Donna Petretti, CRODA Inc 
WELCOME
Welcome to Beauty Connect, the leading industry platform focused on driving innovation, investment, and partnerships, to accelerate brand growth at every level of the beauty and wellness market.
We will be returning to Los Angeles in November to connect 350+ beauty decision makers, disrupters and strategic partners for 2 days of networking and industry-curated content.
Beauty Connect is the forum for every brand 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 and retailer connections
- Get equipped with the practices and knowledge to drive inclusivity and diversity practices at every touchpoint
- Meet and rise above the demands of the conscious consumer by engaging with the industry-leading vendors and sustainability experts
We are returning with more opportunities to than ever to connect including brand workshops, private and public pitching opportunities, intimate roundtables focused on industry-challenges, and pre-scheduled 1-2-1 meetings.
Beauty Connect is committed to ensuring every brand can make the connections to accelerate their brand growth. Don’t miss out!
WHO YOU WILL MEET ONSITE
Beauty & Wellness Brands – Ranging from <$1MM Annual Revenue to >$100MM Annual Revenue
Strategic Brands – Smaller Conglomerates to the Big Beauty Houses
Retailers – Traditional Brick & Mortar, eCommerce, Department Stores and Specialty Stores
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
3 OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMERGING BRANDS - ONE APPLICATION FORM!
Beauty & Wellness Indie Brand Spotlight
Our Beauty Spotlight is back with a twist! In response to the diversity of brands that beauty and wellness now encompasses we have introduced the ‘best in’ category showcase to highlight unique and disruptive emerging brands!
WHY APPLY?
Be selected as BEST indie brand in the following categories: Skincare, haircare, color cosmetics, feminine wellness, ingestible beauty, men’s care, fragrance, luxury/premium, sun care, tools, oral health and body care.
Present your brand in-front of the prestigious Selection Committee as well as a full room of 350+ beauty investors, M&A executives, retailers, strategic partners, and beauty influencers on day one of the event.
Spotlight finalists will feature in extensive marketing activity in the run up to the event, have additional exposure at the event itself, and feature in the post-show report.
CEO & Founders Forum
Come together with like-minded leaders in the beauty industry to learn, network, and grow. The CEO & Founders Forum is an application-only networking event and we will inform you if you are accepted to join.
All applications are now closed.
Emerging Beauty Challenge
We’re looking for emerging brands that are shaping the next generation of beauty. If you’re a product-focused brand with a unique idea or innovative concept, then we want to hear from you! Fill out the application below to tell us more about what you’re building and how you’re challenging the status quo of beauty. 20 finalists will be selected to pitch their brand "Shark Tank" style to a panel of Estée Lauder Companies leaders, for a chance to win an investment and supporting partnership from NIV. Good luck!
Who should apply?
Beauty brands that are:
- Product-focused (i.e., cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, haircare, body care)
- At any stage from pre-launch (concept) up to $20M in annual revenue
- Located anywhere in the world
All applications are now closed.
Our 2022 Beauty & Wellness Indie Brand Spotlight Selection Committee
Cristina Nuñez
Joseph Atencio
George Song
Michael Toure
Hemanshu Patel
Richard is a co-founder and Partner of Triangle Capital and has been an investment banker for over 40 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 (articles) where he writes 2-5 times a month about trends in retail and consumer. 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 New 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.
Richard Kerstenbaum
Richard is a co-founder and Partner of Triangle Capital and has been an investment banker for over 40 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 (articles) where he writes 2-5 times a month about trends in retail and consumer. 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 New 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.
Pre-Event Workshops
Join us on Tuesday, November 1 for an educational and interactive workshop, hosted by Threadstone, for independent beauty brands looking for clarity around their financing options.
A series of sessions will cover some of the key questions independent beauty brands have when raising capital. Pros and Cons of each investment option will be discussed, from seed funding, through VC and PE investment to working with Strategic Buyers.
