British makeup artist, Beauty Entrepreneur and Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, Charlotte Tilbury MBE, is a ground-breaking female entrepreneur and one of the most highly regarded and influential makeup artists of all time.

Over the past 28 years, Charlotte has distinguished herself as a true creative visionary and trail-blazer. As one of the fashion industry’s most in-demand beauty professionals, her impact on fashion and beauty has been significant and lasting.

She has forever changed the face of the global beauty industry by decoding her expertise into transformative makeup tricks and tools that are easy for everyone to use and to replicate. Throughout her career, Charlotte has had a considerable effect on the way women and men across the world perceive themselves through the use of makeup and has been responsible for the creation of countless iconic beauty styles and trends. Charlotte believes that everyone, at every age, deserves to look and feel like the most beautiful version of themselves every day through the power of makeup.

Today, Charlotte is one of the UK’s most famous makeup industry exports and continues to push boundaries with her award-winning, record-breaking eponymous makeup and skincare brand.

Starting as an editorial nail technician with an undeniable entrepreneurial drive, Charlotte began to use her salon and backstage at fashion week experience to develop the Ciaté London brand.

With her bold determination and fearless spirit, Charlotte is a truly ambitious woman.

At 40 years of age, Charlotte pushes the boundaries of beauty and has rightfully earned a reputation as one of the most innovative experts in the industry, and consequently one of Britain’s most exciting businesswomen.

Ciaté London has enjoyed a meteoric rise within the beauty industry and continues to reach new heights globally with new to market formulas and trend-setting cosmetics.

Over 10 years, Knight has grown Ciaté from a ground-breaking innovator in nail art, polish and treatments into a global colour cosmetics giant. From the MUA favourite Dewy Stix to the world’s first transforming Glitter Flip Liquid Lipstick that broke the internet, Ciaté have become a cult-status and coveted indie brand winning over 25 beauty awards around the world.

As Ciaté continues to take the beauty world by storm, with its ground-breaking developments and first of a kind collections, it’s no wonder that Knight has been voted one of Women: Inspiration & Enterprise’s ‘Ones to Watch’, Shortlisted for the CEW “Members Achiever” award and won Smarta’s “Female Entrepreneur of the year” award for her leadership and innovation with the brand.

Ciaté London is stocked globally in Sephora, as well as in retail giants such as ASOS, Debenhams, MECCA and Look Fantastic, marking the impressive rise to global success the indie brand has experience in its first decade.

Co-founder and chief visionary of Dermalogica and the International Dermal Institute.

As the co-founder and chief visionary of Dermalogica and the International Dermal Institute post graduate training centres, Jane Wurwand is one of the most recognised and respected authorities in professional skin therapy.

Under her leadership, Dermalogica has grown to be the leading professional skincare brand, used by more than 100,000 skin therapist in more than 100 countries around the world.

Dr. Barbara Sturm’s unique, science-based products have achieved cult status with skincare devotees worldwide, and her philosophy of healing the skin has challenged both aggressive approaches and the conventional wisdom.

Every Dr. Barbara Sturm product is filled with ideas. Dr. Sturm’s skin care regimens are simple, but the products are not. Dr. Sturm’s commitment is to be educating the consumer about healthy skin and wellness.

Dr. Barbara Sturm is a German aesthetics doctor, widely renowned for her anti-inflammatory philosophy and her non- surgical anti-ageing skin treatments. She began her medical career in orthopedics as part of the team that developed cutting-edge treatments for inflammatory conditions like osteoarthritis. Termed the “Kobe Procedure” after patient and NBA basketball star Kobe Bryant, the treatment utilizes the patient’s own blood cells to produce proteins that reduce inflammation and stimulate the healing process.

Dr. Sturm then translated science from her clinical research and orthopedic practice into the field of aesthetics and opened her own medical clinic in Düsseldorf. As she continued to innovate and revolutionize the field, she became one of the most sought-after beauty doctors in the world.

In 2002, Dr. Sturm developed her famous “MC1,” a bespoke plasma-based cream only available to Dr. Sturm’s patients. The potent cream harnesses the power of the body’s own proteins in a skin- healing formula to address the visible signs of inflammation.

