Gloria Schoch

Gloria Schoch is the Executive Director of The VF Foundation and Senor Director of Global Impact at VF Corporation, a global leader in apparel and footwear with iconic brands including The North Face, VANS, Timberland, Smartwool, and Dickies. She is passionate about delivering value at the intersection of business and society, leveraging her expertise in corporate social responsibility and ESG to drive transformative, lasting change in the fashion industry and beyond. In her role she oversees The VF Foundation’s strategic vision to help create a more active and sustainable world by investing, innovating and problem-solving collaboratively with businesses, governments, NGOs, social enterprises, and foundations. She also works across VF’s brands and enterprise to define, measure, and advance the company and its brands’ social and environmental impact goals.

Prior to working for VF Corporation, Gloria served in leadership positions in government affairs, community relations, corporate social responsibility, corporate philanthropy, and communications at global Fortune 500 companies, including Molson Coors, MillerCoors, First Data, Western Union and Accenture.

Active in the community, Gloria serves on the Advisory Board of The United Nations Foundation’s Resilience Fund for Women in Global Value Chains and is co-chair of the University of Denver’s Scrivner Institute of Public Policy’s Colorado Project. She also serves, or has served, on the boards of SER-Jobs for Progress National, The Latino Community Foundation of Colorado, The Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation and The Downtown Denver Partnership. She is a German Marshall Fund of the United States Fellow (2011) and McKinsey Academy CiviCO Fellow (2019). She’s been recognized as a Girl Scouts Woman of Distinction (2022), Titan 100 (2021), Latinas First Foundation Trailblazer (2019), Denver Business Journal Outstanding Woman in Business (2018), Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce “Top 25 Most Powerful Women” (2018), Denver Metro Chamber Champion (2018), MillerCoors Women’s Employee Resource Group “Advocate of the Year” (2017), Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility “Corporate Achiever” (2012), Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce “Young Professional of the Year” (2009) and Denver Business Journal “Forty Under Forty” (2009). She is also a graduate of Leadership Denver (2009).

Gloria holds a B.S. in Anthropology and Business from the University of Colorado at Boulder and Master’s degree in Public Administration Management from the University of Colorado at Denver.