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Nancy Jarecki is an American entrepreneur and artist. She is the founder of multi award winning company, Betty Beauty, inc.

EARLY LIFE
Jarecki was and raised in a small town in Kansas. She studied art in Texas, in which she later went on to pursue a career as an artist. Jarecki is also an honors graduate of New York City’s Barnard College where she received a BA in Art Criticism.

CAREER
Moving to Los Angeles, Jarecki showcased her art at multiple shows and art collections. She was publicly recognized as an upcoming artist of Southern California by LA Weekly.

In 1985, during her entrepreneurial journey in Los Angeles, Jarecki asked to help develop and produce a cable network called MovieTime. She continued working for the start-up cable network, and was an instrumental part of MovieTime’s launch, which is now known as E! Entertainment Television.

Concurrently, she met her husband, Andrew Jarecki, who was in Los Angeles to launch his company, Moviefone. Shortly after she moved to New York to join him and start their new family. She began helping develop Moviefone, which they later sold in 1999 to AOL Time Warner. The same year the Jarecki’s started a movie production company and moved their family to Rome, Italy; where they were finishing their first film, Capturing the Friedmans (an Oscar nominated documentary).

One day while in a hair salon in Rome, Italy, Jarecki noticed women leaving with small “take home” bags. Curious to what they were, she inquired with the receptionist who told her they were a bit of extra hair color for “the hair down there - to match!” It was this experience that gave Jarecki the impetus to start her own innovative beauty company. Realizing that women wanted their hair to match, she began developing the first safe, and commercially available color product for women across America, to fulfill this unmet need in the beauty market. Now a popular company, Betty Beauty includes color kits: BLONDE Betty, BROWN Betty, AUBURN Betty, BLACK Betty, FUN Betty, and LOVE Betty. Jarecki’s innovative products won multiple awards, including 2007 ‘Innovator of the Year’ by Independent Cosmetics Manufacturers and Distributors; and the 2008 prestigious Cosmetic Executive Women’s ‘Indie Beauty Award.' After years of building Betty Beauty, inc, Jarecki sold the company to Fiske Industries, a global beauty product company. To this day, Jarecki remains a consultant for Fiske industries, as both a creator and brand ambassador.

PERSONAL LIFE
In 2009, life changed for Jarecki when she suffered a near death subarachnoid brain hemorrhage. She is currently writing her memoir about her medical recovery which includes themes of adversity, spirituality, business, and family. She has received the American Heart and American Stroke Association’s “Survivor Award.” Jarecki is also AHAS Association’s “Open Your Heart” ambassador for brain stroke trauma. She continues to speak and educate about her near death experience, living with brain trauma and is currently associated with NY Presbyterian Cornell-Weil and their brain health initiative programs.

Jarecki currently resides in New York City with her husband Andrew Jarecki. Together they have three children.

PHILANTHROPY
Jarecki is a founding member of the Robin Hood Foundation Leadership Council board of directors. She sits on the board of Project ALS (a leading organization dedicated to bringing awareness to Lou Gehrig’s Disease), and New Yorkers for Children (an organization that focuses on foster care and aging out group homes).