OUR 2022 SPEAKER FACULTY
Shana Randhava
Charlie Vickery
Shontay Lundy
David Chung
Cindy Kim
Samantha Kimmel
Iva Teixeira
Iva is the Co-founder and CEO of the Good Face Project, the world’s largest AI-powered ingredient transparency and sustainable innovation platform for Cosmetics. A technologist with a background in strategy, engineering and consumer goods, Iva specializes in building and scaling technology and data-driven venture-backed companies. Iva holds a BS in Mathematics, an MS in Operations Research and Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Melanie Bender
Mia Davis
Mia has been a leader in the movement for safer, more sustainable materials and processes since 2006. She has pushed large companies using toxic chemicals to reformulate, and helped to establish the "safer" and "clean" beauty movement by creating and implementing the most meaningful standards in the industry (the Credo Clean Standard, Beautycounter’s Ingredient Selection Process, and more). Recently, Mia researched and authored Credo's Sustainable Packaging Guidelines, which earned Credo a top rank in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in the World. She is also co-leading a pre-competitive collaboration to rethink packaging in beauty.
Jill Tomandl
Oliver Garfield
Dan Hodgdon
Ilya Seglin
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.
Monique Rodriguez
Helen Nwosu
Elana Drell-Sfyzer
Éva Goicochea
Mabel Frias
Laurie Tessier
Christina Williams
Ning Cheah
Michael Toure
Brandon Ford
Brandon L. Ford, Chief Accelerator Director of the Lubrizol Life Science Accelerator Program, brings his entrepreneurial mindset, passion for learning and curiosity toward life to his role operating a startup within the walls of a 90-year-old company. Brandon is a nurse and attorney with a BSN from Case Western Reserve University and JD /MBA from The University of Akron.
For the past four years, Brandon has led the Accelerator, a program that leverages Lubrizol technology, manufacturing and beauty and home care science expertise to provide market-ready solutions, brand development, and quick innovation. Hundreds of entrepreneurs have benefitted from his charismatic leadership to launch and develop their beauty and home care brands. The Accelerator has launched over 100 products globally. Brandon currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio with his wife and two sons.
Ju Rhyu
Emily Perez
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.
Erik Thompson
Brian Grady
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.
Jo Osborne
Matt Rice
Brandon Frank
Ryan Piela
Kimberly Shenk
Conor Begley
Jennifer Stansbury
Jennifer Stansbury is co-Founder and Managing Partner of The Benchmarking Company (TBC), a consumer market research firm for the beauty and personal care industries, specializing in quantitative research, qualitative focus groups, and consumer in-home use testing for marketing claims and risk mitigation.
Jennifer manages teams that conduct large-scale US and international consumer perception studies and custom research projects for beauty and personal care brands such as Shiseido, Benefit Cosmetics, Johnson & Johnson, Dollar Shave Club, Perricone MD, and many others. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including Cosmoprof North America, Cosmoprof Worldwide, In-Cosmetics, SCC and elsewhere. Jennifer is a regular contributor to Happi, GCI Magazine, BW Confidential, and other industry publications, and is a member of Beauty Industry West (BIW), and Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW). Jennifer is a current Board Member of IBA.
Ronie Schemlz
Ronie Schmelz is Counsel at Tucker Ellis LLP where she regularly counsels clients to ensure compliance with regulations enforced by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and other state and federal regulatory agencies; and advertising, labeling, and claim substantiation.
She represents clients in regulatory and legal proceedings, including in defense of consumer class actions asserting false advertising, unfair competition, and consumer protection claims.
Ronie helps clients formulate best practices for pre and post-market activities, including regulatory compliance, product labeling, advertising, claim substantiation, Prop 65 compliance, vendor relationships, and consumer-facing communications.
She has deep industry knowledge of and particular expertise in representing domestic and international cosmetic, personal care, and dietary supplement companies.
