Retail Dive: The Changing Face of Beauty Retail

Marie Driscoll is Managing Director, Luxury & Retail at Coresight Research. She is a noted
subject matter expert on beauty, fashion, luxury goods, retail, and sustainability, works directly
with Coresight’s retail and brand clients, and is frequently quoted in the press and speaks at
industry events. She is one of Rethink Retail’s Top 100 Retail Influencers in 2021 and 2022.

Marie has served in key analytical and business development roles in leading financial research
firms and was recognized three times in The Wall Street Journal’s “Best on the Street” analyst
survey, including first place ranking in the Clothing & Accessories industry.

Marie started Driscoll Advisors to provide consulting services to academia, industry, investors
and non-profits. She has contributed content to The Robin Report, Sourcing Journal and ICSC
publications and consulted with Shoptalk. As a thought leader, her contributions include white
papers for CohnReznick, Luxury Daily and Deloitte’s Global Powers of Luxury Goods 2014, and
content development at LIM College and Parsons, The New School. Marie joined New York’s
Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in 2016 where she is part of the Entrepreneurship Program
at the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology. She is an adjunct instructor
teaching Equity Analysis at CUNY’s Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College and teaches
Funding Beauty & Fashion at Parsons. Marie is on the board of the Retail Marketing Society and
the NRF’s (National Retail Federation) Associate Membership Council.

Stacia Prince was the former International Buying Director at Cult Beauty and former Skincare buyer at QVC UK.

Richard is a co-founder and Partner of Triangle Capital and has been an investment banker
for over 35 years. Richard has a great deal of experience advising clients in merchandising
businesses, particularly in the Retail & Consumer sector.  Richard is an often-quoted expert
on the retail and merchandising industries. He is a Contributor to Forbes.com where he
writes a regular blog about trends in retail and consumer product businesses. He also
appears regularly in print and other media as well as industry panels and speaking programs.
 
Before co-founding Triangle, Richard was a Managing Director at a boutique investment
banking firm called Financo, Inc. While at Financo, Richard was responsible for a majority of
the firm’s apparel industry transactions. Prior to joining Financo, Richard was a Partner and
First Vice President at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. At Drexel, Richard was responsible for a group of 14 professionals doing middle-market mergers and acquisitions around the world.

Richard is the co-author of three books on finance and computer programming. He is formerly an Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Business at the graduate program of the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Richard received a BS in Accounting from New York University and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from Harvard University. Richard is married and lives in New York.

Kelly Kovack is the CEO and Founder of BeautyMatter, a noted beauty authority, brand advisor and strategist. She began her career in beauty as one of the original executive team members at Bliss, taking on the way women bought beauty as the Managing Director of the Bliss Catalog. This venture fundamentally changed the way beauty products were merchandised, distributed and marketed to consumers leading the acquisition of Bliss by LVMH. As Vice President of Marketing for Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare, she was at the forefront of defining the cosmeceutical category. Kelly also founded consultancy group Purpose Built, providing concept to counter solutions and strategic advisement for startups to Fortune 500 brand and everything in between. In addition, she's also built her own brands, most recently award-winning fragrance brand, Odin, which was co-founded in collaboration with the men's fashion brand. Kelly is the “lens” of BeautyMatter providing a fresh voice to the beauty industry with highly curated news and original content.