LAURI KIEN KOTCHER
Lauri’s career has been focused on her passion for building consumer brands that people fall in love with and driving outsized growth, from a variety of vantage points as a C-suite executive, board member and investor and at levels of scale from startups to multi-billion dollar revenue companies.
Lauri is currently the CEO and Board member of quip, known for oral care products that turn a “have to” routine into a “want to” ritual. Lauri was most recently the CEO of The Shade Store, the leading independent provider of premium custom window treatments. Prior to this, she was the CEO of hello products for 6 years. Hello products is a naturally friendly™ personal care company that has been recognized as an industry game-changer since Lauri joined in 2015. Hello was the only CPG company named as one of the Inc. Best Workplaces in 2019 and was acquired by Colgate in 2020.
Lauri’s prior roles include being a Senior Advisor on the LCatterton Operating Partner team, 10 years as a senior line marketer including serving as CMO of Godiva and Head of Global Brands at Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, and serving as a partner at McKinsey and Company and a co-leader of the consumer sector across her 15 year tenure.
She has been a Board member and a strategic advisor to many fast-growth consumer products companies, including her work as an advisory board member at Springboard Enterprises (venture catalyst platform for women entrepreneurs) and at The New York Fashion Tech Lab (a business incubator for early stage companies at the intersection of fashion and technology). She is a Board Member of Freshpet, the leading publicly traded provider of fresh pet food and serves on the Nominating and Governance Committee.
Lauri holds a BA cum laude from Princeton University and JD/MBA degrees from Stanford University. She is an avid skier, tennis player and foodie.