Editorial Advisory Board
The industry leaders on the GCI magazine editorial advisory board reflect GCI magazine’s readership and the broad range of businesses they represent.
Beth Ann Catalano
twist.new.brand.venture
Beth Ann Catalano was a regional sales manager for Lancôme in the 1980s when there was a commitment to making Lancôme as big as Estée Lauder. By 2000, she was vice president of sales at Unilever, where she led the introduction of the Vera Wang fragrance. From there, she went on to lead the Guerlain division at LVMH.
She met co-president of twist new.brand.venture Tina Hedges shortly after each had quit jobs that were the culmination of many years of learning the industry and climbing the corporate ladder. The two were in the midst of putting together their idea for a brand incubator that they named twist.new.brand.venture, when a phone call brought them their first project—to put together financing and a management team and began development on what would become Jonathan Product, for Bravo’s celebrity stylist Jonathan Antin.
Peter Gallagher
Unilever
Liz Grubow
LPK Beauty Group
Liz Grubow is vice president and group creative director of the LPK Beauty Group. In her 20-plus year career, Grubow has helped develop and manage brand identity programs for some of the world’s most successful beauty brands—including Pantene, Olay, MAX Factor International and Cover Girl. She has been recognized internationally by the prestigious London International Advertising Awards for Design and has been bestowed with the Procter & Gamble CEO Design Award. She has also been named a CLIO finalist and a finalist for the DESI Award at the New York Art Directors Show.
Tina Hedges
twist.new.brand.venture
Tina Hedges believes that her most formative years were her first few years in the beauty industry. In 1989, Bernd Metzger, the president of Parfums Christian Dior, was looking for some new energy and new blood with a global perspective. Hedges joined his “Polyglots” program—a young international force with global backgrounds that he felt would bring a fresh approach to the beauty industry. From there she went to work in product development at Princess Marcella Borghese. After leaving Borghese, followed her mentor to Estée Lauder.
She met co-president of twist new.brand.venture Beth Ann Catalano shortly after each had quit jobs that were the culmination of many years of learning the industry and climbing the corporate ladder. The two were in the midst of putting together their idea for a brand incubator that they named twist.new.brand.venture, when a phone call brought them their first project—to put together financing and a management team and began development on what would become Jonathan Product, for Bravo’s celebrity stylist Jonathan Antin.
Camille McDonald
Bath & Body Works
A 27-year veteran of the beauty industry, Camille McDonald is a prolific and multidimensional leader whose competencies and experience encompass product development, marketing, sales, brand development, advertising, public relations and general management—in both broad-based and luxury segments, for wholesale as well as retail businesses. Her work has been recognized with numerous FiFi, CEW, and magazine editorial awards. She has also been personally recognized with an Advertising Age top marketer award, the Beauty Ball Golden Apple, and the CEW Achiever Award. She is best known for conceiving and building mega beauty brands extended from luxury fashion, as well as for repositioning companies to achieve accelerated growth by clarifying and effectively harvesting their commercial DNA.
As a result, Camille’s career has spawned a hit parade of iconic brands and precedent-setting growth strategies for the beauty industry. Her brand-building credits have included global responsibility for American brands such as Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, Marc Jacobs and Kenneth Cole—as well as North American responsibility for legendary French brands such as Givenchy and Guerlain.
In 2004, Camille left her position at LVMH as president and CEO of American Designer Fragrances and Givenchy/Guerlain North America to apply her talents in the specialty retail arena. She joined Bath & Body Works in August 2004 as EVP Merchandising and Brand Development, working with cross-functional teams to reinvent the multibillion dollar personal care specialty retailer into a beauty juggernaut of the world’s best and biggest brands in fragrance, skin care, hair, apothecary and spa. From 2004-2007, BBW has delivered a record performance, the result of a rule-breaking, customer-centric vision that has produced such new destination brands as Patricia Wexler, M.D. Dermatology, American Girl, C.O. Bigelow, Savannah Bee Company and Aquatanica—as well as the successful upgrades of BBW’s Signature fragrant body care, Aromatherapy and True Blue Spa collections.
Debbie Murtha
Macy’s Merchandising Group
Art Rich
A. Rich Development
Art Rich grew up in New York City and graduated from Columbia University with a B.S. in pharmacy. He then attended the University of Iowa, where he received an M.S. in physical pharmacy and a PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry. His thesis work focused on the chemical complexation between various medicinal agents and common pharmaceutical excipients.
Dr. Rich spent his professional career in the R&D areas of a number of the major cosmetic, personal care and pharmaceutical companies. These have included Johnson & Johnson (Senior Scientist), Ortho Pharmaceutical (Group Leader), Avon Products (Section Manager) and Bath and Body Works (Senior Director). Since 2001, he has been president of A. Rich Development, a consulting firm involved in the creation and development of products for the personal care and beauty industries.
He is a member of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists, New York Academy of Sciences, American Academy for the Advancement of Science and the Sigma Xi Honor Society.
Marc Rosen
Marc Rosen Associates
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 two unique businesses in the past decade—ACCESSmr and Pret-a-Porter. 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, Estée Lauder, Nina Ricci, Perry Ellis, Oscar de la Renta, Avon, Halston, Chloe, Karl Lagerfeld, Fendi, Bath & Body Works, Victoria's Secret, Ellen Tracy and Burberrys. Just before establishing his own firm in 1989, Rosen held the position of senior vice president — corporate design and communications for Elizabeth Arden Global for more than a decade. In that role, he was responsible for all corporate design, packaging, in-store merchandising and public relations.
Rosen has been involved in three highly acclaimed museum exhibitions: in 1979, he created "Cosmetic Packaging: A 20th Century Art Form" at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, and co-chaired The Fragrance Foundations "Scents of Time" exhibit (1986-87), which traveled nationwide. In September 2002, he created an exhibit titled "Glass Houses," featuring his perfume bottle designs, to celebrate the opening of Pratt Institute's new graduate center in Manhattan. His designs are represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Musée de La Mode, Paris.
Rosen writes "On Design," a monthly column for the influential trade magazine, Beauty Fashion. He is a professor of package design at Pratt Institute Graduate school, which, in 1989, presented him with the prestigious "Excellence by Design" award and established a scholarship for young designers in his name. The scholarship is supported by the cosmetic industry at a fundraiser held at New York's University Club annually. He is also a Pratt trustee.
Often quoted in such press as Smithsonian Magazine, the New York Times, WWD, Elle and Allure as a cosmetic and fragrance authority, Rosen has contributed his time and talents to many charity organizations—including the March of Dimes, The American Cancer Society, The City of Hope, The Fragrance Foundation and the Fashion Institute of Technology.
A graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University, where he received a BFA, he also holds an master's degree and honorary doctorate from Pratt Institute. Rosen lives and works in New York City with his wife, the actress Arlene Dahl.