After over one year of searching, Liberty of London has appointed a new CEO Adil Mehboob-Khan, a beauty industry veteran who has held top posts at Procter & Gamble, Wella, and more recently at Luxottica. His predecessor was Ed Burstell who left in 2016. Liberty, owned by Blue Gem, has been preparing for an IPO and it is clear that Mehboob-Khan's experience with publicly listed companies would serve him well in any potential flotation of Liberty. But the company has not been idle while searching for a CEO: it has relaunched its women's wear department last October, expanded men's last summer with the addition of around 20 new brands, introduced a denim department, as well as a grooming department.