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Lucy Gorman
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Selena Cox
Senior Director, DMM – BeautyCVS Health -
Anant Vinjamoori
Chief Medical OfficerModern Age -
Heather Wallace
CEOCurologyHeather Wallace joined Curology in September of 2022, as the CEO and member of the board. She has vast experience leading brands and businesses across healthcare, CPG and beauty.
Prior to joining Curology, Heather served as the President of the Americas for Revlon, leading over $1B in sales across luxury, mass and professional beauty. She also served as the SVP & General Manager of Beauty Care for North America at Henkel. She joined Henkel in 2016, following the acquisition of Sun Products. Previously, Heather spent nearly 10 years at Novartis Consumer Health. She began her career in HR at Sysco and holds a MBA from University of Michigan Ross School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of California, Davis. -
Don Maree
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Ron Robinson
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Nick Stenson
Senior Vice President of Store and Services OperationsUlta BeautyNick Stenson has dedicated his career to creating exceptional, inclusive beauty experiences.
Hair stylist by heart and business leader by design, Stenson balances multiple roles. He is Brand Founder of Nick Stenson Beauty, Senior Vice President of Store and Services Operations at Ulta Beauty, Matrix Brand Ambassador for L’Oréal, and an award-winning celebrity stylist.
A second-generation hairdresser, Stenson built his life around a mantra of “I see your beauty.” His work in hair, makeup, skin care and trend can be seen across media channels worldwide.
Stenson joined Ulta Beauty in 2016 as the company’s first Chief Artistic Director. Today, as Senior VP of Store and Services Operations, he leads a diverse corporate team across seven business units, for store operations. He oversees trend innovation for hair, skin, brow and makeup services, and sets the strategic course for services and education for 1,400+ Ulta Beauty stores.
In 2022, he launched Nick Stenson Beauty, a consciously curated, naturally luxe hair care collection of 12 products. All are formulated with the finest, most ethically sourced, innovative ingredients, including soothing, strengthening aloe vera gel, and meet all pillars of Ulta Beauty’s Conscious Beauty initiatives. Based on Stenson’s work with all hair types and inspired by his global travels, Nick Stenson Beauty empowers everyone to be confident in their own hair.
Learn more at nickstensonbeauty.com, and follow @nickstensonbeauty and @nickstenson.
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Whitney Williams
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Penny Coy
Vice President, Skincare, Suncare, Fragrance, BathUlta Beauty -
Balaji Jothishankar
Entrepeneur in Residence, Gore Range CapitalResident Physician, Harvard Combined Dermatology Program -
Amy Shecter
CEOEver/BodyAmy’s business leadership success has transcended industries and operating environments, with a career spanning beauty, fashion and fitness across digital and physical channels in the domestic and international markets. As a senior executive, Amy has led DTC, wholesale and licensing, in startup, high growth and turnarounds businesses with a focus on delivering strong financial results.
An inspiring enterprise leader, executive team mentor and equally nimble strategist, operator, marketer and merchant, Amy leads the business through a discerning consumer lens and excels at galvanizing the organization to execute. She remains acutely focused on creating an emotional connection between the brand and the customer.
Currently the CEO of Ever/Body, a haven for high-tech beauty services that serves to demystify cosmetic dermatology and make it more available for everyone, Shecter offers a bold vision to revolutionize the industry and lead an ambitious growth strategy focused on accessibility, market expansion, strategic partnerships and more.
Prior to Ever/Body, Amy was the CEO of Glamsquad, CEO of CorePower Yoga and also served as the President of C. Wonder. Earlier, Amy operated in several senior executive capacities at DKNY, Cole Haan, and Tory Burch. Amy advanced up the merchandising, marketing and operations ranks in various leadership roles and began her career at Bloomingdale’s.
