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Alexandra Kennedy is an accomplished leader with experience scaling and operationalizing businesses, leading commercial teams, and driving digital transformation journeys. Alex is the Executive Vice President of Commercial Strategy at My Code. In this role, she leads teams accountable for driving revenue, sales operations, and M&A strategy and integration efforts. Prior to My Code, Alex spent five years at Twitter. First as the Global Head of Partnership Strategy and Operations and later as Director of Client Solutions focused on Retail and Travel companies. Prior to Twitter, Alex spent nearly a decade at Under Armour (UA) in a variety of roles that shaped how UA approached their digital strategy.

Alex is a nationally sought after thought-leader, featured at events including Advertising Week, Association of National Advertisers (ANA), Business Today, Black in Tech, The Corporate Directors Podcast, Princeton University, among others.

Alex is a graduate of Princeton University and proud native of Washington, DC. She currently resides in
Oakland, California.

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.

Dr. Maisha Gray-Diggs (Dr. MGD) stands out as a rare example of an engineering leader who successfully transitioned into talent acquisition leadership. She leverages her deep expertise in engineering, research, development and human resources to deliver tangible results to organizations on a global scale. Dr. MGD contributes to company success and organization health by driving growth, advancing and enabling innovation and executing winning approaches to develop and retain people, enhance organizational capability, build capacity, and optimize processes and systems. Her approach and work is a result of her extensive experience inside of several Fortune 500 companies across the CPG and tech sectors.

Dr. MGD recently joined LiveRamp as the Vice President of Talent, Diversity, and Enablement. In her current role, she will lead an organization focused on talent and workforce planning; employee experience & engagement; DEIB integration and tracking; and HR/TA technology. Prior to LiveRamp, she held talent, inclusion, and employee experience roles of increasing responsibility at Microsoft, Twitter, and Eventbrite. She pivoted her time and talents into an advisory role at 8genC, where she is partnering to build a community of trusted advisors and fractional leaders to support startups, creators, and brands.

Dr. MGD is an experienced change agent who navigates ambiguity and wields an innate ability to “sense and respond” dynamically. She has earned the reputation as a quick study, a reflective thought leader and one who is uniquely positioned to deliver game changing results.

Dr. MGD believes that to whom much is given, much is expected. As such, she continues to share her time, talents, and treasures with organizations focused on topics close to her heart which include equity and access for the underrepresented and marginalized; eye, organ and tissue donation; youth empowerment; and STE[A]M.

Dr. MGD is an HR advisor with SemperVirens Venture Capital, Reach Capital, and A.Team, partnering with other senior HR leaders to innovate around the concept of “future of work”. She also serves as the President for the Oakland Bay Area Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. and is a devoted Soccer Mom with the Bay Oaks Soccer Club’s 2010 Premier Girls and 2010 Premier Boys Soccer Teams. Dr. MGD enjoys spending quality time with her 14 year old twins, William and Maya, and exploring new frontiers as a continuous learner.

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.