Speakers

Presca Ahn leads investments in North America for BOLD, the corporate venture capital fund of L'Or'al. Exclusively investing in beauty innovation since 2018, BOLD has backed brands across the globe in every category of beauty, including Live Tinted, Born to Stand Out, Uni, To Summer, Timeline, Tsu Lange Yor, Macrene Actives, Curl Cult, Arata, Deconstruct, and DAMDAM. Before joining BOLD in 2022, Presca managed investments at the private equity fund Five Arrows. In her early career, she was an operator in the art market, notably as the CEO of the contemporary art museum M WOODS. Presca received a BA with distinction from Yale College and an MSc with distinction from the London School of Economics, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. She also holds an MBA from INSEAD.