Brooklyn-born Adina Kamkhatchi is the founder and designer of Adina’s Jewels. From an early age, Adina has loved jewelry and recalls selling snacks & candy in school as a business at 10 years old- and used that money to buy rings & necklaces! Through her own experience, she is focused on empowering the next generation of female entrepreneurs with leadership and brand-building skills.

Marie Driscoll is a noted subject matter expert on beauty, fashion, luxury goods, retail, and sustainability, works directly with clients spanning the investment, retail and technology ecosystems, is frequently quoted in the press and speaks at industry events. She is one of Rethink Retail’s Top 100 Retail Influencers in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Marie has served in key analytical and business development roles in leading consultancy and financial research firms including Argus Research, Coresight Research, and Standard & Poors, and was recognized three times in The Wall Street Journal’s “Best on the Street” analyst survey, including first place ranking in the Clothing & Accessories industry.

Marie started Driscoll Advisors to provide consulting services to academia, industry, investors and non-profits. She has contributed content to The Robin Report, Sourcing Journal and ICSC publications and consulted with Shoptalk. As a thought leader, her contributions include white papers for CohnReznick, Luxury Daily and Deloitte’s Global Powers of Luxury Goods 2014, and content development at LIM College and Parsons, The New School. Marie joined New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in 2016 where she is part of the Entrepreneurship Program at the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology. She is an adjunct instructor teaching Equity Analysis at CUNY’s Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College and teaches Funding Beauty & Fashion and Fashion Retailing at Parsons, The New School. Marie is on the board of the Retail Marketing Society and the NRF’s (National Retail Federation) Associate Membership Council.