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Jean Madar leaves room for the next scent
He arrives at work without fragrance, ready to try the next one. After four decades with Interparfums, Jean Madar still makes a business of giving other people’s names a new identity in a bottle.
Emily Coleman
Emily Coleman is the Chief Executive Officer of (MALIN+GOETZ), the New York apothecary-inspired skincare, fragrance and personal care brand. A 20-plus year veteran of luxury beauty, she spent two decades at L'Oreal across Paris, Hong Kong, New York and California in digital, marketing, travel retail, retail operations and supply chain, finishing as Senior Vice President of Urban Decay. She then served as CEO of Chantecaille Beaute, succeeding founder Sylvie Chantecaille, before taking the top job at (MALIN+GOETZ) in March 2025. She is known for building global brands with local relevance.
Brian Jeong
Brian Jeong is the CEO and cofounder of Hawthorne, a New York personalized men's personal care brand he launched in 2016 with his childhood best friend Phil Wong. Hawthorne built its business on a data-driven quiz that matches men to fragrances, skincare, hair care and grooming products tuned to their body chemistry and preferences. With no prior beauty experience, Jeong reverse-engineered the fragrance world through roughly 100 industry interviews in three weeks, growing Hawthorne from an online storefront into a Series B company stocked in thousands of retail doors, including the vast majority of Target stores.
Marc Gallagher
Marc Gallagher is a beauty and luxury executive with 25+ years turning storied brands into digital-first businesses. A would-be architect who detoured through the dot-com boom, he spent nearly a decade inside LVMH building the digital engines of Benefit Cosmetics, Marc Jacobs and Fresh, then doubled Elemis revenue during the pandemic as Chief Brand and Digital Officer, and became the first-ever CMO of British skincare challenger Facetheory. He is associated with Michelle Pfeiffer's clean fragrance house Henry Rose in Los Angeles. His operating creed, inherited from a mentor: if it does not make you nervous, it is not worth doing.