1. Mindy Grossman was born on September 8,1957 and is the former CEO of WW International.
35 Facts About Mindy Grossman
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Mindy Grossman has been listed on Financial Timess list of the Top 50 Women In World Business, and was ranked among Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women In The World, as well as in Fortunes Top People in Business.
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Mindy Grossman attended Manhattanville College in Westchester County, New York, and transferred to George Washington University in Washington, DC Mindy Grossman intended to go to law school after graduation.
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From 1985 to 1988, Mindy Grossman worked for WilliWear by Willi Smith.
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Mindy Grossman started out as Vice President of Sales and in 1987 became Vice President of Menswear.
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From 1991 to 2000, Mindy Grossman worked for brands by Ralph Lauren.
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Mindy Grossman was vice-president of New Business Development at Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation from 1994 to 1995.
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Mindy Grossman convinced Lauren that in order to attract customers at a younger age he needed to embrace new ideas, and that Polo Jeans Company was a good way to make lifelong customers out of a younger audience.
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Mindy Grossman calls starting Polo Jeans "my start-up experience"; she was its president and CEO from 1995 to 2000, launched the brand in 1996, and took it from a standing start to a $450 million business, building it into the leading department store status denim brand.
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Mindy Grossman reengineered the entire apparel organization, and created three sub-brands for Nike apparel: Nike Performance, targeted to athletes and aspirational consumers; Nike Active, a line to be worn from gym to street; and Nike Fusion, apparel with higher-performance fabrics and aggressive styling.
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Mindy Grossman was credited with showing a footwear company how to be an apparel company.
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Mindy Grossman brought her strong fashion background to Nike's apparel and regenerated it, devoting much of her energy to the company's weaker women's wear business.
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Mindy Grossman took the idea to Barry Diller, the head of IAC, and even though she had no television experience, no direct-to-consumer experience, and no experience in most of the product categories HSN sold, he hired her.
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Mindy Grossman eliminated negative or "toxic" employees, sought out committed, knowledgeable people within and outside the company to head up important divisions, and ensured that all employees were on board with the company's new vision.
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Mindy Grossman found that the network and brand itself was a "very stagnant, linear, non-immersive experience".
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Mindy Grossman aired a two-hour fashion show of high-end apparel.
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Mindy Grossman kept HSN afloat and thriving during the tenuous recessional years of 2008 and 2009 via intense economies and stringent dedication to her vision, and by tailoring HSN's marketing to her customers' needs to economize.
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Mindy Grossman continued to aggressively transform, redefine, and reinvent the HSN brand, improving its demographics and increasing the value of its stock from $10 at its IPO in August 2008 to $55 a share in 2014.
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Mindy Grossman's upgraded the product level to high-end products; implemented numerous digital and mobile access options; improved the shopping experience; and brought on celebrities and high-end fashion designers to sell their lines.
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Mindy Grossman overhauled HSN's website and made HSN a major e-commerce presence; as of 2013 HSN.
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Mindy Grossman evolved HSN from a linear network to a multi-platform business, so that nearly half the HSN's revenue came through digital platforms.
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Mindy Grossman recruited major celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez, Queen Latifah, Mariah Carey, Iman, P Diddy, Padma Lakshmi, Martha Stewart, Jessica Simpson, Keith Urban, Nicki Minaj, Mary J Blige, and Serena Williams, and major cosmetics companies such as Lancome and Stila, to appear on the network and sell their own brands of merchandise, most of them exclusively created for HSN.
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Mindy Grossman brought in high-end fashion designers to sell exclusive fashion lines on the network, garnering Grossman and HSN a front row at Fashion Week.
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Mindy Grossman created partnerships with major companies like Disney and other Hollywood studios to sell merchandise, invited movie and television-series tie-ins, and aired live concerts by singers such as Rod Stewart and Randy Travis.
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Mindy Grossman was the recruited by other retailers, including Penney's, Target, and Avon.
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Mindy Grossman has been a director of HSN, Inc since it went public in August 2008.
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Mindy Grossman has been a director of Bloomin' Brands since 2012.
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Mindy Grossman serves on the Board of Directors of, and as of 2015 is Vice Chair of, the National Retail Federation.
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Mindy Grossman serves on the Board of Directors of, and as of 2015 is Chair of, the National Retail Federation Foundation, the charitable arm of the National Retail Federation.
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Mindy Grossman is the chair of the advisory board of Fashion Institute of Technology's Executive Women in Fashion.
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Mindy Grossman is a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Jay H Baker Retailing Center at the Wharton School of Business.
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Mindy Grossman is an advisor at the venture capital firm Metamorphic Ventures.
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Mindy Grossman is on the Board of Directors of the United States Fund for UNICEF.
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Mindy Grossman founded and spearheads HSN Cares, the philanthropic arm of HSN.
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In June 2017, Mindy Grossman joined the Board of Directors of sports apparel e-commerce retailer Fanatics.