The iiaa is home to a diverse team of people and professionals, all with one common goal: to make beauty better. There’s serious power in our shared passion for skin health, and bringing together unrivalled expertise across the spectrum from medicine, health and wellbeing, science and nutrition to education, marketing, digital, PR and creative means our force for change is unstoppable.

David Alpert
iiaa Co-founder and Managing Director
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Tracy Tamaris
iiaa Co-founder
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Dr Gaby Prinsloo
iiaa Medical Director
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Lorraine Perretta
Head of Nutrition
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Amira Ahmed
Head of iiaa brand
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Amira has over 15 years experience in health, nutrition, food and drink sectors, managing the business-to-business and business-to-consumer activities. She currently oversees all iiaa programmes, working closely with all departments to ensure full integration across communication channels.

Claire Muir
Director of Training
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Having trained with over 25 brands across her 30-year career in beauty therapy, and been a finalist for two British Beauty Awards, Claire is nothing less than a master educator in beauty and wellness. Her previous roles at Champneys, Cosmeceuticals and The Grove built on her already extensive spa and medical skincare experience and brought her to the iiaa, where she’s worked her way up the training ladder and now heads up our unparalleled training programmes for Environ® and Advanced Nutrition Programme™.

ELLIE BAILEY
Head of Logistics
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Ellie has over 10 years’ experience in the operations industry, and with a strong background in customer relations, she always manages to put our salon community and customer base first. Since joining the iiaa in June 2018, Ellie has risen through the ranks from Assistant Manager to Head of Logistics. When she’s not overseeing our warehouse in Hemel Hempstead, Ellie enjoys the arts. She took her degree in Fine Art and worked in the fine art and antiques industry before finding the world of skincare and beauty.

Susan McGowan
Head of Advanced Nutrition Programme™
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Anushka Patel
Head of et al.
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After working as a makeup artist for 15 years for the likes of bareMinerals following her training at the Academy of Freelance Makeup, Nush started her career with us at the iiaa as a business consultant and makeup artist for our debut makeup brand. She has gone on to manage some of our biggest brand developments – and she’s got even more up her sleeve…

Scott Corbett
Creative Director
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Kate Hodgkinson
Digital and Advocacy Director
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Kamran Sarwar
Office Manager
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Amy le Roux
PR and Comms Director
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With over 20 years’ experience in the beauty and wellness industry, Amy has gathered a wealth of diverse skills in strategic integrated communications. This included 10 years at Estée Lauder Companies working with the likes of Clinique, Aveda, Darphin and Origins, Charlotte Tilbury, the British Beauty Council and Crabtree + Evelyn – not to mention running her own communications agency. Clearly, Amy is committed to the beauty industry. And this is reflected in our communications department, where she heads up all internal, B2B and external communications, including brand and press-related activity.

Krishna Seyani
Head of HR and Recruitment
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Krishna is a people person with a passion for travel. After working her way up to HR Manager at Waitrose, her travel bug took her to Olympic Holidays. Today, at the iiaa, she’s the one on-hand to offer expert advice and support to our managers and team members on all aspects of people management – and is constantly striving to make the iiaa an even better place to work.