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.
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED. WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY.
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.
NEED ANOTHER REASON TO APPLY?
OUR 2021 PARTNERS
Headline Ingredients 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.
Headline Logistics Partner
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.
Headline Testing Partner
LabSkin
Website: https://www.labskin.co.uk/
Labskin’s pioneering approach to testing skin care products by cloning a patient’s skin microbiome and transplanting it on to Labskin human skin equivalent allows a wide range of testing that no longer requires invasive procedures on patients. Data from next generation sequencing of the Labskin and skin biome is coupled with AI processes to interpret and direct further development of skincare products in a controlled and efficient manner, reducing development time and costs.
Headline Advisory Partner
Moss Adams
Website: https://www.mossadams.com/home
Moss Adams is a fully integrated professional services firm dedicated to personally assisting clients with growing, managing, and protecting prosperity.
With more than 3,400 professionals across over 25 locations in the West and beyond, we work with many of the world’s most innovative companies and leaders.
Platinum Partner
Gold Partners
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.
BASF
Website: https://www.carecreations.basf.com/
About the Care Chemicals division at BASF
The BASF division Care Chemicals offers a broad range of ingredients for personal care, hygiene, home care, industrial & institutional cleaning, and technical applications. We are the global leading supplier for the cosmetics industry as well as the detergents and cleaners industry, and support our customers with innovative and sustainable products, solutions and concepts. The division’s high-performance product portfolio includes surfactants, emulsifiers, polymers, emollients, chelating agents, cosmetic active ingredients and UV filters. Superabsorbent polymers developed for the full spectrum of hygiene applications complete the range. We have production and development sites in all regions and are expanding our presence in emerging markets. Further information is available online at www.care-chemical.basf.com.
About BASF
At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. The more than 115,000 employees in the BASF Group work on contributing to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio is organized into five segments: Chemicals, Performance Products, Functional Materials & Solutions, Agricultural Solutions and Oil & Gas. BASF generated sales of €64.5 billion in 2017. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and Zurich (BAS). Further information at www.basf.com.
Perfect Corp
Website: https://www.perfectcorp.com/business/beauty-tech-forum-master-class
With over 850 million downloads globally, Perfect Corporation is dedicated to transforming how consumers, content creators and beauty brands interact together through AI and AR technologies. Our experienced team of engineers and beauty aficionados are pushing the frontiers of technology to create the beauty platform of the future – a fluid environment where individuals express themselves, learn the latest about fashion and beauty, and enjoy instant access to the products from their favorite brands.
Networking Partner
Jebbit
Website: https://www.jebbit.com/
The Jebbit platform enables anyone to quickly build beautiful interactive experiences that capture first-party, declared data. From product matches and personality quizzes to trivia and gift finders, the Jebbit platform drives high engagement by providing consumers with immediate value in exchange for relevant information about their motivations, interests and preferences. Clients use the company’s platform to better understand their consumers and drive revenue.
Event Partners
Landing International
Website: https://landinginternational.com/
Landing International is driven by the simple belief that technology is the key to creating greater diversity in beauty and beyond. By using technology to unlock efficiencies for indie and minority-owned brands, our platform levels the retail playing field - giving customers the ultimate say in which brands succeed in an industry historically dominated by large corporations.
Our digital tools include our leading B2B marketplace that allows brands to be discovered by the trends and values that buyers source, Clean PreCheck - an automated tool that makes it simple for brands to which retailers’ standards they meet by instantly analysing their product ingredients, and Training Tool - a web-based training sheet generator (soon to be mobile app) that helps brands educate and engage retail sales associates.
2021 Media Partners
Global Cosmetic Industry
Website: https://www.gcimagazine.com/
Global Cosmetic Industry is the industry resource for beauty and personal care business and retail insights, trends, market data, ingredients, packaging and best practices for driving innovative products & brands. Brand owners, marketers, executives and product developers worldwide rely on Global Cosmetic Industry to help them work faster, smarter and better.
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.
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
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.
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.
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OUR 2021 SPEAKERS
Agustina Sartori
Agustina Sartori is the Sr.Director Innovation Experiences & Innovation Fund at Ulta Beauty and the founder & CEO at GlamST, an augmented reality (AR) technology company. The digital innovation team at Ulta Beauty works to create best-in-class guest experiences that underscore the beauty retailers’ leadership and deep understanding of consumer habits and desires. Sartori joined Ulta Beauty after the company’s 2018 acquisition of GlamST to help develop AR experiences that combine augmented reality, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies such as GLAMLab. A San Francisco resident, Agustina is originally from Uruguay where she received her Telematics Engineering degree from the University of Montevideo. Throughout her career, she has successfully raised significant capital as an Endeavor entrepreneur, has worked with 500 Startups, Plug and Play, ANII and Startup Chile and with world-class brands such as Ulta Beauty, L’Oreal, Estee Lauder, Dufry, Clarins and Neiman Marcus, among others.
