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.
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 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)
- Luxury, prestige, and masstige
- At any stage from pre-launch (concept) up to $20M in annual revenue
- Located anywhere in the world
Our 2022 Beauty & Wellness Indie Brand Spotlight Selection Committee
Cristina Nuñez
Joseph Atencio
George Song
Michael Toure
Hemanshu Patel
OUR PARTNERS
Headline Innovation Partner
Estee Lauder NIV
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.
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.
Market Defense
Website: https://www.marketdefense.com/
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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.
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
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.
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
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
Eva Goicochea
Mabel Frias
Laurie Tessier
Christina Williams
Ning Cheah
Michael Toure
Brandon Ford
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
Kimberly Shenk
Conor Begley
Jennifer Stansbury
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
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
Ryan Piela
Vanessa Kuykendall
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