Donna Petretti, CRODA Inc 
Why Attend
Building on the global success of the Beauty & Money Series, our leading platform, Beauty Connect, will be going face-to-face for the FIRST TIME to allow you to connect with the decision makers and disrupters from across the beauty and personal care industry in person!
Beauty Connect is the forum to:
- Foster partnerships with the future investors of your brand or the future brands of your portfolio
- Renew your focus on consumer engagement with commercial digital strategies or retailer connections
- Meet and rise above the demands of the conscious consumer by engaging with the industry-leading vendors and sustainability experts
With the return of our industry-embedded Beauty Spotlight brand pitching session, private 1-2-1 meeting sessions and alternative brand workshops suited to the smallest of indie brands and the largest conglomerates, in LA this November 2-3, you can meet the right person to accelerate your brand growth.
Don’t get left behind…
WHO YOU WILL MEET ONSITE
- Investors – Angel Investors, Incubators, Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms
- Service Providers – Consultants, Ingredients Suppliers, Packaging Suppliers, Logistics and Fulfillment Partners, Tech Start-Ups & Vendors
- Independent Brands – Ranging from <$1MM Annual Revenue to >$100MM Annual Revenue
- Strategic Brands – Smaller Conglomerates to the Big Beauty Houses
- Retailers – eCommerce, Department Stores and Specialty Stores
BEAUTY & MONEY SPOTLIGHT LOS ANGELES
12 Independent Beauty Brands, hand-picked by
the prestigious Selection Committee, showcase themselves and their products on the main stage, in a quick-fire round of presentations.
APPLY NOW
WHY APPLY?
- Present your brand in-front of the prestigious Selection Committee as well as a full room of 150+ beauty investors, M&A executives, retailers, multinationals and beauty influencers on day one of the event.
- The Audience Choice Award Winner will get the chance to deliver an extended 10-minute presentation of their brand.
- Spotlight finalists will feature in marketing activity in the run up to the event and in the post-show report.
WHO SHOULD APPLY?
Independent beauty brands from across the Beauty & Personal Care industry who are...
- Seeking brand exposure, investment, acquisition or industry partnerships.
- Driving innovation in the industry and see potential for the growth and scale of their business.
Become a Partner
Kisaco Research provides the much-needed platform on which industry executives can network, connect and learn from each other as well as meet potential industry partners.
Far from the typical ‘meet-and-greet’ exhibition experience, you – as a sponsor or exhibitor – will be positioned as a partner of the event with a focus on the benefits of your product and brand, rather than just a name on an exhibition list.
With our extensive marketing experience and strategy, your partnership with Kisaco Research will grant you a sponsorship package that is an extension and enhancement of your current marketing and branding efforts. We value your ROI and will work with you directly on your specific goals and targets – that’s why we take special care in finding the most relevant end-users to attend, so that your financial and resource investment is smartly allocated.
Find out more by calling us at +44 (0)20 3696 2920 or email us at [email protected].
Associate Event Partner
Croda Personal Care
Website: www.crodapersonalcare.com
We have a rich history of partnering with Independent brands to develop innovative and crative personal care solutions.
Offering a full range of cosmetic ingredients including Sederma's world leading actives, our experts can help with formulation development, claims substantiation, market analysis, and industry regulations. Our knowledge provides customers with immediate access to essential support for successful beauty and personal care product development and implementation. From lab scientists to product specialists and customer car agents, the Croda team is excited to offer their assistance.
2021 SERIES PARTNERS
OceanX
Website: www.oceanx.com
OceanX is a technology-first fulfillment provider for industry-leading brands like Glossier, SkinMedia, Proactiv, and more to help scale fulfillment operations with a suite of DTC, B2B, and Amazon 3P services. These services include a modern fulfillment-as-a-service solution, a real-time business intelligence platform, and a dedicated customer success team. With a 99.5% same-day ship, two-day nationwide shipping coverage, 99.8%+ order accuracy, access to top-tier postage rates, and the ability to capture over 3,000 eCommerce orders per minute – OceanX has set the bar for what a premier solution provider should offer clients.
Symrise
Website: www.symrise.com
Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances, flavorings, cosmetic active ingredients and raw materials, as well as functional ingredients. Its clients include manufacturers of perfumes, cosmetics, food and beverages, the pharmaceutical industry and producers of nutritional supplements and pet food.
Its sales of approximately € 3 billion in the 2017 fiscal year make Symrise a leading global provider in the flavors and fragrances market. Headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, the Group is represented in more than 90 locations worldwide.
COSMETIC INGREDIENTS focuses on high-quality ingredients, such as active skin and hair care ingredients, preservatives, botanical extracts, functional products, UV filters and colors.
DSM
Website: https://www.dsm.com/personal-care/en_US/home.html
DSM in Personal Care & Aroma provides solutions for customers in the personal care, home care and fine fragrance markets. Its extensive portfolio includes aroma ingredients, vitamins and natural bioactives, as well as UV filters, peptides and polymers. With its competence & expertise in science, formulations, and applications it is well placed to deliver on diverse consumer beauty and health needs, especially in the context of aging populations and increasing ethnic & cultural requirements. The business also addresses the public health issue of globally rising skin cancer rates, providing innovative sun care solutions that extend beyond UV into the blue light range, and creating and creating awareness of the need to use sun protection daily.
EC Scott Group
Website: https://www.ecscottgroup.com/
EC Scott Group is the premier Sales, Service, and Training company for prestige beauty brands in the specialty independent retail channel in North America.
We have developed exclusive channel partnerships with over 100 brands, and have grown our network of accounts to over 2,000 points of distribution, including beauty boutiques, apothecaries, pharmacies, fashion retailers, specialty multi-door chains, regional department stores, beauty chains, college book stores, casinos and military bases.
