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ELF Co-Founder Scott-Vincent Borba Enters Priesthood

Former beauty business executive will be ordained later this month, according to reports.

According to a report from ABC7news, Scott Vincent Borba, co-founder of Happi Top 50 Company ELF (e.l.f. Beauty, Inc.), will be ordained as a Catholic priest later month in the Diocese of Fresno, CA. He is currently a seminarian at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, CA.

Borba created e.l.f. in 2004 with Joseph Shamah. TPG took a majority stake in the beauty company in 2014.

Borba has given away the fortune he built in the beauty business, which in addition to ELF included a wellness brand called Borba Nutraceuticals. That firm sold topical skincare and ingestible products including Skin Balance Waters, as reported by Happi.

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