecasting, budgeting and strategic planning. From 1999 to 2001 Ms. Travis was Chief Financial Officer of the Americas Group of American National Can, where she led both the Finance and Information Technology groups. Prior to this position, she held various management positions at Pepsico/Pepsi Bottling Group from 1989 to 1999, including Group Manager, New Products, where she assisted in the development of the business plans for Pepsi’s entrance into non—soft drink beverage categories; General Manager, where she led the manufacturing, distribution and market development of beverages for the Howell, Michigan, market unit; and Chief Financial Officer, Michigan Business Unit. She began her career at General Motors, first as an engineer; then, after being awarded a GM Fellowship to pursue her MBA, returned to General Motors as a financial executive, working in accounting and on various international product programs, joint ventures and divestitures.

Ms. Travis currently serves on the boards of Accenture plc, Campbell Soup Company and the Lincoln Center Theater. She is also a Trustee on the Board of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

Ms. Travis was recognized in 2005 by Treasury and Risk magazine as one of the Top 25 Women in Finance, and in 2012 as one of the 100 most influential people in Finance. In 2008 she was granted the Best CFO award by Institutional Investor magazine. In 2009 she was named one of the Top 100 African Americans in Corporate America by Black Enterprise magazine. In 2009 Ms. Travis also received a Distinguished Alumni award from her alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh. In 2011 Ms. Travis was asked to serve as an inaugural member of the Wall Street Journal’s CFO Forum.

Ms. Travis received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA in Finance and Operations Management from Columbia University.

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Ronald S. Lauder is the younger son of Estée and Joseph Lauder and, like his brother, Leonard, learned the family business at the dinner table. He formally joined the company in 1964, beginning his career in the Oevel, Belgium factory. His executive roles began when he became General Manager of Clinique Laboratories in 1985, and he has served as Chairman since 1994. Mr. Lauder was instrumental in the creation of Prescriptives and served as Chairman of Estee Lauder International from 1992 to 2002. He also served as a member of The Estée Lauder Companies’ Board of Directors from 1968 to 1986 and 1988 to 2009. He was re-elected to the Board in November 2016.

In 1983, Mr. Lauder took a leave from The Estée Lauder Companies to serve in the U.S. Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs. In 1986, he was appointed Ambassador to Austria by President Ronald Reagan. Upon his return from Vienna in 1987, he established the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, which now has 35 Jewish schools, kindergartens and summer camps throughout 15 countries in Eastern Europe. Over 7,500 children attend these schools today, and 2,500 children attend the summer camps. Over the years, the Foundation has educated more than 30,000 children in a region that was devoid of Jewish scholarship and has helped build thriving Jewish communities throughout this area. Mr. Lauder also created an International Student Exchange Program between Jewish high school students in New York and Vienna.

In addition to his international interests, Mr. Lauder has long been committed to civic causes and public policy issues at home. A political activist on the state and national level, he was a contender for Mayor of New York City in 1989.

In June 2007, Mr. Lauder was elected to lead the World Jewish Congress, and has served as the organization’s President ever since. In this capacity, Mr. Lauder meets with heads of countries, diplomats and religious leaders, representing Jewish communities in 100 countries around the world.

In February of 1999, Mr. Lauder was elected Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. His selection by the Conference followed his election in 1997 as President of the Jewish National Fund of which he now serves as Chairman.

Mr. Lauder also serves as Chairman of the International Public Committee of the World Jewish Restitution Organization; Chairman of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Committee; Chairman of the Jewish Heritage Council; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sakharov Archives at Brandeis University; Director of the International Board of Governors of the International Society for Yad Vashem; and is a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the Board of Directors of the Jewish Theological Seminary; the Board of Directors of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; the Board of Trustees of the Anti-Defamation League Foundation; the International Auschwitz Council; and the International Board of Governors of the Tel Aviv Museum.

Mr. Lauder is the Founder and Chairman of the New York based Water Holding Group RWL Water, LLC, an international water company. He is also Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1998, Mr. Lauder co-founded the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation together with his brother, Leonard A. Lauder. They serve together as co-Chairmen of the Foundation.

A renowned art collector, Mr. Lauder has established one of the world’s greatest private collections. He was Chairman of the Museum of Modern Art from 1995 to 2005 and now serves as the museum’s Honorary Chairman. In 2001, he established the Neue Galerie New York, of which he is President. The museum is dedicated to German and Austrian art. Mr. Lauder established the Commission for Art Recovery in 1997, which advocates and fights for the recovery of Nazi looted art.

