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work

30+ years of retail, brand, marketing and PR experience championing some of the beauty industry’s most exciting brands.

industry

Founder and first CEO of the British Beauty Council.
Commissioned groundbreaking industry reports: The Value of Beauty and The Courage to Change.
Established the Sustainable Beauty Coalition, who created the Planet Positive Beauty Guide.
Launched British Beauty Week and various campaigns including A Beauty Industry That Looks Like You.
Developed the Future Talent Programme to encourage young people to consider a career in the beauty and cosmetics industry and launched it at No10 Downing Street with the Education Minister.
Co-developed the Creator Collective to educate influencers and content creators on the science of skincare.
Launched the first-ever dedicated British Beauty Council investment fund with London and New York based venture capital firm Venrex, open to brands and businesses from across the beauty supply chain.

sustainability

Reached number 1 in 2024’s Who’s Who of Natural Beauty (after three years in the top ten) for her work with the Sustainable Beauty Coalition.
Received the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Natural and Organic Beauty Innovation Awards in April 2024.
Developed Planet Positive Beauty – a guide to terms and resources for businesses and consumers.
Launched the take-back and recycling points map bringing retailers together to encourage consumers to utilise a nationwide take back scheme.
Ideating the Plastic Solutions Summit, where leaders of some of the largest beauty firms, including multinationals, global retailers, grocers and independent brands and innovators, will create legal joint purchasing agreements to support the development and use of non-plastic materials.

retail

Set up shop and e-commerce site BeautyMART with Anna-Marie Solowij (2012). Launched Aveda (1993) into Harvey Nichols. Launched beauty accessories brand Tweezerman via mail order (1991) and opened the first beauty concession in Space NK that same year. Introduced Shu Uemura (1990) to the European market.

marketing

Founded BRANDstand Communications, a PR and digital marketing agency based in central London, with partners Anna-Marie Solowij and Andrew Perera. Offering dynamic PR, digital marketing, brand strategy and dedicated solutions to UK based emerging and established beauty brands.

brand

Developed and marketed renegade namesake make-up brand Ruby & Millie with partner Ruby Hammer in 1996. The brand launched August 4th 1998 in Harvey Nichols and Selfridges, 3 months later rolled out in 24 Boots the Chemist stores with a further roll out to 114 locations nationwide. Launched tween-and-teen make-up line Scarlett and Crimson (2009) at Superdrug. Has consulted and co-developed many founder-led brands.

writing

Columnist for TheIndustry.beauty. Co-author (with Ruby Hammer) of Face Up – the essential make-up handbook.

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MEDIA

Adept at using all media channels to generate a buzz, launch a brand or champion a cause.

campaigns

Millie has worked collaboratively on recent campaigns:

#OhHelloBeauty, #ChopTheVat, Beauty Backed, Courage to Change, Value of Beauty, #beautyonthebrink, A Beauty Industry That Looks Like You

ABOUT

Hard working, loyal and creative, a serial entrepreneur with a “why not” attitude. Passionate about gender equality, policy and advocacy. A self-starter and ideas generator who has forged a path and created career opportunities that hadn’t existed previously.

Motivated and dynamic – I love to make things happen.
Workaholic by week – I take my downtime seriously.
Renegade by nature – I believe boundaries exist to be broken.
Forward-thinking, outspoken, change maker, opinion former.
Mum of two amazing kids.

board positions

Advisory Board member at Beauty Bulb. Trustee of Haircuts 4 Homeless. Member of the NewBeauty Brain Trust. Advocate of Menopause Mandate.

awards

Outstanding Achievement Award at the Natural and Organic Beauty Innovation Awards (2024), OBE for services to the hair and beauty industry (2022), MBE for longstanding contribution to the cosmetics industry (2007), Society of Cosmetic Scientists Medal Lecture (2018), Get the Gloss Beauty and Wellness Award (2020). Marie Claire Hair Awards UK winner (2021). BABTAC Inspiring Beauty Awards, Honourable Mention. Pure Beauty Awards (2021), Achiever of the Year award.

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