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Steve Welch
Founder and CEORestore Hyper WellnessSteve started his first big entrepreneurial success, Mitos, in 2001 with hardly a cent to his name. Without ever raising outside money Steve built Mitos into a global company in the biotech manufacturing field prior to selling it in 2007 at the age of 29 to a Fortune 500 company. Under Steve’s guidance Mitos developed several critical innovations and patents which transformed the manufacturing process of biological drugs and vaccines and allowed Mitos to develop a global sales and distribution network. Following the sale of Mitos, Steve co-founded DreamIt Ventures, a new business accelerator model.. As a 2009 Eisenhower Fellow, Steve has spent time around the world studying all aspects of economic development. Throughout Asia, Europe and North America Steve has examined how economic development is impacted through 1) government policy 2) technology transfer institutions 3) funding sources and 4) culture. In 2010 Steve published “We are all Born Entrepreneurs” in which he uses his story and those of over a dozen other entrepreneurs to explain what drives entrepreneurs, while at the same time sharing lessons learned from the success -- and failures -- of entrepreneurs. In 2011 Steve started KinderTown as an educational app store for parents with children ages 3-8. KinderTown helps parents become their child’s best teacher by utilizing game-based learning on the tablet with learning in the physical world. In 2013 with almost 400,000 users Steve sold KinderTown to Demme Learning. In 2015 Steve founded Restore Hyper Wellness to expand the limits of personal health and performance, to help people do more of what they love through personalized, science-backed therapies. Restore has 225+ locations spread throughout the US. Steve lives in Austin, TX.
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Nicole Chau
Founder & CEOLa LuerAfter searching high and low for a comprehensive skincare device, Nicole decided to create her own. Leveraging her science background, passion for beauty, and extensive experience in merchandise planning and development, she founded La Luer®.
La Luer® is the first company to patent and integrate 6 of the most advanced dermal technologies into an all-in-one at-home skin care device- delivering unparalleled efficiency and customization. The treatments stimulate the skin’s natural ability to regenerate, resulting in visibly firmer, smoother, and healthier-looking skin.
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Ewelina Aiossa
FounderTopical SkinEwelina Aiossa is a noted beauty authority and brand architect with an extensive beauty pedigree. Proficient in scientific skincare and medical marketing, she has honed her expertise working with multinationals and heritage brands, including L'Oréal - Skinceuticals, Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmetics - Glytone, and Eau Thermale Avene, and Topix Pharmaceuticals.
Aiossa developed several beauty brands for retailers and investors and served as a strategic advisor to established professional-grade brands like Clarity Rx, Replenix, Osmotics Cosmeceuticals, Style Edit as well as mid-sized venture-backed companies.
Aiossa co-founded Clinical Skin and custom-developed award-winning formulas across many product categories by fusing corporate expertise with indie ingenuity.
Aiossa is a well-known thought leader in the field of scientific beauty and cosmetic marketing who frequently contributes to trade magazines, presents at industry conferences, and has work that has been peer-reviewed for publication.
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Maya Benayoun
CEOBeautyFix MedSpaMaya Benayoun, the CEO of BeautyFix MedSpa, is a visionary leader with a diverse background in finance and beauty. With six locations spanning across New York, Connecticut, and Florida, BeautyFix is a pioneering MedSpa, Plastic Surgery, and Training Center offering innovative injectables, body contouring, and skincare services.
Maya's career began in finance, where she worked as an M&A Investment Banker at Lazard, collaborating directly with L'Oréal's CEO and executive team on strategic beauty acquisitions. This financial acumen, combined with her business education from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, laid the foundation for her entrepreneurial journey.
Maya's passion for holistic well-being is reflected not only in her leadership but also in her love for Pilates and her role as a dog mom to two cherished doodles. She finds inspiration in travel and embraces diverse cultures as she continues to elevate BeautyFix's mission of enhancing natural beauty and self-confidence.
Maya Benayoun's dynamic leadership has propelled BeautyFix MedSpa to the forefront of the aesthetics industry, reshaping the way people approach self-care and beauty enhancement. -
Chris Payne
CEOJane IredaleChris Payne is the CEO of jane iredale – The Skincare Makeup®, the pioneering clean beauty brand best known for makeup that improves the health of the skin.
