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WIA Profile: Kathi Pepper
Where there’s a will to educate the curious and those lacking in sexual knowledge, there’s a woman ready to lead the way. In Mississippi, where sex education leaves much to be desired, Kathi Pepper is that leading lady.
WIA Profile: Andra Chirnogeanu
Andra Chirnogeanu has overseen many projects over the years, from her earliest days as a social media specialist for a cam studio to serving as CEO of a premium social media platform.
WIA Profile: Jackie Richerson
It’s hard to imagine Jackie Richerson as a green retail part-timer from small-town Kentucky. After all, today’s Richerson is an old pro at the sex toy game, for whom phone calls to Europe to lend her manufacturing expertise are the norm.
WIA Profile: Charlotte Stokely
Charlotte Stokely is parlaying her nearly two-decade career as an acclaimed adult star into a talent-empowering role as chairwoman of The Cupcake Girls, a national nonprofit that champions and supports sex workers while combating sex trafficking.
WIA Profile: Jane Morgan
The new world of pleasure products is a far cry from the days when adult boutiques were seedy “sex shops” where customers hid their faces while slinking out the door carrying vibrators in black plastic bags.
WIA Profile: Silvia B.
Overcoming the language barrier by tapping into her outgoing personality, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in management and public relations and went on to earn her MBA at the University of New York in Prague.
WIA Profile: Holly Berejikian
The Sexy Suz Couples Boutique in Athens, Georgia owes much of its success to a secret that only locals and industry pros are lucky enough to know about: store manager Holly Berejikian.
WIA Profile: Renee
After studying fashion marketing, Renee’s first job out of college was as a buyer for an established Montreal-based retailer in that field. There, she took on many roles, but the inexorable pull of marketing-focused tasks continually consumed her attention.
WIA Profile: Louise Wong
As senior business development manager at LELO, Louise Wong juggles multiple brands, nurtures her team, and taps new markets daily. She sees her main goal, however, as paving the way for the next generation of Asian youth to thrive in their sexuality.
WIA Profile: Tati Zavedii
Tati Zavedii has always had a passion for marketing. This led her to earn her bachelor’s degree in public relations/advertising, as well as a master’s degree in marketing, which she completed in Finland.
WIA Profile: Jessica Quinn
Most sex toy brands launch with guns blazing, but that's not Jessica Quinn's style — though she does stock a dual-stim vibrator called the Rabbit 45 that's shaped like an old Western handgun.
WIA Profile: Kimi Evans
In her new role for renowned BDSM and fetish player Kink.com, industry veteran Kimi Evans draws upon her legacy of driving growth for major brands.
WIA Profile: Stephanie Trachtenberg
From children's playthings to adult toys, Satisfyer's Stephanie Trachtenberg knows how to spin a brand and win the hearts of clients and consumers alike.
WIA Profile: Ella Dorsey
To be the right-hand administrative jill-of-all-trades for Chaturbate COO Shirley Lara is to juggle myriad duties. Fortunately for Ella Dorsey, her professional background prior to joining Chaturbate taught her detail-oriented focus and fast-paced flexible pivoting, making her uniquely suited for the tasks at hand.
WIA Profile: Christina Williams
Mentor. Mother. Maven of the sale. That’s Christina Williams and her career in a nutshell, and after eight years — both in the pleasure space and with NS Novelties — she’s fulfilled her original adult life goal of becoming an independent woman with the world at her feet.
WIA Profile: Mari Blue
Adult industry veterans who frequent the trade show circuit throughout the year often smile broadly when the affable Mari Blue trots up to them, camera in hand, ready to snap a quick photo.
WIA Profile: Stephanie Koelsch
When you love what you do for a living, they say, you'll never work a day in your life. Stephanie Koelsch proves it's exactly the opposite: when you genuinely love your job, you'll put your nose to the grindstone on the daily to keep your customers smiling.
WIA Profile: Tiffany Masterminds Partners, Products for NakedSword
As director of partners and products for NakedSword, with a firm grip on its affiliate program NakedSword Cash, Tiffany channels her creativity and project management chops into creating synergy and building relationships.
WIA Profile: Kathryn Guy
When you’re in a field that’s as much fun as the sex toy industry, family companies thrive and never cease to pass along a passion for pleasure to the next generation of business owners.
WIA Profile: Erika Icon
After more than a decade in the adult industry with a full-service adult PR agency, The Rub PR, Erika Icon has cultivated a diverse clientele that includes top-tier stars and big-name companies.