Donna Petretti, CRODA Inc 
Why Attend
Beauty Connect is the leading digital summit connecting indie brands, multinationals, retailers and industry suppliers from across the US and beyond.
2020 was a game changer for all and it has brought new, urgent challenges to the forefront of the beauty industry that is shaping the strategies of both indie and multinational brands. The concept of beauty is evolving, no longer understood as stand-alone cosmetics, but looking AND feeling healthy and well. The consumer is more aware than ever of their influence in the personal care industry and are using their spending power to reflect values of sustainability, transparency and safety first. Direct-to-consumer strategies used by beauty brands & retailers are under increasing scrutiny as they fight to emerge as leaders in an online world.
Building on the global success of the Beauty & Money Series, our thought-leaders at Beauty Connect will help you to renew your focus on customer engagement, take advantage of the integration of beauty & wellness, and forge partnerships to ensure that your brand’s identity connects with your desired consumer, online, in-store and at home.
Learn what the 'new normal' is, connect with industry-experts in over 20 private 1-2-1 meetings and act pre-emptively to future-proof your brand’s strategy. You’re never too big to fail, you’re never too small to thrive – Beauty Connect USA is the virtual event for forging partnerships, acquiring the latest marketing intelligence and building a brand strategy that will ensure your relevancy and success.
2021 SPEAKERS
Heather Deeth
Heather Deeth is responsible for Lush’s raw material supply chain ensuring Lush’s strict ethical standards on non-animal testing, fair pay and conditions for workers and reducing environmental impact are upheld and progressed throughout all levels of supply.
With a global reach, her work has taken her to the agricultural region of Northern Uganda, the argan forests of Morocco, the banks of the Amazon River and manufacturing facilities throughout Asia in search of the highest quality and sustainable materials that make a difference for the people and places they originate. In packaging, her team has embraced the use of 100% post consumer materials and circular economy in paper and plastics for over 10 years and are active industry leaders. For the last six years Heather and her team have developed long term investment projects designed to support economic growth and regeneration in areas that have suffered environmental degradation through conflict, climate change and natural disaster. Through the Sustainable Lush Fund, Heather’s team supports the creation of agroforestry systems to revitalize the environment, engages with farmers to create appropriate long term development and builds value adding processing close to where the ingredients are grown.
Kenya Eldridge
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.
Elana Drell-Sfyzer
Christopher Jones
Christopher has spent the past decade as a leader in the digital and social marketing space. Christopher is a Solutions Manager at Facebook helping beauty companies, big and small, grow their businesses through mobile. Prior to Facebook, Christopher lead a Brand Strategy team at Twitter and spent a number of years agency side.
Carla Ruiz
Tamerri Ater
Eva Goicochea
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.
Shelby Ogan
Annie Jackson
Conor Begley
Gillian Gorman Round
Kevin Gould
Ashton Wall
Katie Hunt
Luc-Henry Rousselle
Drishay Menon
Oliver Garfield
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.
Caroline Fabrigas
Marie-Pierre Stark-Flora
Rochelle Weitzner
Alicia Sontag
Ranked one of Beauty's 50 Most Powerful Women by WWD (2015), and two-time honor of Fortune Most Powerful Women conference (2015/2016), Alicia is a Co-Founder and Partner at Prelude Growth Partners. Prelude Growth Partners is a New York City based growth equity firm focused on providing capital and value-added operatingsupport to high potential, fast-growing consumer brands. Prelude seeks to make investments of $3million to $15 million in each company, across branded consumer categories including personalcare/beauty, food & beverage, baby, pet, health & wellness and other consumer categories.
Jon Shanahan
Donna Petretti
Liz Scott
Liz is the President at EC Scott Group where she oversees Company Strategy, Finance, Trade Marketing, Sales & Education, Communications, and the development of the Beauty and Wellness categories.
Liz attended Wharton with a concentration in retail & marketing. From her time at Saks Fifth Avenue, she brings respect for traditional retail, and from Gilt Group, a passionate entrepreneurial mentality, which fuels her motivation to bring brands and retailers success within the changing beauty landscape.
EC Scott Group, founded in 2004, is the premier Sales, Service, and Training company for prestige beauty companies in the specialty retail channel in North America. EC Scott Group’s services include everything from behind the scenes (i.e. warehousing, pick & pack, retailer headquarter management, collections), to the support in-store that makes independent retail partners successful (i.e. in-store education & training, event planning & execution, sell-through support).
Melissa Hago
Dixie Lincoln-Nichols
Veronique Gabai
Sonia Summers
Saisangeeth Daswani
Jill Granoff
Romain Gaillard
Associate Event Partner
Croda
Website: https://www.croda.com/en-gb
Croda has a rich history of partnering with beauty brands of all sizes to deliver sustainable and innovative solutions. We have a diverse cosmetic product range to meet current and future trends, supported by proven efficacy and safety testing. A combination of bio-based raw material sourcing and smart chemistry enables us to offer exceptional solutions to the challenges facing our customers and improve lives. Our experts can help with formulation development, claims substantiation, market analysis, and industry regulations. We are excited to offer our assistance.
Senior Content Event Partner
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.
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.
Media Partners
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
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.
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
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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