Why Attend
Helping beauty brands navigate...
Investment | Retail | Customer Engagement | Business Operations | Mentorship
The 7th in the global series, with over 3000 private meetings scheduled globally.
Since 2017, Beauty & Money has connected over 500 independent beauty brands with the leading financial and strategic buyers.
However, building a successful business isn’t just about raising capital, it’s also about how you spend it.
This year, we have expanded the scope around the key areas in which building the right relationships can really help to drive a brand forward.
Our ‘Secret to Success’ series will concentrate on overcoming some of the reasons why start-ups fail and brands don’t scale, with priceless advice from some of the best in the industry.
Speaking of advice, we’re also bringing our Mentorship Programme to New York for 2019, an initiative to connect the next generation of beauty entrepreneurs with guidance from some of the top movers and shakers in the business.
We hope you like it!
BRAND MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME 2019
Schedule one-to-one mentoring sessions with a brand
mentors.
Having a collaborative network is critical as an entrepreneur and finding the right mentor to offer advice and further connections can be instrumental to success. Receive advice on overcoming business critical challenges such as building an effective team, differentiating product lines and driving reoccurring revenue.
Schedule one-to-one mentoring sessions with our brand mentors to expand your professional network and build new relationships.
BRAND MENTORS
The Beauty Spotlight
Showcasing the most innovative brands in beauty
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.
Submissions will be accepted from both Mass and Prestige independent beauty brands in Colour Cosmetics, Skincare, Haircare, Fragrance, Bath & Body and Beauty Devices. They should be early to mid-stage brands that are actively seeking financial investment, acquisition, distribution, and/or marketing.
These can range from brands that are generating revenues under $1 million all the way up to larger entities that have revenues of $80 million.
The more detailed the application form, the more information the selection committee can use to make their decision. However, if you do not wish to fill in a question, please feel free to leave it blank.
Applications are now closed.
Announcement of the 12 Finalists: August 20th, 2019
2019 Selection Committee
Robin Li
Nicole Hollis
Marla Beck
Neda Daneshzadeh
Larry Khan
Ben Lee
Ilya Seglin
Bentley Eidsmo
Sarah Foley
Sarah is a senior finance professional with 20 years of private equity and financial advisory experience. Most recently, Ms. Foley served as CFO of a New York City-based food company for over two years. Ms. Foley has served as a member of multiple private company boards of directors. She is also an active angel investor and member of New York Angels.
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.
Benni Leigh
Catherine Collins
Kathryn Cavanaugh
Who Will Be There
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Brands
Previous Attendees
Independent Beauty Brands:
Strategic Buyers:
65% -
Industry Supporting Companies
Previous Attendees
VC, Private Equity and Analysts:
Financial Investors:
35%
Speakers
Chris Hobson
Greg Torchiana
Joe Atencio
Elizabeth Corrigan
Amanda Baldwin
Tony Fotherby
Liz Scott
Liz is the President at EC Scott Group where she oversees Company Strategy, Finance, Trade Marketing, Sales & Education, Communications, and the development of the Beauty and Wellness categories.
Liz attended Wharton with a concentration in retail & marketing. From her time at Saks Fifth Avenue, she brings respect for traditional retail, and from Gilt Group, a passionate entrepreneurial mentality, which fuels her motivation to bring brands and retailers success within the changing beauty landscape.
EC Scott Group, founded in 2004, is the premier Sales, Service, and Training company for prestige beauty companies in the specialty retail channel in North America. EC Scott Group’s services include everything from behind the scenes (i.e. warehousing, pick & pack, retailer headquarter management, collections), to the support in-store that makes independent retail partners successful (i.e. in-store education & training, event planning & execution, sell-through support).
Suzanne LeRoux
Yasmin Dastmalchi
Andrew Glass
Nicole Hollis
Rachel Whittaker
Craig Dubitsky
Samuel Cheney
Samuel Cheney is Founder of New Order Cosmetics, a full scope brand agency bringing together an agile team of industry specialists across; Product; Sales; Operations; Marketing and Communications to propose a dynamic consultancy solution for early-stage, high-growth beauty brands. Having worked with BEAST. ‘The Men’s Beauty Store’ since 2018, Samuel is responsible for the on and offline retail concept, operations and buying as well as strategic partnerships, most recently with The Frasers Group, Esquire Magazine and Skin Match Technology.
Zahir Dossa
Sarah Foley
Sarah is a senior finance professional with 20 years of private equity and financial advisory experience. Most recently, Ms. Foley served as CFO of a New York City-based food company for over two years. Ms. Foley has served as a member of multiple private company boards of directors. She is also an active angel investor and member of New York Angels.
