Join GS alumni working in the fashion and retail industry as they discuss their career paths, their time at Columbia, and their best advice for those pursuing jobs in the field. Dinner will be provided.
Featuring:
Jill Krizelman ‘02GS - Senior Vice President, Global Marketing & eCommerce at TUMI is originally from California. Out of high school, Jill joined the San Francisco Ballet and danced with the company for many years, touring all around the world. Jill studied political science while at Columbia. When Jill was getting close to graduating, she went to Butler Library and researched top people at the companies she was interested in working for and cold called and sent letters to them. She cold called Ralph Lauren and received an interview for a Coordinator of Advertising position and received the job. She worked her way up through many positions within Ralph Lauren for 12 years ending as the VP of Global Marketing. After 12 years, she moved over to Calvin Klein as the Senior Vice President Marketing CRM for 3 years. She then worked for Coach for two years as the Vice President, Head of North America Marketing CRM. Currently, she works for Tumi, as the Senior Vice President, Global Marketing eCommerce.
Jean- Emmanuel Shein ‘88GS - Director, Global Corporate Social Responsibility at UNIQLO USA first joined Fast Retailing, the parent company of UNIQLO in 1997 in Ube, Yamaguchi prefecture. Since then he has helped the international expansion of UNIQLO, opening new markets for the brand including France, the UK and the United States. He has been a member of the Global Sustainability team for the past six years as global director with specific oversight of western markets for UNIQLO as well as supporting FR’s other brands to integrate sustainability into their businesses across the corporation’s three sustainability pillars—planet, people, and society. Jean graduated from Columbia University and obtained his MA from Stanford. He lives in the New York area.
