Virginia C. Drosos is an accomplished CEO, board director, and transformational leader with more than three decades of experience spanning global consumer, healthcare, and retail industries. She currently serves on the Boards of International Flavors & Fragrances (NYSE: IFF), where she is a member of the Compensation, Audit, and Innovation Committees, and the United States Golf Association (USGA), where she chairs the Leadership and Talent Development Committee and the USGA Foundation, where she serves on the Finance, Audit & Risk and Handicap Operating Committees. She has also served on the Boards of Foot Locker, Inc., Signet Jewelers Ltd., Akron Children’s Hospital, American Financial Group (NYSE: AFG), and Cosmetic Executive Women, where she chaired the CEW Foundation – Cancer & Careers.
From 2017 to 2024, Ms. Drosos was the Chief Executive Officer of Signet Jewelers Ltd., the world’s largest retailer of diamond jewelry. She led a sweeping strategic, digital, and cultural transformation that delivered a 540% Total Shareholder Return post-COVID, more than five times the retail industry average. During her tenure,
Signet increased revenue by over $1 billion, expanded market share by nearly 40%, and earned recognition as a Certified™ Great Place to Work® for five consecutive years, including honors from Fortune and Forbes as one of the Best Workplaces in Retail™ and America’s Best Employers for Women. Prior to Signet, Ms. Drosos served as CEO of Assurex Health, where she grew the company’s GeneSight® test twelvefold and led its successful strategic sale to Myriad Genetics, recognized as Ohio’s Venture Exit of the Year (2016).
She spent 25 years at The Procter & Gamble Company, culminating as Group President, Global Beauty, where she led a $12 billion portfolio and built multibillion-dollar brands that redefined beauty categories worldwide.
Gina has previously been involved with the foundation as she was a featured speaker in 2024 for the Foundation’s (Re)Connect & Inspire series for Leadership Circle donors, and became a Foundation Trustee Advisor in 2025.