Reza Ansari

Managing Director | Spero Advisory

Reza Ansari has 30 years of experience in the consumer goods industry, primarily at the Estée Lauder Companies, the global leader in luxury cosmetics. He has successfully driven brands with P&L responsibility to profitable growth in Europe, Asia, and US, in the B2B and Omnichannel B2C sectors. He has also managed financial and strategic planning processes, driven cross-functional business model transformation programs and led the integration of newly acquired companies. Reza Ansari is currently a strategic, operational, and financial advisor to companies in the consumer goods industry. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Wharton Club of France, a Trustee of the Persia Educational Foundation in the UK, and Board member of VLGE, Inc. a pioneer in the creation of experiential and virtual commerce platforms powered by AI. He was previously a Board member at Pai Skincare, majority-owned by the Clarins group. He has a BS and MBA from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters in International Studies from The Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Governance certificate from HEC Paris.. Reza Ansari has dual Franco-American citizenship, is fluent in English, French and Farsi, has working knowledge of Portuguese and Spanish, and can read and write Korean.