Anna Brightman
When Anna discovered that more than 500,000 tonnes of coffee grounds that are consumed each year in the UK alone are sent to landfill, she decided to start collecting coffee from cafes across London and transforming them into skincare products. Since launching four years ago UpCircle has saved over 275 tonnes of coffee. Based on their current rates of growth it is estimated that this will rise to 1000 tonnes in the next 5 years. The brand also rescues and reuses ingredients from the argan, tea, juice, date, olive and wood industries.
Adrienne Kramer
ProBeauty Partners represents emerging independent beauty brands to the retail and e-tail marketplace globally. With an eye for brands that can tell a story while fulfilling a need in the market, ProBeauty Partners curates lines that become successes. The brands are all something that each team member would want to use. While there are many companies that can sell a line to a retailer, ProBeauty Partners is the true partner to these brands that have an idea and don’t know how to bring it to fruition. The company helps them find resources as well as chart the financial path so they know what they need to be successful. In addition, ProBeauty helps them craft the language and presentations to retailers so that the brands’ stories will be so compelling the buyer must take them!
Elsie Rutterford
BYBI Co-Founders Dominika Minarovic and Elsie Rutterford equally emblemize ethics and innovation.
In 2015, these two London-based entrepreneurs bonded over a shared passion for clean beauty and
lifestyle and launched the trend-setting blog, podcast, book, and Instagram account, Clean Beauty Insiders. Building on this partnership, they co-founded BYBI in 2017. With a major push into the United States marketplace in 2020, Elsie and Dominika set a worldwide precedent for clean and sustainable beauty.
Delali Kpodzo
Delali Kpodzo is the Head of Marketing at UOMA Beauty and former Co-founder of We Are Onyx—the first-ever beauty subscription box and all-in-one beauty destination for Black women. A leading entrepreneur in the beauty industry, Delali grew Onyx from startup to multi-million dollar annual sales in less than 4 years, worked with prestige and boutique brands including Estee Lauder, Sol de Janeiro, Revlon, and Glossier, and has been featured in major publications including Buzzfeed, Refinery29, and the Huffington Post.
Jack Jia
Yarden Horwitz
Yarden Horwitz is the Co-Founder of Spate, the artificial intelligence trends platform for beauty. Prior to Spate, Yarden co-founded Trendspotting at Google – where she launched renowned reports such as The Google Fashion Trends Report and The Google Skin Care Trends Report. Her work at Google included spotting top trends such as Turmeric, Cold Brew, and Face Masks. Yarden was named the Future Voice of Fashion by The Business of Fashion, based on her work in leveraging data science for consumer trends prediction.
Dan Stern
Piper is the UK’s leading investor in Consumer Brands. Founded by entrepreneurs, we are a team of brand experts who have grown over 40 global brands across 70 countries over nearly 40 years. Dan leads Piper’s investments in the Beauty and Wellness sector and sits on the board of Neom.
Matt Wiseman
Matt Wiseman is a Partner in the investment bank Alantra, where he is based in London and leads the firm’s Consumer sector focus. Matthew has a particular specialism in Health & Beauty, having advised a broad variety of entrepreneurs and business owners over 15 years in taking investment and ultimate sales to Trade buyers.
Aparna Aiyar
General Atlantic is a leading global growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for growth companies. With $40 billion in assets under management, General Atlantic has a 40-year track record of supporting global growth and is currently invested in more than 130 growth companies around the world. General Atlantic combines a collaborative global approach, sector specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to build exceptional businesses worldwide.
