We sit up for welcoming you to The Business of Beauty Global Forum 2023 happening on May 30-31, 2023 in Napa Valley, California and live-streamed for our global community.

Please join us for 3 curated content sessions posing essential questions for industry professionals to contemplate. We’ll bring together executives, entrepreneurs and creatives from across the industry to deal with these questions, share essential learnings and reimagine the long run of the worldwide beauty and wellness landscape.

Agenda

SESSION 1: WHAT DOES BEAUTY MEAN TODAY?

The definition of beauty has modified and the market has transformed accordingly to represent recent opportunities and imperatives to include wellness, sexuality, global culture and identity in the way in which we take into consideration what is gorgeous. Here, we explore where the sweetness and wellness industry is today, and where it goes.

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 (15:15 Los Angeles | 18:15 Recent York | 23:15 London)

• My Unibrow and Me: Why We Have to Decolonise Beauty — Sharareh Siadat
• The right way to Make the Beauty Industry Truly Global — Gabby Chen, Zaher Eldassouky and Renata Gomide in conversation with Imran Amed
• Gender, Beauty & Activism: My Trans Experience — Schuyler Bailar
• Let’s Talk About Sex — Nadya Okamoto and Beatrice Dixon in conversation with Sheena Butler-Young
• Neglected and Underserved: From Minority to Majority — John Legend and Ari Bloom in conversation with Priya Rao

SESSION 2: WHERE WILL GROWTH COME FROM?

Growth in the worldwide beauty industry requires innovation, from recent products to recent markets to recent customers. How we get there requires radical pondering and thoughtful leadership from business and artistic leaders alike. On this session we’ll examine crucial growth opportunities and find out how to go after them.

Wednesday, 31 May, 2023 (09:30 Los Angeles | 12:30 Recent York | 17:30 London)

• An Introduction to “The State of Fashion: Beauty Report” — Imran Amed and Achim Berg
• Why India Is Beauty’s Future — Falguni Nayar in conversation with Imran Amed
• Future Gazing: The Rise of Well-Care, Digital Health and Longevity Solutions — Eurie Kim and Kirsten Green
• Innovating Beauty’s Acquisition Model — Vasiliki Petrou in conversation with Sheena Butler-Young
• Why Selling Doesn’t Must Mean Selling Out — Monique Rodriguez and Ben Gorham in conversation with Priya Rao
• The Politics of Black Hair — Holly J. Mitchell and Hannah Diop in conversation with Julee Wilson
• How Sephora Is Fostering Community to Drive Growth — Jean-André Rougeot in conversation with Priya Rao

SESSION 3: HOW DO WE CREATE CUSTOMER CONNECTION?

Connecting with customers now goes beyond loyalty programmes or the social media app of the moment. Customers come back to re-engage with corporations once they love the products and see themselves reflected within the brand. Here we learn from a few of the very best within the business on find out how to create deep and meaningful customer relationships.

Wednesday, 31 May, 2023 (14:15 Los Angeles | 17:15 Recent York | 22:15 London)

• Why Brand Marketing Is Back — Isamaya Ffrench and Marty Bell in conversation with Imran Amed
• From Disruptor to Incumbent: Glossier’s Second Act — Kyle Leahy in conversation with Brian Baskin
• The Clean Beauty Debate — Charlotte Palermino, Desiree Verdejo and Dr. Dennis Gross in conversation with Sheena Butler-Young
• In Search of Real Customer Connection — Jane Lauder in conversation with Priya Rao
• How Personalisation Can Transform Customer Connection — Maju Kuruvilla in conversation with Rahul Malik
• Flora, Fauna and Fungi: Finding Truth in Nature — Cécile Lochard, Aggelina Kanellopoulou and Rodrigo Garcia in conversation with Priya Rao
• The Great thing about Compassion — Pamela Anderson in conversation with Moj Mahdara
• Coming Back to Your Why — Roxie Nafousi

Meet Our Speakers

The Global Forum will showcase diverse speakers and moderators from the worlds of activism, business, entertainment, politics, finance, science, beauty and wellness.

