Our Nominees

Yannis Skoufalos

Male / Greek & American / 67

Yannis spent nearly 35 years at Procter & Gamble (P&G), where, for almost a decade, he presided over a team of more than 50,000 people in their global supply chain organization. During his tenure, Yannis oversaw more than USD 6.0bn worth of structural savings in the supply chain function across areas such as transportation, material, packaging, and logistics, and inventory reduction. Yannis was also responsible for sustainability, digitization, and innovation within the supply network.

Global Supply Chain

Cosmetics / Health & Beauty

Public Board Governance

Career Highlights

Joined 1984

Initial role in Product Engineering, then transitioning to Supply Chain

2007 – 2011

Product Supply Chain Operations

2011 – 2019

Global Product Supply Officer

2020 (current)

Non-Executive Director [Private Company]

2023 (current)

Non-Executive Director [Public Company]

2023 (current)

Non-Executive Director [Public Company]

2022 (current)

Senior Advisor, Supply Network Practice

Yannis has held several other advisory roles for private companies.

Lanchi Venator

Female / American / 58

Lanchi brings more than two decades of experience in Consumer Goods at the intersection of Marketing, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and Strategy & Transformation. She was most recently Global CFO & Head of Strategy at Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation and previously held leadership roles at The Estee Lauder Companies Inc., where she was responsible for development of financial strategy and built its Global Strategic Pricing function, which continues to enable process improvement through digitalization and automation.

Financial Planning & Analysis

Cosmetics / Health & Beauty

Global Strategy

Career Highlights

2000 - 2005

Manager

2005 - 2008

Director, Pricing Strategy

2008 - 2012

Exec. Director, North America Strategy

Joined 2012

Began as VP of Head of Global Strategic Pricing, then VP of Finance & Strategy

2021 - 2023

SVP, Global Finance Strategy & Operations

2023 – 2024

Global Chief Financial Officer & Head of Strategy

Lanchi holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

Martha Velando

Female / Peruvian, British & Portuguese / 50

Martha previously served as Global Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for Aesop, where she oversaw Product Development & Innovation, and marketing operations. Martha started her career within an internal strategy team tasked with pivoting the brand portfolio of Procter & Gamble (P&G) towards growth opportunities, then working in brand development at L’Oréal, refreshing and growing both existing and newly acquired brands in the portfolio. Martha has held other roles within luxury FMCG, as well as running a consumer insights and analytics practice.

Global Consumer, Marketing & Branding

Cosmetics / Health & Beauty

Brand Portfolio Management

Career Highlights

1996 – 2000

Business Development and Marketing roles

2002 - 2006

Marketing Strategy roles

2006 – 2013

Marketing Director, Kiehl’s, then Yves Saint Laurent, Group Brand Senior Manager, Lancôme

2013 - 2016

European MD, Marketing Effectiveness

2016 - 2020

Global VP, Marketing, then Fragrance Portfolio

2022 - 2024

Chief Marketing Officer

2022 -- 2024

Chief Marketing Officer

Martha holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Hugh Dineen

Male / American / 56

Hugh was most recently President and Chief Marketing Officer of one of the world’s leading haircare product companies. He spent over 15 years as Vice President running the consumer products division of Johnson & Johnson, specializing in brand turnarounds. He revived multiple brands and grew revenue at one sub-scale brand by over ten times in three years. Hugh has also run substantial operations in Japan and managed brand strategy, including building out digital marketing, customer acquisition and analytics efforts in both B2B and B2C.

Global Consumer, Marketing & Branding

Cosmetics / Health & Beauty

Brand Turnaround & Growth

Career Highlights

1990 – 1997

Customer Business Development

1997 – 20xx

Vice President

20xx - 2012

General Manager

2012 - 2015

Global VP, Global Marketing Head (Various) Global VP, Head of Beauty

2015 - 2020

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

2021 - 2025

President, Global Brands & Global CMO

2021 - 2024

Non-Executive Director

Hugh holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

Anja Lagodny

Female / German & Swiss / 58

Anja was previously Chief Digital Officer at Japan Tobacco International. She created and implemented a two-year global digital transformation strategy and established a new digital business unit to leverage consumer data in the transition to E-Commerce and oversaw programs to drive efficiency gains in R&D, Supply Chain Management, and sales. Prior to this, Anja held senior leadership roles at Carlsberg Group and Mondelēz Europe, where she created and implemented global E-Commerce and digital strategies focused on growing B2C and B2B online channels.

Global Digital Transformation

Diversified FMCG

Japanese Business

Career Highlights

2004 - 2009

Multiple roles up to Global Head of Consumer Relations & CRM

2010 - 2011

Sr. Account Exec. – FMCG Digital Transformation

2011 – 2016

Head of Digital, Social Media Marketing Operations & eCommerce Europe

2016 - 2019

VP, Digital

2019 - 2022

Chief Digital Officer / Global VP Digital Strategy (Member of the Board of Directors)

2022 (current)

Executive coaching and board advisory consultancy in Digital/AI Transformation and Digital Strategy.

2024 (current)

Chair International Chapter, Swiss Institute of Directors

Anja is also the Executive in Residence at IMD Business School.