Effective July 1st, and after seven years as President and CEO of L’Oréal Canada, Frank Kollmar has been appointed as L’Oréal Group Global Deputy Managing Director for the Active Cosmetics Division.

Mr. Kollmar joined the L’Oréal Group in Canada in 1999. He was appointed Managing Director of the Active Cosmetics Division of L’Oréal Canada in 2001 and then in 2003, he became Managing Director for Vichy in Germany. In 2005, he took over the responsibility of the Consumer Products Division in Austria and then took over the management of Garnier-Maybelline in Germany in 2006. In June 2011, Frank moved back to Canada as Managing Director of the Consumer Products Division before moving on to his current position as President and CEO in February 2014.

It is An Verhulst-Santos who will succeed Mr. Kollmar as President & CEO of L’Oréal Canada. Ms. Verhulst-Santos was recently President of L’Oréal Brazil. She began her career with L’Oréal in 1991 in the Professional Products Division in Belgium.