Pamela Anderson’s body of labor spans each entertainment and activism. Anderson rose to fame along with her starring role in Baywatch, happening to provide and star in her own television series, V.I.P., and made her Broadway debut within the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago in 2022. In January 2023, Anderson released her Recent York Times Bestselling memoir, “Love, Pamela,” alongside a Netflix documentary, “Pamela, A Love Story.” She has spoken at each the Oxford and Cambridge Unions on the themes of activism, veganism and romantic love.

Schuyler Bailar is an educator, creator and activist who made history as the primary transgender athlete to compete in any sport on a National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division 1 men’s team. Originally recruited to swim for the Harvard women’s team, Bailar made the difficult alternative to transition while potentially giving up the prospect of being an NCAA Champion. As a substitute, he was presented with the Harvard Director’s Award and named LGBTQ Nation’s Instagram Advocate for 2020.

Marty Bell is founding partner of Vacation Inc., a “leisure” sunscreen brand known for its nostalgic and experiential marketing. Since soft-launching direct-to-consumer in 2021, the brand raised $11.2 million in capital, and secured wholesale partners corresponding to Nordstrom, Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Ulta Beauty. In 2021, Vacation Inc. savvily capitalised on the NFT hype by selling NFTs at Art Basel, where 85 percent of sales come from shoppers in non coastal cities.

Achim Berg is the worldwide leader of McKinsey’s Apparel, Fashion and Luxury Group. With over 20 years of experience advising quite a few leading brands, retailers, wholesalers and producers worldwide on a spread of topics, he has deep expertise in the style and luxury goods sectors. Berg has advised on a broad range of topics, from full-scale transformations to corporate strategy, from merchandising improvements to buy-and-build programmes. He can be co-editor of McKinsey and BoF’s annual “State of Fashion” report in addition to the recently published “State of Fashion – Technology” report. Moreover, he oversees the practice’s knowledge developments and its externalisation.

Ari Bloom is the co-founder and chief executive of A-Frame Brands, where he is targeted on constructing scalable, socially responsible brands designed to fulfill the on a regular basis needs of underserved communities. Together with a celeb co-owner, Bloom oversees a roster of minority-serving brands including Proudly, a baby care brand for diverse families, with Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade; KINLÒ, a suncare brand for melanin wealthy skin with Naomi Osaka; and Loved01, a private care and skincare brand with John Legend. Prior to A-Frame, Bloom served as chief executive at Avametric, a fashion software firm that was acquired in late 2018. He spent his childhood as a merchandising executive at Gap Inc. and subsequently earned an MBA at Harvard Business School. He launched A2B Ventures in 2009 through which he advised each start-up founders and Fortune 500 Executives for corporations corresponding to Uniqlo, Equinox and Starwood Hotels, Dreamworks.

Gabby YJ Chen is the worldwide expansion president of Chinese beauty brand Florasis 花西子, with over 15 years of experience within the Asia Pacific region. Chen’s expertise in consumer insights and strategic acumen will help drive Florasis’ growth in the worldwide beauty market. Prior to joining Florasis, Chen held the position of Head of Beauty in China for Lane Crawford, where she led the expansion of many beauty brands and drove growth. Chen is a successful entrepreneur and investor, founding Mood Editing Cosmetics – acquiesced by NetEase (NTES: NASDAQ) in 2020. Along with her experience, Chen is poised to steer Florasis 花西子 into its next phase of world expansion.

Manoj Dias is meditation teacher, brand consultant and co-founder of Open, a mindfulness studio based in California. His discipline is grounded in secular mindfulness, Buddhist meditation, breathwork and yoga training through the lens of trauma informed mindfulness and somatic psychology. His client roster includes athletes, executives, schools and Fortune 500 corporations corresponding to Nike, NBA, Aesop, Netflix, Google, and the United Nations. Dias has worked at MoMA, Coachella, Warner Music, and Art Basel Miami, and was featured in GQ, Vogue and Forbes. Dias sits on the college of The Esalen Institute in addition to the Melbourne Business School’s Executive Leadership Programme.