Romain Gaillard
Donny Salazar
MasonHub founder and CEO Donny Salazar is an operations expert with two decades of experience leading and growing teams in the world's most innovative ecommerce businesses. With MasonHub, he merges his deep retail knowledge with innovative technology to create a modern logistics company.Prior to MasonHub, Salazar ran a consulting business advising fashion and lifestyle brands. He also served as COO of Flight Club, SVP of Operations at Chloe + Isabel, and VP of Gilt Groupe. Before that, Salazar worked at Revlon and McMaster-Carr Supply Company. He earned his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and his BS from Northwestern University.
Hector Hernandez
Cara Eaton
Megan Klingbeil
Kara Posner
Melissa Hago
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.
George Song
Hemanshu Patel
Joseph Atencio
Lauren Wisniewski
Michele Robertson
Vanessa Kuykendall
In her 25+ year history in beauty retail, Vanessa Kuykendall has led teams and driven revenue in brick & mortar, E-Commerce, and now Amazon. A founding partner at Market Defense, Vanessa leads Client Delivery where her team protects brand equity and drives profitable growth in the Amazon Marketplace. They provide a full suite of services including Account Management, Brand Protection, Logistics & Operations, Advertising, and Creative for beauty brands like Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare, this Works and Beauty Bakerie; the average YoY increase in their portfolio was 75% over 2021. Her past roles include Sales, Merchandising and Marketing at MAC Cosmetics, Tiffany & Co., The Body Shop, Estee Lauder, Walgreens and Beauty.com, the first prestige beauty retailer to sponsor NY Fashion week shows.
Shirley Billot
Timothy Sousa
Elana Drell-Szyfer
Michele Robertson
Destiny Villarreal
Hani Fares
David Caballero-Lima
David received his undergraduate degree in Biology and his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Universidad de Extremadura in Spain. David took postdoctoral research positions at the University of Sheffield and the University of Manchester, with both roles focusing on studying human/pathogen interaction via tissue models and obtaining a greater understanding in the regulation of the cell cycle and vesicle transportation during morphological changes. In addition he was involved in the development of point-of-care diagnostic devices for diseases such as fungal and bacterial keratitis and novel antifungal discovery.
David was initially Services Manager at Labskin, responsible for all microbiology work and service projects, bringing his 18 years’ experience working with microbiology and host-pathogen interactions.
As Head of R&D, David now leads the research department, focusing on the development of new methods for studying the native skin microflora, prebiotic, probiotics and antimicrobial effects of ingredients and formulation for pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical studies. He is also the scientific lead for the development of Labskin new consumers service; Skin Trust Club, a new concept of personalised skin care based on the analysis of the skin microbiome. David is a key collaborator on international research bids, as a peer with leading international experts from academia and industry.
Patrick Lowe
Inna Tumarian
Patrick O'Keefe
Thomas Rankin
Lorne Lucree
Lorne 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.
Lorne Lucree
Lorne 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.
Sonia Summers
Shielded Beauty Founder & CEO Sonia Summers began her career working in-house for global powerhouses like Avon, where her team won WWD’s highly coveted “Best Executed Brand Launch” award in 2014. In 2015 she launched Beauty Barrage, an outsourced sales management agency complete with a highly successful and modern field team – helping to create signature experiences and a “human touch” at retail. Beauty Barrage represents an impressive portfolio of brands including: L’Oreal, PerriconeMD, The Proactiv Company, Unilever, Coty, Nudestix, Dermaflash and many others.
Back in 2020 when the COVID crisis unfolded, Sonia found herself constantly searching for a safer way to protect our skin — but she couldn’t find any highly-effective purifying products that also prioritized nourishing the skin’s microbiome. Sonia felt like she shouldn’t have to compromise on luxury for efficacy, she decided to start developing the products that she was desperately looking for herself!
OUR PARTNERS
Headline Innovation Partner
Estée Lauder Companies New Incubation Ventures
Looking to shape the next generation of beauty, New Incubation Ventures partners with forward-thinking founders to create, fund and support the best emerging beauty brands globally. New Incubation Ventures is the early-stage strategic investing and incubation arm of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products.