Building on her platform of product performance and innovation, Dr. Sturm launched a full skincare range in 2014. The complete Dr. Barbara Sturm Molecular Cosmetics line is formulated for those who yearn for an uncomplicated yet highly effective skincare regime that provides hydration, nutrition, and regeneration glow. Innovative ingredient science is at the core of Dr. Sturm’s line – potent, key- ingredients that have been widely clinically studied for their properties and efficacy. One such ingredient is the natural extract Purslane, a nutrition-packed anti–aging ingredient that calms the skin and helps reduces the visible signs of irritation.

Dr. Barbara Sturm Molecular Cosmetics is the amalgamation of scientifically-driven aesthetic medicine and nature’s reparative contributions.

Oriele is the champion for building a sustainable vision for ELEMIS focused on harnessing science, respecting nature, preserving the oceans and promoting health & wellness.

Her vision is for ELEMIS to be the No.1 British premium skincare brand in the world and for the world.

As ELEMIS grows successfully and globally, Oriele will spearhead an organizational mindset change to ensure strong focus on sustainability, reinvestment into our product, our planet, our people and our philanthropic causes.

Working at the forefront of the industry for over 30 years, ELEMIS Global President & Co-Founder Noella Gabriel remains an integral part of the ELEMIS brand today after three decades.

The heart of the brand, Noella inspires every team member with her innovative thinking and is world-renowned for her knowledge and passion for training.

Noella’s innovative vision inspires every treatment and multi-award winning product. Always striving to create new formulas with sublime textures, aromatics and unique actives, Noella believes every product must deliver real results.

Estée Lauder, the founder of the company that bears her name, was a visionary and a role model. She was a challenger who proved that anything was possible — if you dared to dream it and had the guts and gumption to go for it.

Ahead of her time in every way, she created and ran one of the world’s most prestigious and innovative companies while serving as a wife, mother and a loyal friend to many. And she did it all with charm, humour and exquisite style. She loved beauty with a passion and believed wholeheartedly in its power.

Mrs. Estée Lauder started her business with four skincare products and a simple premise: that every woman can be beautiful. Armed with that philosophy, plus perseverance, creativity and passion, she changed the face of the cosmetics industry.

Decades before social media became mainstream, Estée ran word-of-mouth campaigns. Her oft-repeated mantra was “Telephone, Telegraph, Tell a Woman.” She believed that women who liked her products would spread the word.

The world has changed dramatically since Estée Lauder created her brand in 1946. But the core values she embodied are more relevant and more inspiring to women of all generations than ever before. Today, the brand engages with women in over 150 countries and territories around the world and at dozens of touchpoints – from in-store to digital. And each of these relationships consistently reflects Estée’s powerful and authentic woman-to-woman point of view

Michelle Feeney is a visionary business leader who has created cult global beauty products and billon-dollar brands in the US and UK and is now shaking up the beauty industry with her sustainable fragrance brand, FLORAL STREET.

Her approach is shaped by three key factors; her uncompromising determination to create businesses which excel in their field; her natural talent for the creative challenge of developing successful cult brands, harnessing the power of committed and passionate teams; and her core belief in the importance of corporate social responsibility.

Michelle initially worked in PR in the UK before moving to the US to set up her own agency. She was headhunted by Estée Lauder Companies to work on their Prescriptives and Tommy Hilfiger brands and in 1994, she transformed their newly-acquired Crème de la Mer brand into an overnight success.

Michelle’s business success secured her promotion to VP, Global Communications of MAC Cosmetics following their acquisition by Estée Lauder Companies, leading their growth to become the world’s biggest make-up brand. She launched it into 40 countries and grew it from a $65 million brand to a $1-billion-dollar brand. She created their Senior Artist program, and took a lead role in the legendary MAC AIDS Fund and to date this initiative – now VIVA Glam – has raised over $500 million through global product sales.

