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Vezzani noticed a gap in the corporate gifting market and created Sugarwish, a revolutionary gifting platform that makes good on its promise to deliver happiness, using a sweet and innovative approach. Sugarwish is a rapidly growing, Denver based gifting company with a unique “recipient picks” feature, and digital-to-physical delivery model. Previous to co-founding Sugarwish in 2012, Vezzani was Vice President of Business Development at Razor Technical Staffing based in Denver, CO. Razor Technical Staffing was named one of the fastest growing companies in Colorado and was on the Inc 5000. Vezzani started her career as an Account Executive for Washington Mutual in Seattle where she was consistently one of the top performers in the company. Sugarwish is included in Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies in America, and Elisabeth has been named one of the Top 100 Women of Impact by Entrepreneur magazine 2021.

Elisabeth Noel Jones is the Founder & CEO of luxury e-commerce gifting platform, GiftMeChic. Elisabeth is an expert in the fields of gift-giving, gift experiences, the art of being chic, female entrepreneurship and brand building. She is a seasoned retail and wholesale executive with past experience as the North American CEO of Kilian Paris, and a buyer for luxury stores Bergdorf Goodman & Saks Fifth Avenue. In parallel with GiftMeChic, Elisabeth consults, curates, and procures gifts for retailers, hotel groups and various private clients around the globe...

Doreen is the Founder of ELLEMENT, a revolutionary patent-pending pre-natal supplement brand, backed by Human Ventures and 1st Course Capital.Prior to Ellement, Doreen founded and led Poshly Inc. (exited to Suzy in 2021), a profitable, VC-backed data business. The company's clients included L'Oréal, Shiseido, Walgreens, COOLA, Patchology, and many more D2C health and wellness brands and retailers. Poshly was honored with Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Big Data Companies, InStyle Magazine's "Best of the Web"​ and L'Oreal's NEXT Generation Award. Doreen was also named to the Forbes' 30 Under 30 and Inc.'s 30 Under 30 lists.Doreen is an Advisor to startups like ClearForMe, and an Angel Investor in female-founded companies including Common Heir, Fourplay, Garden Society, and SUPERDRIP.Doreen's work is regularly featured by top-tier press, such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, VOGUE, Teen Vogue, Inc., Mashable, Forbes, Women 2.0, Feministing, Fortune & more.Doreen holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She resides in the SF Bay Area with her family.

Domonique Rose is a creative floral design studio experienced in creating art with florals for weddings, special events, bespoke orders, editorials, and installations. Each design is multifaceted, intentional, and a little rebellious. We are unapologetic, funky, and love the finer things in life. We don’t take life too seriously – and we’ll always stop to smell the roses. Technically, we’re supposed to write all the buzz words: woman-owned, minority-owned, etc. Although these all apply, our main focus is and always will be the art we create.Combining a unique blend of seasonal and foraged stems, Dom orchestrates each design with an elevated approach while honoring the natural state of flowers. She has worked with brands and celebrity clientele such as Jessica Alba, Avaline, RMS Beauty, Lizzy Mathis, Full Stop Management, Victoria's Secret, Stance, NBCUniversal, Paramount Pictures, YouTube, and more. We are based in Los Angeles, CA but will travel wherever your floral story takes us! About DomNo dramatic story here with florals, more of a cliche "flowers found me" situation. Creative outlet turned hobby turned career! I'm a down to earth, sarcastic, and quirky florist bringing beauty to the world one stem at a time.I'm born and raised in Los Angeles with cultural background of Mexican and Native American heritages. And be the LA native that I am, I a true valley girl at heart. Dont' get me wrong, the hidden gems and inspiration around LA are immeasurable, but there's something about that valley heat and those hillside views that make it magical. I love being outside and will do anything I can to enjoy the fresh air. Preferably with good company, music, food and drinks! I'm always up for a good adventure but will gladly take a spa day instead. And let's be honest, a dream day would be to do both! My husband (also a Valley native) and I have been married for almost 8 years. We have a 5 year old son, Donovan, who also happens to be my Chief Floral Officer.Thanks for getting to know me a bit more! I look forward to learning more about you so feel free to drop a line on IG or email over a hello! 

