Inspiration is the fuel for creative minds that often happens unexpectedly, opening us up to new possibilities that transcend our ordinary experiences. We created the BeautyMatter Awards to recognize and celebrate our community's thinkers, makers, and doers whose work raises the bar, inspires others, and defines the future. These individuals and brands are unafraid of challenging the status quo, changing the playbook, and making beauty matter in the process.
What is your role in shaping the future of beauty? Share your vision and accomplishments by submitting for one of our BeautyMatter 2025 Awards for Visionaries.
New Awards
Marketer of the Year: Recognizes a marketing professional who has demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, strategic vision, and impact in driving brand growth and engagement.
Product Developer of the Year: Recognizes a product developer who has made a significant contribution through innovative product creation, formulation, or design that raises the bar.
Investor of the Year: Recognizes an investor who has demonstrated visionary leadership through investments made and their contribution to the industry.
CEO of the Year: Recognizes a CEO who has demonstrated visionary leadership, driving the success and growth of their company while fostering a strong culture and strategic direction.
CFO of the Year: Recognizes a CFO who has shown exceptional financial stewardship, strategic insight, and leadership in driving company success and managing financial growth.
COO of the Year: Recognizes a COO who has excelled in operational leadership, optimizing processes, driving efficiency, and enabling business growth and success.
Visionaries Awards
Changemaker of the Year: More than simply doing good, these people embody change driven by an empathy for others and a desire to make the world a better place. Having the intention of doing something good is a common desire among leaders and entrepreneurs, but change only happens when intentions are translated into action. And a true changemaker identifies a problem or opportunity to tackle, decides to do something about it, and only stops once they make a difference.
2024 - Tarang Amin, Chairman & CEO, e.l.f. Beauty
2023 - Edwin Neill, President, the Neill Companies
2022 - Nyakio Grieco, founder, Relevant: Your Skin Seen and co-founder, Thirteen Lune
2024 - Who Should Apply: Founders, executives, or investors. We are looking for a person who has profoundly changed the business of beauty by bringing about positive change linked to equity, health, climate, or sustainability.
Entrepreneur of the Year: The beauty industry has never lacked successful entrepreneurs. Many multinational businesses in the beauty ecosystem were built by passionate founders who put in long hours, made sacrifices, and took risks to scale their nascent ideas into scalable businesses. The consumer's seemingly insatiable desire for newness has created a flywheel for founders with big ambitions. Starting a business is relatively easy, but it is the ambitious, charismatic founders who instill excitement about their ideas, build a culture that attracts talent, and possess business acumen that creates demand, that break through.
2024 - Shai Eisenman, Founder & CEO, Bubble Skincare
2023 - Suveen Sahib, co-founder and CEO, K18 Biomimetic Hairscience
2022 - Akash Mehta, CEO and founder, Fable & Mane
2024 - Who Should Apply: Founders throughout the beauty ecosystem. We are looking for an entrepreneur who has built a business that matters through inspired innovations, demonstrated vision, leadership, and success.
Innovator of the Year: The beauty industry thrives on what's now, what's new, and what's next, and innovation and disruption are concepts that get thrown around a lot. Inspiration is the springboard for creativity that leads to disrupting convention with radically new ideas, and real innovators disrupt by employing long-term thinking and imagining the impossible. They don't peddle in quick fixes and gimmicks.
2024 - Sophie Bai, Founder & CEO, B.A.I. Biosciences
2023 - Candace Mitchell Harris, founder and CEO, Myavana
2022 - Dr. Robb Akridge, founder and CEO, Opulus Beauty Labs
2024 - Who Should Apply: Founders, executives, or investors. We are looking for a person who has made meaningful contributions to the business of beauty by pursuing and executing novel thinking, challenging the status quo, and/or using creative problem solving to move the industry forward.
The Process
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