CooperVision Expands Leadership Team

CooperVision announced the hiring of Kamela Bearlin as Senior Global Brand Director, 1 Day Brands; and Jennifer Lambert as Senior Global Brand Director, Myopia Management; and promoted Elizabeth Lumb, BSc(Hons) MCOptom, FBCLA, to Director of Global Professional Affairs, Myopia Management.

“Myopia management and 1 Day represent our fastest-growing, highest-opportunity brands,” Simon Seshadri, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing, said in a company news release. “By investing in top talent, we’re moving forward at full speed to continuously grow our strong leadership and investment in these areas.”

Kamela Bearlin

As Senior Global Brand Director, 1 Day brands, Kamela Bearlin works with regional commercial teams to grow the CooperVision wearer base and support market-leading growth through the company’s rapidly accelerating 1 Day silicone hydrogel portfolio. Building on the successes of the MyDay daily disposable and clariti 1 day families, Bearlin will also support continuous innovation on a global level.

Ms. Bearlin is based in Seattle, and brings over 15 years of global marketing experience with B2C and B2B2C brands, such as Philips Sonicare and Cadbury-Schweppes. Most recently, she spent 8 years building her own marketing consultancy through which she built category knowledge with CooperVision as one of her clients. Ms. Bearlin holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Washington and completed a post-graduate Honors program at the University of Melbourne.

Jennifer Lambert

As Senior Global Brand Director, Myopia Management, Ms. Lambert works with CooperVision’s global and regional teams to expand its Brilliant Futures Myopia Management Program worldwide. This includes launching the program in markets where the lens alone is already available to support the best possible outcomes for age-appropriate* children with myopia. She will also advance a product roadmap that supports future growth in the myopia management category.

Ms. Lambert is based in Rochester, New York, and brings more than two decades of marketing experience from her most recent position as Vice President of Global Marketing at The HydraFacial Company and from past roles at Bausch + Lomb, Velocity Outdoor, PepsiCo, and Sun Products. Ms. Lambert received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Advertising from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the University of Connecticut School of Business.

Elizabeth Lumb, BSc (Hons) MCOptom, FBCLA

As Director of Global Professional Affairs, Myopia Management, Ms. Lumb works closely with CooperVision’s regional marketing and professional affairs teams to support the ongoing commercialization of the Brilliant Futures Myopia Management Program, including MiSight 1 day and the recently acquired SightGlass Vision technology.

Ms. Lumb is based in Manchester, United Kingdom. She has been part of the CooperVision team since 2015 and previously led MiSight 1 day’s rollout in Europe. Through key publications and conferences, Ms. Lumb has also driven heightened awareness of myopia management science. She is an optometrist with a first class honors degree from The University of Manchester and a Fellow of the British Contact Lens Association.