On moving back to the UK in 2003 Michelle was appointed by investors, LDC as CEO of the then little-known brand, St Tropez. She turned it into a household name, market leader and prestige global brand, by creating a $25m business in the USA and remaining committed to be socially responsible by partnering with The Princes Trust. Michelle’s visionary approach for St. Tropez resulted in its acquisition by PZ Cussons in 2010, and she was appointed CEO of their Beauty Division delivering £160m of global sales and the brands became market leaders.

After a career sabbatical, in 2017, Michelle returned to Beauty, launching her own brand, Floral Street.

Inspired by vibrant British culture and powered by flowers, Floral Street is an award-winning, sustainable fragrance brand that has modernised floral perfumes. It is about breaking with tradition. About bunches, not bouquets; ingredients, not notes.

It’s about ease, modernity and joy and beauty that doesn’t cost the Earth. Floral Street offers collections of vegan fine fragrances, and luxurious bath, body and home products all housed in reusable, recyclable and biodegradable packaging.

Jade Elliott has always taken risks – none bigger than selling her car to start a beauty brand from her bedroom. With that step into the unknown ICONIC London was born.

Full of passion for making amazing products for amazing faces everywhere, Jade’s drive and determination has lead to a journey beyond her wildest dreams. In its first year, we went from a bedroom start-up to being one of the hottest beauty brands on the market – we were featured in Vogue, used by the likes of Kim Kardashian, stocked in one of the most prestigious department stores in the UK and quickly built a squad of loyal and loving customers worldwide; our ICONIC Baes.

Since launching in 2015, ICONIC has gone from strength to strength – gathering more fans, more followers and creating more incredible products. Loved by professional makeup artists, celebrities, bloggers and leading Beauty Editors – we are making our own rules.

Carisa Janes is the Founder and CEO of Hourglass, which she launched in 2004 as the next generation luxury beauty brand.

Throughout her career, Carisa has displayed an unwavering commitment to creating groundbreaking beauty products, embodied by Hourglass Cosmetics.

Her creation of cutting-edge formulations and packaging has positioned Hourglass as an innovator in the prestige beauty category.

Carisa entered the beauty industry after attending Parsons School of Design in New York. As an original member of Urban Decay’s team in 1996, she helped cultivate the now iconic brand. In 1997, Carisa created a prestige color line, Body & Soul cosmetics for the Hawaiian fashion destination.

She next established ISA Design, a beauty- consulting firm serving a range of clients including several well-known global beauty brands. In 1999, she created the teen cosmetics line Sugar. The same year, Glamour magazine saluted Carisa as “the world’s youngest beauty- biz veteran.” Recently, WWD named Carisa to its list of “Most Innovative Thinkers” in beauty.

In 2004, Carisa launched Hourglass Cosmetics after noticing a void in the marketplace for a new kind of beauty brand – one with a focus on active ingredients, modern design and exceptional functionality. Hourglass is known for its iconic products including Veil Mineral Primer, an unrivalled primer beloved for its ability to elevate the performance of makeup and instantly beautify the skin, the weightless and seamless Vanish Foundation Stick, the groundbreaking Ambient Lighting Collection, and the high-performance Confession Ultra Slim High Intensity Refillable Lipstick. Already cruelty-free, the brand will transition to 100% vegan formulas in 2020.

In 2017, Hourglass was acquired by Unilever. Carisa remains the brand’s CEO, growing Hourglass to 1,000 doors worldwide, including a stand alone store in Manhattan, New York, and a flagship in Venice, California, where Carisa works and lives with her husband and four rescue dogs.

A trailblazer in the world of prestige skincare, Kate Somerville has been healing skin and transforming lives for two decades. Having grown up with eczema, Kate understands firsthand the pain of not feeling comfortable in her own skin.

After finding relief in the healing powers of goat’s milk, Kate’s personal transformation fueled a professional passion for helping others. In her 20s, she worked alongside some of the world’s top cosmetic surgeons as a paramedical esthetician, finetuning her signature skincare style that blends the best of dermatological and cosmetological worlds.

In 2004, Kate opened her Skin Health Experts Clinic on Melrose Place in the heart of Hollywood. Soon, she became known as the Guru Of Glow among celebrities, entertainers and other high profile personalities who recognized the value of her visible results, zero downtime approach to skincare.

