Heather Wallace
Heather Wallace joined Curology in September of 2022, as the CEO and member of the board. She has vast experience leading brands and businesses across healthcare, CPG and beauty.
Prior to joining Curology, Heather served as the President of the Americas for Revlon, leading over $1B in sales across luxury, mass and professional beauty. She also served as the SVP & General Manager of Beauty Care for North America at Henkel. She joined Henkel in 2016, following the acquisition of Sun Products. Previously, Heather spent nearly 10 years at Novartis Consumer Health. She began her career in HR at Sysco and holds a MBA from University of Michigan Ross School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of California, Davis.
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Michele Henry
Michele Henry is the Founder and CEO of FACE FOUNDRIÉ. She leads the company’s senior
management team and oversees daily operations and nationwide expansion. Henry guides the
country’s most forthcoming focused facial bar.
Henry helps to lead the company in new innovations and expansion. The company was founded
in 2019 and now boasts six corporate stores with over 60 franchise locations sold.
At FACE FOUNDRIÉ, she led the company through the pivots required to survive the COVID-19
pandemic while simultaneously opening a third corporate location and launching the franchise
program. She has led the company through the pivots required to survive the COVID-19
pandemic while simultaneously opening a third corporate location and launching franchising.
Within four months of announcing the franchise expansion plan to the public, the company has
sold 50 franchise units across the country. Henry has been recognized by various media outlets
for her impressive business career and continues to gain recognition as FACE FOUNDRIÉ
franchises across the country. As a member of the Women’s President Organization, Henry
represents the beauty industry with some of the most prominent and well regarded women in
business throughout the world. In addition to this, she is a member of Young Presidents
Organization (YPO), a 2022 40 under 40 Business Journal Honoree and founder of Savant
Aesthetics Institute. Most recently named Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2023 Heartland Award
winner.
Henry holds two Bachelor's degrees from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota
where she studied Business and Apparel Design. Soon after graduating she launched a series
of companies including PRIMP, a cheap chic boutique, that she started with just $8,000 dollars
in the middle of the recession. The company garnered over $25 million in sales during her
tenure. She sold her shares of PRIMP to pursue FACE FOUNDRIÉ. All of her businesses have
been self-funded, grown 100% organically and debt-free.
Henry is a mom of three residing in the Twin Cities area. When not with her family, the
entrepreneur enjoys rollerblading around the lakes, painting in her art room or digging into the
latest trends and innovations.
Steve Welch
Steve started his first big entrepreneurial success, Mitos, in 2001 with hardly a cent to his name. Without ever raising outside money Steve built Mitos into a global company in the biotech manufacturing field prior to selling it in 2007 at the age of 29 to a Fortune 500 company. Under Steve’s guidance Mitos developed several critical innovations and patents which transformed the manufacturing process of biological drugs and vaccines and allowed Mitos to develop a global sales and distribution network. Following the sale of Mitos, Steve co-founded DreamIt Ventures, a new business accelerator model.. As a 2009 Eisenhower Fellow, Steve has spent time around the world studying all aspects of economic development. Throughout Asia, Europe and North America Steve has examined how economic development is impacted through 1) government policy 2) technology transfer institutions 3) funding sources and 4) culture. In 2010 Steve published “We are all Born Entrepreneurs” in which he uses his story and those of over a dozen other entrepreneurs to explain what drives entrepreneurs, while at the same time sharing lessons learned from the success -- and failures -- of entrepreneurs. In 2011 Steve started KinderTown as an educational app store for parents with children ages 3-8. KinderTown helps parents become their child’s best teacher by utilizing game-based learning on the tablet with learning in the physical world. In 2013 with almost 400,000 users Steve sold KinderTown to Demme Learning. In 2015 Steve founded Restore Hyper Wellness to expand the limits of personal health and performance, to help people do more of what they love through personalized, science-backed therapies. Restore has 225+ locations spread throughout the US. Steve lives in Austin, TX.
Amy Shecter
Amy’s business leadership success has transcended industries and operating environments, with a career spanning beauty, fashion and fitness across digital and physical channels in the domestic and international markets. As a senior executive, Amy has led DTC, wholesale and licensing, in startup, high growth and turnarounds businesses with a focus on delivering strong financial results.
An inspiring enterprise leader, executive team mentor and equally nimble strategist, operator, marketer and merchant, Amy leads the business through a discerning consumer lens and excels at galvanizing the organization to execute. She remains acutely focused on creating an emotional connection between the brand and the customer.
Currently the CEO of Ever/Body, a haven for high-tech beauty services that serves to demystify cosmetic dermatology and make it more available for everyone, Shecter offers a bold vision to revolutionize the industry and lead an ambitious growth strategy focused on accessibility, market expansion, strategic partnerships and more.
Prior to Ever/Body, Amy was the CEO of Glamsquad, CEO of CorePower Yoga and also served as the President of C. Wonder. Earlier, Amy operated in several senior executive capacities at DKNY, Cole Haan, and Tory Burch. Amy advanced up the merchandising, marketing and operations ranks in various leadership roles and began her career at Bloomingdale’s.
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