Hosted by Television Anchor and Book Author TOM BROKAW with a live auction  hosted by  Sotheby’s Chairman, UK & Ireland, LORD DALMENY, the event featured a live performance by Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter, SEAL.

Here is a clip from last year’s event…

DKMS is an international nonprofit fighting blood cancer and other blood disorders. It all started with one family’s search for a bone marrow donor. Today, DKMS is the world’s largest bone marrow donor center.

So far, DKMS has registered 8.6 million potential donors and facilitated 75,000 transplants. However, thousands of patients are still waiting for their lifesaving match.

DKMS supports patients by registering more donors, raising awareness, and improving therapies and research—all in an effort to provide them with a second chance at life.

100% of the proceeds from the Gala fund the DKMS mission to delete blood cancer once and for all.

2019 GALA SPONSORS included:

GIVAUDAN, FIRMENICH, HEARST MAGAZINES, INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES, ROBERTET and SYMRISE

EVENT CHAIRS 

OLIVIER & VALÉRIE GOUDET

HONORARY CHAIRS

ROBERT GAMGORT; PETER & TINA HARF; PIERRE LAUBIES; ANGELINA & MONTE LIPMAN; and CHARLOTTE & ALEJANDRO SANTO DOMINGO

EVENT CHAIRS included:

DANIELE & ALEXANDRE BEHRING

3G Capital

DAVID BELL

Partner, Head of M&A JAB Holding Company s.à.r.l.

AXEL BHAT

Partner, Head of M&A JAB Holding Company s.à.r.l.

SIMONA CATTANEO

Chief Marketing Officer, Luxury Coty, Inc.

MICHAEL A. CLINTON

President, Marketing & Publishing Director Hearst Magazines

JOACHIM CREUS

Partner, General Counsel, Head of Tax JAB Holding Company s.à.r.l.

ACHIM DAUB

Global President Scent & Care Management Board Symrise AG

FRÉDÉRIC DE NARP

Chief Executive Officer Bally Group

PATRICE DE TALHOUËT

Head of Western Europe JAB Consumer Fund Management s.à.r.l.

PEGGY ELSRODE

Senior Vice President, Luxury North America Coty, Inc.

JERRY FLASZ

Chief Information Officer Coty, Inc.

PAULA ZAHN & PAUL FRIBOURG

Continental Grain Company

FABIO FUSCO

Partner JAB Holding Company s.à.r.l.

JAMES M. GRANT

Global Chairman, Investment Banking J.P. Morgan

SIMONETTA & MARKUS HOPMANN

JAB Holding Company s.à.r.l.

SUSAN S. HUANG

Vice Chairman, Global Head of Investment Banking Morgan Stanley

EDGAR HUBER

President, Luxury Coty, Inc.

BLAINE HURST

Chief Executive Officer & President Panera Bread

ANNA-LENA KAMENETZKY

Partner & Head of Business Development JAB Holding Company s.à.r.l.

ELIZABETH & CHRISTOPHER MANICE

GREER MCMULLEN

Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel & Secretary Coty, Inc.

NICOLAS MIRZAYANTZ

Divisional Chief Executive Officer Scent International Flavors & Fragrances

SYLVIE MOREAU

President, Professional Beauty Coty, Inc.

GIANNI PIERACCIONI

Chief Operating Officer, Consumer Beauty Coty, Inc.

DANIEL RAMOS

Chief Scientific Officer Coty, Inc.

YULIA DOLMATOVA & ANDREW STANLEICK

Coty, Inc.

PIERRE-ANDRÉ TERISSE

Chief Financial Officer Coty, Inc.

LUC VOLATIER

Chief Supply Officer Coty, Inc.

VIKTORIA & PHILIP VON WULFFEN

JAB Consumer Fund Management s.à.r.l.

BENEFIT COMMITTEE included:

JENNIFER COLEMAN

SARAH BROWN & DAVID EISENBACH

CHRISTINE & DOMINICK GABRIEL

ANASTASIA GANIAS & HUNTER GELLIN

HEIDI KELSO

LARA MEILAND-SHAW & CLAUDE SHAW

VANESSA VON BISMARCK & MAXMILIAN WEINER

ELENA ZAKHAROVA

AMBASSADORS included

KIMBERLY & TYSON CHANDLER

COCO ROCHA & JAMES CONRAN

CINDY CRAWFORD

GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

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Over the years, this benefit has raised nearly $1 million in support of DKMS’s efforts to register lifesaving bone marrow donors. 100% of proceeds from The Blood Ball will support the work of DKMS to connect patients with blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma with bone marrow donors who can give them second chances at life.In just five years since its inception, the annual Blood Ball hosted by DKMS, an international nonprofit organization committed to the fight against blood cancer and blood disorders, has generated more than $1.1 million dollars for blood cancer awareness. Funds generated by the disco-themed benefit will help drive bone marrow donor recruitment, provide funds to cover donor registration costs and support patients from day one of their diagnoses.

“The contributions from our incredible Blood Ball benefactors and sponsors are invaluable in supporting DKMS’ continued mission to defeat blood cancer by growing the bone marrow registry and helping find matches for patients in need,” Katharina Harf, co-founder of DKMS and co-chair of the Blood Ball.

Every year more than 20,000 patients with blood cancer in the U.S. will require a bone marrow transplant to live, but nearly 70 percent will have to rely on finding a perfect stranger as a compatible donor. For many patients battling blood cancer and other blood diseases like sickle cell anemia, a bone marrow or stem cell transplant is their only opportunity for a second chance at life.

The event was hosted on October 18, at Spring Place in Tribeca in New York City. Sponsors for the evening included Rimmel US, Blavatnik Family Foundation, Krispy Kreme, Reckitt Benckiser and Clevertech.

To learn more about joining the bone marrow registry and how you can make a positive impact in the life of someone battling a life-threatening blood cancer or blood disorder, please visit www.dkms.org/register.

DKMS is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating blood cancers like leukemia and other blood-related illnesses inspiring both men and women around the world to register as bone marrow and blood stem cell donors. DKMS is providing patients with a second chance at life, working closely with families from diagnosis to transplant and beyond. The donor journey begins with a swab of the cheek that takes less than 60 seconds and can be the action that leads to a lifesaving transplant. DKMS, originally founded in Germany in 1991 by Dr. Peter Harf, has organizations in Poland, Chile, the United Kingdom and the United States. The U.S. office was started in 2004. Globally, DKMS has registered more than 8 million people. To join the fight against blood cancer or for more information, please go to dkms.org.

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