Jury of Cosmopack Awards

Stephanie Bertand is a passionate trends curator and poly-sensorial textures lover with a 10 years’ experience in Product Development and Prospective Innovation within Global leading beauty players and subcontractors. Ms. Bertand is Senior Manager Trends & Prospective Innovation for Skin Care & Body Care at Coty.

Jessica Blanco is the Director of Product Development at Milk Makeup - a clean, cool beauty brand that strives to create innovative, good-for-you products that reimagine beauty. With 9 years of product development experience in the beauty industry, Ms. Blanco has expertise in color cosmetics and packaging development, as well as sourcing. She began her product development career at a cosmetic manufacturer where she gained first-hand knowledge of creating a beauty product from ideation to execution and distribution into the market. She later consulted on the Global Product Development team at Avon and gained knowledge of global beauty markets and their trends. Within her current position she is responsible for identifying future trends and product innovations, formula development, and primary package development for all product launches.

Sam Cheow is the Chief Product Accelerator at L’Oréal USA. With over 18 years’ experience in global brand, marketing, and product development, Mr. Cheow’s current mission is to consult and advise L’Oréal USA on acceleration and investment in trends and market-crushing innovations that he both identifies and develops — all towards the goal of driving growth and maximizing the recruitment of new consumers. Previously, he led various agencies in Auckland, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore. His award-winning work included projects for global brands such as HSBC, Intel, Cisco, TIME Magazine, Heineken, Singapore Airlines, PlayStation, Nintendo, Schwarzkopf and Wendy’s.

Xiaohong “Masa” Cui is the Founder of Marie Dalgar, one of China’s leading cosmetics companies. Driven by her unique artistic vision and poetic spirit, Marie Dalgar has become one of the country’s most successful make-up brands. The fashion media fondly refer to her as the “godmother of the Chinese cosmetics industry.” Her extravagant, groundbreaking beauty shows and product launches are much-anticipated industry events that garner wide media coverage, as well as millions of faithful social media fans and followers.

Olivier Guillemin has been the Creative Consultant for Shiseido for 19 years. Mr. Guillemin is a celebrated fashion designer, forecaster, and creative director. Mr. Guillemin is also the Chairman of the Comité Français de la Couleur and General Secretary of Intercolor. His prestigious background includes designing for Thierry Mugler, Azzedine Alaïa, and Paco Rabanne, as well as his own well-known label. For his work and contributions to French fashion and creation, Olivier Guillemin was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2002 (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters).

With a degree in Italian Literature from the Università La Sapienza, Rome, and professional experience abroad, Stefano Lavorini came to Milan in 1981, entering the B2B publishing world. In 1985, after a brief experience as vice director of the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio, he started up an intense activity of consultancy in the field of communication and marketing. In 1990 Mr. Lavorini took over as head of the magazine Imballaggio (at that time owned by RCS Rizzoli), position that he held up to 1994, the year in which he founded his own publishing house, Edizioni Dativo, which he also directs. The magazines of his creation comprise ItaliaImballaggio, a bilingual monthly that gives voice to the Italian packaging “culture”, the webmagazine Impackt (that offers an interdisciplinary reflection on the role of packaging in consumer society), and DativoWeb, the online network, in Italian and English, made up of websites, dedicated to packaging design, packaging and bottling, labeling and coding, and that also comprises the PackBook Community.

Elie Papiernik is the CEO of innovative design and branding agency centdegrés, which he co-founded with David Nitlich. Mr. Papiernik believes that defining a sense and purpose is the first task to tackle on any project. Passionate about industry, he continuously collaborates on the technical front in order to help foster and develop what works. Fascinated by the world and the myriad of rich cultures in it, he loves traveling to meet clients and to search for the confrontation of fertile ideas that make for original projects.

Hannah Roberts is the Unilever Prestige Marketing Communications Director and Global Head of Trend for Unilever since 2014. Ms. Roberts has been in the beauty, retail and personal care business for 22 years, most recently as a dynamic Head of Marketing, Trend Forecaster, and Innovation Director. Ms. Roberts successfully crafts and leads global brand strategies using her leading-edge technique of trend forecasting cross referenced with data science and advanced deciphering of global signals or indicators that successfully anticipate socio-cultural trends. As such, she constantly lives in the future, moving the needle by enabling brands and retail partners to optimize their planning, accelerate revenue and ideate accurately for consumers of the future. 

Internationally acclaimed designer, Marc Rosen is known for his award winning (seven FiFi awards) fragrance, cosmetic, and fashion packaging. A creative entrepreneur, he has developed several unique businesses in addition to Marc Rosen Associates, over the past decade: ACCESSmr, Pret-a-Porter and MRA Studio. His foresight has established him as a leader in the fields of design, manufacturing, marketing and public relations. His vision has been inspired by working with famous beauty manufacturers and fashion names such as: Revlon, Estee Lauder, Nina Ricci, Perry Ellis, Oscar de la Renta, Avon, Halston, Chloe, Karl Lagerfeld, Fendi, Burberrys, etc. Mr. Marc Rosen has been involved in several highly acclaimed museum exhibitions. He is a Professor at Pratt Institute Graduate school, where in 1989 they presented him with the prestigious "Excellence by Design" award and established a scholarship in his name for young designers.