Claire Chang
About igniteXL Ventures
igniteXL Venturs is a Silicon Valley-based global seed fund investing in game-changing entrepreneurs at the intersection of technology, beauty and wellness. With the advancement of technology and the rise of conscious consumers who demand authenticity, sustainability, transparency, and inclusivity, the wellness industry is undergoing digital and cultural transformation. And that transformation represents excellent investment opportunities to investors with high margins, recurring and engaged customers, with attractive exit opportunities.
About Claire Chang
Having immigrated from Korea to the US when she was 12 years old, Claire is bilingual and bicultural, which has always given her the unique perspective of being both an insider and outsider able to bridge different perspectives. Combining her passions for connecting people and helping them realize their dreams, Claire launched a global accelerator in 2014 which impacted over 200 Korean startups' ability to expand to the US market. In 2018, Claire launched SVBeautyTech, the first-ever independent beauty-tech accelerator, to provide a cohort of mostly female beauty-tech founders access to the Silicon Valley resources previously enjoyed almost exclusively by male, locally networked tech entrepreneurs. Leveraging her global accelerator network and broad brand connections, Claire is excited to work with passionate innovators and disruptors working at the intersection of technology, beauty & wellness.
Ryan Detert
Stirling Murray
With more than 35 years’ experience of building business and brands in the global beauty industry Stirling runs The Red Tree, a leading international beauty brand consultancy.
The Red Tree works with a wide range of international businesses and provides solutions in creating and implementing long term strategy and vision, getting brands RaceFit fit for market, developing new products, international expansion, and brand and marketing strategies
The Red Tree also manages brands on behalf of international brand owners providing an alternative to the classic distribution or subsidiary business model. The Red Tree becomes a brand's informal subsidiary but without attendant legal and tax issues and can provide account management, regular contact at store and salon level, employ staff, arrange logistics, PR, and in-store training.
The Red Tree's unique getting- ready-for- market programme - "RaceFit" - helps move brands to the point where they can enter into UK and international markets.
Stirling is the founder of The Beauty Symposium a fast moving seminar bringing "Fresh Thinking to the Beauty Business" with an eclectic and highly experienced mix of speakers. .
Has floated a business on AIM, and completed a multi-million acquisition.
Former guest lecturer in Marketing at the London College of Fashion,past member of its Industry Advisory Panel
Corporate experience includes UK and international board roles with Rimmel, Lauder and Bourjois.
Birgit Benayoun
Benni Leigh
Melissa Bridgeford
Heather Connelly
Divya Gugani
Richard Kestenbaum
Richard is a co-founder and Partner of Triangle Capital and has been an investment banker for over 35 years. Richard has a great deal of experience advising clients in merchandising businesses, particularly in the Retail & Consumer sector. Richard is an often-quoted expert on the retail and merchandising industries. He is a Contributor to Forbes.com where he writes a regular blog about trends in retail and consumer product businesses. He also appears regularly in print and other media as well as industry panels and speaking programs.
Before co-founding Triangle, Richard was a Managing Director at a boutique investment banking firm called Financo, Inc. While at Financo, Richard was responsible for a majority of the firm’s apparel industry transactions. Prior to joining Financo, Richard was a Partner and First Vice President at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. At Drexel, Richard was responsible for a group of 14 professionals doing middle-market mergers and acquisitions around the world.
Richard is the co-author of three books on finance and computer programming. He is formerly an Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Business at the graduate program of the Stern School of Business at York University.
Richard received a BS in Accounting from New York University and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from Harvard University. Richard is married and lives in New York.
Click here to read Richard’s blog and follow him on Forbes.com.
Randi Christiansen
Rachel Roff
Michaela Atkinson
Donna Petretti
Ben Lee
Lizzy Eisenberg
As Director of Market Development at Afterpay, the publicly traded technology-driven payments company, Lizzy Eisenberg leads strategic partner acquisition for the Australian-based company’s U.S. business, with special emphasis on Beauty. Prior to joining Afterpay, Eisenberg held several roles with POPSUGAR Inc.: She led business development at ShopStyle, focusing on emerging products and markets, and spearheaded business development and partnerships for POPSUGAR's e-commerce initiatives.
Eisenberg holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was named Most Valuable Player for the Division 1 women’s soccer program. She lives with her husband and dog in Portland, Oregon.
Ken Krasnow
Sapna Parikh
Andy Lu
Intensively involved in FMCG, home appliance sales, marketing, strategy at various tenures.
Specialised at channel strategy, path to purchase dynamics, digital and ecommerce strategy/implementation, new revenue streams, category investment management and global customer management (account planning and field operation).
Marie Chevrier
Jacqueline Gutierrez
Anu Duggal
Anu is the Founding Partner of Female Founders Fund, an early-stage fund investing in technology companies started by women. Female Founders Fund has invested in some of the fastest growing female-led start-ups nationwide including: Eloquii, WayUp, Tala, Zola, Primary, Thrive Global, WinkyLux, Billie and more. In 2018, Anu was included in Fortune’s “40 Under 40” list, and she has been praised for her impact in diversifying venture capital with additional distinctions including Business Insider’s “Ultimate List of Female Startup Investors,” and “Top 4 Venture Firms Investing in Women”. Anu began her tech career as a co-founder of Exclusively.in, a private sale e-commerce company backed by Accel & Tiger which was acquired by Myntra. She is a Board Observer for ELOQUII, Maven Clinic, and Landit, and a Board Member for WinkyLux and The Rubin Museum of Art. She holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA from Vassar College.