As a Latina, I grew up gathering with family and friends, toasting to life’s great moments. Whether it’s birthdays, holidays, weddings, or you name it, there was always a reason for bringing our community together and for celebrating. That is why I started Saludi in Denver, CO - to bring our community together and support each other with products that are way too pretty not to be used. We took a new approach and created products that inspire through colorful beauty (and make drinking more fun). Our work is showing that there’s more than the black and white of life, but a gorgeous spectrum of colorful and beautiful moments.  Cheers l Salud l Saúde to stylish and unforgettable celebrations!  Dani and the Saludi team 💕 

Prior to co-founding FURB, Colleen founded Lulus, an affordable luxury women’s fashion brand. With 25 years of industry experience, Colleen delights her customers by relentlessly focusing on quality, value, and style.

Christiane Lemieux is a designer, entrepreneur, investor, artist and author. Christiane introduced her European lifestyle brand LEMIEUX et CIE into the United States in late summer 2020, coinciding with the publication of her first business book “Frictionless: Why the Future of Everything Will Be Fast, Fluid, and Made Just for You" (Harper Collins Business), a 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards Longlist title. Prior to starting her newest ventures, Christiane was the Founder/CEO of THE INSIDE, (acquired by Havenly in 2022), her direct-to-consumer (D2C) home furnishings brand. She was the Co-Founder of Cloth & Company and the Founder of DwellStudio, which was purchase by Wayfair, the world’s largest online home furnishings retailer, in 2013. Christiane served as the Executive Creative Director of Wayfair until 2016. Lemieux is an active investor in the Consumer and Tech Sectors. Christiane is a frequent contributor to Architectural Digest, Apartment Therapy, Editor At Large, Wired and other Media outlets. Lemieux authored her first book, “Undecorated” (Random House/Clarkson Potter) to critical acclaim in 2011; her second best-selling book (still #1 in Interior Decoration & Ornament on Amazon) “The Finer Things” also was published by Random House/Clarkson Potter in 2016. Christiane entered the television space as co-host and judge on “Ellen’s Design Challenge” - a furniture design competition show on HGTV. Lemieux was highlighted as one of Fortune’s 2012 "Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs”, Received House Beautiful’s Visionary award in 2020, Fast Company’s Most Innovative in 2020 and the House and Home 100 in 2024.  Christiane is a graduate of Parsons School of Design and Queen’s University in Canada. Christiane sits on the board of “Every Mother Counts,” the non-governmental organization (NGO) started by Christy Turlington Burns to fight maternal mortality and support women, babies and health care providers. Looking ahead, Christiane's third book and fourth books, “Provenance” and “The Everything Home,” are slated for publication in 2025.  

Camilla Sievers, a German-Austrian entrepreneur, has started building communities since her early twenties. She founded, scaled, and sold her food-tech startup "treats" after university and mentored and advised various startup founders along the way. She is driven by bringing the right people together to make magic happen: she is a founding member of the Entrepreneurship Avenue, Europe's largest startup event series for students, which has produced some of the most prominent startups in Austria. She is a Venture Partner at Female Founders, the largest and fastest-growing community and a €20M venture capital fund for female entrepreneurs in Europe, and a partner at Point Ann Advisory, an Australian consulting firm listing European and North American startups on the Australian stock exchange. She also sits on the board of Europe 101, an organization that aims to foster the next generation of European leaders as well as the global board of Columbia University's Venture Community where she oversees events, networking and content strategy serving over 16.000 entrepreneurs and investors across 50 cities around the globe. Camilla has made the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in 2019 while working for a Bertelsmann company where she ran the Business Development Unit, investing in and helping startups scale across Europe via TV advertisement. After taking a sabbatical to study finance and business administration at Columbia University in 2021, she founded Qi Health, a digital tele-health and herbal medicine fulfillment platform for Traditional Chinese Medicine to heal women of their various female health-related issues.

