Michelle Miller
CMO
VEGAMOUR
Michelle Miller is an award-winning CMO passionate about building culturally iconic brands, driving rapid growth, and fostering global communities. With deep expertise in digital, social, and the creator economy, she thrives at the intersection of beauty, innovation, and culture.
Michelle has had the privilege of shaping transformative moments in beauty—Too Faced during its Estée Lauder acquisition, Kosas redefining clean beauty, and most recently, K18, where they pioneered biotech haircare. K18 became the #1 haircare brand on social media, earned 25 billion TikTok views and 50+ awards, and was acquired by Unilever Prestige.
Now, as the CMO of Vegamour, Michelle is leading the charge to build the #1 plant-powered hair growth & longevity brand, redefining hair wellness with innovation, authenticity, and community at its core.
Carina Chaz
Founder & CEO
DedCool
DedCool was founded with generations of beauty expertise behind it. Fragrance was Carina Chaz’s passion from the very beginning. Growing up alongside her mother as a beauty formulator, with a lab as her playground, it was natural for Carina to create DedCool. Her love of scent and a general rejection of the way the Fragrance industry operates, lit a fire under Carina to create a modern 21st Century definition of what Fragrance means. It started humbly on Instagram, and then grew to knocking on the doors of local retail shops with the hope of being carried on consignment. This resulted in relationships with department stores, and boutiques to then cultivating dedcool.com.
Juliette Tang
President
ONE/SIZE Beauty
Juliette Tang is the President of ONE/SIZE by Patrick Starrr, a brand dedicated to giving a voice to the unseen and unheard and the fastest-growing makeup brand at Sephora North America. Since joining in January 2023, she has focused on enhancing digital innovation, strengthening operations, and driving thoughtful growth.
With a background in digital-first beauty, Juliette has spent her career helping brands scale, build strong eCommerce foundations, and connect with consumers in meaningful ways. Before ONE/SIZE, she was Vice President of Global eCommerce at Huda Beauty, leading international eCommerce for Huda Beauty and Kayali Fragrances. She has also held leadership roles at NYX Professional Makeup (L’Oréal) and Zevia, where she contributed to the brand’s digital expansion and IPO. Earlier in her career, she worked in social media strategy at Zoosk and started her journey in technology at Google.
Candace Mitchell
Founder and CEO
MYAVANA
Candace Victoria Mitchell is a pioneer force at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and purpose-driven innovation. Beginning at the start of establishing the Atlanta tech ecosystem, Candace’s journey as a computer scientist, visionary entrepreneur, and change agent is marked by a profound commitment to transforming loves, business, industries, and communities.
As the Founder & CEO of MYAVANA, a groundbreaking beauty tech company, Candace pioneered a new market segment of personalized hair care and spearheaded a revolution in the haircare industry.
Danessa Myricks
Founder & CEO
Danessa Myricks
As a makeup artist, photographer, and entrepreneur, Danessa Myricks is one of the most influential leaders in the beauty industry and is widely credited for leading groundbreaking product development for some of the most popular brands before launching her own brand, Danessa Myricks Beauty, in 2015. Referred to as the “Willy Wonka of Beauty”, Myricks takes a revolutionary approach to product development resulting in award-winning, innovative, multi-use products like the Blurring Balm Powder, Colorfix, and the viral Lightwork Freedom Palette System, earning over 80 accolades and recognition from Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List, Allure Best of Beauty, and featured on TIME Magazine’s Closers List to name a few. As CEO, she continues to push boundaries, fostering a global community rooted in love, creativity, and inclusivity while connecting hearts and minds through beauty.
Sean Frazier
Managing Partner
1731 Management
Brent Ridge, M.D
Co-Founder
Beekman 1802
Dr. Ridge began his career as a physician at Mt. Sinai in New York City and later launched the Health and Wellness division of Martha Stewart Omnimedia.
In 2008, he co-founded Beekman 1802 with his husband, Josh Kilmer-Purcell and is an ambassador to the Global Wellness Institute. Today, the company is recognized as one of the most successful lifestyle brands in America. Their beauty, home, and gourmet products are sold through premium retail partners worldwide, including Williams Sonoma, Bloomingdale’s, and Anthropologie, and in 2019, they set the record for the largest beauty brand launch in the combined 37-year history of both HSN and QVC.
Siffat Haider
Co-Founder & CEO
Arrae
Founder, Podcaster, Creator
Siff was working in the beauty space as a blogger + podcaster and found herself struggling with her own health issues. She ultimately turned to natural remedies as a last resort and began troubleshooting with her own combination of herbs & vitamins and found herself feeling better than ever. She quickly realized that holistic remedies had the power to address women’s toughest day-to-day health issues and began building Arrae, with her husband, Nish, to share these solutions with others.