Alexandra Richmond, Senior Beauty and Personal Care Analyst Mintel

Alexandra has 4 years experience of tracking and analysing trends within the beauty and personal care industry. Based in London, as a senior beauty and personal care analyst, Alexandra is responsible for publishing health and beauty reports for the Market Intelligence series and editorial content for Mintel’s Beauty and Personal Care site. During her time at Mintel, Alexandra has published almost 50 reports covering a wide range of categories and topics from Make-up to Cosmetic Surgery and Cosmeceuticals to Hair Colourants.

Alexandra is a well-noted analyst in the consumer research industry and has provided commentary for major news organisations including the Telegraph, The Independent, CNN, Sky News, Channel 4 News as well as a number of BBC radio stations including radio Five Live. In addition, Alexandra has been featured in several key trade publications including in-cosmetics, Cosmetics Design, Women’s Wear Daily, and Pure Beauty.

Roja Dove, Professeur de Parfums, Roja Dove

Roja Dove is not rare. Roja Dove is unique. Roja is the world’s sole
“Professeur de Parfums”. There are celebrated noses in this multi-billion international business; there are small pools of astonishing creativity in what has become a corporate, highest of high tech, but anyone who asks for real knowledge - for a sorcerer’s grasp of what really happens in the perfumery industry is always, always referred to Roja Dove.

Roja’s comments and his great expertise are quoted in relation to nearly every manufacturer of fragrance in the world, whilst his anecdotes keep world-wide audiences on a rollercoaster of laughter, astonishment and fascination. Roja knows the rules of perfumery, he knows the rules of business and he knows what the market has done, is doing and will be doing next year.

Throughout his years in perfumery, and his constant travelling and lecturing, Dove has become the connoisseurs’ connoisseur. Roja continues to travel and shares his passion of the mysteries of perfume, whilst working with all the top names the industry has to offer. Whether Dove is making his audiences giggle with a risqué description of Schiaperelli’s Shocking (“like the interior of ladies’ underwear”) or its new imitator Westwood’s Boudoir (“like Shocking but without the knickers”) the
phrase which probably sums him up best is simple: “his passion is contagious”.

Jean-Pierre Houri, DG, IFRA

Initially, Jean-Pierre was Assistant Professor with HEC, specialising in Strategy and Business Policy. He started his business life in the stainless steel industry at Creusot-Loire where he worked between 1972 and 1977 as Marketing Director and later as Managing Director for the US Operations. This was followed by two years with Booz Allen Hamilton as a Management Consultant.

In 1980 Jean-Pierre Houri joined Naarden International as Managing Director for France Flavours and Fragrances. After the acquisition of Naarden by Unilever, he became responsible for Quest’s total operations in France, with the prime task of merging the PPF and the Naarden organisations. In 1989 he was appointed Vice President, Flavours Europe. Crucially in 1992, he was appointed Group Vice President, Fragrance Division based at Ashford in Kent.

In April 2005 Jean-Pierre Houri was named Director General of the recently expanded IFRA (International Fragrance Association), where he has been continuously serving the interests of the fragrance industry around the world. The new group has now two arms: the US based Research Institute for Fragrance Materials and the Brussels based Communication group. Jean-Pierre is proud to represent an industry which makes products that bring pleasure and beauty into people’s lives.

Under Jean-Pierre’s jurisdiction, the Fragrance Division of Quest International grew in stature within the fragrance industry, creating fine fragrances for prestige brands and leading fashion and film icons. It was his personal touch which inspired the perfumers working in Quest and the development of several unique consumer understanding tools. Throughout his career Jean-Pierre’s olfactory gifts have been highly valued and despite the pressures of running major international organisations, he has delighted in spending time in perfumery. A free spirit and intellectual thinker, Jean-Pierre is a creative perfumery champion.

Irene Maguire, Joint MD, Caulder Moore
As Marketing Director & Partner, Irene is responsible for ensuring that the clients’ culture, customers, commercial objectives, competitors and market context are fully considered in developing the design brief. This approach guarantees that the design brief benefits from a commercial, informed, up to date perspective.

Irene helped to establish Caulder Moore in 1990 and she has experience with a range of beauty clients including Champneys, Aveda, Elemis, Dr Hauschka, Jo Malone, Cobella, Charles Worthington, Daniel Hersheson, SPA Stoke Park Club and L’Oreal.She has a BA from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from the Scottish Business School.