Why Attend
The No.1 Meeting Place For Beauty Business Partnering
In a world where businesses like Kylie Cosmetics can go from zero to $420 million in sales in just 18 months, and M&A activity continues to thrive, there is plenty of opportunity for new entrants from both Beauty and from Money to take advantage of the booming industry.
The Beauty & Money Summit is THE destination for the hottest M&A-ready independent beauty brands to connect with Strategic and Financial Buyers looking to build even more enterprise value with their next acquisition or investment.
We are so proud watching our previous Beauty Spotlight Finalists grow from strength to strength. They continue to be part of our community, offering their advice to the new generation of independent beauty brands.
Three of our finalists from the inaugral Beauty Spotlight at the 2017 New York Summit, have since gone on to receive significant investment!
Beauty Bakerie has since raised capital from Unilever Ventures, whilst Scentbird has achieved a Series A funding round of $18.6m and Pulp Riot has been acquired by L’Oréal.
Join 250+ of the most innovative beauty companies, strategic buyers and investors looking for the next big opportunity and you will:
- Discover the latest key trends and hot topics transforming the beauty industry.
- Uncover key areas of growth and innovation in skincare, colour cosmetics, haircare, fragrance and beauty technology.
- Recognise the future of beauty and hear from 12 independent beauty brands, handpicked by the prestigious selection committee, showcasing their products and innovations.
- Share experiences and network with leading brands, investors and industry supporting companies and beauty influencers shaping the industry.
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Who Will Be There
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Brands
Sample attendees from 2017 New York Summit
Independent Beauty Brands:
Strategic Buyers:
65% -
Industry Supporting Companies
Sample attendees from 2017 New York Summit
VC, Private Equity and Analysts:
Financial Investors:
35%
The Beauty Spotlight
12 independent beauty brands, hand-picked by the prestigious Selection Committee, introduce themselves and their products on the main stage, in a quick fire round of presentations.
The Final 12 presenting in New York can now be found here. They were chosen by a Prestigious Selection Commitee and from a record number of applications.
Congratulations to our 12 Finalists - they are a fantastic group of brands that'll be well worth coming to meet onsite in New York.
Selection Committee
Bee Shapiro
Bee Shapiro is a New York Times beauty contributor, a position she has held since 2009, the author of the newly published collection Skin Deep, and the founder of Ellis Brooklyn, a luxurious, sustainable, chemical-free line of skincare and perfume.
Kelly Kovack
Conor Begley
Gillian Gorman Round
Julia French
Emmanuel Rey
French-born and one of nine siblings, Emmanuel Rey obtained a degree in engineering in agronomics, and in 2017 founded YUNI Beauty, and at the end of 2018, in a competitive group with Ouai hair care and Youth the people, YUNI received the Rising Brand of the Year Award from the Los Angeles Business Journal.
Benedict Auld
Benedict H. Auld is the founder and CEO of Lapidarius, a strategy consultancy in New York City. Ben has helped brands in health, wellness and beauty grow and change over the entirety of his career.
Sonya Brown
Based in Palo Alto, Sonya is a General Partner at NVP and co-heads the Growth Equity practice where she focuses on investing across a wide range of sectors including consumer, retail, internet, and business services.
Prior to joining NVP, Sonya was at Summit Partners, a private equity firm with over $11 billion under management, where she worked for nine years in the Boston office and was responsible for leading the firm's Consumer and Internet Industry Group in North America. Sonya was engaged in all aspects of the deal process including deal sourcing, due diligence, deal negotiations and board representation. Her most recent and past board directorships and investments include Aramsco, Airborne Health, Central Security Group, Physicians Formula Holdings (NASDAQ: FACE), Snap Fitness and Sparta Systems.
Laura Delgado
Justine Mannering
The Speakers
Michael Sampson
Michael Sampson is a brand expert with a career spent leading in large multi-nationals, start-ups and scaling organizations. Currently he is the CEO of Kate Somerville Skincare LLC, an innovator in prestige beauty building a global footprint focusing on channel diversification, product development, digital strategy and consumer engagement. Born in the UK and having lived in Brussels, Belgium, St. Paul, MN, Boston, Philadelphia, New York and now Los Angeles, Michaels movement has been a result of success in numerous functions, categories and channels. Michael started his career and developed with over a decade at L’Oréal holding multiple senior positions. He then led multi brand creation and development as portfolio President at incubator Hatchbeauty LLC, and ran vertical integration as well as new business acquisition thereafter.
