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Vernón then became Vice President of Consumables for Amazon where she served as the company's highest ranking woman of color.<ref>{{Cite podcast |url=https://donyaeger.com/corporate-competitor-podcast/episode-10/ |title=Amazon VP of Consumables Carla Vernon asks: Athletes have a warm-up routine, does your corporate team? |website=Corporate Competitor Podcast |publisher=Greatness, Inc |last=Yaeger |first=Don |access-date=19 December 2022}}</ref> In this role, she oversaw the online stores' revenue growth in the babycare, household products, food, beverages, health and wellness, and beauty categories.<ref name=THCNCVCAOOTOACAUPTC/> Vernón and The Honest Company collaborated in 2021 in making The Honest Company store on Amazon.com fully digital.<ref name=THCNCVCAOOTOACAUPTC/> At a time when Latinx women comprised 1.6% of senior executive roles in large companies,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.essence.com/news/money-career/carla-vernon-honest-company-ceo/|title=Jessica Alba's 'The Honest Company' Taps Carla Vernón As CEO— One Of The Only Afro-Latinas To Lead A U.S. Publicly Traded Company|accessdate=December 18, 2022|date=December 14, 2022|work=[[Essence (magazine)|Essence]]|author=Browley, Jasmine}}</ref> she accepted the helm of The Honest Company from [[Nick Vlahos]] with the goal of growing the brand.<ref name=THCNCVC/> |
Vernón then became Vice President of Consumables for Amazon where she served as the company's highest ranking woman of color.<ref>{{Cite podcast |url=https://donyaeger.com/corporate-competitor-podcast/episode-10/ |title=Amazon VP of Consumables Carla Vernon asks: Athletes have a warm-up routine, does your corporate team? |website=Corporate Competitor Podcast |publisher=Greatness, Inc |last=Yaeger |first=Don |access-date=19 December 2022}}</ref> In this role, she oversaw the online stores' revenue growth in the babycare, household products, food, beverages, health and wellness, and beauty categories.<ref name=THCNCVCAOOTOACAUPTC/> Vernón and The Honest Company collaborated in 2021 in making The Honest Company store on Amazon.com fully digital.<ref name=THCNCVCAOOTOACAUPTC/> At a time when Latinx women comprised 1.6% of senior executive roles in large companies,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.essence.com/news/money-career/carla-vernon-honest-company-ceo/|title=Jessica Alba's 'The Honest Company' Taps Carla Vernón As CEO— One Of The Only Afro-Latinas To Lead A U.S. Publicly Traded Company|accessdate=December 18, 2022|date=December 14, 2022|work=[[Essence (magazine)|Essence]]|author=Browley, Jasmine}}</ref> she accepted the helm of The Honest Company from [[Nick Vlahos]] with the goal of growing the brand.<ref name=THCNCVC/> |
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After becoming the CEO of The Honest Company the primary challenge she was faced with was the company's low [[share price]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hinchliffe |first1=Emma |last2=McGlauflin |first2=Paige |date=December 14, 2022 |title=Honest Company’s new CEO has a plan to boost the brand’s $3 share price |url=https://fortune.com/2022/12/14/honest-company-ceo-carla-vernon-stock-share-price/ |website=fortune.com |publisher=Fortune |access-date=18 December 2022}}</ref> |
After becoming the CEO of The Honest Company the primary challenge she was faced with was the company's low [[share price]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hinchliffe |first1=Emma |last2=McGlauflin |first2=Paige |date=December 14, 2022 |title=Honest Company’s new CEO has a plan to boost the brand’s $3 share price |url=https://fortune.com/2022/12/14/honest-company-ceo-carla-vernon-stock-share-price/ |website=fortune.com |publisher=Fortune |access-date=18 December 2022}}</ref> |
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Vernon has [[Board of directors|board]] experience. In 2020, she was elected to the [[Princeton University]] Board of Trustees.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/07/01/seven-elected-princeton-board-trustees|title=Seven elected to Princeton Board of Trustees|accessdate=January 15, 2023|date=July 1, 2020|publisher=[[Princeton University]]}}</ref> She had previously served on the national Board of Directors for the [[Make-a-Wish Foundation]] and an Advisory Board for the [[Wisconsin School of Business]].<ref name=CV9/> |
Vernon has [[Board of directors|board]] experience. In 2020, she was elected to the [[Princeton University]] Board of Trustees.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/07/01/seven-elected-princeton-board-trustees|title=Seven elected to Princeton Board of Trustees|accessdate=January 15, 2023|date=July 1, 2020|publisher=[[Princeton University]]}}</ref> She had previously served on the national Board of Directors for the [[Make-a-Wish Foundation]] and an Advisory Board for the [[Wisconsin School of Business]].<ref name=CV9/> |
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Revision as of 02:52, 20 January 2023
Carla Vernón | |
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Education | Princeton University, 1992 AB, McCombs School of Business, 1998 MBA |
Occupation | businesswoman |
Years active | 1992–present |
Spouse |
Jason Bowles (m. 2000) |
Children | 2 |
Carla Vernón is an American businessperson who is the CEO of The Honest Company.[2][3] Vernón was previously President of Natural and Organic Foods at General Mills.[4]