Among his honors, Mr. Lauder received the International Emmy Directorate Award by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2006. He received, together with his wife, Jo Carole Lauder, the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2011, and in 2013, Mr. Lauder was named an Officier de la Légion d’Honneur by President Hollande of France. He was decorated with Germany’s highest honor, the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit, in 2015 and was awarded the Guardian of Zion prize by the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar Ilan University in 2016. Mr. Lauder also received honorary doctoral degrees from Ben Gurion University in 2009 and from Yeshiva University in 2011.

Mr. Lauder was born on February 26, 1944. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in New York and holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Business from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Paris and received a Certificate in International Business from the University of Brussels. Mr. Lauder married Jo Carole Knopf in July of 1967. They have two children and two grandchildren. The family resides in New York City.

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William P. Lauder is a son of Leonard and Evelyn Lauder and a grandson of Estée and Joseph Lauder. Mr. Lauder became Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2009. He was Chief Executive Officer from July 2004 through June 2009. During his five-year tenure as Chief Executive, he expanded the company’s international presence and distribution channels and greatly strengthened the brand portfolio.

He joined the company in 1986 as Regional Marketing Director of Clinique U.S.A. in the New York metro area. In 1990 he led the creation of the Origins brand and its innovative store-within-a store concept. He subsequently was promoted to several senior leadership positions; he led the worldwide businesses for Clinique and Origins and oversaw the company’s free standing stores and Internet business. In 2003 he became Chief Operating Officer, with oversight of all the company’s global operations, as well as nine specialty brands and the retail business.

Under his leadership, Clinique’s Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion became the best-selling prestige skin care product in U.S. department stores and Clinique launched its first anti-aging product.

Prior to joining the company, Mr. Lauder completed Macy’s Executive Training Program in New York City and was Associate Merchandising Manager of the New York Division/Dallas store when it opened in 1985.

He is a member of the Boards of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and an Emeritus Trustee on the Trinity School Board in New York City, his alma maters. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Fresh Air Fund, a member of the Boards of Directors of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the 92nd Street Y, the Partnership for New York City and the Advisory Board of Zelnick Media. In 2012, Mr. Lauder received a lecturer appointment to the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches “Decision Making in the Leadership Chair,” a course he designed for second-year MBA students.

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Aerin Lauder is the Founder and Creative Director of the luxury lifestyle brand AERIN, and Style and Image Director for Estée Lauder, the flagship brand of The Estée Lauder Companies.

Aerin began her career with The Estée Lauder Companies in 1992 as a member of the Prescriptives marketing team. She proceeded to hold various positions in product development, advertising and creative, including Creative Director, shaping the Estée Lauder brand's image globally for 20 years.

Aerin is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. She serves on the Education Committee for the Board of Trustees at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the International Committee of the Museum of Modern Art. Additionally, she is actively involved in the Neue Galerie, a museum founded in 2001 by her father, Ronald S. Lauder, that is dedicated to German and Austrian art from the early 20th Century.

Ms. Lauder lives in New York with her husband and two children.

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Chris Good is President, North America for The Estée Lauder Companies. Mr. Good leads the Company’s home market, overseeing more than 25 brands in the U.S. and Canada. He is also a member of the Company’s Executive Leadership Team.

Chris Good started out as a professional footballer for Queens Park Rangers in 1978 but later switched to a business degree at London University, graduating with a BA (Hons). His career in beauty started on graduation with a series of sales and marketing roles within Elizabeth Arden, The Estée Lauder Companies and Unilever in London.

In 1989, Mr. Good was appointed European Marketing Director for the Prestige division of Unilever in Geneva, a role that established his international career. His career with Unilever Prestige took him all over the world and in quick succession he became European Marketing Director in New York; President of Unilever in Tokyo; Regional Vice President in Shanghai and General Manager/Regional Vice President in Singapore.

After a period out of The Estée Lauder Companies, he returned to the fold in 2000 to take on the position of General Manager/Regional Vice President for Clinique in APAC, a role that he held for five years. In 2005 he was named General Director of the young Russian affiliate business and took it to the number one slot during his time there.

In 2008 he was appointed Senior Vice President, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, India and Africa, and became a key member of the EMEA leadership team.

After 22 years working across seven different countries, Mr. Good returned to London in 2012 to take on the prestigious role of Regional President/Managing Director of The Estée Lauder Companies, U.K. & Ireland, the company’s second largest market globally after the North American home market. In January 2014 he was promoted to President of the U.K. business. In 2017 he was named President, North America.

