Gareth Morgan
Partner
Pinsent Masons
Brian Berdan
Sr Product Manager
Go!Foton
Brian Berdan, Sr. Product Manager, Leads the strategy, and development for inside plant connectivity hardware for Go!Foton. He has over 20 years of experience in product management, a noted technical author, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Beauty’s most talked-about founders spill the secrets on their success and what comes next in back-to-back fireside chats.
Discover their playbooks for sustainable growth, gaining traction, timing the deal, and what they now prioritize in industry partnerships.
3:10 – 3:25 with Olive & June
3:25 – 3:40 with Patrick Ta
3:40 – 3:55
Sarah Gibson Tuttle
CEO & Founder
Olive & June
Sarah Gibson Tuttle is the Founder / CEO of Olive & June, the first-ever consumer-focused nail brand with first-of-their-kind products that deliver salon-quality results at-home. Since launching in 2013, Olive & June has revolutionized the nail category and successfully democratized the nail salon experience to bring beautiful nails to everyone. In 2021, Sarah was named to Inc.’s Female Founders 100 list recognizing her as a trailblazing role model in entrepreneurship and a major disruptor in the beauty industry. Sarah also currently advises and invests in high-growth CPG startups.
Kimberly Villatoro
CEO
Patrick Ta
With a background in beauty, consumer products, and fashion, Kimberly Villatoro has led and marketed some of the most recognized brands in the world, including the billion-dollar brand Barbie. Most recently, she served as Vice President and General Manager of Smashbox and Glamglow in North America, where she led the brand's strategy and operations. She is a proven leader, bringing purpose, strategy, and scale to the businesses she has led across her two decade long professional career. With a track record of community-first brand building, today Ms. Villatoro brings her vocal advocacy and passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion to the team at Patrick Ta Beauty.
Uncover the disruptive trends redefining the future of beauty and wellness, where personalization, accessibility, innovation and education take center stage. Explore emerging beauty verticals and new technologies, formats and in-store experiences driving tailored recommendations.
Anna Keller
Principal Analyst, BPC
Mintel
Anna Keller is an analyst on Mintel’s US Beauty and Personal Care team, and she joined Mintel with a strong background in the skincare industry translating trends and technologies into new products. Prior to her time with Mintel, Anna gained extensive experience at a contract manufacturer working across departments to drive product development. While Anna has focused on the beauty and personal care space in her professional career, sustainability, eco-minded innovation, and environmental policy have long been passions of hers. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a unique degree in Ethics, History, and Public Policy with a concentration in Technology and Policy.
Siffat Haider
Co-Founder & CEO
Arrae
Founder, Podcaster, Creator
Siff was working in the beauty space as a blogger + podcaster and found herself struggling with her own health issues. She ultimately turned to natural remedies as a last resort and began troubleshooting with her own combination of herbs & vitamins and found herself feeling better than ever. She quickly realized that holistic remedies had the power to address women’s toughest day-to-day health issues and began building Arrae, with her husband, Nish, to share these solutions with others.
Michelle LeBlanc
VP of Beauty, Personal Care and Hispanic Center of Excellence
CVS Health
Michelle L. LeBlanc is the Vice President of Merchandising for Beauty & Personal Care at CVS Health where she is responsible for the Cosmetics, Skin Care, Fragrance, Hair Care and Personal Care businesses, as well as Beauty Experience and Services.
She is a purpose-led leader who is confident, creative, and dynamic with a proven record for delivering results (while having fun along the way). Michelle is naturally curious with a hunger for insights, bias for action, and relentless desire to have meaningful impact on the people and the business.
Michelle has been with CVS Health for nearly 20 years and has held various leadership roles within the company. Most recently, Michelle led the Front Store Strategy & Transformation for CVS Health. As an instrumental member of the Front Store leadership team, Michelle was responsible for driving key initiatives and Front Store growth through deep understanding of performance drivers. Michelle’s greatest passion throughout her career has been serving as a leader of leaders – building and motivating highly engaged and high performing teams.
Michelle has a BS in Marketing from George Mason University and an MBA from Providence College.
Outside of work, Michelle is busy raising three boys with her wife Jennifer. Her goal is that they lead with kindness and do their best everyday– words she lives by.
Brent Ridge, M.D
Co-Founder
Beekman 1802
Dr. Ridge began his career as a physician at Mt. Sinai in New York City and later launched the Health and Wellness division of Martha Stewart Omnimedia.
In 2008, he co-founded Beekman 1802 with his husband, Josh Kilmer-Purcell and is an ambassador to the Global Wellness Institute. Today, the company is recognized as one of the most successful lifestyle brands in America. Their beauty, home, and gourmet products are sold through premium retail partners worldwide, including Williams Sonoma, Bloomingdale’s, and Anthropologie, and in 2019, they set the record for the largest beauty brand launch in the combined 37-year history of both HSN and QVC.
