Aimée Lapic will join streaming music provider Pandora as chief marketing officer, effective December 13. Lapic will bring Pandora’s next chapter to life through cutting-edge, digital, social and mobile marketing initiatives and will lead consumer brand strategy, market positioning, performance-based and partnership marketing for the company.
Lapic comes to Pandora following a 13-year run at Gap Inc., where she served most recently as chief marketing officer for Banana Republic and the general manager of BananaRepublic.com. In this role, Lapic’s team’s effort in paid-social media and other digital marketing programs delivered a return on investment of more than 500 percent. Prior to leading that business, Lapic held Gap Inc. leadership roles with increasing responsibility, including senior vice president and general manager of International Gap Outlet, where she drove 20 consecutive quarters of growth.
Before joining Gap Inc., Lapic held senior roles at Providian (now Chase), internet startups Headlight.com (acquired by Cyber U) and iOwn.com (acquired by Citibank Mortgage), and spent time as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. She currently serves on the CMO Advisory Board for Ridge Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in consumer internet and enterprise companies.
“Aimée brings to Pandora a deep customer focus and long track record of driving significant growth for consumer brands,” said Roger Lynch, president and CEO of Pandora. “She has the exact performance and partner marketing experience we need to take Pandora to the next level and expand our audience across all tiers of service.”
Lapic said, “I’m incredibly excited to join Pandora at such a pivotal time in the company’s history. Pandora wrote the playbook on personalized music. I can’t wait to help shape the next chapter by attracting and engaging listeners in innovative new ways.”
Lapic holds a BA in English from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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