Ilya Seglin
Taylor Hamilton
Michael Grant
Michael Grant, who currently serves as SVP Digital Advertising at reCommerce Brands, comes with 15 years of experience in the digital advertising space. Starting at the age of 18, Michael founded and grew a digital advertising agency that was acquired in 2011. After his entrepreneurial endeavors, Michael joined the agency-side and served in leadership roles at agencies including Havas, Omnicom, and Ayima working with global brands such as Unilever, Apple, McDonald’s, Major League Baseball, LVMH, Volkswagen Group, and Verizon. Prior to joining reCommerce, Michael was client-side with Beretta where he led consumer marketing and consumer sales for the oldest manufacturing company in the world, spearheading the digital transformation and digital expansion of the global brand.
Rachel Adler
Amy Shecter
Beryl Solomon
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Podcast with 2017 Spotlight Finalist - David Thurston, Co-Founder, Pulp Riot
Pulp Riot were one of 12 finalists in the 2017 Beauty & Money NY Brand Spotlight and went on to be sold to Beauty giant L'Oreal in a deal represented by Triangle Capital. In this podcast David speaks to Richard Kestenbaum, co-founder of Triangle Capital on his experiences growing his brand and going on to sell to L'Oreal.
The Agenda
The 2019 Beauty & Money Summit program is now live!
What to expect at Beauty & Money Summit New York 2019:
- Connect with 250+ of the Beauty Industry’s most influential directors and C-level executives from financial investors active in beauty, retailers and distributors, strategic buyers, indie approves suppliers and more.
- Schedule 12 one to one meetings onsite though our private netoworking platform.
- Enter your brand for the Beauty Spotlight - 12 beauty brands, who are actively seeking investment, acquisition or partnerships, will be hand-picked to showcase their brand on the main stage.
Schedule one-to-one mentoring sessions with our brand
mentors and get guidance from some of the top CEOs, Founders & Industry leader
Download the Agenda
Venue
Convene at 237 Park Avenue 237 Park avenue New York, NY, 11017
IMPORTANT - PRE-DAY WORKSHOP VENUE:
Address **note not at the event venue!
The Lofts at Prince
177 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
(Buzz 200 on arrival and then take the elevator to the 2nd floor.)
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Local hotels for accomodation:
The Fifty Hotel (apx. 9 min.)
Address: 155 E 50th St, New York, NY 10022
Phone: (212) 751-5710
The Benjamin Hotel (apx. 5 min.)
Address: 125 E 50th St, New York, NY 10022
Phone: (212) 715-2500
The Lexington Hotel (apx. 2 min.)
Address: 511 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10017
Phone: (212) 755-4400
The Westin Grand Central (apx. 6 min.)
Address: 212 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017
Phone: (212) 490-8900
Lotte New York Palace Hotel (apx. 10 min.)
Address: 455 Madison Ave, New York, NY
10022
Phone: (212) 888- 7000
The Waldorf Astoria (apx. 7 min.)
Address: 301 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022
Phone: (212) 355-3000
Intercontinental New York Barclay (apx. 4 min.)
Address: 111 E 48th St, New York, NY 10017
Phone: (212) 755- 5900
Courtyard New York Manhattan/Midtown East
Address: 366 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022 – (9 mins walk from Convene at 237 Park Avenue)
Rate: $399 + 14.75% tax and $3.50 per night room tax, room only, classic room.
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Telephone: Marriott Reservations at 1 (800) 321-2211 or (212) 644-1300
Please quote UK GA1 NYC Room Block group staying at the Courtyard New York Manhattan/Midtown East
Please book before 23rd August 2019. After this date rates are subject to availability.
Millennium Times Square NY (Hilton Hotel)
Address: 145 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036 – (13 mins walk from Convene at 237 Park Avenue)
Rate: $399 + tax, room only, superior king room
Book online: https://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/N/NYCMBDT-KIS-20190925/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG
Telephone: North American Reservations Department on (800) 622-5569 quoting Millennium Times Square New York Hotel and Kisaco Research booking number 1909KISAGP
Please book before 4th September 2019. After this date rates are subject to availability.
Premier New York Times Square Hotel
Address: 133 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036 - (12 mins walk from Convene at 237 Park Avenue)
Rate: $429 + 8.875% New York State Sales Tax, 5.875% New York City Tax and $3.50 per night room tax, premier room, includes complimentary continental breakfast, afternoon hors d’oeuvres with wine/beer and internet access.
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