Today, Kate treats some of the world’s most famous and photographed faces, helping them get red carpet and camera ready. Whether treating a VIP client in the clinic or delivering visible results from the comfort of home through her prestige product line, Kate truly believes that everyone deserves beautiful skin and promises to help you get there. Her ability to custom cocktail signature solutions to quickly and visibly transform specific skin concerns is the art behind the science (and what keeps clients coming back!).

Since opening its doors in 2004, Kate’s Melrose Place clinic remains the heartbeat of the brand. It’s also an incubator where Kate and her team of Skin Health Experts innovate cutting edge formulations and targeted treatments proven to treat skin with a multidimensional approach. Meticulously balancing active ingredients for maximum results with soothing essentials for minimal irritation, each and every product or service Kate offers is independently tested, rigorously vetted, and clinically perfected, customized by skin type or skin concern.

Nnenna Onuba is an experienced global corporate finance executive with a track record in mergers and acquisitions, strategic business development and deal execution.

She has worked in top tier organisations such as PwC and Rothschild, advised global businesses, several on the FTSE. She knows the integral role how we feel plays into our confidence & performance but also how easy it is relegate selfcare when you are juggling several things.

This combined with a passion for holistic wellness inspired LBB and the ethos Life is Beautiful in Balance. To equip busy people with easy and convenient rituals because she knows when we truly feel well anything is possible!

Nnenna is passionate about education, female empowerment and diversity – and is involved in several initiatives to support those.

With her vast experience in surgery and skin rejuvenation, Dr. Zamani is an anti-ageing powerhouse.

Renowned in the UK as ‘the’ eye doctor, Maryam is a highly respected Oculoplastic surgeon and leading aesthetic doctor, while her skincare collection, MZ SKIN is treasured by A-list and Royal clientele including Elle Macpherson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Arizona Muse, Selma Blair and Princess Charlene of Monaco.

Based at The Cadogan Clinic on London’s prestigious Sloane Street, Dr. Zamani prides herself on delivering the most natural-looking results with her anti-ageing treatments and is admired for her exceptional patient care, light-handed approach and professional manner. With her knowledge of medical-grade formulas she is regarded as a pioneering female in high-performance skincare, an industry that is largely dominated by male Doctors.

Her MZ SKIN collection has changed the perception of clinical skincare from purely functional to a sensory experience.

Born Margaret Dickerson in Jacksonville, Florida, Margaret started doing internships at 18, for Time magazine in London. Then with the American talk-show host, Conan O’Brien in New York, followed by an internship at W magazine.

At the age of 27, Margaret was approached with a job offer to become diplomat in Budapest. It is here she became chief of staff to the US Ambassador to Hungary, Nancy Brinker. While in Budapest she met her husband and co-founder of Omorovicza, Stephen de Heinrich.

It was while Margaret took a post in Brussels, as chief of staff to the US Ambassador to the European Union, and Stephen in London, that the idea of starting their own skincare brand came to fruition. Budapest is a city rich in spas and Stephen’s family happened to own the beautiful Rácz, which dates back to the 16th century. Stephen and Margaret married in 2005. The following year they launched their company from a tiny office in a beautifully decaying courtyard in Budapest.

Now in its twelfth year, Omorovicza is sold in some of the world’s finest stores – Liberty, Harrods, Neiman Marcus, Lane Crawford – and has a loyal band of fans won over by the anti-ageing powers of its innovative, mineral-rich formulas. It has grown 50% every year since its launch. Margaret is excited for the company’s future, with a London store on the horizon and efforts to restore the Rácz spa. The dream is that the children will take over the business one day.

Margaret and Stephen run the company while also raising four children and juggling various charity projects (Margaret works with the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader programme and is a founding member of the British Fashion Council’s trust promoting young designers). Margaret is also an enthusiastic art collector, fashionista and enjoys throwing a dinner party or two.

Margo Marrone is a pharmacist, homeopath, entrepreneur and co-founder of The Organic Pharmacy.