We tirelessly advocate for our retail partners and simultaneously hold our brand partnerships with the utmost respect. Our brand partners are always in complete control of where their products are distributed, and how their brand looks at the store level in local markets.
We cultivate personal and professional partnerships internally within our own “EC Scott Group Family,” and externally with retailers and brands. We not only sell best-in-class beauty products, but we help accounts generate strong sell through at the local level. We educate the retailer’s team, provide them with tools to make them successful, and invest time in our partnerships to make each retailer’s story, a success story.
Rothschild & Co
Website: https://www.rothschildandco.com
Rothschild & Co is one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory groups, with 3,500 people in over 40 countries worldwide. Our Global Advisory business has an impartial and insightful perspective on M&A, strategy and financing advisory to help our clients formulate and achieve their strategic goals.
GED
Website: https://www.gedchinabeauty.com/
Great Empire Distribution is entrusted with future proofing the world’s leading luxury skincare and makeup brands in China.
With a multi-year proven track record partnering with brands, GED’s animating principle is building long-term sustainable brand growth. They unlock brand value and create connective tissue with the brand. Through localized brand storytelling and careful seeding, GED engage their gen Z and millennial beauty community through localized brand storytelling and careful seeding, amplifying brand relevance and resonance.
SKOON
Website: https://www.skoonskin.com/
Our way is all about having your cake and eating it!
We go after the best nature has to offer. And we believe in science.
Most of all, we believe in Good Formulating practices and Good Manufacturing practices – making 100% sure nothing gets into our products that shouldn’t be there.
In making skincare effective, practice really does make perfect.
Although perfection isn’t top of our list at SKOON. We aim for something much better.
You feeling healthy and happy in the skin you’re in.
Event Partner
Market Defense
Website: https://www.marketdefense.com/
Please visit our website for more information.2021 Media Partners
Fashion Snoops
Website: https://www.fashionsnoops.com/
FS is a global trend forecasting agency helping leading consumer-facing brands around the world unlock innovation and propel growth. Through a combination of human and artificial intelligence, we analyze cultural shifts and interpret detected patterns in order to surface trend-driven business opportunities.
BeautyMatter
Website: https://beautymatter.com/
BeautyMatter was born from Founder Kelly Kovack’s desire to provide a fresh voice to the beauty industry through the lens of someone who has been in the trenches founding brands, defining white space and commercializing trends. BeautyMatter aims to fill the void, connect the dots and provide an informed analytical and compelling point of view. Exploring the limits and blurring boundaries by offering highly curated news and original content by thought leaders and industry insiders. An essential resource for business intelligence for executives, entrepreneurs and creatives.
STYLUS
Website: https://www.stylus.com/
Stylus is a global trends intelligence company. Our experts identify, analyse and decode the most important global trends across more than 20 industries. These cross-industry insights are used by more than 500 of the world’s leading consumer brands, businesses and agencies to understand the attitudes and behaviours of their consumers, the products and services they’re using, and how they engage with the world around them. On top of this, our members have access to Stylus Advisory, a bespoke service combining our expert trend analysis with powerful tailored research. Find out more at: www.stylus.com
Where Brains Meet Beauty
Website: http://www.wherebrainsmeetbeauty.com/
WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY™ Host Jodi Katz, Founder & Creative Director of Base Beauty Creative Agency, welcomes guests into a relaxed, authentic and honest conversation about their career journey, from the struggles to the highs, and the roller coaster ride in-between. Jodi is not a reporter and she’s not ogling stats. She’s part James Lipton, part Andy Cohen, seeking to reveal wisdom and insightful stories that will inspire future leaders in beauty
Beautystreams
Website: https://beautystreams.com/
PROUD PATRON OF
British Beauty Council
Website: https://britishbeautycouncil.com/
The British Beauty Council was founded to represent the voices, opinions and needs of the British beauty industry – from hairdressing to cosmetics, cosmetic surgery, therapy and spa; in education and training; and from formulation to manufacture, supply, logistics packaging, design, retail and media.
We are a not-for-profit, inclusive organisation that works to engage politicians and business leaders about the value of British beauty to the national economy, and its key role in the UK’s creative and cultural character.
Our ambition is to ensure that the beauty industry is recognised and valued at all levels of government, throughout the wider economy and by consumers.
BECOME A MEDIA PARTNER
If you're interested in becoming a media partner, please contact Kat Rhomberg: [email protected]
2021 BEAUTY CONNECT SERIES SPEAKERS INCLUDE
Oliver Garfield
Elana Drell-Sfyzer
Christine Chang
Romain Gaillard
Melanie Bender
Agustina Sartori
Amanda Baldwin
Brandon Frank
Conor Begley
Denise Herich
Dianna Ruth
Donna Petretti
Jill Granoff
Jill Tomandl
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.
Ju Rhyu
Kenya Eldridge
Mimi Ghosh
Mimi Ghosh is a client executive in the Technology & Disruptive Commerce Group at JPMorgan Chase. Mimi covers high-growth companies within the consumer and technology sectors. She is responsible for client management and business development. As part of her role, Mimi provides treasury, credit, payment processing, F/X, liquidity and strategic capital structure solutions to clients. Previously, she worked for Morgan Stanley in its Global Capital Markets Division and Raymond James in its Investment Banking Division. She has completed transactions for a combined value of $55bn+.
Mimi received a BA in from Columbia University and currently resides in New York City.
Ming Zhao
Nicola Kilner
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.
Robyn-Melissa Watkins
Ronie Schmelz
Shana Randhava
Sonia Summers
Toto Haba
Trinity Mouzon Wolfford
Walter Faulstroh
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