Bio

Global executive who bridges cutting-edge technology with the beauty and tech industry. Leads a global team in San Francisco, New York, Paris, China, and Japan uncovering disruptive innovations through strategic partnerships, investments, and acquisitions for the group. Sits on the board of directors and advisory boards of key tech start-ups in health, physical and digital tech, and beauty. Guive has been a featured and keynote speaker at many radio shows and conferences, including CES and SXSW. Having built the first Tech team at L'Oreal focused on innovation, Guive's work spans multiple functions (from Research to UX/UI to Product Development and Engineering and Marketing/Business). He has led strategic partnerships and investments with start-ups and universities from seed funding to M&A. He has also co-led the launch of the first D2C brand around digital, personalization, and tech. The incubators’ first innovation is Make Up Genius, which was a featured app by Apple and covered by media worldwide, including The New York Times, Fast Company, the Financial Times and Bloomberg Weekly. For the past 10 years, the group has brought to market 10 products around beauty tech, including makeup genius with L’Oreal Paris, personalized foundation with Lancome, UV patch and sense with La Roche Posay, Custom DOSE with Skinceuticals, Perso with YSL, water and sustainable tech with L’Oreal water saver, etc... One of the latest innovations from his group, my skin track UV, the worlds first battery free wearable that measures personalized UV exposure, launched at the Apple store in late 2018. http://m.fastcompany.com/3039614/most-innovative-companies-2015/loreal