Dr. Kevin Jovanovic, a board-certified surgeon in Obstetrics and Gynecology, is trained in the newest and most advanced laparoscopy and hysteroscopy surgical techniques. Laparoscopy has transformed gynecology, cutting recovery time and eliminating much of the pain associated with traditional gynecological surgery. 

NuFACE  continues to dominate the at-home beauty device category under the leadership of Jessica Hanson, CEO and inspiration of Tera Peterson Micro-current Aesthetician and Co-Founder. Together, they bring over 40 years of expertise in beauty and wellness categories with a focus on empowering every client to look and feel more beautiful. 
NuFACE was founded over 17 years ago in San Diego and has become the leader micro-current innovation that goes where traditional skincare can’t – the muscles, to tone, lift and contour in the current and over time.

Under Kim Walls' leadership, Furtuna Skin is pioneering the future through regenerative beauty and educating the world about the benefits of EVOO for skin and overall health and longevity. In her current role, Kim leverages two decades of ethnomedical and ethnobotanical expertise to help create the Italian brand's skincare formulas that deliver groundbreaking, transformative results. In just over two years, Furtuna Skin and its products have gained industry recognition with nine leading award titles, including the Travel + Leisure Global Vision Award, been organically endorsed in the media by a legion of celebrities, influencers, skincare pros and editors, and achieved an average customer rating of 4.91 stars.

Patricija Bajc is the Head of Marketing at Tosla Nutricosmetics. A company that takes nutricosmetics to another level by bringing beauty from the inside out. Tosla does this by using natural resources from the Vipava Valley and pure water from the mountains of Triglav National Park, a reservoir of drinking water for thousands of Slovenians. Water is a source of life, and its primary purpose is to ensure survival for all living organisms. This is why using clean water resources is something Tosla will not compromise on. Patricija is responsible for all marketing activities at Tosla and Nutricosmetics2030, a platform that collects and shares insights into nutricosmetics with its supporters.

Alessandra Zonari,  PhD, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, earned her Master's degree in stem cell biology, and her PhD in skin regeneration and tissue engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil in collaboration with the 3B's Research Group in Portugal. Her expertise is in skin regeneration, stem cell differentiation, and tissue engineering. During her period in Portugal, she co-founded Vetherapy, a biotech company that provides stem cell therapies to treat diseases for pets. In 2017 she joined the early team of OneSkin, where she dedicated her time to understanding the mechanism that underlies the aging process and to developing science-based solutions that maximize our healthspan. She is a co-inventor of five patents and has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals.

Brandon Ford is the Chief Accelerator Director of the Accelerator Program at The Lubrizol Corporation.  Lubrizol is a specialty chemical company based in Wickliffe, Ohio and is a part of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies.  The Accelerator Program utilizes Lubrizol technology, manufacturing, and skin science expertise to provide turn key product and brand development to customers in the personal care industry.  Brandon is responsible for the growth and strategy of the program and manages its investments.  Prior to joining the Accelerator Team, Brandon was corporate counsel for The Lubrizol Corporation, focusing on M&A in personal care on behalf of Lubrizol.

11:40  AM  

The natural solution to regain your youthful appearance

Wake up sleeping muscles to lift up the skin, and relax overworking muscles for wrinkle reduction.
Koko Hayashi, Founder, Koko Face Yoga and Mirai Clinical

Jennifer is a dynamic, results-driven sales and business development executive with years of experience in the beauty and technology industries. Jennifer is an organized, positive, and experienced business leader who inspires others, while winning over people’s confidence. She has a proven track record for successful project management, providing leading edge solutions, building strong teams to meet established targets, and driving revenue. Jennifer is a savvy negotiator, establishes long term relationships with key clients, and actively purses new business opportunities.

John Cafarelli, COO, BeautyMatter. current role at BeautyMatter. John brings this 360-degree beauty, retail, finance, and media experience together. His ethos at BeautyMatter is built on creating trust with both our audience and the clients we work with. Whether creating editorials or ideating creative marketing activations for a client, BeautyMatter is committed to “delivering what we promise”, and we measure results from the perspective of being entrepreneurial brand owners ourselves. 

