BIO

Jan-Patrick (JP) Kuehlwein is Executive Vice President of Frédéric Fekkai, a New York-based prestige salon operator, hair care brand and fully owned subsidiary of Procter and Gamble. He is also an Outside Director of Smith & Norbu, a Hong Kong luxury optical frame maker. Previously, JP was Managing Director of Global Strategy & Innovation - Premium Consumer, spearheading Procter & Gamble's capability and business development in the premium brand space. JP is a recognized strategy expert, global brand builder and accomplished marketing leader. He has a 20+ year track record of translating consumer and branding insights into transformational propositions that win in the market. His broad experience spans from introducing a new-to-the-world food wrap to the US or disposable diapers to developing markets in Asia, to developing a global communication strategy for the world’s leading detergent or portfolio strategies for Beauty- and Lifestyle categories. A graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Reims (France), Reutlingen University (Germany) and  Lancaster University (UK), JP is regularly involved in lecturing, consulting workshops and public speaking in English French or German. He is a trustee and guest lecturer at the Masters Program in Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing and Management at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT, NY) and a member of the Marketing Science Institute (MSI, Boston). Kogan Page will publish the book “Rethinking Prestige Branding,” which he co-authored, in May 2015. JP is German and currently lives in New York with his wife, who is Quebecoise, and his two sons who were born in Singapore.