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Marketing expert to speak to Global Issues students at 91探花 on November 6

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Debra Sandler, worldwide president of McNeil Nutritionals LLC, a Johnson and Johnson company, will speak to students in the Faculty of Education's Global Issues course on Thursday, November 6.

Her presentation, "The Global Consumer: Transforming Markets and Brand Communications," will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in McDougall Hall 242, with overflow seating in Kelley 237, and again from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Duffy Amphitheatre. Members of the public are welcome to attend one of the sessions.

Sandler has had a distinguished career in consumer product marketing and brand management, including international management responsibilities with Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi Co., and others. She was responsible for the highly successful consumer launch of SPLENDA in the U.S. Today, SPLENDA is the number-one selling sugar substitute in the United States.

She holds a BBA. in International Trade from Hofstra University and an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University. She also has an honorary degree from Long Island University鈥檚 School of Pharmacy. She has been recognized for her marketing and leadership success, including Advertising Age鈥檚 Power 50 Marketers Award for Excellence in Marketing (2004), by Ebony magazine as one of the 鈥淭op 15 African American Female Executives in Corporate America,鈥 and by Black Enterprise as one of the Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America.

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