Hannah Diop is the founder and chief executive of Sienna Naturals, a natural hair care brand. To determine Sienna Naturals, Diop researched ingredients present in nature and proven by science to enhance wellness outcomes for textured hair and scalp. Diop is a former strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company, where she worked for clients in big box retail and OTC Pharmaceuticals, and is the holder of an MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Beatrice Dixon is co-founder, chief executive and chief innovation officer at The Honey Pot Company, a female hygiene and wellness brand. Founded in 2014 from her own kitchen, Dixon grew The Honey Pot Company right into a plant-derived feminine care powerhouse, its products are present in 4.6 million US homes.

Zaher Eldassouky is the final manager of the sweetness division at Chalhoub Group, the most important retailer and distributor of luxury brands within the Middle East and North Africa. As a part of his role, Eldassouky oversees the Estée Lauder brand portfolio, which incorporates Kilian, Crème de la Mer, Origins,The Bizarre, EDPFM and Tom Ford Beauty. He also plays a key role in driving strategic skincare expansion and growth for the group within the GCC region. Eldassouky began his profession at Starcom Media Vest (Publicis Group) before moving to L’Oréal and Estée Lauder Middle East. In 2010, he joined Chalhoub Group, where he has held various leadership positions, including Marketing Director at Coty within the Middle East and General Manager for the sweetness retail business with franchise operations.

Isamaya Ffrench is a makeup artist, and the founder and artistic director of her namesake makeup brand. Along with working with photographers corresponding to David Sims and Mert and Marcus on shoots for Interview, Dazed and Vogue Italia, she also helped develop makeup lines for brands including Tom Ford, Burberry and Byredo. Earlier this 12 months, she was appointed beauty curator for Off-White.

Rodrigo Garcia is a South American designer and environmental activist. Garcia is the founder and artistic force behind AMEN, a group of sustainable design candles, handcrafted with natural vegetal wax and a revolutionary mushroom carbon negative packaging, furthering his manifesto to share a world without plastics. As a part of AMEN’s debut collection at Dover Street Market, Paris, Garcia presented his installation ‘Mushroom Conversations’, which has since travelled to Design Miami, Frieze Recent York, Galerie Kernweine, Galeria del Paseo and plenty of more cities around the globe. In 2021 in collaboration together with his partner Katharina Kaminski, Garcia launched a group of sunshine sculptures ‘Luminous Beings’ which shares awareness on being born Intersex and was exhibited in Paris and Design Miami/Art Basel. With no formal training in the sphere, Garcia’s unique philosophy on design and activism has been featured within the Recent York Times, Wallpaper, One other, Financial Times, Vogue, Dazed and Numero to call a number of.

Renata Gomide is marketing vice-president from Grupo Boticário, certainly one of the most important beauty groups in Brazil, and the sixth most sustainable beauty company globally, in response to DowJones Sustainability Index, 2022. Gomide is answerable for all marketing strategy, communication and GTM for all categories and types within the Group. Gomide has a level in Business Administration from FAAP, in Marketing from ESPM and an MBA in Strategic Business Management from FGV.

Ben Gorham is the founder and artistic director of Byredo, the Swedish fragrance brand best known for its range of genderless scents and candles. In 2022, Byredo was acquired by prestige fashion fragrances manufacturer Puig at areported value of €1 billion.

Kirsten Green is founding and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based enterprise capital firm. She currently serves as a member of the board of directors at Glossier, Ritual and Nordstrom, amongst others. Green has been named certainly one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, a Top 20 Enterprise Capitalist by The Recent York Times, and Forbes’ World’s 100 Most Powerful Women List for the past six years. Green can be a founding member of the feminine mentorship collective, All Raise, and actively champions women within the tech industry.

Dr. Dennis Gross is a board-certified dermatologist and dermatologic surgeon, and co-founder of his namesake skincare brand. Dr. Gross’ previous research on melanoma was published in multiple peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Experimental Medicine and Journal of Medical Microbiology.

Aggelina Kanellopoulou is an environmental scientist from Greece. With a level in psychology and a master’s degree in animal behaviour, she has led research positions at universities within the USA and Spain. Her passion for education has allowed her to work for environmental organisations internationally, and in 2017, she founded The Bee Camp, the primary organisation in Greece dedicated to the protection of bees. In 2021, Kanellopoulou was chosen to participate within the Women for Bees programme at Guerlain and UNESCO in France, in partnership with Angelina Jolie. With the programme she has travelled to Cambodia to launch this system locally.

