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Meet Tara Hyland. Tara serves as Vice President at Main Post Partners, a growth-oriented private equity firm focused on investing in leading companies across the consumer value chain. A few of Main Post Partners current investments include Dr. Dennis Gross, Milk Makeup, Duke Cannon, and Not Your Mothers hair care. In addition to identifying and evaluating new investment opportunities across the consumer industry, she works closely with founders and management teams to support the execut...

Meet Rich Gersten. Rich has spent the last 30 years investing and building great consumer brands at top private equity firms including Tengram Capital Partners, L Catterton, and North Castle Partners. Rich spent the last 9 years dedicated specifically to investing in the beauty industry, where he developed an extensive network of relationships that sourced many emerging growth brands with very limited access to institutional capital. Realizing the significant opportunity to address this under...

Meet the visionary Lead Marketer at Liquid I.V., Alexis Warchalowski. Alexis has led a thoughtful career spanning publishing, media, beauty and health & wellness. Alexis and her team have played an instrumental role in helping to scale and position Liquid IV for acquisition with Unilever Prestige, which was announced in September of 2020. Alexis leverages her well-rounded upbringing, across a myriad of industries, to bring a disruptive and relevant strategy to marketing. Tune in to learn ...

Get to know Reuben Carranza who is the visionary CEO and leader of Kate Somerville, a California based skincare brand founded by celebrity aesthetician, Kate Somerville. Reuben is a beauty industry veteran with over three decades of experience that span the mass consumer, luxury, specialty, professional and e-commerce markets; Reuben has built a career comprised of broad and diverse experiences delivering growth in revenue, profitability and building high performing organizations.Reuben start...

Take a peek into the brilliant mind of Michael McNeil who is a veteran beauty industry marketer and digital disrupter. Michael started his career at Anastasia Beverly Hills where he played a strategic role in helping to pave a way for the brand's formidable success to date, to having helped position Milani for significant growth and an exit to Gryphon Investors. To date, Michael serves as the VP of Marketing at Huda Beauty which is the world's leading beauty brand. Huda Beauty is currently ou...