Meet the Codex Beauty Team

Jenny Skinner Robinson is a digital marketing and e-commerce executive and advisor with over 15 years of experience launching and growing consumer brands online. She currently heads JSR digital and serves as an advisor and consultant to leading beauty and digitally native brands. Previously, Robinson helped lead e-commerce and digital marketing at Tatcha and Perricone MD. Robinson holds a BA from Princeton University and a JD/MBA from Stanford Law School and Graduate School of Business.

Konstantina Katcheves is vice president and deputy general counsel at Agilent Technologies, Inc, where she leads the global intellectual property and licensing team. Katcheves also serves as executive general counsel for the company’s Agilent Crosslabs Group, focused on laboratory management. Previously, Konstantina was vice president of intellectual property and technology alliances at the Lonza Group, and, at various points in her career, has led strategy, M&A and joint ventures as a key member of corporate development teams. Konstantina received a BS from the University of California at San Diego, MS from John Hopkins University and JD from the University of Oklahoma.

Konstantina Katcheves is vice president and deputy general counsel at Agilent Technologies, Inc, where she leads the global intellectual property and licensing team. Katcheves also serves as executive general counsel for the company’s Agilent Crosslabs Group, focused on laboratory management. Previously, Konstantina was vice president of intellectual property and technology alliances at the Lonza Group, and, at various points in her career, has led strategy, M&A and joint ventures as a key member of corporate development teams. Konstantina received a BS from the University of California at San Diego, MS from John Hopkins University and JD from the University of Oklahoma.

Sharon Goldstein is a principal at Amplify+, a San Francisco-based advisory firm, and an expert in revenue optimization, product fulfillment, and ecommerce best practices. Previously, Goldstein was the director of delivery experience at Amazon, responsible for customer-facing shipping products and global pricing. Prior to that, she spent five years in executive roles at ShipHawk (CRO) and Pixlee (CMO). As director of corporate development at Shutterfly, Goldstein led due diligence for the $333 million TinyPrints acquisition. Goldstein has almost 20 years of technology and operations experience. She holds a BS from Georgia Tech, an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and an MS in engineering management from Northwestern University.

Steven Trzaska, is the former head of patents and business development for the U.S. subsidiary of L’Oréal, the world’s largest beauty company. During his time at the company, Trzaska built the first fully functional U.S. patent department, handling all U.S.-originating patent filing, litigation and acquisition-related due diligence. Trzaska also played a leading role in establishing the group’s first U.S. Open Innovation (later Business Development) organization by successfully negotiating numerous joint development and licensing agreements with many leading universities, including Stanford, McGill University, and UCSD. Trzaska holds a BA from Temple University and JD from Widener University School of Law.

Rosari Kingston is a medical herbalist based in West Cork, Ireland. In addition to running her own private practice, Kingston serves as the director of the Irish College of Traditional and Integrative Medicine and is an adjunct lecturer at the University College Cork. Known for combining Irish herbal physician tradition with modern medical knowledge and the latest research, Kingston is a member of the Irish Institute of Medical Herbalists, a professional body committed to the highest standard of training for herbalists, and was part of the founding group that developed the BSc in herbal science for the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT). She received a BA and PhD from University College Cork and an MSc from the University of Wales.

Marc Cornell is an expert in natural and organic product formulation development and the former vice president of Innovation at Englewood Lab. During his thirty-year career he has worked in research and development roles for Merck, L’Oréal USA and Neostrata among other leading beauty companies. For the last twenty years he has worked primarily on cosmeceuticals and developed numerous transformational textures for the sensorial skincare category. Cornell received a BS from Elizabethtown College.