Kelly Dill
Rayan Godoi
Nisha Phatak
Nisha Phatak is Cofounder and COO of Lion Pose, a clinical skincare company focused on treatments for hyperpigmentation, and headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Lion Pose sells their products in Sephora stores nationwide, and has been featured in Allure, Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, Elle, Essence, Real Simple, and more. Prior to Lion Pose, Nisha acted as interim COO at Great Jones cookware, and was VP of Operations and employee #1 at Huggable, an online infant formula company. Before focusing on consumer products, Nisha led major strategic partnerships at Indiegogo and Box, and was an equity research analyst covering consumer technology and ecommerce. She is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Carnegie Mellon University, and participated in the Y Combinator and Sephora Accelerate startup incubator programs.
Ilya Seglin
Courtney Claghorn
Jill Scalamandre
Jill Scalamandre is an experienced CPG executive whose leadership spans across brands, markets, channels and technologies. With a reputation as a forward-thinking brand builder, she has created brands from scratch, turned around struggling established brands, launched new markets, acquired and divested assets and led technology driven teams to re-imagine traditional market approaches.
Prior to joining Beekman 1802, she acted as Global President of Shiseido Americas, where she led the global turnaround of $300M bareMinerals while also incubating the socially driven Buxom Cosmetics. Her experience as President of Shiseido Group’s Global Makeup Center of Excellence (MCoE) gave her the opportunity to fuel growth across all of the company’s color brands, while acquiring and integrating augmented realty and personalization technology.
Throughout her career, she has advised private equity firms on various portfolio opportunities. Ms. Scalamandre helped build and oversee the successful sale of Frederic Fekkai hair care and salons to Proctor & Gamble, amongst other acquisitions and turnarounds.
She is currently Chairwoman of Cosmetics Executive Woman (CEW), an international organization of 10,000 individual members representing a cross section of beauty and related businesses.
Jill lives in New York City with her husband where she loves the stimulation of the arts, fashion, and literature.
Colette Laxton
Colette Laxton & Mark Curry co-founded The INKEY List in the U.K. in 2018. The brand was born from a belief that better knowledge powers better decisions. On a mission to simplify skincare for the masses, they exist to break down complicated beauty jargon and empower their ever-growing community with the knowledge they need to make personalized decisions for their skin. With 24/7, 365 askINKEY services, The INKEY List has helped over 7 million people globally to unlock a routine that works for them. Science-backed, results-driven and community first. The INKEY List is available exclusively in Sephora and on Sephora.com in over 32 countries, and on theinkeylist.com.
A true brand and marketing visionary who thrives in developing brand identity and purpose, Laxton’s career has spanned across multiple brands and roles within the beauty industry. With a passion for understanding the customer experience at all touchpoints, Laxton has worked across marketing, branding and product development for Boots brands including No. 7, Soap & Glory and Liz Earle, as well as UK start-up, WAH Nails.
Joyce Kassouf
Michelle LeBlanc
Michelle L. LeBlanc is the Vice President of Merchandising for Beauty & Personal Care at CVS Health where she is responsible for the Cosmetics, Skin Care, Fragrance, Hair Care and Personal Care businesses, as well as Beauty Experience and Services.
She is a purpose-led leader who is confident, creative, and dynamic with a proven record for delivering results (while having fun along the way). Michelle is naturally curious with a hunger for insights, bias for action, and relentless desire to have meaningful impact on the people and the business.
Michelle has been with CVS Health for nearly 20 years and has held various leadership roles within the company. Most recently, Michelle led the Front Store Strategy & Transformation for CVS Health. As an instrumental member of the Front Store leadership team, Michelle was responsible for driving key initiatives and Front Store growth through deep understanding of performance drivers. Michelle’s greatest passion throughout her career has been serving as a leader of leaders – building and motivating highly engaged and high performing teams.
Michelle has a BS in Marketing from George Mason University and an MBA from Providence College.
Outside of work, Michelle is busy raising three boys with her wife Jennifer. Her goal is that they lead with kindness and do their best everyday– words she lives by.
