20.6 Angela Cretu, CEO

<p style="background: white;"><span class= "MsoHyperlink"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #060606; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> How do you achieve and stay authentic? Viv talks to Angela Cretu, CEO of Avon, one of the biggest beauty brands in the world.</span></span></p> <p style="background: white;"><span class= "MsoHyperlink"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #060606; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> Growing up in Communist Romania she says she learnt about gender and social equality, while ideas of self-expression or personal ambition weren’t present.</span></span></p> <p style="background: white;"><span class= "MsoHyperlink"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #060606; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> After the revolution in 1989, Angela joined Avon at the age of 24 as the company moved into this emerging market and she flew - building new teams at home and internationally.</span></span></p> <p style="background: white;"><span class= "MsoHyperlink"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #060606; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> She tells Viv how important it was for her to share insecurities with a mentor about facing confident male colleagues from the established western markets.</span></span></p> <p style="background: white;"><span class= "MsoHyperlink"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #060606; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> Angela learnt that her voice mattered, her perspective mattered and finding strength in her own self while enabling others have proved to be key to her success.</span></span></p> <p style="background: white;"><span class= "MsoHyperlink"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #060606; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> Before going on stage she recommends immersing yourself in the