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Elina Vives Left the CMO Track - and Came Back With the Whole Business in View
After years selling beer, wearables, and light, Elina Vives chose operating responsibility over the tidy marketing ladder. At Chamberlain Group, that detour has become her advantage.
Elena Otero Built Brands Across 40 Countries. Now She Works on the Questions Behind Them.
An engineer by training and a marketer by practice, Elena Otero learned to make global brands feel local. Her second act moves the same discipline from the supermarket shelf to the boardroom.
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.
Michael Dearing
Michael Dearing is the founder and sole General Partner of Harrison Metal, a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Woodside, California. A former SVP at eBay who oversaw nearly $20 billion in gross merchandise sales, Dearing is one of Silicon Valley's most respected — and deliberately low-profile — early-stage investors. He taught entrepreneurial finance and management at Stanford for nearly a decade, coined the concept of 'cognitive distortions of founders,' and has backed companies including AdMob (acq. Google $750M), Acompli (acq. Microsoft $200M), MasterClass, PagerDuty, and Signal Sciences. He operates Harrison Metal with the philosophy that great general management is the scarcest resource in startup ecosystems.