Overview

Gender

female

Jean Brownhilll Lauer is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sweeten.com, an award-winning website that matches home and small business owners with renovation needs to the best architects, designers and general contractors for their projects. Currently the site, which she launched in 2011, hosts over $35 million in construction projects in the New York City area and was named “Best Contractor Locator” by New York Magazine’s Best of 2012.

Before founding Sweeten, Jean oversaw store design for Coach Inc. as the Senior Manager of Global Architecture. It was there that she created web tools and a database of design standards used to facilitate the design and construction of the company’s +200 stores globally, a project that won her the Chairman’s Award. Prior to joining Coach, Jean worked at several New York architecture firms specializing in high-end residential construction.

Jean earned a Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union, and in 2011 was one of nine winners of the prestigious Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. While there she co-founded the African American Student Union, where she currently sits as the organization’s Chairwoman.