The team at Cosmoprof North America is dedicated to helping beauty entrepreneurs succeed. Its annual Mentorship Program offers beauty brand exhibitors 20-minute one-on-one mentoring sessions with founders, CEOs, and beauty industry executives.

Mentors will provide guidance related to various aspects of running a successful beauty business, including retail & distribution, branding, funding, exporting, digital marketing, SEO, social media, trends, and the multicultural market.

This year’s mentors, and their area of expertise, are Jessica Vaccaro, director of marketing & product development, Maesa (Branding); Caroline Coviello, vice president, Creative Media Marketing (Public Relations); Emily Rose Campbell, account director, labelium with Emilie Chan, sr. account manager, labelium (Digital Marketing); Jenna Jackson, principal, growth, CAVU Venture Partners (Financing); Corey Huggins, founder, Ready to Beauty (Entering the multicultural market); Marcia Gaynor, beauty retail executive and strategist (Entering the US mass market); Maggie Ciafardini, CEO, Maggie Ciafardini, Inc. (Entering the US prestige market); Matthew Capala, founder and president, Alphametic (SEO); Karen Young, CEO, The Young Group (Product development); and Jackie Lee, head of beauty & personal care, the Americas, Tmall Global and Kaola (Entering the Chinese market).

Apply on Cosmoprof North America’s website to be a mentee.