Adil Mehboob-Khan (l) and Massimo Vian.

MILAN, Italy— Luxottica Group S.p.A. (NYSE: LUX; MTA: LUX) announced today that Group chairman, Leonardo Del Vecchio, presented the profile of Adil Mehboob-Khan, as candidate for the role of co-CEO for Markets, to the company’s board of directors which met here today.

Mehboob-Khan is a Proctor & Gamble executive. He is expected to join Luxottica in early January, 2015, a statement said.

The Luxottica board also appointed the independent director, Marco Mangiagalli, as a member of the Human Resources Committee in place of Roger Abravanel, who recently resigned from the board, as previously reported.

The move to a new corporate structure and a co-CEO approach has happened following the departure of former Luxottica CEO Andrea Guerra in early September and the resignation of long-time executive Enrico Cavatorta earlier this month.

The newly constituted Human Resources Committee met upon the chairman’s invitation, today, and acknowledged the professional profile of Mehboob-Khan and gave its favorable opinion on the remuneration packages of the two future co-CEOs, Mehboob-Khan and Massimo Vian. Vian is a long term Luxottica executive who was previously proposed to take on the role of co-CEO of Operations and Products.

The remuneration packages will be finalized and formally implemented once both co-CEOs have assumed their respective executive positions with the company, the statement continued.

Del Vecchio plans to introduce Mehboob-Khan to the board at their next meeting, scheduled for Oct. 29, in order to seek approval and appoint him as a non-executive member of the Luxottica board of directors. The chairman also proposed that, during the same meeting, the board will appoint Vian as CEO for the Group, entrusting him on an interim basis with all executive responsibilities until Mehboob-Khan joins Luxottica.

The bio of Mehboob-Khan, describes him as a “true world citizen and global leader.” Born in London, his father from Pakistan and his mother Italian/Hungarian, he grew up in Rome before going to London University and graduating in engineering. In 1987, he began his career in Procter & Gamble. This took him to lead large organizations across the globe with growing responsibilities on different product categories, and residing personally both in Europe and the U.S.

Since 2011, he is president of Wella, which was acquired by Procter & Gamble in 2004. Wella counts approximately 4,000 employees in 50 countries.

In the early part of his career Mehboob-Khan made a name for himself as one of the top marketing executives at P&G collecting a track record of successes while managing a vast portfolio of brands. He then worked in global innovation and design for P&G’s beauty sector. This led to a very fast track career to General Management, where he operationally led P&G’s largest beauty businesses across the U.S. and Europe, achieving outstanding results.

In 2009, he became the vice president in charge of all the European retail beauty businesses. He was appointed president of P&G’s Global Salon Professional & Wella. Luxottica’s bio describes Mehboob-Khan as “a strategist and an operational expert, but he stands out mostly for his powerful leadership skills. He believes in flat-delayered hierarchies where execution can happen quickly and where passion for winning and initiative should be unhindered. “

Vian earned a degree in management engineering at the University of Padua, and thereafter moved to London in 1999. Following a stint in the marketing department of automotive company NACCO Materials Handling, he joined EFESO Consulting, a leading specialist in operations management and world class manufacturing, where he worked until the end of 2001.

He returned to Italy where he continued to gain experience in operations within the automotive sector, assuming roles of increasing responsibility, including as director of industrial engineering for Key Safety Systems, a multinational specializing in car-safety systems. In this internationally-focused role, he was in charge of product development for English car manufacturers, as well as leading the rollout of industrial sites in Eastern Europe.

He joined Luxottica in May 2005 as head of its industrial engineering division. After a year working between Italy and China, he became operations director for Asia. Over the following three and half years, he lived in China and was responsible for doubling the size of the Asian manufacturing arm, made up of 7,000 employees, at the highest levels of productivity and quality.

Vian then returned to Italy as Group Chief Operations Officer. For the first time, this position combined responsibility for research and development, engineering and global supply chain under one role. At the same time, he managed the North American lab network and the Oakley factory in California. In 2013, he was given the additional responsibility for Tecnol’s Brazilian site.

The company’s bio notes that Vian “distinguishes himself in his capacity for innovation, as he demonstrated in implementing Luxottica’s new Lean System, which revolutionized production processes throughout the global eyewear industry. His drive and passion for technology also led to the partnership with Google, with research and development teams working to introduce new wearable tech devices.”