Jenny Belknap ’90

Jenny Belknap ’90

SVP of Marketing and Portfolio Strategy, Estée Lauder Companies

Norwalk, CT

Jenny Belknap is a visionary leader and brand builder with an impressive career spanning more than 25-years with The Estée Lauder Companies. She is currently the Company’s Senior Vice President, Strategy and Insights – North America, leading an integrated portfolio strategy to maximize market share and profitability for its brands and capture growth opportunities across consumers, channels, retailers and markets. She is a member of the Company’s North America Leadership Team.

A highly collaborative and inspiring executive, Jenny has driven many pioneering launches and transformational initiatives for the Company during her tenure. Her career has included leadership roles of increasing responsibility across marketing, strategy and brand management disciplines for multiple brands including Estée Lauder, Origins and Clinique, as well as Corporate Enterprise-wide roles.

Prior to her current role, Jenny was named Senior Vice President/General Manager for Clinique North America in 2018, where she oversaw its regional go to-market strategy and execution including commercial relationships and distribution. During this time, she successfully led the brand to market share growth with a focus on aligning its broad consumer base and hero products with granular retailer-specific strategies. Preceding this, from 2014–2018, Jenny served as Senior Vice President, Global Consumer and Product Marketing for Clinique, where she led the brand’s 360 omni-consumer experience across product, digital marketing, and consumer engagement, including leading groundbreaking launches for Clinique Smart Custom-Repair Serum, Beyond Perfecting Foundation and Moisture Surge 72H.

Jenny joined The Estée Lauder Companies in 1995, starting in International Marketing with the Estée Lauder brand, until 2000, when she left to attend Harvard Business School and earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA). Always a deeply passionate ambassador for the company, Jenny re- joined in 2002, immediately post graduate school. Today, she not only leads a cross-discipline, multi-functional team, but is an inspiring mentor for rising talent. She serves as an executive sponsor of the Company’s North America Millennial/Gen Z Advisory Board and is a longtime supporter of The Estée Lauder Companies’ Breast Cancer Campaign and its ongoing partnership with The Young Women’s Leadership School (TYWLS). She is also passionate about advancing the Company’s values of inclusion, diversity, and equity and serves as an active leader on its Racial Equity Steering Committee.

Jenny currently resides in Norwalk, CT with her husband and son.