Episode 49: Ordile Roujol, Beauty Tech VC and founder of FAB Fashion and Beauty Tech Community
Odile ROUJOL is the Founder of FaB Fashion and BeautyTech community (now 15,000 founders and VCs and 3800 subscribers of the newsletter) and Fab co-creation studio Ventures (fund II ambition $20M, first closing last Oct) seed stage, backing consumer tech and new commerce ( in the space of Beauty and Fashion) Startups.
She’s an advisor with The Hive Data building startups in AI and machine learning.
She is also an Advisor for Start ups in Fintech, Social media analytics, augmented reality…
She’s a board member in different companies.
Odile was most recently the Chief Strategy and Data Officer at Orange (a leading $40 billion+ market cap French telco in 30 EMEA markets with 350 million customers), where she reported to the CEO. She previously served as SVP of Brand and Communications and SVP of Marketing for the company.
Before entering the technology and telecommunications field, Odile spent a large part of her career with major brands in the field of beauty and luxury as an executive with L’Oréal, Yves Saint Laurent and Bourjois (groupe Chanel). While with L'Oréal, she managed the Lancôme brand in France and the United States and became Managing Director / President of Lancôme International in 2006 (#1 worldwide cosmetic brand in luxury retail, now $3 billion revenues, 135 markers).
She has been a Board Member of Groupama SA, a key European insurance company based in Paris.
She's a Business Angel at @50Partners, a French accelerator funded by 50 entrepreneurs dedicated to supporting selected startups.
Odile is a graduate of the HEC School of Management in Paris with an MBA in Marketing and Customer experience.She is now based in San Francisco.
And SHORT ONE:
Odile, Board member, ex L'Oréal (CEO Lancôme, L’Oreal) and Orange (Chief Strategy and Data Officer), Founder of FaB, the Fashion & @BeautyTech community (15,000founders & funders, 15 chapters US Lat Am Europe and Asia) and Founding Partner of FAB Co-Creation Studio(Ventures) Consumer Tech and new commerce, early stage.
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