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This bag isn’t Made in Italy but instead made at 599 Lexington in New York City with help from Jonna Kim, CFA, Katy Hallberg, Neil Goh, Tom Nass, CFA, and Raiza Felix. Today marks the end of the I.I. Poll where institutional stock investors can vote for people who have been helpful to them in Department Stores. If you can still vote l, I certainly value your help! Thank you to my friends and much more among many others: Jason Tauber, CFA Daniel Spelman David S. Cohen Karen Zhang, CFA Nancy Frohna CFA Lucy Zhang, CFA

OC summer vibes and also a special dinner about passion with my friends from Toronto and Boston! Thanks for coming out to celebrate and talk about music, beauty, gaming, social clubs and all things about the future of retail! -OC https://lnkd.in/gPZiDbMM Sarah Yoshida, CFA Ketaki Saraf, CFA R. Stuart Keeler Bhanu Putumbaka Naz Karolia, CFA Eric Zekai Zheng, CFA Jonna Kim, CFA Sally J. Patrick Lau Katie Yang Jennifer Basteri Tom Nass, CFA Justin Matthews Cassie Chan

OC's Luxury Lane Series: The Future of Luxury Is Digital With Mytheresa's CEO Learn how magic meets logic at an elite global luxury leader. TD Cowen’s Retail, New Platform, & Luxury Analyst Oliver Chen speaks with Mytheresa's CEO Michael Kliger. If you are participating in the Institutional Investor poll, Oliver Chen greatly appreciates your recognition in the Retailing/Department Stores category. You can request a ballot here: https://lnkd.in/ecrzYTF6 https://lnkd.in/eTZi3VVG

OC's Luxury Lane Series: Digitization of Luxury with Neiman Marcus Group CEO Oliver Chen speaks with Geoffroy van Raemdonck CEO of Neiman Marcus Group. Discussion is focused around the transformation of the Neiman Marcus business to integrate digital touch points throughout the shopping experience and engage with the younger luxury consumer. We also release this episode in conjunction with Pride month to help bring increased awareness on diversity and inclusion strategies among CEOs. If you are participating in the Institutional Investor poll, Oliver Chen greatly appreciates your recognition in the Retailing/Department Stores category. You can request a ballot here: https://lnkd.in/ecrzYTF6 https://lnkd.in/e9ewXUYH

OC's Luxury Lane Series: The New Luxury Vision with Saks Fifth Avenue CEO Marc Metrick Oliver Chen speaks with Saks Fifth Avenue CEO & President Marc Metrick on what “new luxury” means for stores, customer, product, and experience innovation. They discuss the connected experience and new platforms. If you are participating in the Institutional Investor poll, Oliver Chen greatly appreciates your recognition in the Retailing/Department Stores category. You can request a ballot here: https://lnkd.in/ecrzYTF6 https://lnkd.in/eKnhR_9Y

This is OC's Beauty School Series: "Experiential and Expressive Haircare Retail" How to Catapult Customer Centricity at a Retail Haircare Leader Sally Beauty In this episode, TD Cowen’s New Platforms, Retail & Luxury Analyst, Oliver Chen speaks with CEO of Sally Beauty, Denise Paulonis. Sally Beauty is a global hair care retail leader with #1 market share in color and professional hair care distribution. We explore how SBH is driving customer centricity and engagement across their brands, and opportunities with key initiatives, such as Salon HQ, Virtual Color Experts, and Studio by Sally. If you are participating in the Institutional Investor poll, Oliver Chen greatly appreciates your recognition in the Retailing/Department Stores category. You can request a ballot here: https://lnkd.in/ecrzYTF6 https://lnkd.in/e9uHT7vr

