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Senior Advisor, China, brings nearly 25 years of experience in China and Asia to Kinsella Group. As a corporate director, senior corporate executive, entrepreneur and management consultant, Ms. Harrington has a strong record of increasing growth, profit and competitive advantage through innovative strategies and effective implementation in the global consumer products, retail, healthcare and industrial products industries.
As Chief Executive Officer of Harrington Global, a global management-consulting firm specializing in China and Asia, Ms. Harrington is a respected advisor to the government of the People's Republic of China, among other major clients. In this capacity, she provides guidance with regard to the modernization and global expansion of China's retail, distribution, entertainment, garment and automobile industries.
Working with the Chinese government, domestic Chinese companies and businesses around the world - including the United States and Europe - Ms. Harrington assists with cross-border acquisitions, joint ventures, investments and other transactions, advises on management systems and training issues, and enables foreign companies to enter and improve their business operations and performance throughout China and Asia.
Prior to founding Harrington Global, Ms. Harrington served in key leadership roles in a number of well-known consumer-products and management-consulting companies. As a Partner in the Global Strategic Change Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, she led numerous clients through the development of strategic initiatives to their final implementation throughout the United States, China and Asia. These initiatives included restructuring pharmaceutical joint ventures, developing e-commerce business systems, modernizing operations and attracting foreign investment.
As Vice President of Marketing Development-Green Giant Group for the Pillsbury Company, Ms. Harrington was responsible for accelerating earnings growth through strategic planning, acquisitions, joint ventures, new-product development and global brand expansion in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. As a Partner and Director of the Worldwide Consumer Products Strategy Practice of A.T. Kearney, she led the strategic analysis, business planning, integrated marketing and implementation of a number of consumer-products initiatives, both internally and for external clients.
Ms. Harrington also has a strong background in advertising and marketing. As Chief Executive Officer and co-owner of the Don Tennant Company, Vice President of Marketing Services for the Quaker Oats Company (and President of its in-house advertising agency, AdCom), and Vice President and Managing Director of the J. Walter Thompson Company, she has helped these business and their clients improve growth and profitability, increase market share and visibility, streamline operations, raise productivity, develop value-added services, and roll out marketing programs that maximize investments in products and strategic initiatives. In these roles, she has also led the successful turnaround of numerous failing divisions and subsidiary businesses.
Ms. Harrington's clients include some of the best-known brands and companies worldwide, such as AT&T, Bristol Myers Squibb, Dairy Farm/Jardine Group, Disney, JohnsonDiversey, Kimberly Clark, Kodak, Kraft, Lotte/Japan, M&M Mars, Nestlé, Oscar Mayer, Pilsbury, Proctor & Gamble, Quaker Oats, Ralston Purina, Sara Lee, S.C. Johnson, Sears, Sunbeam and Unilever.
In addition to her management and business-consulting work, Ms. Harrington has served - and continues to serve - as a director of numerous companies and organizations. She currently sits on the Boards of Directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the American Advertising Federation, the Better Business Bureau, Metropolitan Family Services of Chicago, Cornell University's President's Council, and the Mayor of Chicago's Shanghai Sister Cities Commission.
Ms. Harrington has been elected Advertising Woman of the Year and Marketing Executive of the Year. She is a regular contributor to industry and professional journals such as Corporate Board and Advertising Age, has written articles for the Conference Board, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and professional seminars dealing with China/Asia trade and global business strategies.
Ms. Harrington graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University. She speaks French, Spanish and some Chinese. |
