Caren Fleit Senior Client Partner Consumer New York City
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” - John Quincy Adams
Ms. Fleit focuses on recruiting senior executives for marketing-driven and customer-focused companies, with a concentration on image-oriented retail, consumer goods and services businesses, and the B-to-B companies that partner with them. Within this arena, her search assignments span the executive suite, with an emphasis on general management, senior marketing, senior sales and senior operations positions. She also leads senior marketing assignments across industry verticals.
Clients include entrepreneurial ventures as well as Fortune 500 companies. Ms. Fleit has leveraged her international background and has done significant work for U.S. subsidiaries of foreign companies.
She has more than two decades of senior-level management and marketing experience in diverse corporate environments, in cosmetics and packaged goods in both the U.S. and abroad.
Prior to entering the executive search industry, Ms. Fleit was senior vice president of marketing and business development at Revlon. Previously, she was vice president of marketing for Guerlain and before that, Christian Dior, both subsidiaries of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey. She was responsible for training, public relations, advertising, direct marketing, consumer relations and regulatory departments and had matrixed responsibility for sales and operations.
Earlier, Ms. Fleit spent 10 years in the packaged goods arena, with subsidiaries of Nestle in the U.S. and France and spearheaded the expansion of the Toll House brand.
Ms. Fleit holds a master’s in business administration from INSEAD in France and a bachelor of arts in social and behavioral sciences from The Johns Hopkins University.
