The Talent Studios Places CEO at PE-Backed Foundry Brands
November 10, 2025 – The Talent Studios has recruited Christian Chopra as CEO of Foundry Brands, a growing portfolio of digitally native personal-care and lifestyle brands backed by Monogram Capital Partners and Lightbay Capital. The search was led by The Talent Studios’ Jeremy Cohen and Katlyn Maloney.
Mr. Chopra brings two decades of experience building and repositioning consumer brands across North America and Europe. Most recently, as president of Scotch Porter, he repositioned the brand from niche challenger to an omni-channel mainstream player, leading it to profitability while expanding national retail distribution and scaling Amazon and DTC. Earlier in his career, Mr. Chopra held senior leadership roles at Henkel and L’Oréal in marketing, sales, and general management, where he developed a reputation for combining brand-building expertise with operational discipline.
In his new role, Mr. Chopra will lead Foundry’s next phase of value creation across personal care, sharpening the company’s strategic foundation while elevating creative, commercial, and operational capabilities. His focus is on strengthening the company’s strategic foundation, elevating its creative and commercial capabilities, and ensuring each brand connects meaningfully with consumers while driving sustainable profitability.
“At Foundry, we’re focused on building brands that connect emotionally and perform commercially,” said Mr. Chopra. “It’s about turning consumer insight into growth, about creating brands people actually care about, not just click on. I’m fortunate to work with a team that shares that conviction and brings both creativity and analytical rigor to everything we do.”
Foundry partners with founders to acquire and scale distinctive design-led brands across categories in grooming, skincare, and home. Its current portfolio includes Supply, Blu Atlas, Benevolence LA, and Craft & Kin—blending distinctive brand identity with disciplined operational execution.
Leading Investors
Monogram Capital Partners is a Los Angeles-based private equity firm established in 2014, focused on investing in consumer and retail businesses. The firm targets companies with distinct value propositions—often in sectors like food & beverage, beauty & personal care, pets, and consumer healthcare—providing flexible capital alongside strategic and operational support to help them scale. With more than $1.4 billion of equity invested across its portfolio, Monogram typically partners with firms generating from roughly $5 million to over $250 million in revenue, and often deploys equity checks of $50 million or more.
LightBay Capital is a Los Angeles–based private equity firm that takes a flexible capital approach to middle-market investing, partnering with high-quality companies across the consumer, healthcare, and business services sectors. The firm invests across the capital structure under an “all-weather” strategy, allowing them to pursue leveraged buy-outs, shared-control opportunities, and special situations in a range of market environments.
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The Talent Studios is a business-to-consumer focused retained executive search firm, working across consumer technology, digital commerce, four-wall commerce & service businesses, iconic brands, entertainment, media & content and consumer services. Its vertical focus includes: fashion & apparel, food & beverage, beauty & personal care, lifestyle brands, action sports, fitness/wellness, creator economy, media & content, digital and physical consumer services (healthcare, FinTech, education, two-sided marketplaces). The Talent Studios was founded by Mr. Cohen and Kelli Telling.
Investor partners and direct brand clients include: Apollo Management, Advent International, Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital, L Catterton, Apollo Global Management, Institutional Venture Partners, HIG Growth, Norwest Equity Partners, North Castle Partners, Red Bull, Mattel, Disney, Burton Snowboards, Restoration Hardware, The Princeton Review, Pure Barre, Raising Cane’s, Boardriders, Aston Martin, Fanatics, Soylent, SmartyPants Vitamins, Lulus.com, Restoration Hardware, Restore Hyper Wellness, Peet’s Coffee and Public Goods.
Mr. Cohen co-founded The Talent Studios in 2011 following early search experience at global executive search firm DHR Global, where he served as a principal in the firm’s retail/consumer and private equity practices. He has led pivotal leadership searches that have propelled privately held clients through growth to exit, as well as large-scale transformation and performance enhancement at large public companies and brands. In addition to search, Mr. Cohen assists clients with performance management and assessment strategy.
Ms. Maloney is a senior associate. She most recently was on the internal executive search team at Amazon, focused on its entertainment, content & media business. Ms. Maloney began her search career at DHR Global, where she worked closely with the president on leadership searches across retail/consumer, sports, & private equity. She supports the firm’s partners across consumer products, beauty, marketplaces, digital health, content/media & edutech.
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
