Patrick J. Peters Advisor
Mr. Patrick Peters is Managing Director of the New York-based The Clarecastle Group, an independent consortium of former senior-level executives at leading corporations.
He joined Clarecastle after leaving Unilever where he was most recently Sr. Vice President, North America, responsible for developing the next generation of marketing/sales/distributions strategies for the $10 billion company's blue-chip brands, among them Lipton, Vaseline, Hellman's, Slim Fast, Dove, Suave, Wisk and All.
Over the course of his 30-year tenure he held a number of increasingly important posts, including Sr. Vice President for Unilever's North American Personal Care Company where he led Customer Development and Customer Marketing and served as a member of its North American Board. Prior to the consolidation of Unilever's Non-Food Operating Companies, in which he was a key strategist, Mr. Peters was Sr. Vice President Customer Management, Vice President Marketing and Vice President Customer Marketing for Chesebrough-Ponds and General Sales Manager for Lever Brothers and Chesebrough-Ponds.
He was twice named Chairman of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores' member advisory board and has served on the advisory board for A.C. Nielsen as well as several major U.S. retailers.