Headline Ingredients Partner
Croda Personal Care
Website: https://www.crodapersonalcare.com/en-gb
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 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.
Headline Marketing Partner
Dash Hudson
Website: www.dashhudson.com
Dash Hudson was founded in 2015 with the mission to empower brands to deepen engagement through photos and videos. Today, the global leader in social marketing software helps companies like Condé Nast, Apple, and Unilever unlock their creative superpowers and elevate their strategies at the speed of social. Dash Hudson takes it to the next level by predicting the performance of photos and videos, analyzing trends, and accelerating brand growth across social media, entertainment, and e-commerce marketing channels.
Platinum Partners
Symrise
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symrise-cosmetic-ingredients
Symrise is a global supplier of Cosmetic ingredients, fragrances, and flavors. Headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, Symrise is represented in over 40 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the United States and Latin America. Symrise works with its clients to develop new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that are an indispensable part of everyday life. With a turnover of more than €3 billion in 2019, Symrise is one of the global leading companies in the flavors and fragrances market.
Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked as part of this process. Symrise takes sustainability into account in every aspect of its corporate strategy and as a result have been awarded Germany’s Most Sustainable Large Company three years in a row.
Symrise Cosmetic Ingredients division has a comprehensive portfolio that includes advanced actives, modern product preservation solutions, protection against sun and environmental aggressors, innovative hair care ingredients, botanical extracts, and high-performance functionals. Our core expertise in Actives such as sensitive skin, skin pigmentation, well-aging, microbiome and anti-pollution solutions, is supported by the latest research from renowned dermatological experts and comprehensive clinical studies to deliver innovative active ingredients with consumer perceivable benefits.
Lubrizol
Website: https://www.lubrizol.com/
The Beauty business team at Lubrizol Life Science partners with customers to develop, manufacture and market a broad range of differentiated ingredients and formulations for skin care, hair care and skin cleansing. Our innovative solutions enhance functional performance and deliver aesthetic benefits that help people to live a more beautiful life. The Accelerator program accelerates innovation by promoting turn-key growth-enabled partnerships with brands that utilize Lubrizol technology and expertise, external partners and flexible business models to deliver new and exciting shelf-ready products to the market.
PFS
Website: https://www.pfscommerce.com/
Drawing upon 20+ years of experience and innovation in the industry, PFS, business unit of PFSweb, Inc., supports eCommerce fulfillment operations for both DTC and B2B channels. Brands and retailers across industry verticals (health and beauty, jewelry, CPG, apparel, footwear and government) look to PFS to provide brand-centric operations that effectively scale to support growing eCommerce demand.
Higher Education Skincare
Website: https://highereducationskincare.com/
Dermatologist tested and approved, targeted solution skincare for your main skin concerns. Higher Education Skincare is formulated specifically for younger generations. Building healthy habits with clean, safe, & healthy skincare. Every single product combines the best of science and nature; paraben-free, gluten-free, never tasted on animals, and vegan. We pride ourselves on providing product education, high quality ingredients and always being honest about what's in our products, what is not, where the ingredients come from and the benefits they provide. We also believe it is vital to help preserve the beauty of nature and use recycled materials for our packaging.
Pattern
Pattern is the world’s premier ecommerce accelerator who partners with brands to achieve control and grow profitability on digital marketplaces (such as Amazon, Tmall, Walmart, JD.com, and more), D2C, and other digital channels worldwide. Pattern provides resources, services, and technology, at no added cost, to help brands get ahead on ecommerce and sell more together. Some of the world’s most recognized brands—including Panasonic, Nestle, Sorel, and Black Diamond—depend on Pattern’s proprietary technology, operational and logistics capabilities, and exceptional team of industry-leading experts to achieve accelerated ecommerce growth in more than 100 countries.
