Experiment's Lisa Guerrera and Emmy Ketcham on creating a brand for the 'nerdy, smart girl who ends up being cool in adulthood'
Lisa Guerrera and Emmy Ketcham, co-founders of Experiment, met in 2019 at an event for the Sephora Accelerate program, which Guerrera participated in with her first business. Together, they soft-launc...
12 Sep 202455min
Estée Lauder VP Chloe Green-Vamos talks data, AI and reverse mentorship
Chloe Green-Vamos, the vp of global innovation strategy at the Estée Lauder Companies, leads the company's global research and development strategy, innovation portfolio insights and analytics, and en...
5 Sep 202445min
Industry veteran Sarah Creal on creating a brand for women over 40: 'I was part of the problem'
Sarah Creal got her start in beauty while working at a Clinique counter. But it wasn't long before Creal was working in product development and marketing at major brands including Bobbi Brown, Tom For...
29 Aug 202445min
Tennis star Sloane Stephens on launching Doc & Glo: ‘Entrepreneurship is not for the weak’
Sloane Stephens started playing tennis at 9 years old and quickly climbed the ranks, beating Serena Williams in the 2013 Australian Open at age 19. She is the founder of The Sloane Stephens Foundation...
22 Aug 202441min
Beautycounter alum and Ritual chief impact officer Lindsay Dahl on how to lead a mission-driven brand
Back in 2014, Lindsay Dahl’s career trajectory took an unexpected turn. She’d spent a decade working at chemical safety- and environmental-focused nonprofits in Washington D.C. before she got an offer...
15 Aug 202446min
L'Oréal President Nathalie Gerschtein on intuition, trends and the mass beauty shopper: ‘There's really only one consumer’
Nathalie Gerschtein’s career at L’Oréal started before she even graduated college. “One of the reasons I joined L'Oréal, [which I met] on campus [in college], was because it would give me the opportu...
8 Aug 202442min
Cosmetic chemist Javon Ford on his unorthodox career path
When Javon Ford (@javonford16, 455,400 TikTok followers) graduated college, he knew he wanted to be a chemist and wanted to work in the cosmetics industry. What he didn’t anticipate was becoming wildl...
1 Aug 202441min
After selling Kiehl’s to L’Oréal, the Heidegger family is ready to scale Retrouvé
When it comes to influential families in the beauty industry, Jami Morse Heidegger and daughter Hannah Heidegger are in a class all their own. They represent the third and fourth generations of skin-c...
25 Jul 20241h 19min
