Tarang Amin
Chairman & CEO, e.l.f. Cosmetics
Born: 1965
Location: Kenya
Nationality: United States
Residence: San Francisco Bay Area, California
Businesses: e.l.f. Cosmetics / Clorox / Procter & Gamble
Biography
Tarang has served in his current role at e.l.f. Beauty since 2014. He has more than 25 years of consumer products experience building brands, leading innovation, and assembling high performance teams.
Previously, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Schiff Nutrition, with leading brands Airborne, MegaRed, Digestive Advantage, and Move Free. Under his leadership, Schiff’s enterprise value grew from $190 million to $1.5 billion over two years.
Earlier in his career, Amin was Vice President, General Manager of The Clorox Company’s $1.7 billion Litter, Food and Charcoal Strategic Business Units, taking Kingsford, Hidden Valley, and Fresh Step to new records. He also served in senior management roles that helped to double the sales of the global Clorox franchise to $1.5 billion. Prior to Clorox, Amin held management positions at Procter & Gamble where he helped grow Pantene’s sales from $50 million to $2 billion, as well as helped increase sales of Bounty by $300 million. Amin holds a bachelor’s degree in international policy and a master’s degree in business administration from Duke University.
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Why Diversity?
Tarang Amin has followed a most unusual path to the c-suite. He's of Indian ethnicity, was born in East Africa, and immigrated to the US, picking up a lot of lessons about diversity along the way.
Diversity Mindset
You'd be hard-pressed to find a company more diverse than e.l.f. Beauty. Nearly 75% of their workforce are women, and 50% are diverse! So how do they do it? Tarang shares his focused formula for bringing diversity to the workplace, and reflects on how that affects team purpose.