Having served more than 20 years in beauty executive roles, Payne has a proven track record driving brand growth and engagement with an eagerness to improve the status quo. Since joining jane iredale in 2019, he has worked to uphold the brand’s iconic role within professional beauty while fostering brand loyalty in a new generation of clean beauty enthusiasts, driving more than a 130 percent increase in new account openings within one year.
Prior to jane iredale, Chris served as CMO for PCA Skin where under his leadership, the brand more than doubled its revenue within two years and was successfully acquired by Colgate-Palmolive. Chris was also Senior Vice President at Arcade Beauty, Vice President at Clarisonic, where he was instrumental in its sale to L’Oréal in 2011, and held various previous roles with L’Oréal.
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Allie Egan
Founder & CEOVeracityAllie is the Founder and CEO of Veracity, a holistic approach to beauty targeting the root cause – hormones – with clinically-proven skincare and supplements and at-home testing for personalized care. Prior to founding Veracity, Allie was the CEO of Cynthia Rowley and has extensive experience in the beauty industry through her time at some of Estee Lauder’s best brands, including Origins, Clinique, and La Mer. She began her career in consumer investing at L Catterton. Allie is a certified Hormonal Health Coach and board member of the Global Wellness Institute’s Hormone Initiative. She holds a BS in Finance and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School.
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Shereene Idriss
Founder, Dr. IdrissFounder & Medical Director, Idriss DermatologyBoard-certified Dermatologist and Founder of Idriss Dermatology in NYC Dr. Shereene Idriss is unlike her peers. In a time when top-name dermatologists have signed on as corporate-brand figureheads, joining in on false marketing hype to appear relevant Dr. Idriss has become a household name for doing just the opposite. She rose to organic fame through her #PillowtalkDerm series on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for candidly speaking about skincare, sharing the science-based truth behind it all. In doing so, she amassed a following of 1.7 million+ “skin nerds” across IG, YT and TikTok, who called on her to create her very own skincare line minus any of the B.S. and with that, PillowtalkDerm was born.
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Deborah Benton
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Eddie Douglas
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Nancy Caravetta
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Jessica Goldberg
Joint CEORebel Gail -
Naana Boakye
Founder, Bergen DermatologyMedical Director, A-Frame BrandsDr. Naana Boakye is a board-certified dermatologist with over 15 years of experience offering comprehensive care of all skin needs with an emphasis on acne and melanated concerns. Coining the term lifestyle dermatology, Dr. Boakye takes a unique, holistic, patient-first approach to dermatology – incorporating diet, physical activity, stress management, and emotional well-being into each and every treatment plan. Her practice, Bergen Dermatology, prioritizes patient-first care, utilizing a comprehensive approach to medical and cosmetic dermatology with a full spectrum of treatments both in-person and virtually to optimize patients’ skin health and appearance. Dr. Boakye is also the author of Inside Out Beauty, Your Prescription for Healthy, Radiant, Acne Controlled Skin available on Amazon, Co-founder of Karité Skincare, and Chief Medical Officer for A-Frame, a brand-building company that focuses on celebrity-led skincare brands for melanated skin. She consults celebrity beauty brands such as Naomi Osaka for her functional suncare line, KINLÒ, Gabrielle and Dwayne Wade on PROUDLY, and John Legend on LOVED01.
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Rozenn Barrois
Regional Sales Director Sederma, FranceCroda GroupRozenn Barrois is Regional Sales Director at SEDERMA.
She obtained a degree and MBA in International Business from the Université de Haute Bretagne, France
Multiple courses from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, México
She has 25 years of experience in the Chemical Industry and 22 of them in charge of the promotion of SEDERMA’s technology capabilities and innovations.
She is member of the SFC (Société Française de Cosmétique)
She is speaker in international congresses of Cosmetics for the last 20 years.
