Allison Slater Ray

Allison Slater Ray

Co-Founder

Société
Breakthru Beauty
Description
Allison Slater Ray has over twenty-five years of experience as an executive in beauty, wellness, retail and e-commerce. Breakthru Beauty, the beauty advisory firm founded in 2024 by Allison and Lisa Motzko Hamilton, develops brands from start-ups to established with C-level guidance across merchandising, sales, marketing, brand and team building. Current clients include Anua, Scentbird, Soshe, Wonderskin, Estée Lauder companies and Cayla Gray. As a consultant, Allison has worked with beauty brands and fin tech companies on brand positioning, strategy, business development, team building, and sales. Supergoop, Afterpay, Charlotte Tilbury, Scentbird and Live Tinted are among her clients, as well as TZP Private Equity Group where she serves as an operating advisor. Prior to consulting and board advisory roles, Allison was President at MBX, a Korean beauty incubator and then served as an advisory board member to MBX. She was Senior Vice President of Marketing for IT Cosmetics at a critical time in the brand's growth and transformation, helping to position and grow the brand for sale to L’Oreal for $1.2 Billion, the largest acquisition in the company’s history. Allison spent over 10 years heading up marketing at Sephora driving its evolution to the beauty and retail leader it is today. At Sephora, she launched the brand marketing team which acted as an in-house marketing agency for many of Sephora incubator brands. Prior to Sephora, Allison worked for Unilever and DDB Needham on the Calvin Klein and Chanel businesses. Allison’s strength lies in marketing, retail and strategy with a focus on high growth, early stage businesses. Wander Beauty, All Golden and Cove Brands are the boards that she currently serves on. Allison lives in NYC with her husband Brian and 2 children, Sammie and Max and cavapoochon, Gigi. A great lipstick and a smile, can change the world.

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18/09/2025 | 11:30 - 11:50