Growing up in pre-revolution Iran, Margo’s love of all things herbal began when she was very young, on shopping trips to the bazaar with her mother, visiting the local apothecary who created health remedies on request, dipping into bags of herbs and mixing tinctures.

The family moved to London when Margo was 11 and aged 16, she landed a Saturday job in the local chemist. It was an old-fashioned place, with amber glass pharmacy bottles lining the walls, filled with exotic-sounding, Latin-named tinctures, powders and pills.

Captivated by watching the chemist blending the elixirs and ointments, Margo decided there and then that was what she wanted to do. Her pharmacy degree at Kings College London led to a specialisation in herbal medicine when Margo realised that an alternative approach that was closer to nature, was where her true calling lay. In her quest to find an approach to health that she believed in, she came across Dr Bach’s book on flower remedies. Bach started as a homeopath and Margo found that the principles of homeopathy suited her way of thinking.

Whilst studying homeopathy and after becoming pregnant with her daughter, Margo became interested in the nascent organic food movement as awareness around the chemical treatment of soil and crops started to come to light. Her idea for The Organic Pharmacy was born then, with the intention to create a destination for health and beauty treatments with a dispensing homeopath and a shop where customers could buy, secure in the knowledge that everything on the shelves was organic. For the rest of her pregnancy – the gateway to organic for many women now, Margo struggled to find cleanly-formulated products. Using her pharmacist and homeopath background she began to work on her own formulations, persevering when manufacturers told her that paraben-free, organic products could not be created. In 1998, Margo gave birth to her daughter, Roksana, and her first organic products: Herbal Toner and Mother & Baby Massage Oil. A range of products followed, as Margo found herself mixing creams and serums for friends and family.

Now pregnant with her second child, Margo felt ready to set up The Organic Pharmacy – a new way of thinking about health and beauty, so in 2002 she and her husband opened the doors of the first The Organic Pharmacy store on London’s Kings Road. The shop was an instant hit and has won legions of loyal fans and a cult following with Kylie Minogue, Gwyneth Paltrow, Victoria Beckham, Robbie Williams, Katy Perry, Tom Hanks, Elle McPherson, Beyoncé, Daisy Lowe, Kiera Knightley among many others.

The Organic Pharmacy has become a destination and a trusted name in health and beauty and is now in over 36 countries, stocked in luxury spas and department stores. The Organic Pharmacy is an innovative concept of a 21st century luxurious organic apothecary and urban day spa with homeopathic tinctures, blends, beauty treatments and own label effective, organic, green, fair trade and lovingly made skincare, body care, makeup products and supplements.

In 2009 Margo wrote her first book: The Complete Guide to Natural Health and Beauty and in 2019 trained as a shaman, became a Yogini 200hrs teacher of ashtanga yoga as well as co-founding Charlie Co Naturals, 100% natural pet products. Margo further co-founded, in 2020, with her daughter, House of Roxy, a chic, sustainable, magical, ethical living website.

Sarah Brown, founder and CEO of Pai Skincare is an organic skincare pioneer whose expertise developing all-natural, efficacious products was born from her own experience living with challenging skin.

Sarah developed Chronic Urticaria in her mid-twenties and started mixing her own formulations from her garage as a last ditch solution for her hyper reactive skin.

Pai launched in 2007 at a time when the organic category was under-developed and clean beauty wasn’t yet a thing. Sarah was one of the early champions of certified organic, responsibly cultivated ingredients, passionately believing in their therapeutic properties when many around her didn’t. Pai continues to formulate, manufacture and distribute all products from its own custom built facility in West London.

This development process is owned end to end, giving the company creative freedom, full visibility of the supply chain and vigilance over production processes. Sarah believes this due diligence leads to unique, ownable formulations that are of a higher quality.

In 2015, Sarah won ‘First Woman in Manufacturing’ at the CBI First Women Awards in recognition of her commitment to British manufacturing.

Before Pai, Sarah was International PR Manager for E&J Gallo Wines in California, having previously managed communications for brands such as Nike and Barclaycard. In 2015 Sarah was appointed to the Board of CEW (Cosmetic Executive Women), and won their Achiever Award the same year. Sarah was promoted to the CEW’s Executive Board in 2018.