Gold Partners
DSM
Website: https://www.dsm.com/personal-care/en_US/home.html
DSM is a pioneer in the use of vitamins in cosmetics, leaders in UV protection, and the creators of award-winning cosmetic peptide & bioactive technology. We partner with the many of the world’s leading beauty companies in their creation of products that deliver consumer-perceivable benefits for skin, sun and hair care.
Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do at DSM.
We believe that everything that we do daily has an effect, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. A strong focus on sustainability means that we are actively creating and maintaining the conditions under which people and nature can exist in harmony to support present and future generations. Ingredient suppliers have an obligation to address the full scope of sustainability and take tangible action in building sustainable practices. And we must do so while also addressing the health and wellbeing of consumers. DSM invites brands and manufacturers to partner with us to create a better future for all.
We are proud to have received a Platinum rating from EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings.
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.
Solabia
Website: www.solabia.com
Solabia Group is present in the cosmetics, pharmacy, nutrition, biotechnology and microbiological diagnosis sectors, the Solabia Group, with its six production units, has complementary expertise that enables it to offer an extensive range of active principles and ingredients used throughout the world by the cosmetics, pharmaceutical and food industries.
Our research and development centres group together more than thirty international calibre researchers whose original expertise – driver of innovation – enables us to completely master the techniques of biocatalysis, enzymatic synthesis, fermentation and plant extraction. This complementary expertise enables us to create innovative products as well as partnerships with both our customers and internationally renowned research organisations.
Threadstone
Website: http://www.threadstonelp.com/
Threadstone Advisors is a leading independent advisory and investment firm specializing in the beauty and personal care, apparel, specialty retail and direct-to-consumer sectors. Our philosophy behind the creation of Threadstone Advisors is the belief that the comprehensive knowledge and a values-oriented culture of the senior partners are at the core of our success. We are committed to helping our clients benefit from more than 100 years of combined experience. Having assisted clients ranging from start-ups to global brands through different economic cycles, our perspective is broad. Our industry knowledge, thorough preparation and hard work, allows Threadstone to generate ideas to help companies achieve their strategic and financial goals and objectives.
Threadstone helps entrepreneurs and founders of young, exciting businesses to achieve intermediate financing goals. Our unique perspectives in the beauty sector allow us to better understand the nuances of the businesses we represent. Threadstone approaches each engagement in the same mindset as venture capital – we understand that businesses are looking for more than just money. Through a unique partnership approach, Threadstone develops a deep understanding for the strengths and opportunities of our clients and tailors a go-to-market approach that delivers both the financial and strategic resources that our clients need.
Anchin
Website: https://www.anchin.com/
Whether you are starting out or well-established, Anchin’s Beauty, Health & Wellness group has the experience and industry knowledge to add meaningful value to your business, guiding you through each stage of growth, from venture capital to private equity to an ultimate exit or succession plan. Led by Megan Klingbeil ([email protected]) and Carolyn Sekosan ([email protected]), our group takes many complicated issues off your plate so you can focus on growth and operations. Our services go beyond the traditional accounting and tax functions. Find out more at www.anchin.com and follow us on Instagram at @anchinbeautyandwellness.
MasonHub
Website: https://masonhub.co/
MasonHub is an order management and fulfillment solution that provides the software, infrastructure, and expertise that beauty and wellness brands need to rapidly scale. Built by retailers for retailers, our team of experts has faced every fulfillment challenge firsthand, and we bring that deep industry knowledge to everything we do. MasonHub is proud to be a true partner to your brand—we directly handle everything from inventory management and kitting to fulfillment and returns, make recommendations based on deep industry knowledge, and continuously develop our proprietary end-to-end technology to elevate the customer experience across every channel.
Ashland
Website: https://www.ashland.com/products
Ashland Global Holdings Inc. (NYSE: ASH) is a premier additives and specialty ingredients company with a conscious and proactive mindset for sustainability. The company serves customers in a wide range of consumer and industrial markets, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, food and beverage, nutraceuticals, personal care and pharmaceutical. Approximately 3,800 passionate, tenacious solvers – from renowned scientists and research chemists to talented engineers and plant operators – thrive on developing practical, innovative and elegant solutions to complex problems for customers in more than 100 countries. Visit Ashland.ashland.com and ashland.com/sustainability to learn more.
