ja_mageia

Carolyn E. Setlow
New York, New York

Carolyn E. Setlow is an experienced business executive, market researcher, life and executive coach and not-for-profit volunteer. Until recently, she served as Executive Vice President of GfK Custom Research North America, a member of the GfK Group, one the five largest market research organizations in the world. She served previously in a senior executive role at the company’s predecessor firms, NOP World, RoperASW and Roper Starch Worldwide. In addition, she maintains a small private executive and life coaching practice and is also actively involved as a trustee of several not-for-profit organizations.

Ms. Setlow joined Roper Starch Worldwide in 1991. She served as Group Senior Vice President and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee until the company’s sale in 2001 to NOP World, a division of United Business Media. She consecutively managed Roper’s custom research group, its syndicated consumer insights practice as well as corporate client development and marketing. A frequent speaker on consumer insights, she authored for many years a monthly column “Roper on Retail” in DSNRetailingToday. From 1988-91, Ms. Setlow served as President of Harris/Scholastic Research, a division of Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. in collaboration with Scholastic, Inc., the premier educational publisher.

In 1982, Ms. Setlow joined SetloWear, Inc., a family-owned industrial uniform manufacturing company headquartered in Orange, CT, and was named President in 1983. In 1986, she was responsible for the sale of the company to the Williamson Dickie Manufacturing Company of Fort Worth, Texas; and continued as President during the transition to new ownership.

From 1978-82, Ms. Setlow held the position of Vice President for Corporate Planning of Newsweek, Inc., a division of the Washington Post Company; where she was responsible for the design and management of the company’s strategic planning process.

Ms. Setlow served for three terms (until 2009) as a member of the Board of Trustees of Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) in Alexandria, VA. She is currently a member of the Honorary Board of Trustees (formerly, Secretary of the Board and Chair of the Public Education Committee) of the Children’s Tumor Foundation, headquartered in New York. She recently joined the Grants Committee of the Connecticut Community Foundation, and also serves as a pro bono consultant for the Harvard Business School Community Partners. She served for many years as a member of the Board of the 1165 Park Avenue Cooperative. She is an Honorary Trustee (formerly Chairman of the Board) of the Northside Center for Child Development Inc. in New York City, a Harlem-based mental health clinic. She is currently a member of the Connecticut chapter of the International Women’s Forum, and formerly a member of the Board of Directors of the New York chapter, as well as the Committee of 200, two by-invitation-only organizations of accomplished women. She is a former member of the Young Presidents’ Organization. She formerly served on the Board of Directors of the American Republic Life Insurance Company of New York, the New York Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, and The National Council on Aging. She was one of 25 women honored as most influential women in American business in March 2001 by NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund.

She received a Bachelor of Arts in History from Smith College in 1968 and an Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, in 1970, where she specialized in the field of Public Diplomacy. In 1981, sponsored by Newsweek Inc., she attended the Harvard Business School's Program in Management Development. In addition, Ms. Setlow has completed coursework (Foundations I and II in Coaching) in Executive and Life Coaching at the New York University School of Continuing Education.

A resident of Washington Depot, CT, she is married to Andrew O. Shapiro, a former publisher of legal newsletters. She is the mother of two sons: Alexander and Daniel Sommer.