Eurie Kim is managing partner at Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based enterprise capital firm. Since joining the firm in 2012, Kim spearheaded investments in greater than 50 early stage corporations and supported Forerunner’s efforts to lift over $2.3 billion from leading institutional investors, making it certainly one of the one women-led firms to succeed in this milestone. She earned an MBA with honours at The Wharton School on the University of Pennsylvania and holds a B.S. with honours in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Maju Kuruvilla is the chief executive of Bolt, a San Francisco-based company that provides software for online shopping checkout. Kuruvilla joined Bolt in January 2021 as chief product and technology officer, later to be promoted as chief operating officer after which chief executive in January 2022. Prior to Bolt, Kuruvilla was the vp and general manager for Amazon’s global logistics, managing all the unit across business, product, engineering and operations. He holds an MBA from the University of Washington and a BSc in Computer Engineering from Mangalore University.

Jane Lauder is executive vp of enterprise marketing and chief data officer at The Estée Lauder Corporations Inc. Granddaughter of founder Estée Lauder, Jane joined the corporate in 1996 after her graduation from Stanford University, and has previously managed two of its portfolio brands, Clinique and Origins. In her current role, Lauder leads enterprise-wide efforts to leverage business insights and analytics to speed up growth through global consumer care and marketing planning.

Kyle Leahy is chief executive of Glossier, where she previously served as chief industrial officer. Prior to Glossier, Leahy worked at Nike, Cole Haan and American Express in multiple strategy, general management, digital and retail leadership roles. Leahy earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

John Legend is an award-winning singer-songwriter, entrepreneur and founding father of personal care brand LOVED01. Beyond his music profession, Legend is an avid advocate for equal opportunity for all people. In February 2023, Legend founded LOVED01 with a mission to democratize skincare by providing elevated, unisex face and body products for melanin-rich skin, at an inexpensive price point. LOVED01 offers dermatologist-approved, skincare solutions product of thoughtful, ingredients for melanin-rich skin to deliver truly effective results. The brand is sold through LOVED01.com and at CVS stores nationwide, and choose Walmart stores.

Cécile Lochard is chief sustainability officer at LVMH-owned French luxury cosmetics brand Guerlain, where she had previously served as biodiversity programmes and sustainable communications manager. Holding a double master’s in Sustainable Development from Paris Dauphine University and Profit-Non-Profit Project Management from the ESSEC business school, Lochard began her 25-year long profession inside HSBC’s Socially Responsible Investment branch. In 2006 she joined The World Wildlife Fund for Nature, managing its private partnerships, and in 2011 she founded Citizen Luxury, a consultancy specialised in guiding luxury houses within the creation of CSR strategies.

Kleo Mack is chief marketing officer of Glossier, overseeing marketing, strategy, global communications, partnerships, insights and social media teams. Mack can be a veteran of L’Oréal and Tarte, where she also worked as vp and director of promoting strategy, respectively.

Moj Mahdara is an entrepreneur, enterprise capitalist and co-founder. Mahdara is the co-founder and managing partner of Kinship Ventures and partner at Intuition Capital, where they’re focused on bringing more inclusion and variety to the cap table. Mahdara has invested in over 100 corporations, many within the sectors of high-tech growth, CPG and the long run of health. Mahdara can be the co-founder and co-chair or BeautyUnited, a non-profit focused on bringing community, education, and access to support the following generation of beauty and wellness leaders. Moreover, Mahdara recently co-founded The Iranian Diaspora Collective, a non-partisan, multi-faith group aiming to support the demands of Iranians in Iran who desire a free secular democracy. Formerly, Mahdara was chief executive of Beautycon, a globally-recognized community for content creators, celebrities, fans, and types.

Holly J. Mitchell serves on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and was previously a California state senator. Since her election in 2020, Mitchell made poverty alleviation a countywide priority and has anchored an equitable recovery plan from the health and economic effects of Covid-19. During her service, Mitchell passed a landmark guaranteed income programme, made LA County the primary within the nation to phase out urban oil drilling and has strengthened the County’s ability to quickly reply to mental health crises amongst unhoused residents.