Market Defense
Website: https://www.marketdefense.com/
Market Defense is the leading brand growth and protection agency for beauty brands on the Amazon platform. It operates 1P & 3P businesses on behalf of its clients, providing deep expertise in Amazon account management, brand protection, value added logistics and performance marketing. It's portfolio of passion brands includes influential legacy brands like Dr. Dennis Gross and Philip B, to women-owned indie successes Tatcha and Sara Happ, and international favorites expanding into the US like This Works and Grown Alchemist.
Vanessa Kuykendall is Chief Operating Officer and leads all client delivery. She is focused on scaling cross-functional client delivery and broadening capabilities in account management, brand protection and performance marketing to drive faster and more meaningful growth to for Market Defense clients. Vanessa has worked in the beauty industry for 28 years in sales, training and merchandising leadership roles at The Body Shop, MAC Cosmetics, Estee Lauder and Tiffany & Co. Prior to founding Market Defense in 2017, Vanessa led the Beauty.com business for Walgreens.
Skin Trust Club
Website: https://www.skintrustclub.com/
Labskin is a world-leading platform that has been producing lab-grown human skin for 15 years and using it to test cosmetic and skin health products for the world’s leading brands. Labskin is the only commercially available full thickness human skin model that naturally mimics the skin's microbiome.
In 2021, we launched Skin Trust Club which combined our deep science knowledge with our AI expertise in solving an unmet consumer need. Skin Trust Clun is a skin health tracking app that provides personalised skin care suggestions based on testing your unique skin microbiome.
Voyant Beauty
Website: https://www.voyantbeauty.com/
Voyant Beauty is a leading, full-service partner to the personal care and beauty industry and the only integrated partner who can serve the entire product lifecycle, delivering solutions driven by innovation. Voyant offers a full range of formulation capabilities across skin, body, hair, fragrance, and home beauty, as well as aerosol and bag-on-valve filling capabilities. Headquartered outside of Chicago, Voyant Beauty’s integrated network of innovation and 10 manufacturing facilities delivers responsive solutions and increased speed to market. Additional information about Voyant Beauty can be found at www.voyantbeauty.com
Beauty Barrage
Website: https://www.beautybarrage.com/
At Beauty Barrage, we understand the demands facing beauty brands at retail and the challenge of limited resources to support their distribution strategy.
Our team of beauty advisors, trainers, and managers treats your brand as if it was our own. With over 300+ beauty professionals servicing over 3000+ doors in the U.S. and Canada, we help minimize your investment and maximize your sales return. Best of all, you don’t have to worry about all that comes with managing employees. Our full-service team manages all sales activities while training, planning, and nurturing in-store retailer relationships.
Named to the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies in America, we understand what it takes to scale rapidly. We are also a certified Nationally Recognized Minority Business Enterprise, proudly creating jobs (not gigs) for people across the country.
Our best in class services have received recognition and honors from some of the most respected authorities in business.
Cooley
Website: https://www.cooley.com/
Clients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP and regulatory matters, and high-stakes litigation, where innovation meets the law.
Cooley has 1,500 lawyers across 17 offices in the United States, Asia and Europe.
Silver Partner
Lycored
Website: https://www.lycored.com/
At Lycored, we’re going beyond “skin deep” to reimagine all the things beauty can be, starting with what’s inside. We’re breaking beauty out of its proverbial box to change the conversation and deepen our understanding about the role carotenoids, like our star ingestible skincare extract Lumenato, play in maintaining healthy skin.
