Michelle Arnau

Michelle has spent the last 20 years as a leader in the CPG industry, helping to build disruptive brands across numerous health + wellness categories. In her current role as CEO and Co-Founder of the start-up Harlow, she is channeling her passion for creating businesses-for-good to reinvent the pet personal care space.

Prior to starting Harlow, Michelle spent 11 years as a method PBC “person against dirty” where she led the turnaround of the cleaning + dish businesses in her role as Home Care GM, launched the award-winning “Say No to Jugs” campaign as the head of Brand Experience and most recently, led the North American organization in her role as VP, GM North America to deliver double-digit top and bottom-line growth, build the industry’s first LEED platinum-certified manufacturing plant and scale to a successful exit to SC Johnson in 2017.

Prior to joining method, Michelle spent eight years in CPG leadership positions across Clorox, Nestle Powerbar, and Bevology, a natural beverage start-up based in San Francisco.

Michelle holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. in Business from UC Riverside.