Lance Kalish, Angel Investor

Serial entrepreneur, consumer goods specialist, and angel investor. In 2016 Lance and partners co-founded LA-based beauty brand incubator Beach House Group. Beach House Group creates and commercializes world-class brands to meet the changing needs of today's consumers, including Florence By Mills, Pattern Beauty, Beis, Moon Oral Care, and Marlowe Men’s skincare. Lance and his partner Ido Leffler co-founded the global skincare brand Yes To Inc. Founded in 2006, they built Yes To Inc into the 2nd biggest natural beauty brand in the USA with more than 28k stockists today. The two went on to co-author their first book in 2013, Get Big Fast and Do More Good, a guide to modern entrepreneurship and accelerated brand-building. Since returning to Australia in 2011, Lance has been a prolific investor, contributor, and mentor in the Australian start-up scene. In 2016 Lance won the Third Sector’s award for Australian Social Entrepreneur of the Year, and became a Luminary of the University of Technology, Sydney after being awarded the Chancellors Award for Excellence 2015 and the UTS Business School Award for Excellence 2015.