Operating Group

Chairman and CEO

Roger Barnett (Chairman)

Mr. Barnett is the Chairman and CEO of Shaklee Corporation. Founded in 1956, Shaklee is a leading natural nutrition company in the U.S., with more than 2 million members and distributors principally in North America and Asia. In 2000, Shaklee became the first company in the world to be certified to fully offset its carbon emissions so as to leave no footprint on our planet. Mr. Barnett began his career at the investment banking firm Lazard Freres & Co. He then organized an investment group to acquire control of Arcade, Inc., which he transformed into the largest sampling company in the world, expanding from a solely U.S. operation into a global business. He was also the founder and Chairman and CEO of Beauty.com, which was one of the first internet retailers in the cosmetics industry.Mr. Barnett received his undergraduate degree from Yale College (Summa Cum Laude), his law degree from Yale Law School (Senior Editor, Yale Law Journal), and his MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Barnett has been selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum (Davos) and has also been selected as a Young Leader Fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Additionally, Mr. Barnett serves as a member of the Harvard and Yale Schools of Public Health Leadership Councils, the Yale University President’s Council on International Activities, the Board of Directors of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, and the Advisory Board of 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai’s The Green Belt Movement.

Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer

Tamuna Gabilaia

Tamuna serves as the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of WFDSA. In her capacity she leads and oversees the WFDSA initiatives that focus on advocating direct selling industry’s position with external stakeholders, promoting women’s economic empowerment initiatives, fostering highest ethical conduct in the marketplace and enhancing local association management. She works with various governments, consumer groups and academics around the world and serves as the global spokesperson for the industry.Prior to joining WFDSA, Tamuna was a diplomat and has an extensive experience in matters of international commerce and business.Tamuna is very passionate about promoting the economic empowerment for women and supporting the advancement of women in international trade and business globally. She has been actively involved with the Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT), DC based global organization since 2004 and served in the various positions from Treasurer to Vice President for Chapter Support and currently serves as the Vice President of Sponsorships. She is the co-recipient of the Association of Women in International Trade (WII DC) Outstanding Section/Committee Award. .Tamuna is a member of OWIT’s Executive Board,, OWIT’s Board of Directors and WFDSA Board of Delegates.Tamuna holds MA in International Development from the School of International Service, American University in Washington DC.

Chief Executive Officer

Lam Yu (Vice Chairman)

Lam Yu graduated from the Clinical Medicine of Southern Medical University of China in 1987. He served as an Associate Professor in Southern Medical University in 1996. Lam joined joined LKK Health Products Group in 1993 and currently serves as the Groups Senior Vice President. Lam Yu has been serving as the head of infintus global and as the the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Infinitus (China) Company Ltd. since 2017. Lam is the Chairman of Si Li Ji Ren Foundation since 2017.

Founder, Co-Chairman and Group CEO

Dr. Dora Hoan (Secretary)

Dr. Dora Hoan is the founder of Best World International Ltd. and serves as its Co-Chairman, and Group Chief Executive Officer. In 2004, Best World Group became the first direct selling company to be publicly listed on the Singapore exchange. She served as the President Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (ASME) from 2001 to 2002 in Singapore. She initiated the Singapore Prestige Brand Award (SPBA). This pioneering effort has successfully contributed to increased awareness of Singapore society on the value of corporate branding for business success. She currently is an active member of ASME as a Past President. Dr. Dora Hoan has been recognized among the most outstanding entrepreneurs in the Asia Pacific region. Among her numerous awards, she received the distinction of being selected as the ASEAN’s Most Outstanding Woman Entrepreneur in 2007 and 2015. She also won the most inspiring woman award by Singapore Women’s Weekly in 2014. Dr. Dora Hoan serves as the Chairman of the Singapore Direct Selling Association. She served as the WFDSA Association Services Committee Chairman from 2011 – 2014. She is currently the WFDSA Secretary.

Industry Relations

Josephine Mills (Assistant Treasurer)

Josephine began her Avon career in 1987 and has extensive knowledge of Avon’s directselling business. She has held several positions within Avon in both Finance andGovernment Affairs, during which time – on two separate occasions – she became theproud recipient of the Avon Chairman’s Award.

