Lorne Lucree

Senior Vice President, Global Innovation, TATCHA

Central Strategic Innovation Advisor, Unilever Prestige

Lorne Lucree has spent his career utilizing a passion for beauty combined with a constant curiosity to distill consumer insights, developments in technology and active ingredients, packaging innovations, progress in sustainability, olfactive trends, inclusion efforts, and latest formulation techniques into blue sky ideas that translate into breakthrough, retail ready products that resonate with a wide range of consumers and retail partners.

 

Combine the consumer-first approach of marketing from Procter & Gamble, the attention to beauty métier from L’Oréal and Estee Lauder, the entrepreneurial creative spirit of the world of brand building at a fast growth beauty incubator, a successful ability to partner with founders and celebrity influencers, an understanding of working with private equity and venture capital firms, and a deep knowledge of operations and supply chain from personal care manufacturing, and you have a snapshot Lorne’s professional background that informs his approach to concept development. 

 

Lorne has a keen eye for concepting successful innovation that wins awards and resonates with consumers and press on a global scale. Awards include Allure Best of Beauty, Allure Best of Beauty Breakthrough, Refinery 29 Beauty Innovator, Glamour Beauty Award, Times UK Style Beauty Award, and Nylon Beauty Hit List. 

 

Currently, Lorne serves as the Chief Innovation Officer and Head of ESG at Voyant Beauty, the largest beauty and personal care contract manufacturer in North America, leading a team of 75+ R&D, Marketing, and Innovation Experts implementing all skin, body, hair, and fragrance innovation efforts for a customer base that ranges from specialty retail and D2C focused indies to large blue-chip global beauty companies. He also serves on the Board of the Household and Commercial Products Association as well as the President of the Board of the Western Aerosol Information Bureau.

 

Lorne has his MBA with a focus on Marketing, Leadership, and Change Management from NYU Stern School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree with a focus on Women’s Studies from Boston University.

Alena Busche

Vice President Intellectual Property

HMNC Brain Health

 

Dr. Alena Busche is Vice President Intellectual Property at HMNC Brain Health and as such is responsible for the IP strategy and the management and expansion of the IP portfolio. Prior to joining HMNC Brain Health, she worked as an in-house counsel at Immatics Biotechnologies. Dr. Busche is European and French patent Attorney and developed her core skills at Lavoix, one of the largest French law firms, and at the German law firm Zwicker Schnappauf & Partner.

Daniel Cremin

Executive Director, Head of Climate Alliances and Product Alignment

MSCI

Daniel Cremin is Executive Director, Head of Climate Alliances and Product Alignment within MSCI’s ESG and Climate product team. He works with climate initiatives and alliances to align MSCI’s products and services to help investors and corporates manage the urgent transition to a net-zero world. He also leads MSCI’s involvement in the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and Net Zero Financial Service Providers Alliance (NSFPA). Previously, Daniel led MSCI’s ESG and climate marketing strategy globally.

Prior to joining MSCI, he served as the Head of Marketing and Communications at Climate Change Capital Limited, a UK-based sustainable asset management and advisory group. He also worked for Microsoft, QinetiQ and the UK Government.

Daniel lives and works in London and holds a BSc in Applied Psychology and Sociology from the University of Surrey and qualifications from the London School of Journalism and Oxford College of Marketing.

Simon Connell

Director

Baringa

Simon is an experienced professional in the field of sustainability and ESG, with more than a decade of experience in bringing together individuals to support sustainable outcomes across multiple settings, In particular, Simon is focused on supporting clients across banking and financial services firms as they integrate climate and sustainability into their strategy and operations. Simon is the former Chair of the Net Zero Banking Alliance, and of the University of Cambridge Banking Environment Initiative and Centre for Sustainable Finance.

 

Nosa Omoigui

CEO and Founder

Weave.AI

Nosa Omoigui is the CEO and founder of Weave.AI. Prior to Weave.AI, he led machine learning and personalization teams at Amazon. Nosa also held a senior role at Microsoft Research (MSR). Nosa has a total of 23 granted patents and over 50 pending patents on various areas of technology, including AI. 

Sus Rajalingam

Director, Business Development

The Climate Service, now a part of S&P Global

Director of Business Development, The Climate Service, now a part of S&P Global

Sus Rajalingam is Director of Business Development for EMEA at The Climate Service, now a part of S&P Global.

Sus is an experienced Financial Services leader with a passion for Climate Risk and understanding how organisations can benefit from incorporating climate considerations into economic decisions - to accurately put a value around its financial impacts and identify the most impactful ways of transitioning towards a low-carbon economy.