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Erika has been deeply invested into the restaurant and theater industries since 2006, straddling both to fulfill her innate creativity. Head bartender, Mixologist, and Experience host, she is always looking for new products to improve the ride. Wine enthusiast, beer lover, and cocktail creator, she is currently the front of house manager at Martha’s in Hoboken.

Emilie Mascarell is a French beauty executive with over 15 years of industry experience. She has worked for top-tier companies such as L'Oréal and Estee Lauder, and spent a decade leading product development at Le Labo. As the founder of Emilie Consulting, a New York-based consulting agency, she specializes in fragrance and beauty product strategy and development, helping businesses bring their vision to fruition. 

Elle Serafina is an Integrative Wellness Coach and author who helps women cultivate balance, vitality, and sustainable energy by reconnecting with natural rhythms. Specializing in hormone health, she is certified through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and completed nutrition training at Harvard Medical School grounded in holistic lifestyle medicine principles. With over two decades of spiritual study and practice, Elle blends research-informed wellness education with intuitive, cycle-aware approaches. She is a certified Moonologer and Law of Attraction Practitioner, integrating these perspectives into practical guidance for modern life. Elle is the creator of the Cycle Magic® system for living with greater ease without burnout, the Cycle Habits® framework for achievable goal-setting, and The Cycle Diet®, a plant-forward nutrition guide and recipe collection designed to support natural hormone balance. Through her work, Elle helps women create lives of balance, purpose, and sustainable well-being. Author of "Cycle Magic - Your Guide to Align with Natural Energy Cycles, Beat Burnout, and Manifest Your Dream Life." (Hay House, March 10 2026)

Elisabeth Noel Jones is a seasoned retail and wholesale executive with 25+ years of luxury goods experience. Aligned with her current passion towards soulful living, she is currently the founder of spiritual gifting website GiftMeSoul. This new venture evolved from her former gifting company, GiftMeChic, while her past professional accolades include serving as the North American CEO of Kilian Paris, as well as buying for luxury stores Bergdorf Goodman & Saks Fifth Avenue. In parallel with GiftMeSoul, Elisabeth also consults, curates, and creates experiential offerings for luxury brands, retailers, hotel groups and various private clients.

Dr. Jennifer Aranda is the co-founder of Setú and a board-certified dermatologist dedicated to advancing skin health while celebrating the richness of Latin American heritage. Born and raised in Venezuela, Dr. Aranda graduated summa cum laude from Emory University School of Medicine and completed her dermatology residency at the prestigious University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW). Her passion for dermatology and global health led her to earn a Physician Scholar in International Health award from Yale University, allowing her to train in tropical dermatology in Peru. She later spent several months working and teaching in medical clinics across Tanzania and Uganda.Throughout her career, Dr. Aranda has combined clinical excellence with a deep commitment to education and service. She has held academic appointments at leading institutions, including UTSW and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has contributed to dermatological research and publications, strengthening her reputation as a clinician and a scholar.At Setú, Dr. Aranda helped inform the development of the brand’s skincare products, carefully blending evidence-based formulations with powerful natural ingredients from Latin America. She believes that great skincare should be rooted in both science and tradition, promoting not just healthy skin but a more profound sense of identity and pride.Dr. Aranda lives in Austin, Texas, with her family.

Neuroscientist Dr. Claudia Aguirre is a global authority on mind-body science and the brain-skin connection. Dr. Aguirre is a TEDx speaker, a TED Ed educator, author, and strategic advisor in the health and wellness industries. She has worked with the world's leading brands in tech, beauty, wellness and healthcare. A seasoned media personality, she is frequently featured on major magazines, and has appeared on live TV news shows in several countries. She is an LA native, is bilingual and travels the world.

Dr. Amir Marashi is the visionary founder of Cerē, the luxury sexual wellness brand merging medical precision with sculptural sensuality to champion women’s right to pleasure.Dr. Amir Marashi — Founder & Visionary of CerēDr. Amir Marashi is a board-certified OB/GYN, author, and founder of Cerē, the luxury sexual wellness brand merging medical precision with sculptural design. Known to many as “The Vagina Whisperer,” Dr. Marashi has redefined how women experience pleasure—creating anatomically precise, beautifully crafted tools made from the highest-quality, body-safe materials.With over two decades in women’s health, he was the first U.S. physician to establish an official cosmetic gynecology rotation for OB/GYN training. His acclaimed book, A Woman’s Right to Pleasure, unites 60 global artists and writers to celebrate sexual expression and agency—a cultural ethos that continues through Cerē.Today, Dr. Marashi is recognized as a leading voice in sexual wellness innovation, speaking on panels and advising brands and media on the evolving dialogue around women’s pleasure, anatomy, and design.

