Our story

Built to close the gap between beauty innovation and US execution

Co-founders Ana Yon and Jae Lee combine cross-border marketing experience with data collection, campaign measurement, and better processes to help beauty brands enter and grow in America.

Dahna was founded in January 2026 in California by Ana Yon and Jae Lee.

Meet the founders
Ana Yon, Co-founder of Dahna

Ana Yon

Co-founder

Marketer with six years across beauty, entertainment, and technology. Ana built US-market strategies in prior roles before co-founding Dahna to give beauty brands stronger cultural and commercial fluency in America.

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Jae Lee, Co-founder of Dahna

Jae Lee

Co-founder · Data & AI

Jae leads data collection, campaign measurement, and process improvement at Dahna. He helps the team organize what it learns, understand campaign performance, and improve how work gets done so beauty brands can make better growth decisions.

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Experience before Dahna

Six years across three operating contexts

01

Entertainment & global audiences

International partnerships, audience development, channel strategy, and multi-platform content operations.

02

Technology & B2B

Global positioning, category education, and go-to-market communication for technical products.

03

Beauty, fashion & commerce

US market entry, creator programs, social commerce, brand experience, and direct-to-consumer growth systems.

How that experience shows up in the work

Those three contexts sit behind how Dahna operates now. Every engagement runs through the same four-phase process: brand and market discovery, a go-to-market strategy, a sequenced channel launch, and growth work read against real performance data. The sequence does not change between brands. The judgment calls inside it — which channel goes first, what a claim can truthfully support, when a creator program is ready — are the part that does.

It is also why the writing here is method-first rather than case-study-first. Dahna does not publish client names or client results. What prior K-beauty work taught us about creator-commerce systems is the closest thing to a case note on this site: the system that was built and what it turned out to depend on, without a client logo attached to it.

The same instinct runs through the service work. Making a brand's expertise easy for search engines and AI answer engines to retrieve, understand, and cite is a discipline in its own right, which is why generative engine optimization is a service line rather than a footnote under content. How the articles behind it are researched, sourced, disclosed, corrected, and dated is set out in the editorial policy.

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Dahna

Dahna combines beauty strategy, creator operations, and performance marketing for brands building US demand.

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