Barbara Geusens

Arnaud Plas

Arnaud is the CEO and Co-Founder of Prose.

Prose offers fresh and custom-made hair care, combining expertise from a professional stylist (online or in-salon), clients’ unique needs and the highest-quality ingredients to help clients achieve great hair.
The Prose experience starts with a holistic consultation that is designed to understand clients’ hair and scalp needs, goals, lifestyle habits and environmental exposure (pollution, UV, humidity, etc.) to guarantee only the most essential ingredients are bottled to effectively treat and nourish hair for long-term health.
Each exclusive formulation accounts for personal preferences, whether they are vegan, gluten or fragrance-free, and is freshly made in NYC by a team of chemists.

Pippa Lamb

Pippa is an invesor at Sweet Capital and splits her time between the London and LA offices. Prior to Sweet Capital, Pippa worked in Consumer Private Equity at LVMH-backed L Catterton, where she was part of the investment team that worked on a $175m co-invest with JD.com into Secoo, China's largest luxury e-commerce player. Prior to this, Pippa spent five years at J.P. Morgan in London and Hong Kong, where she was part of the global equity strategy team, analysing companies for investment primarily in the technology and consumer space. Before J.P. Morgan, Pippa worked for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Shanghai and Beijing, developing UK/China investment and policy initiatives. Pippa holds an BA in Chinese from Oxford University and an MBA (Fulbright Scholar) from Harvard Business School. Pippa was promoted to Partner in July 2019.

George Ohta

Educational background

Apr.1973～Mar.1977
Graduated from Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faclty of Animal Sciece, Kitasato University

Mar.1977
Veterinary License acquisition (No, 16065)

Oct.2009
Doctor of veterinary medicine

Career history

Apr 2012:  Appointed representative Inuyama Animal General Medical Center

Dec 2013:  Appointed representative “Team HOPE”

I do a part-time lecturer to students about clinical ethics of clinical veterinarians, current situation and problems of animal hospitals, and surgical diseases in Kitasato University, Iwate University, Miyazaki University and Gifu University.

Also I lecture about “general surgery” and “about management of animal hospital” once or twice a year in overseas such as Taiwan, Korea, China and Thailand.

Tom Elliott

Tom is a founding member of the Future Brands Team at Sainsbury’s, tasked with spearheading the growth of new & distinctive brands across food and drink. He has been responsible for some of the biggest NPD launches in Sainsbury’s this year. Prior to this, he led Sainsbury’s expansion into Hong Kong & Singapore, the first time in its 150-year history, as well as holding a number of commercial and strategic roles, with a background in Strategy Consulting.

Fabien Gross

The wine house ‘Pierre Chavin’ was founded by Fabien Gross
and Mathilde Boulachin. Fabien Gross is a specialist of the art
of wine-blending and wine innovation.

Originally from Alsace, is grandfather, with whom he grew up,
had a wine estate and taught him the first tricks of the trade.
Fabien became passionate about viticulture and wanted to
delve into the scientific and biological aspects of the job.

For this, Fabien went to study agronomy, oenology in
Burgundy and WSET Diploma (starting the Master of Wine).
After successfully completing this, he started a blitz career in
the French wine industry and in California.

After several top jobs at large French wineries, Fabien wanted
to develop his own wine estate. In 2010, his dream became
reality and he founded the Villa Noria domain, where he
focused on the production of organic, environmentallyfriendly
wines.

There, our winegrower met Mathilde Boulachin, a marketing
specialist, and they founded wine estate Pierre Chavin
together.

At Pierre Chavin, Fabien is the chief winemaker and in charge
of R&D, innovation. He creating since 2011 the new line of
alcohol free wine.

Pierre Chavin is now the first French producer of premium
alcohol free wines.