Event Partner
Sagentia Innovation
Website: www.sagentiainnovation.com
Sagentia Innovation provides independent advisory and leading-edge product development services focused on science and technology initiatives. Working across the medical, industrial, chemicals and energy, food and beverage, and consumer sectors, Sagentia Innovation works with a broad range of companies from some of the world’s leading and best-known brands, to start-up disruptors, new to the market. It is part of Science Group (AIM:SAG), which has more than ten offices globally, two UK-based dedicated R&D innovation centres and more than 400 employees. Other Science Group companies include Leatherhead Food Research, TSG Consulting and Frontier Smart Technologies.
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.
SuperOrdinary
Website: https://superordinary.co/
SuperOrdinary is the leading global growth partner and marketplace expert connecting brands, creators, and consumers everywhere. SuperOrdinary is the go-to partner for facilitating sustainable global expansion for today's most exciting consumer brands including Farmacy, The Honest Company, OLAPLEX, The Ordinary, Hello Bello and more. Under founder and CEO Julian Reis’ leadership, SuperOrdinary’s worldwide team of e-commerce and marketplace experts help brands establish influence, scale global sales channels, and connect with creators and consumers throughout the world.
Employing a nimble approach and unmatched expertise of navigating industry regulations and consumer trends, SuperOrdinary has perfected a go-to-market toolkit, sales engine, and marketing prowess with a propensity to build consumer brands according to its clients’ vision. SuperOrdinary has also executed a targeted M&A strategy of incubating, investing in, and acquiring brands to optimize marketing, infrastructure and scale on a global level.
In 2022, SuperOrdinary announced their acquisition of FanFix to build a multi-brand platform which will streamline relationships between content creators and brands globally. The global accelerator is laying the foundation to become the most powerful global brand accelerator for consumer brands, with unmatched brand building services and expertise to navigate international expansion, omnichannel distribution, content monetization amongst the creator economy and more.
Networking Partner
The Good Face Project
Website: https://thegoodfaceproject.com/
The Good Face Project is a female founded and led technology company that’s quickly becoming the Beauty Industry’s R&D Cloud. Our superpower is delivering usable data and insights through beautiful technology to create efficiencies in the product development and innovation processes. The Good Face Formulator leverages the world's largest and only AI-powered, and science-backed, ontology of cosmetic ingredients, consisting of 150K+ ingredients graded across 15 dimensions of safety and efficacy. For product creators, this translates into a game-changing cloud-based platform for product development & innovation.
Headline Media Partner
Base Beauty Creative Agency
Website: https://www.basebeauty.com/
We are the omni channel branding agency hyper-focused on the beauty and wellness industries. We create everything that the consumer sees and touches.
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
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.
Business of Fashion
Website: https://www.businessoffashion.com/
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Website: www.cosmeticsdesign-europe.com
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Website: https://cosmeticsbusiness.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Latinas in Beauty
Website: https://www.instagram.com/latinasinbeautyofficial
A network for Latinas in the Beauty industry.
Beautystreams
Website: https://beautystreams.com/
Evans & Company
As the CEO of Evans & Company – Dan helps his clients, typically 2022 startup founders, super-voters, and business owners – to look at the whole picture when considering where, and how to invest. He focuses on high-growth Entrepreneurs and CEOs in the health, food, beauty, and fitness space by building their financial confidence and reducing burnout so they can have more time for the things that matter most to them. In 2021, he launched the ‘Founder Centric Plan’ podcast, where he speaks directly with founders about very real and sometimes unsurprising challenges that they face throughout their journey and how they overcome them.
Charity Partner
Look Good Feel Better
Website: https://lookgoodfeelbetter.org/morethanmakeup/
Since 1989, Look Good Feel Better has gathered women, men and young adults in cancer treatment together to learn from professional beauty experts on how to use cosmetics, skin care products, wigs, scarves, head coverings, styling and more to address the appearance side-effects that often result from cancer treatment.
Our free confidence-boosting and community building workshops, live online sessions and digital resources are dedicated to improving the physical and emotional well-being of patients undergoing cancer treatment. Join us in our mission: https://lookgoodfeelbetter.org/morethanmakeup/.
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