Kilala Tilaar heads Corporate Creative and Innovation of the Martha Tilaar Group, one of the largest natural beauty companies in Indonesia. Established in 1970, the Martha Tilaar Group has managed a portfolio of 10 prominent beauty brands in the market, along with 68 spas and more than 20,000 retail points nationwide. Educated in Suffolk University and Harvard University in the States, Mr. Tilaar focuses the Group’s research activities in natural, organic, and halal products to bring Indonesia’s local heritage to the global market. For their innovative approach, the Martha Tilaar Group received the Anugerah Abyudaya Award from the Ministry of Research and Technology of Republic Indonesia in August 2016.

Michele Verschoore is a Doctor in Medicine, specialized in dermatology-venereology and in clinical pharmacology, Dr. Verschoore began her career in skin clinical pharmacology and managed clinical research teams in various pharmaceutical laboratories. Currently Medical Director at L’Oréal, she establishes networks within medical dermatology communities worldwide. She brought together dermatologists from Sub-Saharan Africa in a professional organization with more than 25 countries. She launched ambitious partnerships with health authorities and professional associations in the USA, China, India and Africa to encourage research on hair and skin. Finally, she established education programs on skin aging photoprotection, pigmentation, skin aging and skin of color in several countries. Dr. Verschoore is a part time dermatologist at Hospital Saint Louis, Paris. She has published over 80 articles in renowned medical journals and edited two textbooks Cosmetic Science and Dermatology in China and in India. In 2016, she published the “Male Beauty Guide”, edited by Odile Jacob.

Ana Cecilia is the Global Innovation Leader for Belcorp, a Peruvian multinational that operates under the direct sales model in 15 countries, having a positive impact in millions of people’s lives through its three brands: L’Bel, Esika and Cyzone. With more than 18 years of experience in Innovation, Product Development and Marketing, Ana Cecilia’s role as a Global Innovation Leader expands from building innovation capabilities within the corporate team, to nurturing Front End Innovation, proposing concept opportunities as a trend-hunter in the European and Asian markets. Ms. Villalobos began her career in the cosmetics industry developing new skin care solutions, moving quickly to lead the Fragrance Category at Belcorp, being responsible for the full Front-end and part of the Back-end of the Innovation process. Ana Cecilia is passionate about understanding consumer behavior and exploring new ways to transform a deeper understanding of their needs into solutions that will change their life in a positive way.

Gergana von Heyking is the Global Marketing Director of Drom Fragrances. With expertise in Fine Fragrance, Personal and Home Care from Prestige, Masstige, Mass and Private Label markets. With almost 12 years of experiences within the fragrance industry, Ms. Heyking has a major knowledge of the different global markets, segments and trend developments. Within this position, she is responsible for the global marketing teams (5 creative centers in Brazil, China, USA, Spain, France and Germany with 30 people worldwide) and the planning of all Drom marketing campaigns and activities, strategic marketing, PR and trend developments as well as global key account customers for Drom. 

Lan Vu is the CEO of Beautystreams, the leading trend source for the beauty and packaging industries. Beautystreams provides color and trend forecasts and consumer insights to companies across six continents including Amway, AmorePacific, Chanel, Estée Lauder, LG, L’Oréal, MAC, Marie Dalgar, Martha Tilaar Companies, P&G, Sephora, Unilever, etc. Ms.Vu is a renowned trend forecast authority with over 25 years of experience. She has contributed to and is widely quoted in many international publications such as Vogue, WWD, Marie Claire, Vanity Fair, Textile View, etc. A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, she lectures worldwide at key industry events.

Moritz Waldemeyer is an internationally renowned designer based in London. His work occupies a diverse range of creative spaces, from art and product design to fashion and entertainment.

Originally from Germany, Moritz moved to London in 1995 to study engineering at Kings College. He completed his Mechatronics master’s degree in 2001 before making his debut into the design world, enabling interactive show pieces for Swarovski’s Crystal Palace exhibition.

Following his early collaborative work for the likes of Hussein Chalayan and Zaha Hadid, Moritz soon established himself as an independent designer. He held his first two gallery exhibitions “Electric Kid” and “By Royal Appointment” between 2006 and 2007. A year later, Moritz exhibited in MoMA’s Design & the Elastic Mind exhibition. In 2013 his lighting product ‘My New Flame’ was unveiled as part of MoMA’s permanent collection.

Moritz founded his own Studio in 2004, enabling him to work on large-scale, independent projects. The Studio was built on a philosophy of playful experimentation by forging links between technology, art, fashion and design. This approach has resulted in a number of bespoke installations for brands like Audi, Panerai and Rinascente as well as a series of eccentric LED-embedded hats designed in collaboration with Philip Treacy.

The studio has also made its mark in the music industry by creating high-tech, light-studded costumes for a range of a-list clients including U2, Rihanna, and also the London Olympics Handover Ceremony performers. In 2017 his studio performed a complete redesign of Jamiroquai’s stage persona, in the form of a parametric robotic hat. The same year, the studio created the new lighting brand “mori.london” via a Kickstarter campaign, as a vehicle to sell innovative lighting products directly online.

Moritz acts as head designer in everything the studio undertakes, crafting his signature aesthetic into each piece.