Neha Singh is the CEO & Founder of Obsess, an experiential e-commerce platform enabling brands and retailers to create visual, immersive, 3D virtual stores on their websites and on metaverse platforms. She was previously the Head of Product at Vogue, where she was responsible for the product strategy and technology execution of Vogue’s digital business including content products, ad products and distribution platforms. Neha began her career at Google, where she was a Software Engineer and Tech Lead for 5 years and worked on Google AdWords and Google News. 

Valdé was founded by Margarita Arriagada, a fashion, home interiors and beauty industry veteran and champion of women entrepreneurs. Having begun as an homage to her mother’s courage and determination, Valdé has become an artistic tribute to all women. A call to action for each individual to overcome fear, strip away preconceptions and write her own destiny.

Kelly Kovack is the CEO and Founder of BeautyMatter, a noted beauty authority, brand advisor and strategist. 
BeautyMatter was born from a desire to provide a fresh voice to the beauty industry. We aim to fill the void, connect the dots, and provide an informed, analytical, and compelling point of view. We love to explore limits and blur boundaries, offering highly curated news and original content by thought leaders and beauty insiders.

As part of the Digital Innovation team, Agustina Sartori leads the Innovation Experiences team; a technical, design, and product team that focuses on envisioning, building, experimenting, test & learn to discover new guest-facing experiences leveraging emerging tech such as AR, VR, AI, and more.

She also leads the Digital Innovation Fund; we invest in tech startups that are creating the latest technologies that we believe are key to the future of Retail & Beauty.

Chris Hobson, President, CEO & Board Director, Rare Beauty Brands, is an entrepreneur with 20 years of experience and results in growing global brands, in both private and public companies. Directly accountable for accelerating growth, improving profitability, gaining market share, identifying and integrating acquisitions, executive development, driving innovation and new business development in consumer products. In addition, experienced in successful start-ups including exceeding business growth plans, investor development and fundraising, talent acquisition and global expansion.

Richard is a co-founder and Partner of Triangle Capital and has been an investment banker for over 40 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 (articles) where he writes 2-5 times a month about trends in retail and consumer. He also appears regularly in print and other media as well as industry panels and speaking programs.  

Chaz Giles is a founder of the precision skin-care brand, Revea, said that founding this brand "felt like a kinetic activation of a few of my passions: technology, strategic brand development, and diversifying the beauty and wellness industry". Chaz is a problem solver focused on innovation and growth who has been on all sides of the table: Fortune 500 brands, startup founder, and VC.

Dr. Barbara Geusens, Awards Winning Founder, Nomige.
Nomige is the first Belgian brand to offer facial care products that are completely tailored to DNA and one's lifestyle . Nomige analyzes your DNA and selects only those ingredients that your skin needs. In this way they create a product that is tailor-made and fits you perfectly. Stop your search and listen to your genes!

Joy Chen is a strategic leader, CEO board member and advisor, has a strong record of driving sales and profit growth by scaling businesses and in demanding, complex turnaround situations. I am most noted for transforming retail and marketing landscape to online and digital, and for innovative brand building. 

After moving to San Francisco and while working on the skin microbiome (AOBiome/Mother Dirt), Dr. Elsa Jungman learned that 70% of women are suffering from sensitive skin. With no relevant solutions on the market, she decided to start her company ELSI Skin Health Inc. to develop solutions for skin health. The startup has built a scientific platform with microbiome-friendly skincare products (under the brand Dr. Elsa Jungman) and recently launched a skin test that helps identify bacteria and fungi on the skin with holistic recommendations.

Marisol helps CEOs looking to reframe and challenge their brand’s marketing & innovation strategies to deliver sustainable business growth. Her proprietary methodology triggers aha moments–driving clarity on what’s to be next and how to get there.  She’s the founder and managing partner of FORESIGHT 500. Previously, she co-founded and led the packaging innovation centers for Aptar, Avon and L’Oréal Americas. She holds more than 15 patents and invented Avon’s Mega Effects Mascara, which drove $200M in revenue within 3 years. Her mantra? Be bold. Be the future.

 Dr. Daniel Langer is founder and CEO of Équité, a leading global branding and brand strategy firm that elevates brands to increase their revenue, profitability and brand valuation. Daniel is an authority on premium, luxury and beauty brands and serves clients in many sectors, also including fashion, luxury, accessories, hospitality and services (B2B, B2C). He holds a PhD in luxury marketing, is author of several top-rated books on luxury management in English and Chinese.

