CORPORATE ACCELERATORS: FAST TRACK TO MARKET – WHAT EVERY START-UP SHOULD KNOW

Let’s face it – in today’s beauty market entrepreneurial companies are hot. They’re nimble, have a genuine voice and pursue a small market niche with a relentless focus making them truly unique. As such, vision, passion and determination will only take one so far…increasingly large companies are setting up corporate accelerators to nurture startups, aiming to tap into new ideas
and technologies. This panel seeks to deconstruct the ‘black box’ of corporate accelerators to highlight their metrics of success and what makes these collaborations effective for corporations and entrepreneurs alike.

MODERATOR

Jeb Gleason-Allured
Editor in Chief
Global Cosmetic Industry Magazine

Laura Delgado
Business Development
Founder’s Factory

Marie Chevrier
Founder
SAMPLER

Souha Seifeddine
Group Marketing Manager
L’Oreal

MAKE IT HAPPEN: LESSONS FROM THE TRENCHES

New and established founders share the hard-earned lessons they learned building their companies. These founders will tell stories about the mistakes they made and what they’ve learned from them. They’ll also describe the block-and-tackle of their journeys to funding, first employee hires and scale, while explaining the very real challenges all early-stage startups face. As they share, they’ll explain what any entrepreneur can do to seek out mentors and help at every stage of the business.

MODERATOR

Andrea Huspeni
Special Projects Director
Entrepreneur.com

Kara Goldin
Founder & CEO
Hint Inc.

Maria Hatzistefanis
Founder & CEO
The Rodial Group

Deborah Lippmann
Founder / Creator / CEO
Deborah Lippmann Cosmetics & Celebrity/Fashion Manicurist

Sanjiv Mehra
Co- founder and Managing Partner
eos Products

CHAT WITH SHOW ORGANIZERS

A one-hour open conversation with executives from NABE, the organizers of CPNA about what works, what needs to change and how the show will look like in the next year.

Daniela Ciocan
Marketing Director
Cosmoprof North America

Eric Horn
Show Director
Cosmoprof North America

Entrepreneur’s Corner: Get the real and raw story

Serial entrepreneur Alisa Marie Beyer shares her entrepreneur reality and how she worked to build and sell her latest company, Coastal Salt & Soul, within three years. Building a beauty company from scratch is brutal, with three out of four failing within the first 18 months. Many entrepreneurs suffer from near-debilitating anxiety and bleakness throughout the process. Alisa wants to inspire others with the honesty of her voice so that her story may help them. Find out how she gained access to capital, managed decision fatigue, faced cash-on-hand crisis after crisis, recovered from multiple setbacks, and finally found the right deal-maker to get the job done.

Bonus: Leveraging her knowledge gained from listening to hundreds—if not thousands—of pitch presentations, Alisa shares her “Coastal Salt & Soul” Pitch Deck, giving you the formula for what you should include in your own pitch deck.

MODERATOR

Jeb Gleason-Allured
Editor in Chief
Global Cosmetic Industry Magazine

Alisa Marie Beyer

LemonTree Partners

Bruce Kowalsky
FOUNDER
Beauty Partners, LLC.

Destination: Exit Point. Investor’s Corner

Does the way you want to exit the company drive how you setup your company? What will make your business more enticing to investors and what type of criteria and checkmarks must you meet to secure funding? Find out the top items that investors at various levels look for when reviewing a possible investment. Come ask questions, network and walk away with specific actionable insights.

HOST

Richard Kestenbaum
Contributor
Forbes.com

Ralph Azrak
Founder
Maguire Venture Capital

Victor Azrak
Founder
Maguire Venture Capital

Brian Gaister
Co-Founder & CEO
Pennington Partners & Co

Brian Locklear
PRINCIPAL
Beechwood Capital

Akshay Shetty
Co-CEO
Combe Inc

Andrew Shore
Managing Director
Moelis & Co.

Alicia Sontag
Partner
Prelude Growth Partners

Clara Viale
Associate
Fernbrook Management