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Galen Smith

Galen Smith HeadshotGalen became CEO of IPSY, the largest beauty subscription company in the world, in 2024.  He was CEO of Redbox Entertainment from 2016 until its sale in 2022, CFO of Redbox parent company Outerwall from 2013 to 2016 and SVP of finance at Redbox Automated Retail from 2011-2013. There he was responsible for financial operations and business negotiations including studio deals. Prior to that he was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in the Consumer and Retail Investment Banking Group. He also has served as Director of Development at Wheaton College and served as an adjunct faculty member from 2004-2007 in Wheaton’s business/economics department.

Galen earned his B.A. in political science from Wheaton in 1998 and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in 2004.