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Twenty-three-year-old Roshan Roghani is an only child, but she has a sibling of sorts: the Camille Beckman line, which has grown up with her over the last two decades at the family's company in Eagle.
Camille Beckman produces creams, soaps and lotions, and ships them around the United States. The company was started in 1986 by Roghani's mother, Camille Beckman, and her father, Foad Roghani, who moved to the U.S. from Iran 40 years ago to attend the Colorado School of Mines. They employ about 35 people in a faux Tudor headquarters and factory in Eagle, and about a dozen contractors who work at home.
Roshan graduated from Colorado College with a degree in international affairs last spring and joined the company as vice president of sales and exports in July. Now, she works alongside her parents promoting products, developing new retail lines for the company, creating website and marketing materials, and developing a large-scale rebranding project. Meanwhile, she's got big plans for existing Camille Beckman products, which are sold by catalogue and at 7,000 U.S. specialty stores. Since arriving at the company as an employee, Roshan, who is fluent in Farsi, has been developing a plan to start shipping Camille Beckman products all over the world for the first time.
Idaho Business Review sat down with Roshan last week and...