A.I. is accelerating the rate of change, click to watch this quick 3 minute must see movie we made (!LOL!). Our view is that A.I. will profoundly change M.L.I. or merchandising, labor, and inventory processes... as well as increase the "magic" through faster and assistive innovation. It will be fun, dangerous, exciting, and full of responsibility + trial and error. An important underlying issue of Training Sets is that they will incorporates all kinds of bias and in many cases magnify inequalities. And A.I. can be used for good and for not so good purposes as societies and firms can harness A.I. for control, prioritization, rankings, and other related things. A.I. is the Future of Retail and this is also a kind reminder that this is the last week of the institutional investor voting season! If you are an institutional investor and can vote, I am in "Department Stores." You can get your ballot here: https://lnkd.in/ecrzYTF6 Thank you to everyone on Team OC's Data Science team: Jonna Kim, CFA, Katy Hallberg, Tom Nass, CFA, Neil Goh, Raiza Felix, Madison (Maddie) Beach, Mark Christiano, Desmond Daniels, Tom Gilligan, Dave Rountree, Alexandra Loshin. And special thanks from OC to the: A.I. Meets Beauty CEO Steering Committee: Aurelian Lis and Elsa Jungman, Ph.D. and Jenny B. Fine, Heather Wallace, Tina Sharkey, and Tina Chen Craig. Future of Retail CEO Advisors: Stephen Sadove, Andrew Stanleick, Ari Hoffman, Slatkin Harry, and Stefano Curti, Scott Rauch. Buyside A.I. Expert Leadership and Steering Panel: Jason Tauber, CFA, Daniel Spelman, Nathan Urquhart, Tim Lee, Vusal Najafov, Lora Gotcheva, Chad Weinstein, Myers Ian, Amit Kapoor, Sean Petersen, Garrett Hall. A.I. Fashion and Culture Advisors: Fran Della Badia, Todd Kahn. A.I. Consultants: Lindy Firstenberg, Bryan Eshelman, Adam Pressman. Columbia Business School A.I. Expert and Professor: Kinshuk Jerath. B8604: Victoria Ryhanych. https://lnkd.in/ehyi6pHh

This is OC's Beauty School Series: Featuring COTY, A Diversified Beauty Powerhouse We sat down with Stefano Curti, Chief Brands Officer for Consumer Beauty, to highlight some of our key takeaways from our Glowing Ahead Beauty & Wellness Summit and explore COTY’s opportunities which leverage fragrance, distribution & innovation expertise. If you are participating in the Institutional Investor poll, Oliver Chen greatly appreciates your recognition in the Retailing/Department Stores category. You can request a ballot here: https://lnkd.in/ecrzYTF6 https://lnkd.in/eVfApTEp

This is OC's Beauty School Series: Glowing With The New Glossier In this episode, we host Glossier, Inc. CEO, Kyle Leahy, to discuss the brand's core strengths in the competitive beauty market. We believe Glossier is changing the world of beauty through iconic products and embracing community and inclusivity. Glossier started as Into The Gloss, a beauty website and community devoted to sharing real information with real people, about really amazing products. Glossier stands for thoughtful design and cultivating conversations, and, at Glossier, beauty is about celebrating freedom of expression, individuality, and having fun. If you are participating in the Institutional Investor poll, Oliver Chen greatly appreciates your recognition in the Retailing/Department Stores category. You can request a ballot here: https://lnkd.in/ecrzYTF6 https://lnkd.in/e7majvK5

How Can You Lower the Retail Carbon Footprint? The Secret is With Stores... Designing stores with embodied circularity in mind. In this episode of Retail Visionaries, we host RESET's Founder & CEO, Raefer Wallis, to discuss the future of retail stores and creating a more sustainable future. RESET is an independent, third-party company that aims to bring a standardization system to measure the environmental impact of physical retail. The company pioneered the ability to set targets and proactively measure results of creating and operating stores, which shifted the industry to move away from rhetoric to science-based statistics. RESET plays a critical in advancing how retailers think about real estate, particularly among large luxury companies as they elevate and invest in experiential retail. If you are participating in the Institutional Investor poll, Oliver Chen greatly appreciates your recognition in the Retailing/Department Stores category. https://lnkd.in/ecrzYTF6 Listen to Lowering The Retail Carbon Footprint By Raising Circularity With RESET by TD Cowen Insights in Retail Visionaries - Featuring TD Cowen's Retail & Luxury Analyst Oliver Chen playlist online for free on SoundCloud https://lnkd.in/e3SzZzpw