Jill Scalamandre is an experienced CPG executive whose leadership spans across brands, markets, channels and technologies. With a reputation as a forward-thinking brand builder, she has created brands from scratch, turned around struggling established brands, launched new markets, acquired and divested assets and led technology driven teams to re-imagine traditional market approaches.

Prior to joining Beekman 1802, she acted as Global President of Shiseido Americas, where she led the global turnaround of $300M bareMinerals while also incubating the socially driven Buxom Cosmetics. Her experience as President of Shiseido Group’s Global Makeup Center of Excellence (MCoE) gave her the opportunity to fuel growth across all of the company’s color brands, while acquiring and integrating augmented realty and personalization technology.

Throughout her career, she has advised private equity firms on various portfolio opportunities. Ms. Scalamandre helped build and oversee the successful sale of Frederic Fekkai hair care and salons to Proctor & Gamble, amongst other acquisitions and turnarounds.

She is currently Chairwoman of Cosmetics Executive Woman (CEW), an international organization of 10,000 individual members representing a cross section of beauty and related businesses.

Jill lives in New York City with her husband where she loves the stimulation of the arts, fashion, and literature.