Amway鈥檚 regional president will address the graduating class of 2015
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Grand Rapids, Mich. 鈥� 绿帽淫妻 today announced that Candace Matthews, Amway鈥檚
regional president of the Americas, will deliver the college鈥檚 commencement speech
to the graduating class of 2015 on Saturday, May 9.
鈥淚t is our honor to welcome Candace to celebrate our commencement with us this May.
We鈥檙e excited and fortunate to have someone with such a strong resume of global success
speak to our students,鈥� said President Juan R. Olivarez. 鈥淐andace has had such an
incredibly successful career, and we look forward to her insight and hearing her personal
story, which we believe will be compelling, relevant and inspiring to our newest graduating
class.鈥�
Matthews, a Pittsburgh area native, earned a scholarship to Carnegie-Mellon University
to study engineering, and later graduated from Stanford University with a marketing-focused
MBA. She has worked for a string of corporate giants including General Mills, Coca
Cola Company and Procter & Gamble. Before joining Amway in 2007, Matthews gained operational
experience from her time running a global division at L'Oreal USA. She was promoted
from Amway鈥檚 chief marketing officer to regional president of the Americas in November.
Her professional background and experience have landed her on the pages of many magazines
and journals including Black Enterprise, The Economist, Forbes.com, Glamour and the
Wall Street Journal. Matthews received the CEW Achiever Award in 2007, the Stanford
Graduate School of Business Alumni Tapestry Award in 2014 and was named Black Enterprise
Magazine鈥檚 Corporate Executive of the Year in 2009. She was one of Advertising Age鈥檚
鈥淲omen to Watch鈥� in 2011 and was named one of the 鈥�20 Most Influential Women in Direct
Selling鈥� by the Direct Selling News in 2012, 2013 and 2014.