Decoding Inclusive Beauty: Leading Insights from L’Oréal

Amy is the Head of Marketing and Events for Seramount. She leads the product marketing, demand generation, digital, communications and events teams to build stronger customer experiences across all touch points. Amy spearheaded the development and launch of the Sermount brand and continues to own the strategic vision for brand and product portfolio.

Amy brings 20 years of experience operationalizing B2B marketing transformations to maximize revenue potential in changing market landscapes. She spent more than a decade in the specialty chemicals industry, where she led an $80M center of excellence through category expansion, breakthrough product innovation, and global growth. Amy holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and art history from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters of Business Administration from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.  She lives outside of New York City with her family.

Nathalie Gerschtein leads thousands of diverse and talented L’Oréal employees who are passionate about embodying L’Oréal’s global purpose: to create the beauty that moves the world. She is the first woman to lead L’Oréal’s Consumer Products Division (CPD) in North America.

As president of the largest division in the L’Oréal Group’s North America Zone, Nathalie is responsible for accelerating growth, innovation, and sustainable practices across its mass market portfolio of brands and product categories from skin care and makeup to hair care and hair color in the United States and Canada. This extensive portfolio includes some of the most trusted and iconic brands including L’Oréal Paris, Maybelline New York, Garnier, and NYX Professional Makeup, in addition to Essie, Thayers Natural Remedies, Carol’s Daughter, and Softsheen-Carson.

Nathalie began her career with L’Oréal through the company’s management trainee program. Two decades later, Nathalie has led a variety of businesses within the L’Oréal Group across Europe, Asia, and North America. She has played a pivotal role in transforming the beauty industry, including her notable contributions at L’Oréal India and then L’Oreal Thailand, first as Consumer Products Division general manager and then as Country Manager and CEO.

In her most recent role as president of CPD USA, Nathalie spearheaded the acceleration of the Division, driving continued outstanding momentum and gaining market share in L’Oreal’s number one subsidiary.

In 2022, Nathalie was awarded the Women’s Leadership Achiever Award by Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW), a renowned international organization that acknowledges and celebrates the most accomplished female executives in the beauty industry. She is the first non-American leader from L’Oréal to receive this prestigious award in the USA. She also serves on the organization’s Board of Directors.

Nathalie also sits on the Board of Directors for DermTech, an American publicly listed biotech company with a mission to transform dermatology – a natural fit for a professional deeply committed to transforming skincare and improving people’s lives.

Through an appointment by the French Prime Minister, Nathalie has also been serving as a French Foreign Trade Advisors (CCEF) since 2016.

Nathalie is a graduate of HEC School of Management in Paris, the London Business School, INSEAD’s senior executive leadership program, and Harvard Business School executive education program.

She currently resides in the New York City area with her husband and daughter.

Katie Oertli Mooney is a Managing Director at Seramount. She is an accomplished DEI leader and thought partner with expertise in driving strategy and growth of diversity and inclusion change management, planning and programs. Prior to joining Seramount, she was responsible for overseeing the client delivery, staffing, operations and growth as Vice President of Jennifer Brown Consulting. She was accountable for the firm’s successful consulting project delivery to clients from the Fortune 1000, government agencies, startups, to nonprofits.

Prior to that, she managed the DEI enterprise learning and development strategy at Capital One specializing in differential investment programming to support historically underrepresented talent and communities of color. She is currently on the Board of Directors for the GSBA; the largest LGBTQ and allied chamber of commerce in North America and is supporting the organization in 2020, by advancing diversity, equity and inclusion for the Board of Directors, for the benefit of GSBA staff, members, partners and the LGBTQ+ and allied community of Washington State. Katie has a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management with a concentration on Diversity and Inclusion Management from Georgetown University. She is based in Seattle, WA.