Team
Founders & scientific leadership.
A rare combination: a proven beauty-brand builder, a deep-tech platform founder, a major luxury-brand marketer, and a targeted-protein-degradation scientist.
Founder and former CEO/Chair of Cult Beauty, one of the world's most influential beauty retailers — built on an education-first, science-backed model that introduced game-changing products before they went mainstream. She led the company to a 100% cash exit at 157× ROI, creating 29 millionaires, and was recognized by The Telegraph for "bringing integrity to the beauty industry" and named to Management Today's 35-under-35.She pioneered an education-first approach — combining scientific integrity, expert curation, and technology — and championed the indie beauty movement, introducing science-led brands to mainstream audiences.She believes the industry's job is to make women feel more confident, not less — and that telling the truth is a surprisingly effective business model.
Founder and CEO of Underwrite.ai, which applies AI derived from genomics and particle physics to give lenders dynamic models of credit risk that radically outperform traditional approaches. Earlier he founded College Loan Market, co-founded LeaseQ, and served as SVP & CTO at JP Morgan Chase Education Finance.A long time ago, he worked on space-shuttle development at NASA and built the interface between digital cable TV and the FCC's Emergency Broadcast System.Marc's career has always revolved around deep interests in artificial intelligence, quantum physics, genomics, sugar cream pie, and all the ice cream flavors found in Paris at Berthillon — and the challenge of how to combine all these in practical applications.
Founder, operator and growth strategist with 20+ years building and scaling SaaS, consumer, retail and enterprise brands. He founded and exited a New York digital agency, working with brands including L’Oréal, Boots, Victoria’s Secret, Diptyque, Comcast and Wayfair. Before this, Jon was SVP of Marketing at NYSE-listed IDT.His focus spans brand strategy, voice of the customer and performance marketing — how people actually behave, not just what the data suggests. He has worked across consumer insight for brands including Staples, J.Jill, Talbots and Steve Madden.A lecturer at NYU & FIT, Jon advises founders, family offices and investors, including currently serving as an advisor-in-residence at Spark Labs by ARK Invest. He is also a founder and board advisor to Vitruvian 3D Printing, with further advisory roles connected to Rock Ventures and FirstMark.
Research Scientist in the Slabicki Lab at the MGH Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research. PhD at Yale under Dr. Craig Crews on molecular-glue degraders (thesis published in JACS); earlier, targeted protein degradation at Brigham & Women's / Harvard. Her work on peptide-based PROTAC therapeutics maps directly to Program 8 (GATA4).