Maylis Joppe
With 20 years of experience in the FMCG Industry, Maylis has built a very strong experience in business, strategy and marketing. She has a true passion for beauty & innovation and a great ability to navigate between the ‘now’, the ‘new’ and the ‘next’, having led power global brands for years before she got the chance to focus her time as head of Corporate Innovation at Coty. In her current role, Maylis is focusing on driving Coty’s innovation agenda forward, which implies improving speed and agility, and reduce the tension between Big Corporations and Startups ways of working. In her role she has created and still leads the Beauty Garage, Coty’s internal innovation accelerator, an agile model very much inspired from the lean start up model -opportunity check, prototyping, grow and scale - and is very connected to the indie brands world.
Stephanie Capuano
I am a qualified PR professional with over 15 years of experience in managing, developing and growing clients in pharma, fashion and beauty sectors across offices in New York, San Francisco and London. Most recently, I am the founder and CEO of Clean Beauty start up, 31st State for Gen Z guys, and a partner in &Three, a boutique travel company specialising in the ultimate African safari.
Being a mother of two teenage boys I created 31st State after being frustrated by the lack of available choices for my sons in the Personal Care market from all of the so called “big brands” and established companies. 31st State was borne out of a desire to recreate the feeling I experienced during my formative years growing up in California- clean, effortless and minimally fashionable. Drawing on my career in pharmaceutical PR and Brand Communications I identified and led a team of experts to deliver a brand with operational excellence while bringing some pretty brave new thinking into what is an uncharted category- teenage male grooming. Similarly, &Three – our boutique travel business, has been founded out of a lifelong love of adventure– and my belief it will be travel and discovery experiences rather than material objects that will drive the next frontier of value for consumers entering the workforce now.
Both of my business initiatives, &Three and 31st State, enable me to live my love of travel and passion for beautiful design by creating commercially successful yet authentic, branded products and experiences.
Noelle Shine
Noelle has worked with in the beauty business for over 25 years, focusing on Start Up and Independent Beauty Brands for the last 15, following a prior stint with Estee Lauder companies in senior management roles, and an early career in retail. As part of the founding management team of Charlotte Tilbury, she developed disruptive customer experience and commercial strategies for global distribution to industry outstanding success. She’s worked with over 25 independent beauty brands – including Trinny London, Skinfix, Blink Brow Bar, Code 8, The Perfumers’ Story, and most recently VIEVE.