As Executive Director – Government Affairs, Josephine oversees the daily government /legislative affairs department at Avon – North America, where she has been successful inprotecting Avon from onerous legislative / regulatory proposals and has also proactivelydrafted and worked to pass legislation in various states to relax restrictions furtherprotecting the Avon business.

Having provided financial support to various aspects of the Avon operations, includinginformation services, distribution, sales and supply chain, Josephine was able to effectivelyleverage both her financial skills and Avon knowledge with her political background.

Prior to joining Avon Products, Inc., Josephine served as Director of Budgets, City ofWaterbury, CT where she was most noted by the local media as “Deputy Mayor”. Shereceived the greater Waterbury area – Woman in Leadership Award for her manycontributions.

Josephine is currently WFDSA Assistant Treasurer and a member of the WFDSA Financeand Governance Committee as well as the Government Regulatory Affairs Committee.She is the recipient of the 2011 WFDSA Global Services Award.

Josephine is a member of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary (USCGAUX) where shehas served as Vice Commander and is a founding member of the U.S. Homeland Securitydepartment. She is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Volunteer “Gold” Service Award.

Josephine earned a BS in Accounting from Post College and an MBA in Finance from theUniversity of New Haven (UNH), and is currently an Advisory Board Member of the UNH –School of Business.

President and Chief Executive Officer

Ryan Napierski (Advocacy Chairman)

Ryan Napierski currently serves as Nu Skin’s president and member of Nu Skin’s executive committee. Prior to his current appointment, he served as president of global sales and operations, president of Nu Skin’s North Asia region and president of Nu Skin Japan. Since joining the company in 1995, Ryan has fulfilled multiple positions for Nu Skin including vice president of global business development, general manager for the United Kingdom, vice president of European business development, key account manager for United States executives, vice president of business development and chief operating officer for the North Asia region. Ryan holds a bachelor’s degree in business, a master’s degree in business administration from Duke University and a master’s degree in international business from Goethe Universität in Germany. He also holds positions on the Direct Selling Board of Directors, Direct Selling Education Foundation, Direct Selling Association, and The World Federation of Direct Selling Association. In his free time, Ryan loves to spend time with his family, including his three kids. He also loves traveling, skiing, and surfing.

Executive Director

Garth Wyllie (Association Services Chairman)

Garth has been the Executive Director of in the Direct Selling Association of NewZealand for 21 years organising and running a wide range of activities and representingthe organisation across the breadth of government to ensure both the profile and theconcerns of the DSA are being heard.

Garth has been the DSA New Zealand representative to the World Federation Board ofDirectors for the past 18 years and since November 2014 Garth has served asChairman for the Association Services Committee of World Federation of Direct SellingAssociations.

Under this role Garth is responsible for, and chairs the Association improvementprogrammes run regionally each year and the secretaries meetings run globally to shareinformation between DSA’s on issues, initiatives and implement understanding of howother DSA’s handle media, regulators and membership.

Chief Executive Officer

Joao Paulo Ferreira (Ethics Chairman)

Joao Paulo Ferreira is CEO of Natura &Co Latin America, encompassing responsibility for Natura, Avon and The Body Shop in the region and Aesop in Brazil. In this role, he is also responsible for innovation and global stewardship of Natura’s brand. Ferreira joined Natura in 2009 as Vice President of Operations and Logistics. Other roles at Natura included leading the International Operations and Sustainability areas. Since 2013, he worked as Commercial Vice President, overseeing Sales, Activation Marketing, CRM, New Channels and Commercial Innovation in the company’s Brazilian operation. In October 2016, he took over as CEO of Natura. Previously, he worked at Unilever for 20 years, where the last position he occupied was Vice President of Supply Chain.João Paulo graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP) and has an executive MBA from the University of Michigan, in the United States.

Director, Global Government Affairs & Public Policy

Mr. Cary Justice (Global Regulatory Affairs Chairman)

Director International Affairs

Ms. Maureen Paniagua

Maureen serves as the Manager of WFDSA. In her capacity, she oversees thedevelopment, planning and execution of WFDSA initiatives that focus on advocatingdirect selling industry’s position with external stakeholders, promoting women’seconomic empowerment initiatives, fostering ethical conduct in the marketplace andenhancing local association management. Maureen holds a BA degree in Political Science and History from the University ofMaryland.