The FINANCIAL — Isabel MAREY-SEMPER is appointed Executive Vice-President Communication, Sustainablility and Public Affairs, as well as General Manager of the L’Oréal Foundation, and member of L’Oréal’s Executive Committee.
She succeeds Sara RAVELLA who, after five successful years spent with L’Oréal, has decided to leave the Group to pursue a personal project. Sara Ravella increased the visibility and reputation of L’Oréal and spearheaded the Group’s citizenship and corporate social responsibility agendas with the launch of its “Sharing Beauty With All” commitments while energizing the L’Oréal Foundation.
Isabel MAREY-SEMPER, aged 47, joined L’Oréal in January 2010 as Director of Shared Services for the Research & Innovation Department. In this capacity, Isabel Marey-Semper was in charge of leading the transformation of the Department in pursuit of L’Oréal’s strategy to conquer one billion new consumers. She was subsequently appointed Senior Vice President of Advanced Research of L’Oréal.
Isabel Marey-Semper and her team lead the internationalization of Advanced Research with the opening of research centers in India, Singapore and California, and accelerated the use of modeling in the creation of molecules and their evaluation. In coordination with the other R&I teams, she reinforced the importance of placing consumer needs at the heart of the Research strategy, according to L’Oréal.
Isabel Marey-Semper is a graduate of l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm, holds a Ph.D. in Neuro-Pharmacology from Université Paris Pierre et Marie Curie – Collège de France and an MBA from Collège des Ingénieurs, Paris.
Isabel Marey-Semper held executive positions with PSA Peugeot Citroen, Thomson, Saint-Gobain and Telesis / A.T. Kearney.
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