Seize the untapped potential of multi-generational marketing with targeted strategies to drive engagement, foster loyalty, and boost revenue.
Explore how tailored engagement, loyalty-building tactics, and personalized experiences can drive lasting brand impact and fuel revenue growth across every age group.
Carina Chaz
Founder & CEO
DedCool
DedCool was founded with generations of beauty expertise behind it. Fragrance was Carina Chaz’s passion from the very beginning. Growing up alongside her mother as a beauty formulator, with a lab as her playground, it was natural for Carina to create DedCool. Her love of scent and a general rejection of the way the Fragrance industry operates, lit a fire under Carina to create a modern 21st Century definition of what Fragrance means. It started humbly on Instagram, and then grew to knocking on the doors of local retail shops with the hope of being carried on consignment. This resulted in relationships with department stores, and boutiques to then cultivating dedcool.com.
Dawn Hilarczyk
COO
Borghese
Dawn Hilarczyk is a dynamic and innovative C-suite leader renowned for propelling consumer-driven organizations to new heights. With over 25 years of experience in sales, strategic development, and digital transformation, Dawn has played a pivotal role in reshaping companies ranging from large corporations to emerging start-ups. Her deep industry relationships and exceptional leadership have fostered trust across a broad spectrum of stakeholders. Dawn’s impressive career includes pivotal roles in some of the most prestigious names in retail and beauty. Brought to Borghese to lead the company’s Renaissance and restore it to its former status as a top luxury brand. Her strategic vision and leadership are central to revitalizing Borghese’s heritage and driving its future success.
Candace Mitchell
Founder and CEO
MYAVANA
Candace Victoria Mitchell is a pioneer force at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and purpose-driven innovation. Beginning at the start of establishing the Atlanta tech ecosystem, Candace’s journey as a computer scientist, visionary entrepreneur, and change agent is marked by a profound commitment to transforming loves, business, industries, and communities.
As the Founder & CEO of MYAVANA, a groundbreaking beauty tech company, Candace pioneered a new market segment of personalized hair care and spearheaded a revolution in the haircare industry.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to engage with influential individuals from major retail outlets over lunch. Learn what retailers are looking for and how to best position your brand for success on their shelves.
Marissa Galante Frank
Fashion Director, Accessories and Beauty
Bloomingdales
Marissa Galante Frank is the Fashion Director for Accessories & Beauty at Bloomingdale's, overseeing handbags, shoes, fine jewelry, watches, fashion accessories and beauty. In her role, Marissa drives the Bloomingdale’s vision for the trends shoppers can expect each season in-store and online. She collaborates across departments to develop exclusive merchandise for Bloomingdale’s private brands, and translate trends into a one-of-kind accessories and beauty assortment, spanning emerging and established brands.
Noah Rosenblatt
President North America
Beauty Space
Noah Rosenblatt is President of The PCA Companies' newest acquisition, BEAUTYSPACE (formerly SpaceNK Wholesale). Noah joined BEAUTYSPACE in 2015, after prior roles at LVMH and 20 years of retail industry experience. During his tenure, he has led the company through two significant business shifts, resulting in an operations that now include more than 700 branded BEAUTYSPACE points of distribution for nearly 100 brands within the wholesale portfolio.
Under Noah’s leadership, he has been instrumental in developing strategies to increase brand awareness, drive expansion, deepen customer relationships, and evolve the brands’ in-store and digital presence. This forward-thinking, award-winning retail experience connects retailers and brands to consumers—wherever and however they choose to shop—across both the luxury and prestige markets.
Romain Gaillard
Founder & CEO
The Detox Market
Romain is the founder and CEO of The Detox Market. In 2010, he opened The Detox Market on Abbot Kinney in Venice, CA, as a collaborative, short-term pop-up shop aimed at providing education regarding the benefits of green beauty while also exposing consumers to hard-to-find eco-friendly brands. After the positive response and several more pop-ups, he opened the West Hollywood flagship in 2011. As one of the first purveyors of natural beauty products, Romain’s focus has always been discovering and incubating new brands and showcasing the brand founders’ stories, which reflect his own passion for offering non-toxic beauty choices. Now North America’s leader in green beauty, The Detox Market has since expanded to seven locations throughout Los Angeles, Toronto, and New York City, as well as several Beauty Corners in partnership with Café Gratitude, the plant-based restaurants in CA. The demand for the best in green beauty has also made the ecommerce shop www.thedetoxmarket.com a thriving platform, shipping worldwide.