Ekta Chopra
Kinnari Jhaveri
Kinnari leads AR beauty partnerships for Google helping build immersive user experiences in partnership with brands and retailers. Kinnari has been with Google since 2007 leading business development initiatives across Commerce, Search, Maps and AR product areas. Over the last 13 years, she has structured licensing agreements, product integrations and joint go-to-market deals with a variety of Fortune 500 companies across Beauty, Tech, Entertainment and more. Prior to Google, she worked in tech roles at NetSuite and WebMD. She currently lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter.
Michael Rohlfsen
Jas Matharu
Alex Penfold
Alex Penfold is the co-founder of premium men’s skincare company Jaxon Lane. Alex co-founded Jaxon Lane with his wife, Jen, because he found himself constantly dipping into her skincare. They set off to South Korea to develop innovative, high-quality skincare products for men, that are designed in a fun, approachable way. Whether it's a sheet mask that gives you an instant healthy glow, or a sunscreen that is non-greasy, non-white, and doesn't smell like sunscreen, their mission is to develop innovative, effective products that just inspire men to love skincare.
Since its 2018 launch, Jaxon Lane has been featured by GQ, Harper's Bazaar, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New York Magazine, Glamour, The London Times, and more. Jaxon Lane products have won multiple grooming awards, including Men's Health Magazine's 2019 Grooming Awards. The brand is a best seller at retailers like Urban Outfitters and Mr. Porter, and its products are trusted by Hollywood stars like Nick Jonas, and Justin Theroux, to get red-carpet ready.
Narae Chung
Narae Chung is the CEO and co-founder of Cardon, the cactus-based personal care brand for men that provides high quality products at an affordable price by using advanced Korean R&D. Originally from Korea, Chung has worked in the beauty and grooming industry (SK-II, Olay, Gillette) as a P&G brand manager and experienced the early hypergrowth in the men’s care category in Asia. While attaining her MBA at Wharton Business School, she saw the emergence of men’s self-care arising in the U.S. and started Cardon which brings Korean skincare to U.S. market by leveraging unique ingredients such as cactus extract to address male-specific skincare needs (skin irritation, redness from shaving, etc.). Before launching Cardon in 2019, Chung was an Associate Director of Growth Marketing at Walmart eCommerce and a brand manager at P&G.
Andrew Richards
CEO and co-founder of Codeplay, Andrew started his career writing video games in the days of 8-bit computers, progressing to become a lead games programmer at Eutechnyx™, where he wrote best-selling titles such as Pete Sampras Tennis and Total Drivin’. Codeplay have been producing compilers for games consoles, special-purpose processors and GPUs since then. As well as being CEO and Founder of Codeplay Software Ltd, Andrew is also the Chair of the Software working group of the HSA Foundation™ and former Chair of the SYCL™ for OpenCL™ sub-group of the Khronos® Group.
Robert Ober
