Tracey Chang is the Founder & CEO of Cosmic Beauty (a China-based e-commerce platform) and Tracey Beauty (a Singapore PR firm). A former anchor for CGTN’s Global Business and CNBC Asia, she has interviewed top CEOs worldwide, moderated at the World Economic Forum, and even made history as the first Chinese-American Miss New York USA.

With an MBA from Columbia, Tracey bridges finance, media, and retail.

As SVP of China Business Innovation & Investment (CBI) for Shiseido, Carol is helping to shape the next phase of transformation for the company. She helps to accelerate the implementation of innovations and new business models to create new beauty businesses as the next growth driver for the group on a global level via both internal incubation of new businesses and external investments into new uprising companies. In June 2022, Carol led the launch of Shiseido’s 1st ingestible beauty brand – InRyu – in the China market. Now serving as the Inner Beauty Division GM, she will also incubate and create a portfolio of inner beauty brands to meet the needs of discerning beauty consumers.

In 2021, Carol set up the Shiseido Beauty Innovations Fund (Ziyue) with Boyu Capital to target companies focusing on fast-growing sectors of the China market, with the goal of enhancing its business portfolio for new brands and creating business synergies with existing businesses.

Previously, Carol held a number of management positions at multinational firms such as Unilever, Burberry, L’Oréal, Amway and Marriott, where she led global strategy & innovation and marketing functions across regions and categories. Carol received her undergraduate degree from New York University's Stern Business School and her MBA from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carol-zhou-5a53472/