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Rick Goings
US

CEO of Tupperware Brands

Biography

Rick Goings is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tupperware Brands Corporation, a leading global marketer of relationship-based selling.  The portfolio includes not only Tupperware, but multiple beauty brands including Avroy Shlain Cosmetics, BeautiControl, Fuller Cosmetics, NaturCare, Nutrimetics, and Nuvo Cosmetics brands.

While still in college, Goings founded one of the nation’s first direct sellers of home security systems.  He was recruited to Avon Products Inc. in 1985 where he held a number of senior management positions:  including President Avon Germany, Group Vice President & Senior Operating Officer Pacific Rim, and President of Avon USA.  He joined Tupperware in 1992 as President of Tupperware Worldwide.
 
For more than twenty years he has served on the national Board of Governors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, where he also served two terms as National Chairman.  Additionally, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America honored him with their highest award, the Herbert Hoover Humanitarian Award, for his outstanding leadership as their National Chairman.  Goings is a trustee of Rollins College, a founding member of the Private Sector Leadership Advisory Council for UN Women, member of the Global Agenda Council on Gender Parity and partner for the Gender Parity Programme of the World Economic Forum (WEF), a member of the Board of Executive Advisors for the Yale School of Management’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute, a member of the Smithsonian National Board, member of Tennenbaum Capital Partners Advisory Board, and a member of the Florida Council of 100.  He is a former member of the Board of Directors for SunTrust Bank, N.A., and of the boards of Reynolds American Inc. (formerly RJR), Premark International, Inc. and RR Donnelly.
 
Rick and his wife Susan P. Goings were awarded the “Voice for Women Award” by Sewall-Belmont House & Museum (Washington, DC) in 2014  for their exemplary global commitment to women's economic empowerment.  In 2013, Goings was named “CEO of the Year,” by the Holmes Group, which honors one visionary CEO who has worked diligently to enhance the role of communications within his or her organization and demonstrated a clear commitment to ensuring that the organization embraces the principles of ethical and effective public relations, in its culture, its communications and its actions.
 
A thought leader on women’s empowerment, economic advancement and gender inequality issues, in 2010 Goings was recognized by the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, with the distinguished decree of "Knight of the Legion of Honor" in recognition of his long term dedication to the role of women in developing countries and children’s causes. 
The People’s Republic of China recognized Goings with the Marco Polo Award in Beijing for his visionary leadership and his significant role in China’s economic development.
 
Goings was educated at Guilford College and has received a Doctorate of Humane Letters honoris causa, from Rollins College in Florida, as well as a Doctorate in Business Administration honoris causa from Bryant College in Rhode Island. Goings also served in the U.S. Navy on the Destroyer, USS Power.
 
He and his wife, Susan, reside in Windermere, Florida.