CONTRIBUTORS Beatrice Nelson Beer
Beatrice Nelson-Beer, Chief Legal Officer, global head of legal, regulatory affairs, compliance, and human resources at PM International based in Luxembourg, is the newly appointed and first women President of Seldia.
Brian Bennett
Brian Bennett, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs and Policy at DSA, is a member of the senior management team and leads the Government Affairs and Legal staff in strategy and implementation of DSA’s public policy goals.
George Elfond
George Elfond, Co-Founder and CEO of Rallyware, has helped direct selling companies, such as The Avon Company, Nu Skin, Pampered Chef, and Tupperware, onboard, engage, and enable distributed workforces at scale.
Tamuna Gabilaia
Trey Campbell
Tamuna serves as the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of WFDSA. In her capacity she leads and oversees the WFDSA initiatives that focus on advocating direct selling industry’s position with external stakeholders, promoting women’s economic empowerment initiatives, fostering highest ethical conduct in the marketplace and enhancing local association management.
Jochen Clausnitzer
Sam Hind is the co-founder and director of Auxano Marketing. She teaches direct sellers to grow their businesses using social media. She is a speaker, coach, social media strategist and host of the Direct Selling Accelerator Podcaster.
Trey Campbell has worked in corporate communications for Southwestern Advantage for twenty-three years. He has trained, mentored, and counseled over 35,000 college students to help them be successful in business and life. Jochen Clausnitzer has been the General Manager of the German Direct Selling Association (BDD) since 2011. Prior to this role, he was an attorney representing the legal department in the Brussels office of the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce.
Heather Cobb
Heather Cobb, the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for Educational Development Corporation (parent company of Usborne Books & More), joined the company as the National Sales Manager in February 2011 after a successful career in non-profit management and fundraising. She has been recognized as a Yoplait Breast Cancer Champion and for her work in the breast cancer community.
Doug DeVos
Doug DeVos is Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for Amway. He previously served as President of Amway for more than 16 years. DeVos joined Amway in 1986 and served in various leadership positions for Amway in Europe, the Americas and Asia. He served as an industry leader in numerous roles including Chairman of the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations (2014-2017) and Chairman of the U.S. Direct Selling Association (20032004). DeVos was inducted into the U.S. Direct Selling Association Hall of Fame and received the Direct Selling Education Foundation’s Circle of Honor award.
Brett Duncan
Brett Duncan is a Founding Partner with Strategic Choice Partners and an experienced executive specializing in marketing, communications, and digital strategic consulting.
Samantha Hind
David Holl
David Holl joined Mary Kay Inc. in June 1993, and in 1996, he became Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. In 2001, he was named President and Chief Operating Officer and then was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. David is a past Board Chair for DSA and a member of the Mary Kay Inc. Board of Directors, the Personal Care Products Council (PCPC) Board, and the World Federation of Direct Selling Association CEO Council.
C. Brenton Kugler
Brent Kugler, a Partner with Scheef & Stone, LLP, is a seasoned trial lawyer and a prominent attorney in the direct selling industry with extensive experience representing direct sales, multilevel, and network marketing companies in lawsuits, arbitrations, and regulatory matters across the United States.
Daniel Park
Daniel Park is The Avon Company General Manager and Head of LG H&H Americas. Park began his career with LG Electronics overseeing the US market and later Canada. Prior to his current role, he was General Manager of The Avon Company Canada Limited.
Chuck Thompson
Chuck Thompson is Chief Consultant Engagement Officer at Scentsy. Humor, knowledge, context, kindness, heart: Chuck guides Scentsy’s culture with all this and thirty years of experience in finance, accounting, customer service, and sales management.
Disclaimer: Articles submitted by contributors and published in Direct Selling Journal do not necessarily represent a DSA endorsement, nor do opinions expressed herein necessarily represent those of DSA.
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