Peri Z.

Hansen

Senior Client Partner, Sector Leader, Consumer Products, North America, Leader, Marketing Officers Practice, North America

Peri Z. Hansen is a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry’s Los Angeles office where she is a member of the firm’s Global Consumer Market and serves as the Leader of the Consumer Products Sector and Marketing Officers Practice in North America.

Ms. Hansen is also a member of the firm’s CEO and Board Services Practice, and she is the Chair of the Global Promotions Committee. 

Her assignments have spanned the C-suite with a focus on CEO, CMO, Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Digital Officer, and Board Directors. She is an attorney and early in her career practiced law in Southern California with a West Coast-based law firm.

Working in concert with Korn Ferry Advisory she also advises in the areas of CEO Succession and Top Team Effectiveness.

She has worked with private equity firms and their portfolio companies, Global 1000 and Fortune 500 corporations and venture-backed start-up organizations in consumer sectors including packaged goods, lifestyle brands, apparel and footwear, travel and hospitality, and consumer technology.

Ms. Hansen earned her bachelor’s in English with honors from Stanford University. As an undergraduate she also attended Oxford University’s Magdalen College. She has received her juris doctor from Pepperdine University where she was an editor of the Law Review.

She serves on the Board of Directors for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California where she Chairs the Board Development Committee. Ms. Hansen recently completed a five-year term on the board of the Stanford Alumni Association.