Lauri Kien Kotcher

Fund(s): FemTech II

Location: New York

Lauri’s career has been focused on her passion for building consumer brands that people fall in love with and driving outsized growth, from a variety of vantage points as a C-suite executive, board member and investor and at levels of scale from startup to multi-billion dollar revenue companies.

Lauri Kien Kotcher was most recently the CEO of hello products, a naturally friendly™ personal care company that has become recognized as an industry game-changer since Lauri joined in 2015. Hello was the only CPG company named as one of the Inc. Best Workplaces in 2019 and was acquired by Colgate in 2020.

Lauri’s prior roles include being a Senior Advisor on the LCatterton Operating Partner team, 10 years as a senior line marketer including serving as CMO of Godiva and Head of Global Brands at Pfizer Consumer Healthcare. Prior to that, Lauri was a partner at McKinsey and Company and a co-leader of the consumer/consumer healthcare sector across her 15 year tenure.

She has been a Board member and a strategic advisor to many fast-growth consumer companies, including her work as an advisory board member at Springboard Enterprises (venture catalyst platform for women entrepreneurs) and at The New York Fashion Tech Lab (an incubator for early-stage women-led companies at the intersection of fashion and technology).

Lauri holds a BA cum laude from Princeton University and JD/MBA degrees from Stanford University. She serves as the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Churchill School and Center and is on the Executive Committee of Stanford Women on Boards and is an avid skier, tennis player and foodie.