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Tatcha Put a Two-Minute Ritual in a Purple Jar
A blotting paper became a prestige skincare brand, a reported $500 million exit and a lesson in how ritual can be product design. Tatcha now has to keep intimacy intact while selling through more doors than ever.
Aurelian Lis
Aurelian Lis is the Global CEO of Dermalogica, the professional skin-care brand owned by Unilever Prestige. A self-described 'nerdy physicist with a love for cosmetics,' he took the top job in January 2016 after quadrupling Benefit Cosmetics' Americas business to roughly $500 million as its general manager. Trained in physics at Oxford and business at INSEAD, Lis built and sold his own customized skincare company before bringing a science-meets-emotion philosophy and a habit of relentless iteration to one of the world's leading professional skincare houses.