Susan Arnold
Susan Arnold (born 1954 ) is a member of Committee of Directors of The Walt Disney Company. It was in 2007 director of the company, after having been appointed in 2004 as vice president of Procter & Gamble.
Study
Susan Arnold graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts and the University of Pittsburgh with a Master of Business Administration. Since 2002, she was on the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business list of Fortune Magazine, 2004 and 2005, she received an entry on the 50 Women to Watch list, the Wall Street Journal. In addition, it was 2005, Number # 57 of The 100 Most Powerful Women list, which is published by Forbes Magazine. She sits on the board of Catalyst, a non -profit organization supporting women in business.
Career
Arnold's career at Procter & Gamble began in 1980. She has held various positions in the managing and marketing before manager of Procter & Gamble's cosmetics department in Canada in 1990. In 1999 she took over the responsibility for Procter & Gamble's personal beauty business within the company for the first time that a woman took a position at presidential level. The business magazine Forbes According to Arnold's career began with a job as a brand assistant at the Dawn / Ivory Snow Group. In June 2009, she was defeated by a two-year race to succeed AG Lafely as CEO of its competitors Bob McDonald, who will lead Procter & Gamble from 1 July 2009 as CEO.
Private life
Arnold and her partner Diana Salter have a son and a daughter. It is one of the most visible gay / lesbian characters who hold such a high position in America.