Kevin Gianni

Co-Founder, Salt+Blue

Kevin Gianni is the co-founder of Salt+Blue and the co-founder of Annmarie Skin Care, a natural skincare brand he built with his wife, Annmarie. He's also the author of Kale and Coffee: A Renegade's Guide to Health, Happiness, and Longevity.

Kevin isn't a dermatologist or a cosmetic chemist. He's a curious founder who questions what he's handed as settled — then goes back to the source and presents what he finds in plain, useful language.

Before launching a skincare company, he spent years producing Renegade Health, a daily health and nutrition show that drew millions of views — interviewing hundreds of doctors, researchers, and scientists, and learning, often the hard way, how to tell a real finding from a well-funded claim. That background didn't make him an expert in any single field. It made him good at one thing: figuring out when someone is selling a story versus reporting a fact.

He's brought that same skepticism to sun care. The sunscreen category is full of marketing dressed up as science — overhyped chemicals with inconsistent protection, greenwashed products with cheap ingredients, SPF 100 that performs 1% better than SPF 50, chemical filters that absorb into the bloodstream at concentrations that would get a pharmaceutical pulled from shelves.

The brands he's built have been recognized on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies and Inc.'s Best Workplaces, and their products have been covered by the New York Times, Vogue, Forbes, PopSugar, and HuffPost. He has been quoted as an expert source in numerous publications.

He lives in Connecticut on a 44-acre farm with his wife Annmarie, two kids, a cat, and two bunnies. (He's allergic to half of them.) In his free time he plays tennis, skis, draws, and has been losing an epic seven-year war with invasive stilt grass. He sunburns in roughly the time it takes to read this sentence — which is part of why he cares so much about getting sunscreen right.