Georgette Mosbacher

Georgette Mosbacher is an American business executive, entrepreneur, political activist, author, and philanthropist for military veterans through her work with the Green Beret Foundation. Also chairman of the Green Beret Foundation advisory board, she is known in the media as a Fox News contributor. On November 19, 2015, it was announced the President Obama had nominated her as a member of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Mosbacher started her career as an executive in 1987 when she purchased the struggling cosmetics firm La Prairie, outbidding companies such as Revlon, Avon, and Estee Lauder. After selling La Prairie in 1991 to Beiersdorf for a profit, in the 1990s she founded Georgette Mosbacher Enterprises, her own business and finance consulting company. From 2000 to circa 2015 she served as CEO of Borghese, a cosmetics manufacturer based in New York City. Mosbacher authored two motivational books for women in the 1990s Feminine Force through Simon amp Sc

A native of Highland, Indiana, Georgette Mosbacher was born to Dorothy and George Paulsin. Her father died in an automobile accident when she was young, leaving the sevenyearold Georgette and her three younger siblings under the care of their mother, grandmother, and greatgrandmother. When her mother returned to work, Mosbacher took on childcare duties for her brother George and two sisters, Melody and Lyn.

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