Meet our Honorees
Each honoree will receive distinguished recognition from NMF for either their personal contributions or on the behalf of their company's unwavering commitment to health equity
Beatrice Dixon is the CEO, Co-Founder, and Chief Innovation Officer of The Honey Pot Company, the first complete personal wellness brand “made by humans with vaginas, for humans with vaginas.” ®
Beatrice created The Honey Pot Company in 2014 out of great personal need during an eight-month battle with bacterial vaginosis. The constant symptoms and fruitless search for solutions led her to formulate what became The Honey Pot Company’s first product, a vulva-safe wash. From that product, Beatrice has grown The Honey Pot Company into a plant-derived personal wellness powerhouse, intent on providing humans with better-for-you products made from powerful and efficacious ingredients.
Unlike other mass market and conventional personal care brands, consumers are able to get all of their plant-derived wellness needs met under one brand as The Honey Pot Company currently offers feminine washes, wipes, tampons, pads, and products for vaginal health and wellness. Today, The Honey Pot Company’s products can be found in 4.6 million U.S. homes and in retailers nationwide, including Target, Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Bed Bath and Beyond, Wegmans, and other retailers.
Since founding The Honey Pot Company, Beatrice has been recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, Worth’s Worthy 100, Forbes Top 100 Female Founders, Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs, Ebony’s Power 100, and Create and Cultivate’s 100. The Honey Pot Company has won a CEW (Cosmetic Executive Women’s) Beauty Creator Award for the last three years, an ESSENCE Best in Black Beauty Award, a Cosmopolitan Holy Grail Award, a Bustle Sexual Wellness Award, a WWD Beauty Inc Wellness Award, Inc. Best in Business Award, a Glamour 100 Award, Health Editor Picks Award, and a Beauty Inc Award.
Bea resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
2024 NMF Corporate Imagineer Award presented to
Veronica Thierry Mallett M.D. MMM is a dynamic health care leader. Currently she is serving as the Chief Administrative Officer for the More In Common Alliance (MICA). This historic partnership between the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) and Common Spirit Health (CSH) will prove to be transformational for increasing diversity in the healthcare work force. The initiative will double the class size in the MSM and MSM Physician’s Assistant program, creating regional campuses for MSM and creating 10 new residency sites with up to 10 program per site expanding the diverse primary care and specialty workforce across the nation. She previously served as President and CEO of Meharry Medical College Ventures (MMCV), a wholly owned subsidiary of Meharry Medical College, and as the Executive Director for the Center for Women’s Health Research at Meharry. Dr. Mallett served as the Senior Vice President of Health Affairs and Dean at Meharry Medical College School of Medicine (MMC SOM) until 2020. In this role, she was responsible for all clinical operations for the academic health science center, dedicated to educating physicians, dentists, researchers, and health policy experts. In 2021, she was named to the board of directors for Sharecare, Inc. (Nasdaq:SHCR), a digital health company.
Born in Detroit, Dr. Mallett attended Barnard College, Columbia University followed by medical school at Michigan State University. Following medical school, she completed residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Fellowship in Urological Gynecology at Wayne State University. She completed a Research and Surgical Fellowship in Electrophysiology of the Pelvic Floor/Reconstructive Surgery at St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, England. She earned a master’s degree in Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.
Since finishing her formative education, Dr. Mallett has served on the Faculty of Northwestern, Wayne State, University of Tennessee, Texas Tech Health Science Center El Paso, holding leadership positions in each of these schools. In her over 25 years of leadership experience, she has served as Fellowship Director, Residency Director, Director of Healthcare Excellence, Practice Plan Director, and Department Chair at Wayne State, University of Tennessee Memphis, and Texas Tech. respectively.
Dr. Mallett has received several leadership awards; including 2022 Athena Award, the Nashville Business Journal Women of Influence 2020, the Nashville Medical News 2018 Woman to Watch, and Nashville Healthcare Council fellow. She has authored over 100 articles, book chapters, and abstracts combined.
2024 NMF Excellence in Medical Education Award