Shashi Kiran Chilappagari
Shashi Chilappagari is the Co-Founder and Chief Architect at DeGirum Corp., a fabless semiconductor company building complete AI solutions for the edge. Prior to DeGirum, he was the Director of SSD Architecture at Marvell Semiconductor Inc. Shashi has B. Tech and M. Tech degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
Aleni Mackarey
Chief Operating Officer at Base Beauty Creative Agency, Aleni Mackarey has spent her entire career growing beauty and wellness brands. She loves that this industry provides a platform to empower people to feel beautiful in their own way by giving them the tools to highlight their strengths and features and the encouragement they need to feel like they are their best selves. Aleni's background is in business- she holds her MS in Administration & is pursuing her PhD in Strategic Leadership & Administration. In her free time, she enjoys exploring NYC with family and friends and singing with her sister in their acoustic duo, Siisjams.
Audrey Anderson Duckett
Aïmara Coupet
Multi-Racial Aïmara was born in Martinique of afro-Caribbean and French descents and grew up in Canada before moving to Paris 17 years ago.
Graduated from HEC Montreal Business School she started her career in 1999 at L’Oreal Canada as Product Manager for Makeup. She then moved to Sephora’s global headquarter in Paris to develop Sephora Collection. 6 years later, she took over the Head of Development and Marketing at blackUp Cosmetics where she built a unique expertise as Brown and Black Skin Specialist.
In 2016, working as a well-respected independent specialist for product development, she started a mission with a French Lab on a very innovative formulation to create a silicone free, cucumber water-based foundation… She got totally passionate about creating makeup to really respect skin balance and improve skin condition. She then got introduced to the skin microbiome by a French Doctor in Biology with whom she started introducing encapsulated active probiotics into her makeup products.
BE+RADIANCE was born in 2019 and the probiotic infused makeup launched in October 2020. The brand mission is to create makeup products for healthier skin with a microbiome friendly approach.
Thomas Crouzier
Brian T. Nguyen
Sarah Chamberlain
Shail Thaker
