Delphine Viguier-Hovasse has been appointed L’Oréal’s chief innovation and potential officer, a newly created place for the group.
The chief, who at present serves as world model president of L’Oréal Paris, will begin within the new place on July 1. She’s going to report back to Barbara Lavernos, L’Oréal deputy chief government officer, accountable for analysis, innovation and know-how. Viguier-Hovasse will even be a part of the group’s government committee at the moment.
“This new position builds on L’Oréal’s lengthy monitor file in innovation and has been established to additional strengthen its management throughout the dynamic and fast-evolving magnificence panorama,” the corporate stated in a press release launched Wednesday. “This place will oversee each the prevailing innovation groups and the strategic potential division, to make sure a holistic and future-focused strategy to magnificence innovation.”
Viguier-Hovasse, an engineer by coaching, joined L’Oréal in 1997. She turned the primary feminine head of L’Oréal Paris in 2019.
“Beneath her steering, L’Oréal Paris has skilled spectacular progress, solidifying its place because the world’s main magnificence model,” L’Oréal stated. “This success was fueled by her skill to carry new game-changing improvements to market — like Elsève Glycolic Gloss and Panorama Mascara, a testomony to her product growth skills.”
Viguier-Hovasse has throughout her tenure on the model constructed and amplified activations and applications that encourage girls’s price. That features L’Oréal Paris’ trend present, dubbed Le Defilé, which takes place as soon as yearly throughout Paris Trend Week. The model additionally yearly is an official sponsor of the Cannes Movie Competition, the place this 12 months it’s celebrating its fifth version of the Lights on Ladies’s Value Award, which shines a light-weight on girls in movie.
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“Beneath her management, the model has additionally strengthened its dedication to feminine empowerment, culminating within the manufacturers Stand-Up program towards avenue harassment, which has educated practically 3 million folks worldwide,” L’Oréal stated. “Delphine’s management has not solely pushed enterprise progress but in addition fostered a tradition of excellence and impressed a brand new technology of expertise inside L’Oréal.”
Nicolas Hieronimus, L’Oréal CEO, stated of Viguier-Hovasse: “Her distinctive monitor file of innovation and her strategic imaginative and prescient make her ideally suited to raise our firm’s innovation to new heights. I’m positive that her forward-thinking strategy and deep understanding of the evolving magnificence panorama will assist us write the following chapter of the L’Oréal journey.”