Aïmara Coupet
Aleni Mackarey
Alex Capano
Amanda Baldwin
Annie Jackson
Brandon Frank
Cara Eaton
Carol Hamilton
Carolyn Li
Cameron Abid
Christine Chang
Conor Begley
Dan Larson
Denise Herich
Donna Petretti
David Caballero-Lima
David Denberg
Dianna Rith
Dixie Lincoln-Nichols
Dorian Morris
A 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).
Elana Drell-Sfyzer
Eric Clarke
Hayley Peri
Jill Granoff
Jill Tomandl
Jackie Eagle
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.
Jana Wright
Jana Wright is a partner with Moss Adams, LLP where she has practiced public accounting since 2007. She provides assurance and consulting services to clients in the beauty and fashion industries. Jana’s specific experience includes managing audit and review engagements, acquisition accounting, cash flow projection preparation, and evaluating internal control and financial reporting processes. Her key to success is building strong, long-lasting client relationships. Jana is actively involved in the firm’s mentor program and is the firm’s lead recruiter for California State University, Long Beach. She is also a leader in Moss Adams’ Forum W initiative. Jana was nominated for CalCPA’s Emerging Leader Award in both 2018 and 2020.
Ju Rhyu
Jill Granoff
Katherine Armstrong
Kimberly Shenk
Liah Yoo
Lada Rasochova
Luc-Henry Rousselle
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.
Melanie Bender
Melissa Hago
Ming Zhao
Natalie Eden
Nader Mahmoud
I started my career with BASF, 26 years ago, as Regional Marketing Manager in the United States after earning a M.B.A. in Marketing, Finance and International Business from University of Illinois, Chicago. Currently, I am vice president of Business Management Personal Care in North America and located in Florham Park, NJ. Prior to this role, I was Vice President of Market and Customer Development focusing on our customer centricity approach across BASF in North America. Prior to moving back to the USA, I spend 9 years with BASF abroad in different roles. I moved back to the USA from Singapore, after 4.5 years in Asia Pacific as Vice President of Marketing in our crop protection business. I moved to Asia from South Europe, where I lived in Barcelona, and as Regional Director, I led the crop protection business in Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal. I moved to South Europe from Germany, where I spend 1 year in our global headquarters as Global Marketing Manager. Prior to my international assignments, I spend 12 years in different marketing and business development roles in North America in our crop protection division.
Oliver Garfield
Romain Gaillard
Robyn-Melissa Watkins
Ronie Schmelz
Rich Gersten
Mr. Richard Gersten is Co-founder & Managing Partner of True Beauty Capital. Mr. Gersten has over 25 years of experience in the private equity industry and has spent the last 19 years focused exclusively on the consumer and retail sector, with an emphasis in the beauty and personal care industry. He currently sits on the board of directors of Algenist, Cos Bar, This Works, Active Ride Shop, NEST Fragrances, Deva Curl, and formerly sat on the board of directors for Laura Geller Beauty.
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.
Sonia Summers
Shana Randhava
Shannon Otto
Sarah Chung
Sarah Chung is the Founder and CEO of Landing International, the B2B technology platform unlocking efficiencies for indie and minority-owned beauty brands. A beauty industry veteran since 2003, Sarah is a sought-after beauty industry expert and trusted advisor to retailers. Since starting Landing in 2014, Sarah has sold over $20 million in retail sales and launched over 200 emerging brands into retail doors.
Scott Sassa
Scott M. Sassa is currently Chairman of MILK Makeup, a new millennial brand that is inspired by MILK Studios. It was launched in January 2016. MILK Makeup is available at Sephora, Urban Outfitters, Birchbox and MILK Makeup.com.
From 2008 to 2013, Scott served as President of Hearst Entertainment & Syndication. Scott was on the ESPN Board, was Co-Chair of AETN which included Lifetime, A&E and History. Mark Burnett Productions was acquired during Scott’s tenure. Scott also has oversight of the venture-investing group, which has made investment in Netscape, Broadcast.com, Pandora and other Internet companies.
Shontay Lundy
Stephanie Mansoff
Toto Haba
Trinity Mouzon Wolfford
Walter Faulstroh
Yarden Horwitz
Yarden Horwitz is the Co-Founder of Spate, the artificial intelligence trends platform for beauty. Prior to Spate, Yarden co-founded Trendspotting at Google – where she launched renowned reports such as The Google Fashion Trends Report and The Google Skin Care Trends Report. Her work at Google included spotting top trends such as Turmeric, Cold Brew, and Face Masks. Yarden was named the Future Voice of Fashion by The Business of Fashion, based on her work in leveraging data science for consumer trends prediction.
Yolanda Cooper
Vivianna Blanch
Victoria Fu
Dakota Isaacs
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