United States
Daniel Mahler
Daniel Mahler
Executive Vice President, Strategy and Transformation
Daniel Mahler leads Corporate Strategy & Business Transformation at The Estée Lauder Companies. In his role as Executive Vice President, Strategy & Transformation, he works closely with the President and CEO, Fabrizio Freda, and Executive Vice President and CFO, Tracey T. Travis, and is responsible for developing and overseeing all major strategy and change initiatives aligned with the long-term vision of one of the world’s leading prestige beauty companies.
Before working at The Estée Lauder Companies, Daniel was the Head of the Americas Region of the Global Management Consulting firm Kearney. His 20-year career at the firm began in Kearney’s New York office and included working from Berlin and Zurich. Daniel led Kearney Switzerland before he was appointed to lead the Americas Region, where he was accountable for 40% of the Firm’s P&L. He was a member of A.T. Kearney’s Board of Directors from 2010 to 2014 and its Executive Committee from 2013 to 2018. In addition, as one the firm’s senior partners, he served as the lead advisor to the C-Suite of several of the world’s most significant Consumer and Retail companies.
Daniel has been a guest lecturer at the ETH in Zurich since 2005 and was named to Consulting Magazine’s Top 25 Consultants list in 2008. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Market Research Firm NPD, the Board of Directors of the German American Chamber of Commerce and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Opera Foundation, New York.
Daniel studied in Hannover, Germany, and holds a MA in Media Management and a PhD in Communications. He lives with his wife and two sons in Manhattan and Zurich.