Macadamia Expands Its International Team

Macadamia Beauty has made an addition to its growing international team, Phil Ivaldi. As director of business development for UK, Australia and Middle East markets, he is responsible for strengthening business relationships, expanding global market share and growing sales across all levels of customers on behalf of Macadamia Professional and éprouvage brands.

Prior to joining Macadamia Beauty, Ivaldi held leadership roles at Tigi and L’Oréal Professional with over 15 years of marketing and sales experience in the professional hair care industry. He brings extensive knowledge of international marketing strategy to the company along with strong relationships from his most recent position as business development manager at Tigi.

With both merchandising and wholesale backgrounds from his time at L’Oréal Professional, he is well-versed in industry knowledge and will work seamlessly with all departments in his sales role to reach target regions for Macadamia Professional and éprouvage.

Macadamia Beauty also welcomed Lori Chase as vice president of Global Operations. She is responsible for leading and driving the Macadamia Beauty internal operations team. Her role includes the leadership and development of fulfillment operations, supply chain for global inventory assets and distribution, project planning and performance management of Macadamia Professional and éprouvage brands.
 
Chase joins Macadamia Beauty with over 20 years of experience in global supply chain management, procurement, operations and regulatory experience. She brings strengths across all areas of internal operations including inventory management, efficiency improvements and vendor negotiations.
 
Most recently, she held the position as director of operations with Product Innovations Research leading operations for brands under Supre and Hempz. In that role she managed procurement, inventory forecasting, analysis, customer service, regulatory and innovation for over 10,000 SKUs. Prior to that, she spent 11 years as Purchasing Manager for Tigi, a Unilever hair care brand.