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Peter Jueptner is President, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, The Estée Lauder Companies. Since 2009, Mr. Jueptner has worked alongside Fabrizio Freda in the development and execution of the Company’s strategy, which has delivered record results including consistent top-line growth ahead of the prestige beauty industry. Additionally, Mr. Jueptner has played a key role in continuing to strengthen and expand the Company’s portfolio, overseeing six acquisitions since 2010, including Smashbox. As the leader of the Company’s strategic initiatives, he has been at the forefront of industry insights, trends and the biggest opportunities critical to the long-term growth of the Company. His solid leadership capabilities, coupled with his brand, retail and operational expertise, make him ideally suited to further develop the Company’s strong position in EMEA.

Prior to joining The Estée Lauder Companies, he served as Senior Vice President, Strategy and Mergers Acquisitions, at Philip Morris International, where he was a key change agent in developing new business strategies to drive organizational effectiveness. Previous to his work at Philip Morris, he held executive roles at A&P, a North American grocery retailer, and Campbell Soup Company. He started his career with the Boston Consulting Group.

Mr. Jueptner was born in Germany and attended the University of Karlsruhe, receiving an undergraduate degree in Information Technology and Industrial Engineering. He also worked as an industrial engineer at Siemens while pursuing his degree. He received his MBA, in marketing and finance, in the United States from Vanderbilt University.

He has three children and lives in New York City.

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Mark Loomis was named President, The Estée Lauder Companies, Asia/Pacific in January, 2018. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the expansion and strategic growth of the Company’s portfolio of brands including the conceptualization and execution of the Company’s regional strategies. He reports to Cedric Prouvé, Group President of International for The Estée Lauder Companies.

Mr. Loomis began his 20-plus year career with The Estée Lauder Companies in 1996 and since then has held a variety of leadership roles. He first joined the Estée Lauder brand as Vice President Marketing, Travel Retail Worldwide, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of global marketing strategies for the brand. In 1999, he was appointed Vice President, Estée Lauder for Canada. In May 2001, he was named Senior Vice President/General Manager, Estée Lauder International; leading the development of the brand in Europe, Asia/Pacific and Latin America.  Mr. Loomis became President, Estée Lauder Companies Japan K.K. from June 2005 through March 2011.

Most recently, Mr. Loomis was the Senior Vice President, Asia/Pacific, overseeing the Japan, Australia, New-Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam, The Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia affiliates as well as our Retail Channel, Online, Innovation/Product Development/R&D and Trademark Protection & Market Security functions.

Mr. Loomis lives in Hong Kong with his wife and three daughters.

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Daniel Rachmanis is President, Latin America, The Estée Lauder Companies, a position he was appointed to in January 2016. Mr. Rachmanis is also a member of The Estée Lauder Companies’ Executive Leadership Team.

He has led the Company’s expansion in Latin America since 2009, when he was named Senior Vice President, General Manager, of the newly created region. In this role, he oversaw all operations from Mexico to Argentina of The Estée Lauder Companies' more than 25 brands including Estée Lauder, Clinique, M·A·C, Bobbi Brown, La Mer, and Aveda. Under his leadership, the Company has launched seven new brands and expanded into more than 30 second-tier cities across 17 markets in Latin America.

He joined The Estée Lauder Companies in November 2007 as Senior Vice President, International Business Development, where he was responsible for the fast and successful international rollout of the BeautyBank brands, as well as the acquisition and integration of Forest Essentials (India).

Previously, Mr. Rachmanis was Chief Executive Officer of Chemaid Laboratories, where he successfully restructured the Sales & Marketing and Research & Development capabilities to make that company a key player in the premium skin, body and hair care sector. Prior to that, he was President, Fine Fragrances, Americas, for Firmenich Inc., where he was responsible for the development of the fragrance business across South and North America.

Mr. Rachmanis’ international experience includes three years in Paris, France, as the Regional Director for Saint Gobain Group, where he managed the business strategies for the Perfumery and Pharmacy Glass Division. He was also the Export Director for Saint Gobain Group in São Paulo, Brazil, for five years and oversaw development in new markets such as Asia, Middle East and Latin America.

He has a Master's in Business Administration from the prestigious Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) business school in France and is fluent in French, Spanish, English and Portuguese. He lived for 13 years in Argentina and more than 15 years in Spain, France and Brazil before settling in the U.S. 18 years ago.

He serves on the Board of Directors of Worldfund and Council of the Americas.

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