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29 December 2020
Categories: Movers & Shakers , Profession
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Wella—Herminie Simonetta

Group appoints chief legal officer
Wella Company Group has announced that it has appointed Herminie Simonetta as chief legal officer.


Herminie is a business focused senior legal executive with over 20 years of international legal experience gained in senior roles at COTY, a US beauty company listed on the NYSE, and JTI, a highly regulated Swiss-based corporation, where she has managed a wide range of issues that are critical to the business of multinationals worldwide.

Herminie is an experienced executive with a demonstrated history of driving global litigation and commercial, regulatory, IP, reputation, and risk mitigation strategies, navigating multinational FMCGs through an increasingly complex legal, regulatory and business environment, successfully driving large internal and external teams across countries, and managing the transparent and effective development of talent.

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