Brittani Tom has been driven by a passion for exploring innovative concepts and distilling them into practical applications within the marketing and sales process. Having found a foothold in promoting creative collaboration between leadership, sales, and marketing teams resulting in sustainable organizational growth. Brittani has worked with some of the most recognizable names and market share leaders in the real estate industry. Having directly marketed and/or developed processes for marketing an impressive 5,000+ residential, luxury residential, new home community, land, and commercial properties throughout California. She has also consulted businesses within farm & ranch, wine, animal agriculture, health & wellness, beauty, coaching, mental health, automotive, appliance, retail, e-commerce, and professional services. A graduate of the University of LaVerne with a Master’s in Business Administration in Marketing and California Polytechnic State University with a Bachelor’s in Science. Brittani continually strives toward offering cost-effective, data-driven marketing solutions that support the unique challenges affecting brokerages and agents today. Brittani is a Certified Luxury Marketing Specialist and is Certified in Applied Data Science from M.I.T. She has also spoken at several industry conferences on Future Forwarding Your Business and Emotional Intelligence in Branding. Founder of the real estate and lifestyle marketing firm, My Marketing LLC (https://mymarketingllc.com) in 2020. Under Brittani’s leadership as President, My Marketing LLC was named Best Real Estate Marketing Firm of the Year - California at the 2023 Media Innovator Awards, Innovation in Business, AI Global Media Ltd. and 2024 Real Estate Marketing Firm of the Year by CorporateLiveWire's Innovation & Excellence Awards. Awards that recognize businesses and thought leaders who have made valuable contributions in their respective field.In 2024, Brittani was reappointed to the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce Business and Economics Council after serving in 2022. She focuses on crucial issues like enhancing access to digital resources for female entrepreneurs and promoting collaborative succession planning for aging small and medium-sized businesses, ensuring diversity remains a cornerstone of local commerce.An avid equestrian, Brittani can often be found at the barn or volunteering at San Luis Obispo Chapter of the California Dressage Society, United States Dressage Federation, or United States Equestrian Federation sanctioned events.

Growing up on Catalina Island, drinking alcohol was among the most common ways to socialize with friends and family for Brianda. That is until recently when a debilitating autoimmune disease nearly took her father’s life. Accustomed to having big, family-filled celebrations and indulging in food and drinks as a way of bonding together, Brianda desperately searched for a way to continue a similar social connection with her father—even though it couldn’t contain alcohol any longer. Brianda values the benefits of an alcohol-free drink and decided to build a platform that allows people to access, discover, and understand alcohol alternatives and how they can fit into their lifestyle—calling it The New Bar. Brianda opened The New Bar on Lincoln Blvd. in Venice Beach in the summer of 2022. Doubling down on her desire to bring fun nonalcoholic drinks to mainstream events, Brianda and her tiny-but-mighty shop became the first alcohol-free partner of Coachella in 2023. Brianda has been featured in Forbes, Adweek, Thrillist, Eater, The Guardian and more as a significant driver in the NA movement.

Sea Bags was founded in 2006 on the principles of being green in product and practice, being made in Maine, and acting as good stewards to our community and state. Sea Bags has employed over 200 people, many of whom Beth mentored and have gone on to run their own companies. Today, Sea Bags has 50 stores, a robust online business, and hundreds of wholesale accounts including Life Is Good and Ralph Lauren - along with a newly-licensed NFL collection. As Sea Bags continues to grow, Beth remains focused on the core mission of the company: being sustainable in product and process, becoming a best-in-class employer, and keeping production local. Beth also serves on the boards for the Maine State Chamber of Commerce and serves as Board Chair for the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. She co-founded the Maine Textile Consortium, actively mentors start-ups, and has been named a Woman to Watch by Maine Biz.

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