She is co-writer of several scientific publications in cosmetics magazines.
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Joel Marshall
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Cristina Nuñez
Co-Founder and General PartnerTrue Beauty VenturesCristina Nuñez is Co-Founder and General Partner of True Beauty Ventures. True Beauty Ventures is an emerging growth fund focused on investing exclusively in beauty and wellness brands. With 16 years of CPG experience, Cristina offers a unique combination of investing and operating expertise having spent the first part of her career at private equity firms Tengram Capital and L Catterton, as well as UBS Investment Bank. Cristina has also held executive leadership and operating roles in beauty and wellness companies such as Clark’s Botanicals, where she was the GM and COO, as well as Laura Geller Beauty and Equinox.
As Co-Founder of True Beauty Ventures, Cristina brings a valuable perspective to early-stage brand founders as both an investor and operator with deep sector expertise in beauty. Cristina graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University with a BA with Highest Distinction in Public Policy Studies.
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Tara Margarella
Chief Medical OfficerIdeal ImageDr. Tara Margarella is the Chief Medical Officer at Ideal Image, North America’s #1 medical aesthetics provider. She is an accomplished physician and aesthetics and wellness industry professional with significant experience across practice development, global medical and regulatory strategies, and customer success initiatives. As Chief Medical Officer at Ideal Image, Dr. Margarella leads the innovation pipeline and medical board, overseeing the Medical Affairs, Medical Operations, and Education teams in addition to assessing innovative treatments and products for potential portfolio integration.
Prior, Dr. Margarella served as a senior medical director and medical affairs leader, directing operational and global medical and regulatory strategies at both well-known aesthetic pharmaceutical companies and disruptive biotech startups. She holds a medical degree from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed a residency in general surgery at NYU Langone Lutheran Medical Center and as well as fellowship training in cosmetic surgery in Chattanooga, TN.
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Wayne Liu
Chief Growth OfficerPerfect CorpMr. Liu is the Senior Vice President and General Manager at Perfect Corp.
Mr. Liu has been in his current position since June 2015. He has built the ground work for Perfect by recruiting key talent, establishing partnership with beauty brands, retailers such as L’Oréal, Estee Lauder, Target and other highly inferential organizations.
Prior to Perfect Corp, Mr. Liu joined Perfect’s parent company CyberLink in 2009. He was responsible for key partner development, sales strategy and business growth. He grew several multi-million dollars global OEM accounts and managed heavy weight industrial partners for such as Lenovo, Intel, Qualcomm, Time Warner., Comcast, DirecTV …
Mr. Liu has worked in various engineering and marketing management position at Intel, Broadcom and NVIDIA before joining Cyberlink.
Mr. Liu graduated from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in June 1992 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He completed his Masters of Science degree from Case Western Reserve University in June 1994. After receiving Master Degree, he continued pursuing advanced study by attending Electrical Engineering Ph.D. program at University of Southern California. Later, in order to learned more business knowledge, he earned his MBA Degree in Finance from Santa Clara University in June 2011.
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Lorne Lucree
Senior Vice President, Global Innovation, TATCHACentral Strategic Innovation Advisor, Unilever PrestigeLorne Lucree has spent his career utilizing a passion for beauty combined with a constant curiosity to distill consumer insights, developments in technology and active ingredients, packaging innovations, progress in sustainability, olfactive trends, inclusion efforts, and latest formulation techniques into blue sky ideas that translate into breakthrough, retail ready products that resonate with a wide range of consumers and retail partners.
Combine the consumer-first approach of marketing from Procter & Gamble, the attention to beauty métier from L’Oréal and Estee Lauder, the entrepreneurial creative spirit of the world of brand building at a fast growth beauty incubator, a successful ability to partner with founders and celebrity influencers, an understanding of working with private equity and venture capital firms, and a deep knowledge of operations and supply chain from personal care manufacturing, and you have a snapshot Lorne’s professional background that informs his approach to concept development.
