Jury member
Lauren Maillian
CEO, LMB Group
NORTH AMERICA
Lauren Maillian
Lauren Maillian is a transformational executive, entrepreneur, and investor who builds brands that break barriers and scale consumer-facing companies globally. She is CEO of LMB Group and has led multiple businesses to cultural relevance, commercial success, and measurable growth.
A three-time entrepreneur and investor, Lauren Maillian specializes in scaling consumer-facing companies from founder-led disruptors to globally recognized, commercially successful brands. She has led growth for startups, scale-ups, and private equity-backed businesses across beauty, wellness, luxury, technology, lifestyle, and media, advising some of the most innovative names in the industry.
Lauren has launched and led companies, served on boards, and architected brand and growth transformations that deliver measurable results, often ahead of schedule. Career highlights include scaling revenue fivefold and raising more than twenty million dollars as CEO of digitalundivided, delivering sevenfold partnership growth in fifteen months as president of Hero Media, and leading strategic growth and a rebrand for a nine-figure private equity-backed media company.
She serves on advisory boards including OptimizeRx (NASDAQ: OPRX), Overtime, and Saltbox, and has invested in purpose-led brands such as Ruggable, Partake Foods, Kroma Wellness, and Ceremonia. Fluent in Spanish and conversational in French, Lauren works globally across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Africa, bringing operational scale, creative vision, and global commercial strategy to align brand, partnerships, and revenue acceleration.