Mary J. Chery is a seasoned human resources executive and talent strategist with extensive leadership experience across the luxury fashion, beauty, and consumer goods industries. She currently serves as Human Resources Director for Fashion & Accessories at Richemont, supporting renowned brands including Montblanc, Chloé, Alaïa, Dunhill, Delvaux, and Serapian. Her expertise spans talent development, employee relations, organizational strategy, leadership coaching, and performance management.

Prior to joining Richemont, Mary held senior HR leadership roles at Essence, Spark44, and Pernod Ricard Americas. She earned both her Master’s degree in Human Resource Management and Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Stony Brook University. Known for her collaborative leadership style and strategic approach to human capital development, Mary is passionate about building high-performing teams and fostering inclusive workplace cultures.

Vannessa Bullen is the Vice President of Human Resources for the Americas at Kering, where she leads the regional HR strategy across a diverse portfolio of luxury Houses. She has held this role since 2019, partnering closely with business leaders to drive organizational effectiveness, talent development, and people centered growth.

Prior to joining Kering, Vannessa served as Global Vice President of Human Resources at Alexander Wang, where led the brand’s global HR strategy with a focus on founder transition, reshaped governance, new leadership bench, and enabling external capital engagement. She also spent a decade at The Children’s Place, where she progressed through senior HR leadership roles across Talent and Development, Business Transformation and Change Management, Compensation and Benefits, Technology, and HR Operations. Earlier in her career, she held HR
leadership positions at Gucci Group, building a strong foundation in human resources within the luxury sector.

Vannessa brings deep expertise across human resources service delivery, organizational, technology, and culture transformation and is recognized for her strategic approach to complex change agendas, people management and
operational excellence. She holds a degree in Film & Television from New York
University, bringing a unique perspective to leadership, storytelling, and
organizational culture.

Lucinda Rosso, EVP & Chief People Officer of Gucci Americas, is a seasoned HR executive with extensive leadership experience in the luxury fashion industry. During her 25 years at Armani Group, where she last held the role of SVP Organizational Development & Human Resources, she gained significant expertise in luxury retail operations and developed advanced HR business partner  acumen, leaving behind a strong ecosystem of human capital management, talent strategy and organizational development. Since joining Gucci America in 2017 to lead its HR team, transform the HR functional model and implement organizational strategies which fuel commercial success, she has also served on the company’s global equity board and continues to focus on advancing people-centric initiatives that build a culture of collaboration, inclusion, innovation and professional development.

In addition to her professional identity, Lucinda is a mother, wife and disability advocate. She currently serves in a voluntary leadership role for Peace of Heart Choir, an NGO organization that formed shortly after 9/11 to serve marginalized New Yorkers by promoting healing, diversity, community bonding, and mutual understanding through music.