September 12, 2025
The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) has named René Lammers Executive Vice President, Chief Research & Innovation Officer, effective October 1, 2025. Lammers will report directly to Stéphane de La Faverie, President and CEO, and will join the company’s executive team.
Lammers joins ELC from PepsiCo, where he was most recently Executive Vice President and Chief Science Officer, overseeing a 3,000-person global Research & Development organization. ELC says he led PepsiCo’s science and technology agenda, scaling billion-dollar platforms.
Before PepsiCo, Lammers held senior leadership positions at Unilever, where he developed technologies across personal care, home care, and laundry, and established innovation hubs across Europe and Asia.