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Bernadette Fitzpatrick Knows a Brand Is More Than Its Marketing Plan
After helping Sephora turn content into retail infrastructure, Bernadette Fitzpatrick built a career around a deceptively hard idea: creative judgment and commercial discipline should sit at the same table.
Ben Jones Bet Haus Labs Could Learn Its Way Back
The Haus Labs CEO took a celebrity beauty launch through an unusually public reset. His useful idea is simple: distribution creates reach, but patient product work earns a second act.
Vivian Alhorn
Vivian Alhorn is Chief Marketing Officer at Torrid, the plus-size apparel retailer serving women in sizes 10 to 30. She joined Torrid in 2021 as VP of Digital Experience, was promoted to Chief Digital Officer in 2022, and stepped into the CMO seat in March 2023. Her career has moved through some of the country's most recognizable specialty retailers, including Gap Inc., Banana Republic, Pottery Barn, Sephora and Gymboree, giving her a rare mix of merchandising, ecommerce and brand fluency.
Julie Bornstein
Julie Bornstein is the founder and CEO of Daydream, an AI-powered shopping search engine that raised $50M in seed funding in 2024 and publicly launched in 2025. A serial entrepreneur and e-commerce pioneer, she grew Nordstrom.com from $10M to $350M in sales, transformed Sephora's digital business and launched Beauty Insider, scaled Stitch Fix to $1B as COO, and sold her AI fashion startup The Yes to Pinterest in 2022. With a Harvard BA and HBS MBA, Bornstein has spent 25+ years at the intersection of retail, technology, and artificial intelligence.