Celessa Baker is the Vice President, Marketing Partnerships for Sephora. She is responsible for identifying, planning, and developing unique, first-to-market, and culturally relevant partnerships that are closely aligned with Sephora’s values and will shape the next chapter in the retailer’s storytelling.

Since joining Sephora in 2014, Celessa has held various leadership positions on the Brand Marketing team. In her previous role as the Vice President, Brand Marketing, Makeup & Hair, she and her team specialized in creating and leveraging unique, cohesive brand narratives to drive revenue across a diverse portfolio of more than 90 brands. Notably, Celessa led the global launch of Fenty Beauty at Sephora, and has helped to bring on various other breakout brands including Pattern by Tracee Ellis Ross, Makeup by Mario, Bread Beauty Supply, One/Size by Patrick Starr, Danessa Myricks, Glossier, Patrick Ta, Vegamour, and Rare Beauty. She was also a pivotal component in driving the retailer’s far reaching and dynamic multi-brand campaigns, such as the “Black Owned Beauty” campaign, which spotlights the exceptional array of products from Black-owned and founded brands available at Sephora. Her team also oversaw brand participation in the TikTok x Sephora Accelerate incubator program, an initiative dedicated to assisting beauty entrepreneurs and TikTok creators, with a special focus on people of color, in growing their businesses and expanding their reach to a broader audience. Additionally, Celessa pioneered the development of co-op programs leveraging first-party data, delivering a powerful competitive advantage that fueled growth for both Sephora and its brand partners. She is also the executive sponsor for SephoraNoir, an employee resource group fostering connections, mentorship, and networking for Black and African American employees, allies and external partners.

Prior to joining Sephora, Celessa held marketing roles for organizations like the Los Angeles Lakers, Sony Music, Radio One, and Men’s Wearhouse. She has contributed to tailored marketing strategies for music industry icons like Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, John Legend, and more. Her exceptional contributions have also been recognized in Essence’s Black Women in Beauty digital edition. Celessa attended Chapman University where she received her bachelor’s degree in business communications and organizational communications. She currently resides in the Bay Area with her husband and two daughters.

Eric Austin is a brand building marketing executive at Procter & Gamble with 20+ years of experience. He has developed some of the world’s most successful, global billion-dollar brands in the US and abroad in Europe including Pantene, Head & Shoulders, Wella Koleston, Braun, Olay and others.

Throughout his career, Eric has gained a broad range of experiences across the Marketing and IT landscape which includes initiative management, consumer insights, data & analytics, product design & market delivery, data & analytics, marketing strategy, digital & ecommerce systems, creative ad development, enterprise strategy and platform development.

Beyond marketing, Eric is a media maven with deep expertise in leading disruptive innovation, accelerating media productivity for the world’s largest advertiser. He’s a recognized expert in the media & AdTech industry and an advocate for driving equality and inclusion across the media ecosystem. Eric has developed industry award winning programs such as THE TALK, THE LOOK, #TalkAboutBias,THE CHOICE, Widen The Screen, Queen Collective, 846 Films, These Hands and others, which sheds light on systemic bias and facilitates equitable solutions for P&G, the media industry, and beyond.

Outside of work, you will find Eric cheering on his 2 boys, nurturing friendships, staying active, and enjoying life with his wife.

Lela Coffey is Vice President, Multi-Cultural Business Acceleration for P&G N.A., helping P&G to serve multicultural consumers across P&G’s enterprise. In her prior role, Lela was VP for P&G’s N.A. Multicultural Hair Portfolio, which includes brands like Gold Series, My Black is Beautiful and Bevel.

With more than 20 years of brand-building experience, Lela has led some of P&G’s iconic brands including Cascade, Olay, and Tampax. Her passion for marketing and inclusivity sets a high bar for impact, challenging others to deliver products and programs that are meaningful for consumers and communities alike.

An advocate for developing talent and capability, Lela invests a substantial time supporting her teams, including fostering understanding of the impact diverse, inclusive teams can have on businesses and organizations. Lela also spearheaded the creation of P&G’s 4R Framework for Equality & Inclusivity, which is used across P&G to aid brands in more authentically connecting with traditionally underserved consumers. As a testament to her body of work, Lela was recently inducted into the P&G’s Brand Mastery society.

Lela resides in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband, Maurice. They have two daughters, Mikaela, 22 and Mikenzi, 18. Outside of work, Lela serves as a board member for the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens.

Danny Robinson’s career is a testament to outside-the-box thinking. After all, it’s not common to find a chief executive officer, who was previously a chief creative officer, who was previously a chief client officer who never saw himself in any of these roles. Throughout his career, Danny has been both the tone setter for and champion of creativity, As CEO of Martin, he is responsible for the overall health, vision and growth of the agency. Danny’s blend of creative and business acumen leads to a big-picture perspective that results in breakthrough ideas. He brought this approach with him in 2004 and has since helped lead the agency to back-to-back Adweek Agency of Year wins in 2020 and 2021, Ad Age’s 2023 Agency of the Year and #5 on the A-List in 2024, and a spot on Fast Company’s Most Innovative List for 2023 and 2024.

Prior to becoming CEO in 2024, Danny was both the first Black chief creative officer in Martin’s history and one of the few leading a non-Black-owned agency. Over the course of his three-year tenure, he oversaw work from some of the world’s most beloved brands including UPS, GEICO, Walmart, TIAA, DoorDash and OREO.

Remember when Oprah gave away 276 Pontiac G6s? So does Danny. He was a big part of that history-making brand integration as the chief creative officer at Vigilante, an ad agency he co-founded. While at Vigilante, Danny was the creative leader and writer behind award-winning campaigns for national brands including Sprint, Major League Baseball, Heineken and Johnnie Walker Black Label.Danny is a Hampton University grad with an MBA from Atlanta University, an accomplished artist, a pop culture aficionado, a former DJ and standup comic, and was even once voted by the Stand Up NY Comedy Club as “one of the funniest men in advertising.”

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As Head of Client Inclusivity and Impact for Digitas North America, Danisha Lomax develops programs focused on authenticity, cultural influence, and impact. In this position, she works to bring clients along the inclusive journey through the Multicultural Center of Excellence – a collective that sits at the intersection of race, culture, identity, and brand responsibility. Danisha strives to further establish Digitasas a leader in the DE&I and CSR space and engage with clients to drive a thoughtful strategy to create more inclusive work in-market for their consumers. Danisha partners with client and capability leaders to influence and accelerate inclusion in client work across the intersections of marketing, content, creative, media, and measurement.

Danisha was instrumental in developing Sephora’s The Beauty of Blackness, a documentary about Fashion Fair Cosmetics, the first Black-owned beauty brand, and The Foundation of Belleza which tells a generational story of Latina beauty and cultural pride through the eyes of Latina founders. With TikTok and Sephora, she co-developed an industry-changing Incubator partnership. It is the first program that provides access, opportunities, and overinvestment to BIPOC beauty founders and rising creators.

Her experience allowed her multiple nominations and awards, including ADCOLOR Rockstar Nominee (2023), AdMonsters + AdExchanger Top Women in Media & Ad Tech Awards, DE&I Champion (2023), Campaign US’ Media Planner of the Year (2021), among others.

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