Hillary Super Credits: Victoria’s Secret & Co. CEO profile On June 2, 2026, with nine days to go before shareholders voted on a board activists had spent the past year attacking — after openly questioning whether she was equipped to run a public company — Hillary Super answered with a number. Victoria's Secret posted first-quarter earnings of 0.60 dollars a share, nearly double the 0.32 dollars analysts expected, on net sales up 15% to 1.56 billion dollars. The stock surged 47% in a day — its biggest single-day gain on record — to a record closing high of 80.06 dollars. For a brand that had been written off as a relic, it was the loudest possible rebuttal. Super, chief executive officer of the American lingerie company since September 2024, had described the job in those terms from the start. Recalling the moment to Fortune, she said she was "keenly aware of what the perceptions of the brand were, positive and negative." Her response was not caution. "That's the biggest transformation opportunity in retail," she said. "That was really appealing to me." Background and early career Super is, before anything else, a merchant. She earned a bachelor's degree in humanities from the University of Southern California and entered the industry in the late 1990s as a buyer at the American teen retailer Wet Seal, learning the trade on the shop floor rather than in a boardroom. Over the following three decades she accumulated merchandising and operating roles across a roster of…
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