Before fulfilling a lifelong passion and founding vbeauté, Julie Macklowe spent over a decade in the finance world, where she worked as a private equity investor and hedge fund manager. After years of searching for skincare products that could make a difference and meet her daily multitasking needs, she set out to create efficacious anti-aging skincare with a team of leading skin authorities. By incorporating Swiss botanical stem-cells from the Alpine rose plant, her lab developed one of the most buzzed-about skincare collections.