Nancy Twine is founder and CEO of Briogeo Hair Care, a leading authority on “green beauty,” and the youngest African-American to launch a product line at

Sephora Sephora is a French multinational retailer of personal care and beauty products. Featuring nearly 340 brands, along with its own private label, Sephora Collection, Sephora offers beauty products including cosmetics, skincare, body, fragranc ...

. Briogeo launched in 2013 and is sold online at Briogeo.com and at retail stores including Sephora (U.S., Middle East, South East Asia, Australia, and Europe),

Nordstrom Nordstrom, Inc. () is an American luxury department store chain headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and founded by John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin in 1901. The original Wallin & Nordstrom store operated exclusively as a shoe store, a ...

, MECCA, and

ULTA Beauty Ulta Beauty, Inc., formerly known as Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance Inc. and before 2000 as Ulta3, is an American chain of beauty stores headquartered in Bolingbrook, Illinois. Ulta Beauty carries both high-end and low-end cosmetics, fragr ...

, and has an estimated 2020 gross revenue of 40 million dollars. Briogeo Hair Care is currently backed by a minority-interest private equity partner, VMG. In April 2022, Briogeo was acquired by

Wella Wella AG is a German hair care company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in 1880 by Franz Ströher, it specialises in hair care, styling and colorants sold to individuals as well as hairdressers and was controlled by Procter & Gam ...

. Twine graduated from UVA’s

McIntire School of Commerce The McIntire School of Commerce is the University of Virginia's undergraduate business school and graduate business school for Commerce, Global Commerce, Accounting, Management of Information Technology, and Business Analytics. It was founded in ...

Accolades

Forbes 30 Under 30 ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 is a set of lists of people under 30 years old issued annually by ''Forbes'' magazine and some of its regional editions. The American lists recognize 600 business and industry figures, with 30 selected in twenty industries ...

Judge (2020) * CEW Female Founder Awards (2019) * Nylon Beauty Innovator Award (2018) * Inc. Female Founders 100 (2018) * Goldman Sachs Builders + Innovators Award (2020)

References

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