People: L'Oreal SA (OREP.PA)

Mr. Jochen Zaumseil has served as Executive Vice President for the Asia-Pacific Zone and Member of the Executive Committee of L'Oreal SA since January 2010. His career began in 1983 when he joined the company as Product Manager for Lancome at L'Oreal France. Two years later he moved to L'Oreal Austria where he held the position of Commercial and Marketing Manager for Lancome. In 1987, he left Europe to head west to L'Oreal Mexico where he remained for two years as General Manager of Helena Rubinstein and Ralph Lauren. He then returned to his home country, Germany, where, for the next seven years, he held the position of General Manager of Germany’s L'Oreal Professional Products. He returned to Latin America in 1998 as General Manager of L'Oreal Venezuela until October 2000, when he became President & CEO of L'Oreal Canada. After four years in Canada, he left North America, to hold the position of President and CEO of L'Oreal Japan for two years, before coming back to France in 2006 as Managing Director of L'Oreal Asia. He was appointed to the Group Executive Committee in January 2007. In January 2010, the Asia zone included three new countries: India, Australia and New Zealand, and became L'Oreal Asia-Pacific Zone, comprised of 14 subsidiaries. He graduated from Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in 1983.