Diego Mandelbaum

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About Diego Mandelbaum

Chief Executive Officer at KF Beauty (Know.Feel.Beauty), a privately owned mid-market company based in the UK. It owns one of the most recognizable make-up brands launched in the last few years: Wunderbrow.Diego is a scale-up CEO who knows how to introduce structure without bureaucracy. Governance without politics. Process without killing speed. That balance is not theoretical for him — it is the through-line of his career across PE-backed businesses, founder-led brands, and global fmcg corporates in the UK, USA, France, and Australia.Diego has led business transformations. In beauty. In private equity structures. Across markets. With real numbers behind it. Scaling it well — without losing what made it matter.He is also an advisor for start-ups and an angel investor in the consumer lifestyle space (ie. beauty, fitness, food).Diego has lived and worked in London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Buenos Aires and Los Angeles. He holds a Master in Science degree in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and speaks English, French and Spanish fluently-NYU Stern Professor Aswath Damodaran wrote that to grow a business faster means to accept three types of trade-offs: 1- Growth/Risk: To accelerate growth you usually have more operating risk and/or expansion into riskier geographies; 2- Growth/Reinvestment: You have to reinvest more, making cash flows more negative & increasing need for capital; 3- Growth/Margins: You usually have to lower prices and settle for lower margins.If this sounds like a familiar challenge, let's connect.Diego