Divya Gugnani is the Founder and CEO of 5 SENS, a clean, vegan, and cruelty-free fine fragrance brand built around the concept of fragrance wardrobes, scents for every mood and moment. A serial entrepreneur with five companies and three successful exits, Divya holds a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She began her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs before moving into private equity and venture capital, then becoming a serial entrepreneur. Prior to 5 SENS, she co-founded, launched, scaled, and sold Wander Beauty. She currently runs Concept to Co, her investment fund with over 80 investments. Divya has appeared on CNBC, NBC, and MSNBC and has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, TIME Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg. She is the author of two books: "Sexy Women Eat," published by HarperCollins, and "Pitch Perfect: Founders Guide to Fundraising for Startups," available on Amazon.

Hello! I'm Diane, CEO of Women In Business And Abundance (WIBAA).WIBAA is an event and networking business! Looking to share and connect!

Debbi Barber is a highly successful entrepreneur and co-founder of the innovative Vitali Regenerative Skin Care company. After 37 years as the head of a direct-marketing firm serving global nonprofit brands, Debbi embraced the opportunity to come out of retirement and create a product that she believed would benefit countless individuals. Her inspiration to develop this product stemmed from her experiences with peptides and their remarkable effects on her health and skin. Dr. Suzanne Turner, one of the leading authorities in the field of peptide research, was Debbi's mentor and teacher - introducing her to GHK-Cu as an effective way to treat crepey skin. With her husband's admiration for GHK-Cu's incredible healing powers, Debbi set out to create a more cost-effective, high-quality product of this blue peptide that could be accessible to all.  Through extensive research and study, Debbi has become known as an expert in peptides and the optimization of health and skin. She now serves as a resource in her weekly blog posts, which are greatly appreciated by skincare enthusiasts and professionals worldwide. It is thanks to Dr. Suzanne Turner that Debbi has been able to make her dream happen, and she continues her journey toward helping others achieve healthy, radiant skin with Vitali Regenerative Skin Care! 

David Selakovic is the CEO and President of Vegalab SA, a Swiss biotech advancing natural solutions for global food systems. Under his leadership, Vegalab develops high-performance biologicals and specialty inputs that help growers boost yield and quality while shrinking chemical footprints and protecting pollinators. The company’s platforms—micronization, nano-encapsulation, and in-vivo cultivation of beneficial microorganisms—are engineered to match the efficacy and usability of synthetics, with sustainability built in from the start. Headquartered in Switzerland with a growing international footprint, Vegalab supports farmers, distributors, and innovators across regions with rapid product development and field-level support, and maintains a commitment to carbon-neutral operations and FSC-certified communications. Selakovic speaks frequently on scaling biologicals, translating lab breakthroughs to farm outcomes, and building resilient, zero-residue value chains.

Dana Oliver is committed to celebrating and amplifying Black women’s voices in the beauty industry. She has over 13 years of experience as an editor, writer and on-camera talent, reporting on fashion and beauty news, writing trend features and producing expert-driven videos.In her tenure as Beauty Director at Yahoo, Dana launched their first-ever Diversity in Beauty Awards and hosted My Beauty, My Way, a video series where women of all different ages and backgrounds including award-winning actress and producer Tracee Ellis Ross, Carol’s Daughter founder Lisa Price and tennis star Sloane Stephens explained what beauty truly means to them.Dana was most recently the Senior Director of Content and Communications at StyleSeat, the premier destination for discovering and booking beauty services and professionals. She oversaw brand vision, messaging and experience across multiple content marketing channels, including website, blog, social media and video. In 2019, Dana debuted her very own beauty, wellness and self-care blog called Beauty for Breakfast, where she shares her honest and thought-provoking reflections as a plant-based mom who inspects cosmetic labels more carefully.