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Jenkin Richard
Jenkin Richard is the co-founder and CEO of ChatLabs, an AI platform that turns social media traffic into personalized, on-brand shopping journeys for luxury and consumer brands. Incubated inside LVMH's innovation accelerator, ChatLabs raised a $3.2M seed round led by Silicon Road Ventures in December 2024 and counts LVMH houses like Dior and Tiffany, plus Kering, Richemont and Samsung among its partners. Before ChatLabs, Richard founded and served as CTO of the social commerce firm Chatly, which was acquired by Salesforce. He holds an MBA from MIT's Sloan School and an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley.
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.
Kristin Walcott
Kristin Walcott is the CEO of Kendo Brands, the San Francisco beauty incubator owned by LVMH and home to Fenty Beauty, KVD Vegan Beauty, Ole Henriksen, Fenty Skin, Lip Lab and Kendo Fragrances. She joined Kendo in 2013, ran KVD Vegan Beauty through record growth, was promoted to President in 2019 and named CEO effective December 1, 2020 - the first woman to lead the company.