Suzi Weiss-Fischmann | |
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Born | 1956 (age 66–67) Hungary |
Occupation(s) | Company Founder, cosmetics businesswoman |
Suzi Weiss-Fischmann (born 1956 [1] ) is a Hungarian-American businessperson. She is the co-founder of OPI Products (Odontorium Products Inc.) with her brother-in-law George Schaeffer. Weiss-Fischmann is a second-generation Holocaust survivor born in Hungary and the author of the book I'm Not Really a Waitress. [2] [3] The name of her book refers to one of Weiss-Fischmann's most well known nail colors. The color, which Weiss-Fischmann named, was inducted into Allure's Beauty Hall of Fame in 2011 and won the Best Nail Polish award nine times. [4] [5]
Weiss-Fischmann grew up in communist Hungary and came to the United States as a teenager. [6] She first lived in New York before moving to Southern California in the 1980s. [7]
In California, she started working for her brother-in-law who had purchased a dental supply company, Odontorium Products Inc. in 1981. [7] [8] Weiss-Fischmann started working in sales for the company. [8] In 1987, Weiss-Fischmann felt that there were not enough color choices for nails on the market. [7] She is known as the "First Lady of Nails" after creating the OPI nail lacquers starting in 1989. [9] OPI was sold to Coty, Inc. in 2010 for close to $1 billion. [4]
Weiss-Fischmann was named to Jewish Women International's board of trustees in 2012. [10]
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