Michael serves on the board of a startup tech company in the professional beauty industry called DirectTips LLC focusing on communication and mobile banking. He is also a Business and Strategy Advisor / Mentor for TrendSeeder Corp, an education ecosystem focusing on fashion, beauty, health & wellness innovators
Alejandro Vicente
Alejandro Vicente is currently the SVP, Head of Global M&A at Coty Inc. where he also serves as Chairman of Younique since February 2017. Prior to joining Coty in September 2016, he was Global Head of Consumer Goods Industry at JPMorgan where he worked for 17 years including 8 years as Managing Director and where he worked on more than 40 Consumer Goods transactions across M&A, DCM and ECM in EMEA and globally worth $100bn+. He started his career at Procter & Gamble where he worked for 4 years including in the European Headquarters. He speaks fluently English, Spanish and French.
Sarah Brown
Pai is an organic skincare brand developing all-natural efficacious products from its own custom built facility in West London. Pai's mission is to do the right thing for you and your skin by creating products that are so natural, ethical and sustainable they have goodness built in.
Mariya Nurislamova,
Gregoire Grandchamp
Gillian Gorman Round
Carla Ruiz
Alicia Sontag
Patricia Santos
Bee Shapiro
Bee Shapiro is a New York Times beauty contributor, a position she has held since 2009, the author of the newly published collection Skin Deep, and the founder of Ellis Brooklyn, a luxurious, sustainable, chemical-free line of skincare and perfume.
Tina Bou-Saba
As a partner and advisor, Tina is open-minded, inclusive, trustworthy, and enthusiastic. Extremely hands-on in her work, she listens intensely and celebrates collaboration. Tina has sharp instincts for commercial opportunities, honed through her experience in strategy at Victoria’s Secret and in equity research analyzing public retailers. From exploring international expansion opportunities for a major retailer to crafting marketing strategy for a consumer start-up, she is an independent thinker who loves digging into hard problems.
David Kimbell
Allen Goldman
Heather Connelly
Cindy Engstrom
Glenn Laumeister
Kathy Ventura
Torsten Stocker
Torsten Stocker is the COO of the Lifestyle Division. He has lived and worked in Asia since 1996. Prior to joining Thakral, he was a partner at management consulting firms AT Kearney and Monitor Group (now: Monitor Deloitte) respectively, advising beauty and other consumer goods brands as well as financial and strategic investors in China and Asia.
Ilya Seglin
Joel Palix
Jenny Pratt
Kima Cooper
Sarah Jindal
Sarah is Mintel’s Senior Innovation and Insights Analyst and has over 16 years of experience developing ingredient technologies for beauty and personal care companies. Having worked for a variety of companies over her career, Sarah has gained an in-depth understanding of the industry and draws upon not only her work experience but also degrees in Biology, Biochemistry, and Evolutionary Biology
Greg Gonzalez
Joe Cloyes and Greg Gonzalez are the founders of the superfood-powered skincare company, Youth To The People, a brand focused on uniting modern wellness with proven skincare science. Joe and Greg make up the third generation of a family deeply involved in the industry, originating with their grandmother’s company, Eva’s Esthetics, one of the first companies to bring naturals to the professional American skincare industry. Youth To The People is based out of Downtown Los Angeles.
Joe Cloyes
Joe Cloyes and Greg Gonzalez are the founders of the superfood-powered skincare company, Youth To The People, a brand focused on uniting modern wellness with proven skincare science. Joe and Greg make up the third generation of a family deeply involved in the industry, originating with their grandmother’s company, Eva’s Esthetics, one of the first companies to bring naturals to the professional American skincare industry. Youth To The People is based out of Downtown Los Angeles.
Ariel Ohana
Ariel founded Ohana & Co. in 1994. In the more than 20 years since, he has spearheaded the firm’s growth from a Paris based M&A boutique with primarily French clients to a global investment bank advising some of the most prestigious corporations in the world, including Procter & Gamble, VF Corp, Coty, AmorePacific, Mondadori, Omega Pharma and LVMH, as well as private equity funds, business owners and management teams. Ariel has represented clients in Japan, Korea, US, France, Italy and many more countries in the luxury & consumer goods, media & internet, healthcare and energy sectors in over 100 transactions. He currently sits on the board of several companies in France and the US.
Ariel holds a graduate degree from HEC School of Management (Jouy-en-Josas, France), is a CEMS Master graduate (joint degree with ESADE, Barcelona) and holds a graduate degree (DESS) in Business Law and International Tax Law from the Université de Paris. He is still very much involved in the life of HEC: he served as professor of the M&A techniques course for 15 years and is part of the club of largest donors of the HEC Foundation.
Ariel divides his time primarily between Paris and Los Angeles.
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The Agenda
The 2018 Beauty & Money Summit program has been updated and features time to preplan 12 one to one meetings onsite and particpate in the Beauty Spotlight.
At The Summit you can connect with 250+ of the Beauty Industry’s most influential executives including:
Michael Sampson, Kate Somerville Skincare
Jon Owsley, L Catterton
David Kimbell, ULTA Beauty
Carla Ruiz, Johnson & Johnson Consumer
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