April Uchitel Co-Founder and CEO, Brand Strategy, Retail, Partnerships, The Board

“As a brand builder, who’s worked with 100’s of brands across Fashion, Tech, & Beauty, I’ve seen numerous growth challenges first hand. Opportunities, roadmaps, & budgets are constantly shifting & the freelance economy is nimble & has more powerful talent than ever. We created The Board to bridge the gap.”

Kelly Atterton is an experienced Beauty Director, currently at C California Style Magazine, and prior to that spent 17 years as West Coast Editor at Allure Magazine and VOGUE. She is a highly sought after beauty brand consultant and is launching her own skincare brand targeting teens later this year.

Jennifer Ritter, founder of JSR&CO and former Estee Lauder Alum, is a  forward-thinking business leader, product developer, marketer, and creator who specializes in executing innovative concepts and transitioning beauty brands to clean and sustainable standards. Jennifer takes brands from concept to completion and has led the development, launch and growth of brands such as the HAUS Laboratories, Rosebud Women, Facile Skin, AppleDoll, Buzzfeed, T3 Micro, and more. 

Blue Beauty is a global movement, started by Founder of Beauty-Heroes, Jeannie Jarnot, to celebrate beauty brands striving to make the planet better and the conscious consumers and early supporters of the companies paving the way. Beauty Heroes inspires brands to Live Lighter. While all of the brands featured at Beauty Heroes meet the highest standards in ingredient sourcing and transparency, efficacy and luxury, they celebrate pioneering brands that are pressing forward with innovative packaging solutions and planet-positive initiatives that support a bluer, more beautiful planet. 

After having accruing almost 2 decades in beauty, innovation and product development, Shannon Goldberg founded Izzy with the goal of creating a zero waste beauty brand that would contribute to a brighter future for her nine-year-old daughter, Emm.

“As a Millennial mom, I wanted to provide my daughter with truly sustainable beauty options,” explains Shannon, “ones that would go beyond the standards of the current clean movement.”

Claire Chang, Founding Partner, igniteXL Ventures
For over 20 years, Claire has brought her global marketing expertise to both established and startup companies in Silicon Valley and Korea. Claire formulates and executes global marketing strategies for her clients with a personal understanding of the unique challenges entrepreneurs face as they bring new ideas, products, and services to the global market.

Sylvan leads brand and creator partnerships at Hue, a social commerce technology company on a mission to help every shopper feel confident when purchasing beauty online. Hue's solution plugs-in user generated content on brand and retailers websites, where customers can see video reviews, education and tutorials from a community of real people who share the same skin tone, skin type, hair type and other beauty characteristics as them.
Hue has partnered with beauty brands and retailers such as Credo Beauty, Lawless Beauty and more. Hue is a winner of the ELLE 2023 Future of Beauty Awards, Forbes 30 under 30 in Retail & E-commerce and WWD x Unilever Prestige Project Connect.

Since 2012, Nicole has been disrupting the beauty industry by propelling dynamic start-up companies to prominence.  She's a forward thinking marketing expert and storyteller with deep expertise in social commerce.  She founded the brand partnerships team at ipsy, a company that helped launch the creator movement in the USA, before co-founding YUME, a company taking American beauty brands to China.  In China, Nicole learned about the potential of social commerce and witnessed best practices from some of the most dynamic companies and creators.  She's since consulted with and advised social commerce companies in the United States including Talk Shop Live, Supergreat, FLIP and Creatable.  Nicole is an entrepreneur with a highly creative mindset who advises and consults for the beauty industry's most innovative start-ups. 

Jonathan Grubin is the Founder and CEO at SoPost which assists brands with running the most impressive and successful item examining efforts on the web, with an emphasis on importance, information and investigation.

SoPost draws in with shoppers through online channels, for example, web-based media, influencers, substance and client relationship with the executives.

12:10 PM

Dr. Jenelle Kim, founder of JBK Wellness Labs, and Author of Myung Sung: The Korean Art of Living Meditation will lead you on a guided journey of moving meditation and gong sound bath. These movements have been passed down in Dr. Kim's lineage combined with the healing powers of sound bath led by the sound sanctuary. You will feel a sense of a rebalanced mind, body, and soul. Movement and sound will allow you to immerse yourself in frequency and will create a meditative state emitting healing brainwaves and you will leave this event feeling rejuvenated, rebalanced, and energized!