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L'Oréal USA Announces The Fifth Annual NEXT Generation Award Finalists For The Women In Digital ProgramNEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- L'Oréal USA Women in Digital, a program created to support and promote female entrepreneurship in technology, today announced the three finalists of its fifth annual NEXT Generation Awards: Blavity founder, Morgan DeBaun; Pixels.IO founder, Grace Woo; and Viddyad founder and CEO, Grainne Barron. Each finalist will have the opportunity to present at L'Oréal USA's internal marketing conference, Inspiration Day, on Friday, September 16 to more than 450 marketing executives who represent all of L'Oréal USA's brands. Following live presentations, all attending executives will vote to award one entrepreneur the chance to pilot her technology within the company. The finalists were chosen based on their ability to scale and solve for need gaps among L'Oréal brands and span a diverse range of capabilities:
Celebrating its fifth year, the L'Oréal USA Women in Digital program, has fed over 2,000 women-operated companies into the L'Oréal innovation pipeline. Additionally, the company is currently collaborating with several previous NEXT Generation Award winners and finalists on current projects including Poshly CEO and founder Doreen Bloch; Snaps founder and CEO Vivian Rosenthal and Rachel Tipograph, Founder Mik Mak. "The 2016 NEXT Generation finalists are an impressive group of women who embody the spirit of the Women in Digital program and have created innovative business solutions with the potential to revolutionize the beauty industry," stated Rachel Weiss, VP Innovation and Entrepreneurship at L'Oréal USA. "These women will enrich the community of visionary female entrepreneurs we have assembled over the past five years, and through the program we will empower them through mentorship, collaboration and the ability to scale their cutting-edge ideas into transformative technologies." The Women in Digital program also offers winners career mentorship from the L'Oréal USA Women in Digital Advisory Board, which includes: Joanne Bradford, Chief Operating Officer, SoFi; Cheryl Cheng, Partner, BlueRun Ventures; Beth Comstock, Vice Chair, General Electric; Carolyn Everson, Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions, Facebook; Brooke Hammerling, Founder, Brew; Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO, Thrive Global; Jalak Jobanputra, Managing Director and Founding Partner, FuturePerfect Ventures; Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and Co-Founder, Ellevest; Karin Klein, ?Founding Partner, Bloomberg Beta; Ann Miura-Ko, Co-Founding Partner at Floodgate; Kara Nortman, Partner, Upfront Ventures. For more information on the program visit www.lorealwomenindigital.com and follow us on Twitter. L'ORÉAL USA Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20160914/407945LOGO
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