Profiles

Karen Young launched The Young Group in early 1999 and the business has been steadily growing ever since. She tapped Judy Galloway as President in 2001. In 2005, The Young Group opened an office in Paris.

Judy, an experienced focus group moderator, and Karen added discovery services, including qualitative research, to the product development, marketing and branding efforts of The Young Group.

The Young Group has affiliations with several major laboratories, many package and graphic designers in the United States and abroad. They also have relationships with beauty industry organizations as well as a detailed in-house database on the personal care business.

Biographies

Karen Young, Chief Executive Officer

Before opening The Young Group in 1999, Karen was vice president of marketing & advertising for Lancôme, the prestige division of L'Oréal. In that capacity she also handled product development and sales promotion. Before joining Lancôme, she spent seventeen years at Estée Lauder, where she held a variety of executive positions, including director of color cosmetics.

Karen is an active board member of Fashion Group International. She is a certified personal trainer and nutritionist. Karen divides her time between New York and Paris, where The Young Group also has an office. She is an adjunct professor of Product Development in FIT's Cosmetic Masters Program.

Since opening The Young Group, Karen has developed extensive color cosmetics and skin care lines. She has worked on numerous established brands in the beauty category including Christian Dior Parfums, Shiseido Skin Care & Cosmetics, Bath & Body Works, Avon, Neutrogena and 3M Products.

Judy Galloway, Research

Judy has worked on many well-known brands including Avon Products, Inc., Waverly Home Furnishings and Bloomingdale's. She is an experienced focus group moderator and a graduate of The Riva Research Institute. Results of her research studies have been published in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Brand Week.

Judy graduated from MBC and completed the Columbia Business School Marketing Management program. She is an adjunct professor of Marketing Research in FIT's Cosmetic Masters Program.

Judy’s Reality Research can be viewed at G-groupmarketing.com