Early life and education
Vernón is the daughter of a 1958 immigrant from Panama to the segregated Southern United States in New Orleans, who met her mother at Xavier University.[4] Her mother, Cynthia, had a brief experience as a woman of color in the space race similar to the roles in Hidden Figures.[5] Both parents went on to achieve doctorates while raising Carla and her brother in Western New York. Her mother worked as a high school math and science teacher and her father as a math professor and administrator in the State University of New York system.[4]
Carla majored in ecology and evolutionary biology during her undergraduate studies at Princeton University.[6] After graduating in 1992, Vernón worked for The Nature Conservancy in Chicago for a year, for United States Senator Carol Moseley-Braun for two years,[4] and for City Year for a year before returning to school. From 1996–98, she attended McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, where she met her husband Jason Bowles and spent her 1997 summer as an intern at Wegmans Food Markets. Upon graduation she began her career at General Mills in 1998.[7] On June 15, 1999, Bowles proposed,[8] and they were married on August 19, 2000.[1]
Career
Vernón began her General Mills tenure on the Honey Nut Cheerios brand and later held an executive role on the Yoplait brand.[9] By 2013 she was serving as marketing director for the General Mills "Big G" cereals line.[10] In 2015 and 2016, she served as vice president and business director for the snack unit, which included Nature Valley bars, Fiber One snacks, Larabar, Fruit Snacks, and Cascadian Farm bars.[9] In 2017, she became a vice president for the natural and organic growth acceleration unit, before being promoted to president of Annie's and president of General Mills’ natural & organic operating unit,[9] which includes Cascadian Farm, Immaculate Baking, Muir Glen, EPIC and Annie's Homegrown.[4] After 22 years with the company, Vernón left General Mills in April 2020.[9][11]
Vernón then became Vice President of Consumables for Amazon where she served as the company's highest ranking woman of color.[12] In this role, she oversaw the online stores' revenue growth in the babycare, household products, food, beverages, health and wellness, and beauty categories.[3] Vernón and The Honest Company collaborated in 2021 in making The Honest Company store on Amazon.com fully digital.[3] At a time when Latinx women comprised 1.6% of senior executive roles in large companies,[13] she accepted the helm of The Honest Company from Nick Vlahos with the goal of growing the brand.[2]
After becoming the CEO of The Honest Company the primary challenge she was faced with was the company's low share price.[14]
Vernon has board experience. In 2020, she was elected to the Princeton University Board of Trustees.[15] She had previously served on the national Board of Directors for the Make-a-Wish Foundation and an Advisory Board for the Wisconsin School of Business.[6]
References
- ^ a b Vernón, Carla (August 19, 2021). "Status update @CarlaInspired". Twitter. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
- ^ a b Manso, James (December 13, 2022). "The Honest Co. Names Carla Vernón CEO". Women's Wear Daily. Retrieved December 18, 2022.
- ^ a b c "The Honest Company Names Carla Vernón CEO and One of the Only Afro-Latina CEOs At A U.S. Publicly Traded Company". Black Enterprise. December 13, 2022. Retrieved December 18, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e Kinonen, Judie (November 6, 2018). "Carla Vernón Takes Charge of General Mills' Natural Foods Portfolio and Boosts the Company's Efforts To Move Beyond Sustainability". McCombs Magazine. Retrieved December 18, 2022.
- ^ Williams, Nick (December 5, 2017). "Exec shares family link to 'Hidden Figures'". Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
- ^ a b "CARLA VERNÓN '92". Princeton University. Retrieved January 13, 2023.
- ^ Vernón, Carla (May 23, 2017). "Champion of Breakfasts: How Carla Vernon Went from Being Last to Get Promoted to General Mills VP". Working Mother. Archived from the original on October 3, 2017. Retrieved December 18, 2022.
- ^ Vernón, Carla (June 15, 2022). "With my main squeeze". Instagram. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
- ^ a b c d Ortenberg, Carol (April 16, 2020). "Carla Vernon Departs General Mills". Nosh. Retrieved December 18, 2022.
- ^ Horovitz, Bruce (September 22, 2013). "Nutritionists frown on Halloween-theme cereals". USA Today. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
- ^ Stych, Anne (April 17, 2020). "Organic brands leader Carla Vernon says she's leaving General Mills". Bizwomen. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
- ^ Yaeger, Don. "Amazon VP of Consumables Carla Vernon asks: Athletes have a warm-up routine, does your corporate team?". Corporate Competitor Podcast (Podcast). Greatness, Inc. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ Browley, Jasmine (December 14, 2022). "Jessica Alba's 'The Honest Company' Taps Carla Vernón As CEO— One Of The Only Afro-Latinas To Lead A U.S. Publicly Traded Company". Essence. Retrieved December 18, 2022.
- ^ Hinchliffe, Emma; McGlauflin, Paige (December 14, 2022). "Honest Company's new CEO has a plan to boost the brand's $3 share price". fortune.com. Fortune. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
- ^ "Seven elected to Princeton Board of Trustees". Princeton University. July 1, 2020. Retrieved January 15, 2023.