Salima brings MGO nearly 20 years’ experience in digital branding and customer-first strategies for numerous premium brands in the beauty and fashion industries. In August 2022, she was named Chief Digital Officer of Orveon Global, a collective of premium and prestige beauty brands, including bareMinerals, Buxom and Laura Mercier.
During her career, she spent a total of nearly 15 years working at The Estée Lauder Companies overseeing marketing, merchandizing and analytic strategies across the Company’s portfolio of 30 leading prestige beauty brands. Salima first worked at Estee Lauder from August 2004 through December 2010, serving as Executive Director, Global Online Marketing for the Company’s MAC Cosmetics line and from January 2010 through October 2011 as Executive Director of the Digital Technology and Innovation Group. In 2015, she returned to Estée Lauder, serving as Vice President, Global Ecommerce, Marketing and Merchandizing from February 2015 through July 2019, before rising to Senior Vice President of Global Consumer Acquisition and Retention, a role she held from July 2019 through August 2022.
From January 2014 through January 2015, Salima was Vice President, Ecommerce of Ray-Ban at Luxottica Group, a leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of fashion, luxury and sports eyewear; and from October 2011 through December 2013, she served as Senior Vice President of Global Omni-Commerce and Digital Strategy at Stuart Weitzman Holdings, a luxury footwear company. In January 2004, Salima launched her career as an Online Marketing Manager at Digitas, where she spearheaded digital agency strategy and development of integrated marketing initiatives across all channels for the firm’s client, American Express. From August 2004 through December 2008, she also co-founded and led indomix, an innovative multi-channel retail concept that provided a platform for emerging South Asian designers in the U.S. market.
Salima holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and International Business from the Stern School of Business at New York University.