Lorne has a keen eye for concepting successful innovation that wins awards and resonates with consumers and press on a global scale. Awards include Allure Best of Beauty, Allure Best of Beauty Breakthrough, Refinery 29 Beauty Innovator, Glamour Beauty Award, Times UK Style Beauty Award, and Nylon Beauty Hit List.
Currently, Lorne serves as the Chief Innovation Officer and Head of ESG at Voyant Beauty, the largest beauty and personal care contract manufacturer in North America, leading a team of 75+ R&D, Marketing, and Innovation Experts implementing all skin, body, hair, and fragrance innovation efforts for a customer base that ranges from specialty retail and D2C focused indies to large blue-chip global beauty companies. He also serves on the Board of the Household and Commercial Products Association as well as the President of the Board of the Western Aerosol Information Bureau.
Lorne has his MBA with a focus on Marketing, Leadership, and Change Management from NYU Stern School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree with a focus on Women’s Studies from Boston University.
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Ben Hernandez
CEO & Managing DirectorSkytale Group -
Perry Leon
Vice PresidentTZP Group -
Carl D’Ruiz
Senior Manager, Science, Advocacy and Business Developmentdsm-firmenich Personal Care, North America -
Luciana Uttembergue D’Elia
Senior Technical and Marketing Managerdsm-firmenich Personal Care, North America -
Cherry Robinson
Founder/GMSymphonic M.D. -
Gabby Garritano
Founder and CEOJECT -
Tara Hyland
PrincipalMain Post Partners -
Rajani Rao
General ManagerNurx by Thirty Madison -
Ryan Rao
Chief Development Officer & PartnerVIO Med Spa -
Oren Yerushalmi
Senior Manager, Global M&AColgate -
Dorian Morris
Founder & CEOUndefined BeautyA true champion of inclusivity within wellness, Dorian Morris is a beauty junkie with deep expertise across categories from cosmetics to haircare to skincare to food/wellness. She is the Founder/CEO of Undefined Inc which includes Undefined Beauty, a clean, conscious, inclusive lifestyle brand focused on democratizing wellness and destigmatizing plant magic. The Glow Collection taps into the supercharged benefits of CBD to soothe, balance and heal whereas the new R&R Collection harnesses the power of adaptogenic mushrooms to detoxify and protect against daily stressors and there is continued category expansion on the horizon. Dorian believes in the power of plant magic in all its forms and has built Undefined to educate, normalize and demystify plant-based solutions for all. She believes we all deserve access to high-quality products that don't cost your first born child. Wellness shouldn’t be illusive or exclusive—let’s democratize it.
With a diverse leadership background, her previous experience spans Retail, CPG and Beauty—from leading US Marketing at Covergirl Cosmetics, spearheading Prestige Innovation at Sundial Brands and as an early employee and global Brand Manager at Kendo, LVMH’s innovative brand incubator. Prior to beauty, she started her brand management career at General Mills, sharpening her general management and brand building skills on legacy brands such as Chex Mix and Yoplait and started her career in the Macy’s buying office, mastering merchandising and portfolio management. She graduated from UCLA summa cum laude and received her MBA from Harvard Business School. A true wanderlust with an adventurous spirit, in her free time Dorian enjoys globetrotting (and has traveled to 60+ countries) and is a proud pet mom of a spunky Morkie named Monaco, who is Undefined's CPO (Chief Protection Officer).
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Said Dabbagh
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James Turcott
PartnerSkytale Group -
Alisa Lask
CEORion Aesthetics -
Daniel Casiero
PrincipalPrelude Growth Partners -
Dustin Portela
Board Certified Dermatologist, Treasure Valley DermatologySocial Media Skincare Educator -
Heather Woolery-Lloyd
Certified Dermatologist; Founder, Derm FriendsContent Creator -
Katie Kaffai
FounderLivingYoung
