About

Mary Kay is a privately owned US marketing company, and in 2015 was named the sixth largest network marketing company in the world with a wholesale volume of US$3.7bn. As a multibillion-dollar company, they offer the latest in cutting-edge skincare, cosmetics and fragrances across nearly 40 countries. Vice president and associate general counsel Wendy Wang has led the global legal department of Mary Kay China for more than a decade. In the highly regulated direct-selling industry, the legal team has set a precedent for how in-house legal counsel should function in the fast changing legal and business environments in China. ‘With her extraordinary legal knowledge and management skill, Wang has built up the legal team to not only minimise legal risks, but also seamlessly support every major aspect of business operation, which secures the great success of Mary Kay China’, says a nominator. Thanks in part to this contribution to the department, the team never stops in its efforts to innovate the legal functions to embrace market changes as well as define the industrial standard of compliance.