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Leigha Dunbar
Senior Director, DMM, Women's Wellness, Baby, Weight Management, VMSWalgreens -
Nicci Levy
CEO & FounderAlchemy43 -
Courtney Nelson
PrincipalL Catterton -
Ryan Rao
Chief Development Officer & PartnerVIO Med Spa -
Lisa Rossman
Chief Brand OfficerHand & Stone -
Rachel Liverman
Founder & CEOGlowbar -
Mamina Turegano
Dermatologist & FounderDr. Mamina -
Matt Maroone
CEO & Co-FounderSilver Mirror -
Jamie Woollens
Vice President, HSO/ DSO Sponsor FinanceLive Oak Bank -
Mike White
PrincipalCLA (CliftonLarsonAllen LLP) -
Michele Henry
Founder & CEOFACE FOUNDRIÉMichele Henry is the Founder and CEO of FACE FOUNDRIÉ. She leads the company’s senior
management team and oversees daily operations and nationwide expansion. Henry guides the
country’s most forthcoming focused facial bar.
Henry helps to lead the company in new innovations and expansion. The company was founded
in 2019 and now boasts six corporate stores with over 60 franchise locations sold.
At FACE FOUNDRIÉ, she led the company through the pivots required to survive the COVID-19
pandemic while simultaneously opening a third corporate location and launching the franchise
program. She has led the company through the pivots required to survive the COVID-19
pandemic while simultaneously opening a third corporate location and launching franchising.
Within four months of announcing the franchise expansion plan to the public, the company has
sold 50 franchise units across the country. Henry has been recognized by various media outlets
for her impressive business career and continues to gain recognition as FACE FOUNDRIÉ
franchises across the country. As a member of the Women’s President Organization, Henry
represents the beauty industry with some of the most prominent and well regarded women in
business throughout the world. In addition to this, she is a member of Young Presidents
Organization (YPO), a 2022 40 under 40 Business Journal Honoree and founder of Savant
Aesthetics Institute. Most recently named Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2023 Heartland Award
winner.
Henry holds two Bachelor's degrees from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota
where she studied Business and Apparel Design. Soon after graduating she launched a series
of companies including PRIMP, a cheap chic boutique, that she started with just $8,000 dollars
in the middle of the recession. The company garnered over $25 million in sales during her
tenure. She sold her shares of PRIMP to pursue FACE FOUNDRIÉ. All of her businesses have
been self-funded, grown 100% organically and debt-free.
Henry is a mom of three residing in the Twin Cities area. When not with her family, the
entrepreneur enjoys rollerblading around the lakes, painting in her art room or digging into the
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Annie Hockey
President & Head of ConsultingSkytale -
Tess Mauricio
President & FounderM Beauty Clinic -
Clementine Provost
InvestorUnilever Ventures -
Angelo Castello
CEOFace Gym -
CeCe Wilson
SHRM-CP Human Resources ManagerCEDR Solutions -
Joel Marshall
CEODp Derm -
Wayne Liu
Chief Growth OfficerPerfect CorpMr. Liu is the Senior Vice President and General Manager at Perfect Corp.
Mr. Liu has been in his current position since June 2015. He has built the ground work for Perfect by recruiting key talent, establishing partnership with beauty brands, retailers such as L’Oréal, Estee Lauder, Target and other highly inferential organizations.
Prior to Perfect Corp, Mr. Liu joined Perfect’s parent company CyberLink in 2009. He was responsible for key partner development, sales strategy and business growth. He grew several multi-million dollars global OEM accounts and managed heavy weight industrial partners for such as Lenovo, Intel, Qualcomm, Time Warner., Comcast, DirecTV …
Mr. Liu has worked in various engineering and marketing management position at Intel, Broadcom and NVIDIA before joining Cyberlink.
Mr. Liu graduated from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in June 1992 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He completed his Masters of Science degree from Case Western Reserve University in June 1994. After receiving Master Degree, he continued pursuing advanced study by attending Electrical Engineering Ph.D. program at University of Southern California. Later, in order to learned more business knowledge, he earned his MBA Degree in Finance from Santa Clara University in June 2011.
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Chris Payne
CEOJane IredaleChris Payne is the CEO of jane iredale – The Skincare Makeup®, the pioneering clean beauty brand best known for makeup that improves the health of the skin.
Having served more than 20 years in beauty executive roles, Payne has a proven track record driving brand growth and engagement with an eagerness to improve the status quo. Since joining jane iredale in 2019, he has worked to uphold the brand’s iconic role within professional beauty while fostering brand loyalty in a new generation of clean beauty enthusiasts, driving more than a 130 percent increase in new account openings within one year.
Prior to jane iredale, Chris served as CMO for PCA Skin where under his leadership, the brand more than doubled its revenue within two years and was successfully acquired by Colgate-Palmolive. Chris was also Senior Vice President at Arcade Beauty, Vice President at Clarisonic, where he was instrumental in its sale to L’Oréal in 2011, and held various previous roles with L’Oréal.