She has appeared as a business commentator on BBC News, Newsnight, Sky News, CNBC and in The Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Financial Times. Pai won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise (Export) in 2016. Sarah lives in West London with her husband and two sons.

Named one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Internet by TIME Magazine and Digital Innovator of the Year by Women’s Wear Daily, Huda Kattan is Founder of Huda Beauty, one of the fastest-growing beauty brands worldwide.

She is an entrepreneur, internationally recognized beauty authority, Hollywood-trained makeup artist and content creator. A lifelong passion for beauty led Huda to enroll at a prestigious makeup training school in Los Angeles, cultivating a roster of clientele including A-list celebrities and a royal family. Soon after, Huda set up her beauty blog HudaBeauty.com and later launched a YouTube channel, a Facebook page and an Instagram account by the same name. Huda’s one-of-a-kind beauty tutorials quickly saw her become an industry heavyweight, pioneering beauty trends at every step.

Today, her Instagram account is the most followed beauty brand on Instagram with over 45 million followers while her Facebook page has over 7 million fans and her YouTube channel has garnered over 4 million subscribers. Guided by her expertise and keen eye-for-detail, Huda founded her eponymous cosmetics brand Huda Beauty in 2013. With support from sisters Mona and Alya, Huda Beauty launched false eyelashes into Sephora in the Dubai Mall, making eyelash application part of a mainstream beauty ritual. The launch immediately shattered records in the Middle East and soon after in the United States.

The Huda Beauty offering now includes a range of lipsticks, lip contouring pencils, textured eyeshadow palettes and complexion products, all of which have been instant best-sellers across the globe.

WISHFUL, the third brand in Huda’s global beauty empire after Huda Beauty makeup and KAYALI fragrances, will launch several products throughout the coming year starting from February 2020. Each product has a targeted focus using some of the most powerful and effective ingredients available in the beauty industry today. Using an innovative combination of natural ingredients and gentle chemical solutions, the aim of WISHFUL isn’t to flood your bathroom with hundreds of new buys, but to edit your daily routine down to the key essential products that will visibly change skin instantly while giving long-term, wow-worthy results.

After completing her Master’s degree in the US and holding notable positions at several Silicon Valley firms, Eva Alexandridis moved to London with her husband in 2001.

Following his success as the founder of 111 Harley St., Dr Yannis created a healing serum to prescribe to his patients following surgery. This efficacy of the product was immediately recognised and met with overwhelming demand, which Eva astutely took as a sign to expand the brand both in product range and business practices.

Under her guidance, 111SKIN can now be found at luxury retailers around the world, including Harrods, Selfridges, Bergdorf Goodman, Violet Grey, MECCA, Joyce and Sephora. The brand also enjoys a rich online presence with Net-A-Porter, Cult Beauty & Look Fantastic among many others.

Through Eva’s development and direction, 111SKIN has cemented themselves as one of the frontrunners in advanced skincare, utilising medical delivery systems and innovative ingredients – all sourced by Eva – to deliver clinical results.

The success of the company has allowed Eva to pursue her other passions, which include philanthropy and sustainability. As a mark of her efforts in the latter, 111SKIN have been awarded the prestigious ‘Positive Luxury’ Butterfly Mark for the second time in 2020, highlighting the brands commitment to environmentally-friendly practices, ethical sourcing and reducing unnecessary emissions across the supply chain.

Her altruistic nature has also meant 111SKIN has – and continues – to partner with several charities, including WomenForWomen, Make A Wish, No Kid Hungry and more recently the NHS. As 111SKIN moves into the next decade, Eva has ensured that philanthropy will remain the focus of the brands workplace culture and social framework.

Within workplace culture, Eva is the proprietary champion. The company’s workforce is 95% women – many of whom are working mothers – that have access to flexible working hours and on-site support. Eva also works hard to ensure she mentors as many young women as possible, utilising her contacts across many industries to encourage their career potential and support their aspirations.