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Marla Malcolm Beck is the founder, CEO, and visionary behind bluemercury inc., the nation’s leading luxury beauty products and spa retail chain. Guided by her passion and belief that beauty clients desired honest, friendly, and expert advice, Beck founded bluemercury in 1999 when she was 29 years old.
Bluemercury currently has 27 locations from coast-to-coast, carries over 60 indulgent beauty brands from around the world, and operates luxurious skin spas with cutting edge, results-oriented treatments at each location. Bluemercury’s innovative retailing model has been written about in Inc. Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and has been the topic of numerous books, including Shopping: Why We Love It and How Retailers Can Create the Ultimate Customer Experience.
Ms. Beck, Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2005 and a former McKinsey consultant, holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPA from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. She is on the Advisory Board of Harvard Business School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and is an active member of the Young Presidents Organization. | 