Roxie Nafousi is a self-development coach, creator and speaker. Her books “Manifest: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life” and “Manifest: Dive Deeper,” published in 2022 and 2023, respectively, are each Sunday Times Bestsellers. Nafousi often hosts manifesting workshops at corporations including Google and Meta.

Falguni Nayar is founder and chief executive of beauty and lifestyle retail company Nykaa. Since its establishment in 2012, the retailer’s brand portfolio grew to incorporate over 4,500 brands, in addition to its own private label, available online and across 68 stores in India. A former investment banker, Nayar was the receiver of EY Entrepreneur of the 12 months Award in 2022, and named on Forbes India World’s 100 Most Powerful Women, Bloomberg 50 and Time’s 100 Most Influential Corporations lists between 2022 and 2021. Nykaa’s IPO in 2021 raised over $650 million, rendering it as India’s first and only woman-led unicorn to go public.

Nadya Okamoto is the co-founder of August, a way of life period brand. She can be the founder and former executive director of Period, a non-profit organisation geared toward eradicating period poverty and stigma through service, education, and advocacy. Between 2019 and 2020, Okamoto was named in Forbes’ 30 under 30, Bloomberg’s 50 Ones to Watch and People Magazine’s Women Changing the World.

Charlotte Palermino is the co-founder and chief executive of Dieux, a clinically vetted and price-transparent skincare line. Previously working as editorial director at Cosmopolitan after which Snap Inc., she helped partners to develop audiences and a presence on the fast messaging and AR platform.

Vasiliki Petrou is CEO of Unilever Beauty & Wellbeing, the premium division of Unilever Personal Care and residential to nine differentiated brands across luxury skincare and hair care, including Dermalogica, Murad, Tatcha, Paula’s Selection, Living Proof and Hourglass Cosmetics. Petrou holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, is a Fulbright Scholar, recipient of the Kellogg Foundation Fellowship recognising female leaders, and current chairwoman of Cosmetic Executive Women UK.

Monique Rodriguez is founder and chief executive of the hair care and wonder brand Mielle Organics. Established in 2014 out of her garage, Mielle Organics is now value over $100 million in response to AfroTech, and is carried in greater than 100,000 stores within the US, including Ulta, Goal and Sally Beauty. In 2023, the brand was acquired by Procter & Gamble while continuing to be led by Monique and her husband Melvin Rodriguez.

Jean-André Rougeot is president and chief executive of Sephora Americas, where he oversees the prestige beauty retailer’s growth strategy in North and South America. Rougeot joined Sephora in 2019 after having served as chief executive at Profit Cosmetics and Coty Division. He’s a graduate of the ESCP-EAP French Business School and a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School.

Sharareh Siadat is founder and chief executive of TooD Beauty, a non-binary, vegan makeup line boasting technologically revolutionary formulations. Siadat’s personal experience as first-generation American of Iranian heritage led her to ascertain TooD with the aim to encourage self expression and champion diversity. The wonder brand supports sustainable consumption through its world first biodegradable glitter and using ocean-waste plastic packaging.

Desiree Verdejo is the founder and chief executive of Hyper Skin, a multicultural skincare collection rooted in joy. Founded in 2019, Hyper Skin provides solutions for the underdressed skincare concerns affecting those with deeper skin tones, and the brand successfully launched in Sephora stores across the USA in 2023. Previously, Verdejo was founder and chief executive of her first start-up, Vivrant Beauty, a marketplace featuring BIPOC-owned haircare, skincare and cosmetic brands. Her lifelong interest in skincare and the unmet needs of the community that she engaged with on this boutique-setting inspired her to create Hyper Skin. Prior to her work in the sweetness industry, Verdejo practised law for seven years.

Julee Wilson is executive director at BeautyUnited, a non-profit organisation supporting Black and Indigenous founders throughout the beauty and wellness industries, along with serving as beauty editor-at-large at Cosmopolitan. She was previously global beauty director at Essence Magazine and senior fashion and wonder editor at The Huffington Post. Wilson is a committed advocate for the representation of Black talent in fashion, and sits on the manager board of the Black In Fashion Council in addition to the advisory board of Harlem’s Fashion Row.

The Global Forum is made possible partly by our partners Bolt, BeautyUnited, Unilever Prestige, McKinsey & Company, MagicLinks, Cavu and Stanly Ranch.