Herbalife Hires New Vice President for East Central Europe

Business Wire:

"Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) announced the hiring of Edyta Kurek as vice president, East Central Europe which includes Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics, and the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. She will be based in Warsaw.

Kurek joins Herbalife from Oriflame, a direct-selling cosmetics company, where she held the position of managing director of their Polish operations since 2003. During that time, she helped guide the business to become the company’s third largest country operation, with over 90,000 sales consultants.

Fluent in Polish, English, and Russian, Kurek has a diverse background, initially pursuing a career as a nuclear engineer after graduating with a master’s degree from the Moscow University of Technology. In 1995, she left the nuclear industry and joined the fast developing fiber optic and cable communications industry, initially in sales and marketing roles, and later in country executive roles with Anixter and UPC."