The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. announced that Sara E. Moss has been promoted to the newly created role of Vice Chairman, effective July 1, 2019. Ms. Moss is currently Executive Vice President and General Counsel and will continue in her role until a successor is named at a later date. She will jointly report to William P. Lauder, Executive Chairman, and Fabrizio Freda, President and Chief Executive Officer.
In this strategic role for the company, Ms. Moss will have several key areas of focus. First, she will serve as a senior advisor to Executive Management, the Board of Directors and the Lauder Family on issues critical to the business. Second, she will act as a liaison between the Lauder Family and the Board of Directors, while also helping to advance a framework to enable the company's long-term, sustainable success as a family-controlled, public company. Third, Ms. Moss will work collaboratively with senior leaders across the organization to drive the company's global programs focused on developing women as exceptional leaders, as well as women's focused initiatives.
Since joining the company in 2003, Ms. Moss has served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel, responsible for the company's worldwide Legal organization and acting as a trusted strategic advisor to the business and the Board of Directors.
Before joining The Estee Lauder Companies, Ms. Moss had a distinguished career as a lawyer and leader. As part of a small vanguard of women with many "firsts," she was one of the first women litigators at a Wall Street law firm, part of the first small group of women federal prosecutors in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney'sOffice for the Southern District of New York, and one of the first few women General Counsel in the Fortune 500. Sara has continuously demonstrated a passion for developing women leaders, having most recently established the Sara Moss Women's Leadership Training Program at NYU Law School.