Levi’s, Colgate and Capri name new sustainability leaders

There is no single home for sustainability. In three recent appointments, the role sits inside supply chain at Levi’s, as a global sustainability and resilience role at Colgate-Palmolive, and within legal at Capri Holdings, led by people with very different backgrounds.

Who moved

Levi Strauss & Co. has appointed Jeannie Renné-Malone as Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, effective 1 December. She will lead the global sustainability team and join the supply chain leadership team, where Levi’s sustainability function sits. She joins from VF Corporation, where she was vice president and global head of sustainability across brands, materials and supply chains.

Colgate-Palmolive has hired Anna Palazij as Senior Vice President, Global Sustainability and Resilience. She spent 16 years at PepsiCo, most recently as Vice President, Sustainability, and left as one of two senior PepsiCo sustainability leaders to depart in October.

Capri Holdings, the owner of Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo, has appointed Catherine So as Chief Legal and Sustainability Officer, reporting to Chairman and CEO John D. Idol. She started on 19 October. So joins from Tiffany & Co., where she was Senior Vice President and General Counsel, overseeing legal, compliance, intellectual property, litigation, governance and brand protection. She joined Tiffany in 2015 and became General Counsel in 2021.

Capri’s combined role also echoes a trend we wrote about in Sustainability consolidates into fewer, bigger seats, where sustainability is folded into broader senior roles.