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William P. Lauder, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., Executive Chairman and Chairman of Board of Directors |
William P. Lauder is Executive Chairman and Chairman of The Estée Lauder Companies’ Board of Directors. The Company is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products, with annual sales of $7.8 billion in fiscal 2010. Its products are sold in more than 150 countries and territories under more than 25 well-recognized brand names.
Mr. Lauder held the position of Chief Executive Officer from July 2004 through June 2009. Under his leadership, he expanded the Company’s international presence and distribution channels and greatly strengthened the brand portfolio.
Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the oversight of all of the Company’s Global Operations, including Manufacturing, Research & Development and Human Resources. In that role, he also oversaw nine of the Company’s specialty brands, including Prescriptives, Aveda and Bobbi Brown, as well as Retail Store Operations and all activities for the Company’s international business. Earlier, Mr. Lauder held several other senior executive positions, led the global businesses for Clinique and Origins and oversaw the Company’s freestanding stores and Internet businesses.
Mr. Lauder has earned many brand and industry distinctions. 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, Stop Signs Visible Anti-Aging Serum, which won the Cosmetic Executive Women Award for “Best Skin Care Product in Limited Distribution” in 2000. Mr. Lauder led the development of the Origins brand and helped create its innovative store-within-a-store concept.
He joined The Estée Lauder Companies in 1986 as Regional Marketing Director of Clinique U.S.A. in the New York Metro area. Prior to joining The Estée Lauder Companies, he completed Macy’s executive training program in New York City and became Associate Merchandising Manager of the New York Division/Dallas store at the time of its opening in September 1985.
Mr. Lauder is on the Boards of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and the Trinity School in New York City. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The Fresh Air Fund and the 92nd Street Y.
A graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he studied at the University of Grenoble in France. An avid golfer, skier, mountain biker and hiker, he resides in New York City with his family. He is a grandson of Mrs. Estée Lauder, the Company’s founder.
Tracy Palandjian, Social Finance Inc., CEO
Tracy was inspired to co-found Social Finance Inc. after having worked extensively with its sister organization in the UK. Social Finance’s mission is to connect the social sector with the capital markets by structuring and managing innovative impact investment instruments. The Social Impact Bond, which is core to the firm’s current efforts, is a public-private-nonprofit partnership organized to produce social impact and financial returns.
Prior to launching the firm, Tracy was a Managing Director at The Parthenon Group, a global strategy consulting firm. In her 11 years at Parthenon, Tracy established and led the Nonprofit Practice, and consulted to foundations and nonprofit organizations on strategy development, mission definition, corporate social responsibility, and knowledge and innovation in the U.S. and globally.
Tracy is a co-author of Investing for Impact: Case Studies Across Asset Classes. Prior to Parthenon, Tracy worked at Wellington Management Co. and McKinsey & Co. Tracy is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Facing History and Ourselves, and serves on the boards of the Robert F. Kennedy Center and Agassi Graf Holdings. She is also a member of the Investment Committee of Milton Academy.
A native of Hong Kong, Tracy is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, with a B.A. in Economics, and holds an M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School where she was a Baker Scholar.