Donagh Herlihy is SVP and CIO at Avon Products, Inc. He leads an IT organization of 1,500 professionals and is responsible for global IT strategy and operations. His team provides the business systems and technology infrastructure supporting Avon’s business operations in more than 60 countries and is responsible for enabling online business for more than six million Avon representatives worldwide. Major initiatives include driving growth through web and mobile platforms for Avon representatives and consumers and driving efficiency through global ERP.
Prior to joining Avon in 2008, Herlihy drove organizational and business process transformation at the Wrigley Company as CIO, VP of Human Resources and VP of Supply Chain Strategy and Planning. Herlihy also spent six years at Gillette, leading IT at its Duracell subsidiary. Earlier in his career, while based in the U.K., he worked in manufacturing, business process reengineering and IT in the consumer goods and automotive sectors.
Herlihy holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Dublin Institute of Technology & Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and has completed the Executive Program at the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business. He is a board member of The American Red Cross in Westchester, New York.