Mazur Group, L.A.'s premier executive search firm specializing in  the  beauty industry, presented their bi-annual Beauty Biz Roundtable 15 (BBR15), on Friday, April 28th from 9:00am – 2:00pm at Le Méridien Delfina Santa Monica Hotel. This sold-out event featured senior executives from the West Coast's beauty scene including Sephora, ipsy, Dollar Shave Club, Sexy Hair Concepts, and more - who gathered to address the beauty industry’s trending topics in influencer marketing, mobile marketing, e-commerce, retail merchandising, corporate social responsibility, and entrepreneurship.

BBR – now in its 15th run - offers opportunities for global brands to meet in an intimate environment to forge partnerships and discuss how beauty brands are expanding into new channels, distributions, and next-gen customers.

 "The beauty industry had an extremely busy year in 2016 with major brand acquisitions, retail rebooting, and emerging markets. Based on the projected industry growth for 2017, our goal is to continually facilitate lasting and invaluable connections for the beauty industry as a whole" said Frances Mazur, CEO of Mazur Group. "After every BBR event, we see both current and new businesses flourish and powerful partnerships form. When the beauty community is given the opportunity to come together in a forum with an equal playing field, the ideas that are sparked – from marketing innovations to essential steps when scaling the business - are incredible. More importantly, we give our speakers the opportunity to connect with their peers, which is rare in the beauty industry."

BBR15 featured Blair Lawson, Head Merchant at goop whose Keynote Address “Contextual Commerce: Content and Conversion” shared how goop started in 2008 as an e-newsletter founded by Gwyneth Paltrow, and later developed into a lifestyle site with over 1MM subscribers today. In 2014, the goop website launched their e- commerce site which now includes over 150 “clean beauty” products. Lawson also revealed the importance of creating all the content and storytelling in advance, which in 2016, paved the way for their first Goop-branded beauty line, Goop by Juice Beauty, resulting in “a complete, clean-beauty eco-system with multi-brand and goop- branded products.”

Roundtables were led by a variety of experts in beauty marketing, digital media, retail, and e-commerce:

• John Bohan, CEO & Founder/Socialtyze - "Your 2017 Influencer Marketing Attack"

• Sasha Calder, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility & Engagement/Josie Maran - "Deeper Than Face Value: Developing Brands with Purpose"

• Jessica Chung, Director of Merchandising/Dermstore - "Nailing the Pitch and More: How to Have Winning Conversations with Retailers"

• Kate Edwards, Co-Founder/Heartbeat - "Millennials and GenZ: Rethinking What You Know About Marketing"

• Erik Huberman, Founder & CEO/Hawke Media - “ROI Driven Marketing”

• Deanna Kangas & Andrew Knox, Co-Presidents/Ouai Haircare - “How to Launch a Brand with the Mobile Generation: Using Veteran Experience with New World Tactics”

• Fadi Mourad, Chief Innovation Officer/Dollar Shave Club - "Men’s Needs – A Hard Nut to Crack"

• Kim Walls, EVP/LimeCrime - "Global eCom: Payments to Shipping - How to Get It Done"

• Corey Weiss, Head of Business Development/ipsy - "Community to Commerce: Build It and They Will Come"

• Jennifer Yen, Founder/pur-lisse - "TV Villainess to Skin Hero – An Unconventional Path to Entrepreneurship"

• Christina Zilber, Founder & CEO/Jouer Cosmetics –“Branding in the Era of Snapchat”

"BBR is a great way to learn from other segments within the Beauty Industry. Cosmetics, Hair, and Skin are all within beauty, but each faces different challenges and opportunities," says Caleb Foltermann, Vice President of National Accounts at Sexy Hair Concepts. "Meeting people with these similar but unique challenges offers invaluable insight into my own segment of the market and how the industry is trending as a whole.”

BBR15 is sponsored by Women’s Marketing and Cosmopak. The next Beauty Biz Roundtable (BBR16) is slated for October 2017 in Santa Monica.

About BBR

Founded by Mazur Group in 2009, the BBR series has evolved into the preeminent bi-annual event for beauty executives on the West Coast. Starting with a continental breakfast and open networking followed by a Keynote Address, attendees engage with one another and their Facilitators in a roundtable format that fosters networking and idea sharing. Each Facilitator leads their 3 groups through dynamic learnings and inspires attendees to share and collaborate. Attendees are then invited to continue networking during  a post-event lunch directly following the roundtables. http://mazurgroupla.com/beauty-biz-roundtable/

About Mazur Group

Mazur Group places outstanding executive, managerial, and professional-level candidates. We provide unique access to both full-time / direct-hire candidates, as well as industry consultants available for specific projects or indefinite engagements. With a strong emphasis on local brands, Mazur Group specializes in helping small- to mid- sized businesses make critical executive hires, positioning them to scale towards acquisition. Mazur Group is headquartered in Santa Monica, California and recruits for companies across the United States, with a 95% return rate with our clients.