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Susan Yara
FounderNATURIUM -
Kara La Forgia
Founder & General PartnerHyve Ventures -
Claire Chang
Founding PartnerIgniteXL VenturesAbout igniteXL Ventures
igniteXL Venturs is a Silicon Valley-based global seed fund investing in game-changing entrepreneurs at the intersection of technology, beauty and wellness. With the advancement of technology and the rise of conscious consumers who demand authenticity, sustainability, transparency, and inclusivity, the wellness industry is undergoing digital and cultural transformation. And that transformation represents excellent investment opportunities to investors with high margins, recurring and engaged customers, with attractive exit opportunities.
About Claire Chang
Having immigrated from Korea to the US when she was 12 years old, Claire is bilingual and bicultural, which has always given her the unique perspective of being both an insider and outsider able to bridge different perspectives. Combining her passions for connecting people and helping them realize their dreams, Claire launched a global accelerator in 2014 which impacted over 200 Korean startups' ability to expand to the US market. In 2018, Claire launched SVBeautyTech, the first-ever independent beauty-tech accelerator, to provide a cohort of mostly female beauty-tech founders access to the Silicon Valley resources previously enjoyed almost exclusively by male, locally networked tech entrepreneurs. Leveraging her global accelerator network and broad brand connections, Claire is excited to work with passionate innovators and disruptors working at the intersection of technology, beauty & wellness.
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Sonya Brown
General PartnerNorwest Venture PartnersBased in Palo Alto, Sonya is a General Partner at NVP and co-heads the Growth Equity practice where she focuses on investing across a wide range of sectors including consumer, retail, internet, and business services.
Prior to joining NVP, Sonya was at Summit Partners, a private equity firm with over $11 billion under management, where she worked for nine years in the Boston office and was responsible for leading the firm's Consumer and Internet Industry Group in North America. Sonya was engaged in all aspects of the deal process including deal sourcing, due diligence, deal negotiations and board representation. Her most recent and past board directorships and investments include Aramsco, Airborne Health, Central Security Group, Physicians Formula Holdings (NASDAQ: FACE), Snap Fitness and Sparta Systems. -
Ellen Bower
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Naana Boakye
Chief Medical OfficerA-FrameDr. Naana Boakye is a board-certified dermatologist with over 15 years of experience offering comprehensive care of all skin needs with an emphasis on acne and melanated concerns. Coining the term lifestyle dermatology, Dr. Boakye takes a unique, holistic, patient-first approach to dermatology – incorporating diet, physical activity, stress management, and emotional well-being into each and every treatment plan. Her practice, Bergen Dermatology, prioritizes patient-first care, utilizing a comprehensive approach to medical and cosmetic dermatology with a full spectrum of treatments both in-person and virtually to optimize patients’ skin health and appearance. Dr. Boakye is also the author of Inside Out Beauty, Your Prescription for Healthy, Radiant, Acne Controlled Skin available on Amazon, Co-founder of Karité Skincare, and Chief Medical Officer for A-Frame, a brand-building company that focuses on celebrity-led skincare brands for melanated skin. She consults celebrity beauty brands such as Naomi Osaka for her functional suncare line, KINLÒ, Gabrielle and Dwayne Wade on PROUDLY, and John Legend on LOVED01.
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Donna Petretti
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Primož Artač
CEOTosla NutricosmeticsAs the CEO of TOSLA Nutricosmetics, a European-based global innovator, Primož leads a company dedicated to revolutionizing the beauty and wellness industry through nutricosmetic supplements.
His focus goes beyond surface-level solutions, with products that promote beauty and wellness from within.
In his role as a leader and spokesperson, Primož shares insightful, science-backed, and occasionally lighthearted perspectives on the rapidly evolving nutricosmetic landscape.
With a mission that goes beyond promoting TOSLA’s products, Primož is passionate about elevating the entire sector, inspiring brands to embrace the immense potential of beauty supplements. As ingestibles are taking center stage, he is dedicated to shaping the future of beauty through innovation, education, and meaningful collaboration.
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Joshua Britton
Founder CEODebutJoshua Britton is Founder and CEO of Debut located in San Diego. Debut uses cutting-edge
biotechnology to bring novel, high-performing and sustainable ingredients to the cosmetic
industry. Joshua believes that the best way to deliver on the promise of biomanufacturing is
to vertically integrate to product. To that end, Debut is pioneering a new business model in
biology that is driving the beauty industry by discovering, testing, and commercializing
high-performing ingredients and formulations, and incorporating them into valuable beauty
products via BiotechXBeautyLabs™.At Debut, Joshua leads a rapidly growing multi-disciplinary team of over 100 people
executing an aggressive commercialization strategy. Debut holds over 70 patents in
ingredients and formulations. To date, Joshua has raised $70 million for Debut from leading
funds including BOLD, the venture capital fund of L’Oréal.Prior to Debut, Joshua was trained as a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) where he gained a Post-Doc in Chemistry. Joshua also gained a PhD in
Organic Chemistry from University of California, Irvine (UCI), and a master’s degree in
Organic Chemistry from Nottingham University in the UK.Joshua is an advisor to Cantos Ventures, a venture capital and private equity company that
specializes in near-frontier technology.
