The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (ELC) has announced that Laraine (Rainey) Mancini has joined the company as senior vice president, Investor Relations, effective May 14, 2018. Mancini will report directly to Tracey T. Travis, executive vice president and chief financial officer. She succeeds Dennis D’Andrea who will retire on July 2, 2018, after more than 20 years at the company. Mancini and D’Andrea will partner closely for a few months to ensure a smooth transition.
 
Mancini will oversee ELC’s day-to-day comprehensive, strategic investor relations program and serve as a spokesperson to the investment community on the company’s performance and corporate values. Her responsibilities will include broadening awareness of the company among global institutional investors by leading the company’s dialogue with the global investment community while educating current and prospective investors as well as the analyst community about the company’s business strategies and performance.
 
Mancini is a seasoned finance executive with more than 30 years of experience spanning the media, business and financial sectors. Most recently, from 2015-2017, she served as senior vice president, Finance & Head of Investor Relations at Univision. In this role, she established and oversaw Univision’s Investor Relations department, cultivated strong relationships with operating partners and the Wall Street investment community, and served as a strategic advisor to the CEO and CFO for investor meetings and financial earnings communications.
 
Previously, Mancini served as vice president, Corporate Strategy & Business Development at Time Warner Cable, where she oversaw key competitive strategies, spearheaded the modeling and analysis of new commercial partnership agreements, and assessed the return on investment of various network investments.