Surbhee Grover shares a company post that dives into clean, conscious beauty products. Our view on Clean and Conscious Beauty You often hear “Clean Beauty” and “Conscious Beauty” used interchangeably.  And that’s perhaps understandable given there’s no agreed definition of the terms.  But before we dig into how we think of these two (similar but different) concepts, and what they mean to us – some context first. Skincare products in the US are regulated by the FDA (Food & Drug…

Umbrex is pleased to welcome Nick Mork with Value Unlimited LLC. Nick spent eight years with Bain and Company, finishing in the case team leader role. He specialized in consumer products and private equity clients and was always rated top of his class for analysis. He then opened his own practice, performing Bain-like projects for clients at a fraction of the cost. One of those clients, a Fortune 500 paper and packaging company, hired him to be a senior director…

Umbrex is pleased to welcome Richard Baum with Consumer Growth Partners. Richard co-founded Consumer Growth Partners (“CGP”) in 2005 and is the Managing Partner. CGP is a hybrid investment and advisory firm with an exclusive focus on companies in the retail (channel agnostic) and non-perishable branded consumer products sectors. Prior to CGP, Richard spent 16 years on Wall Street as a top-rated Equity Research Analyst at Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and Sanford Bernstein & Co. where he followed specialty retail…