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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Fashion space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Sylvana Ward Durrett
CEO & Co-Founder of Maisonette
Whether you’re shopping for yourself, for your groceries, or for your dog, there’s some sort of curated, online, one-stop shopping solution,” says Maisonette co-founder and CEO Sylvana Ward Durrett. “We as parents–my co-founder and I–sort of scratched our heads when we realized this didn’t really exist in the kids world.” A former assistant to Anna Wintour and one-time editor at Vogue, Durrett has made it her mission to streamline the process of shopping for children’s luxury clothing.
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About Maisonette: Maisonette is a children’s clothing and lifestyle e-commerce site.
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Priyanka Gill
Founder & CEO of POPxo
Priyanka Gill is the Co-Founder and President of MyGlamm. She is also the Founder & CEO of POPxo, India’s largest community of women.
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About MyGlamm, POPxo: POPxo is India’s online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.
Mandeep Singh
Co-Founder of Trouva
Mandeep was previously an investor at BC Partners, one of Europe’s largest Private Equity funds, who owned a number of technology and retail businesses, such as Intelsat, Foxtons (where Mandeep was on the board), Phones4U and Petsmart. Prior to that Mandeep was a retail strategy consultant at OC&C and advised Arcadia/TopShop and DFS amongst others, which was where he first saw the impact that online was having on offline retail. During this time Mandeep was seconded to Asda Wal-Mart, helped launch their first small stores. Although he’d say Trouva was his first “start-up”, Mandeep set up his first business, a web development agency, from his bedroom when he was 15. Mandeep studied Physics at Cambridge University and has been interviewed about the future of retail by media such as BBC One (BBC Breakfast News) and The Sunday Times. In his spare time Mandeep is a judge for the Techpreneurs Entrepreneur of the Year awards and an Ambassador for Bright Mentors, which encourages entrepreneurs to mentor secondary school children.
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Alex Loizou
Co-Founder, CEO of Trouva
Alex co-founded StreetHub after graduating from the 2012 Cohort of Entrepreneur First. He is an experienced iOS, Javascript and PHP developer, and studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Cologne.
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Glen Walker
Co-Founder & Director of Trouva
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Sophie Hill
Founder & CEO of Threads Styling
Sophie started her career in buying & merchandising roles at HQs of some of the leading fashion retail brands. This exposure to retail inspired her to found Threads in 2010. Threads uses unique technology to create a new world of retail. With social media & content, instant messaging & strong brand partnerships Threads is the leader in what they define as luxury chat commerce. Sophie is now dedicated with her team to continue to lead in this space and pioneer the next generation of retail. Education from Leeds & Harvard university.
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About Threads Styling: Threads Styling is a fashion technology company.
José Neves
Founder, Co-Chairman & CEO of Farfetch
In 2008 José Neves launched Farfetch, bringing together his interests in fashion and technology, as well as his experience in design, wholesale and retail, to create a business that would celebrate and support the diversity of the global fashion industry. The seasoned entrepreneur had experienced first-hand the challenges facing bricks-and-mortar retailers wanting to expand online. His vision was to create a single portal, offering independent boutiques the opportunity to compete with the leaders of fashion e-commerce. Farfetch now comprises more than 300 boutiques, offering over 100,000 pieces from 1,000 brands. With customers in almost 190 countries, the site receives an average of 10 million monthly hits. José has been involved in the fashion start-up world since the mid-1990s when he launched footwear business SWEAR. José later founded SIX London, a fashion licensing and wholesale company selling to 600 retailers worldwide. In 2001 José opened the renowned bstore, which won the British Fashion Award for Retailer of the Year in 2006. José has received numerous accolades as an entrepreneur and for his business ventures, including The Business of Fashion’s 500 People Shaping the Fashion Industry in 2013, Ernst & Young’s 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year and Vogue’s DirectorsOf.COM Top Entrepreneur in 2011.
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About Farfetch, Farfetch China, PlatformE, SIX London: Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
George Graham
CEO & Co-Founder of Wolf & Badger
CEO & Co-Founder of Wolf & Badger.
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About Raw Press Juice, Wolf & Badger, Wolf & Badger: Wolf & Badger is a multi-channel retail platform for the finest independent, ethical and unique brands from around the globe.
Henry Graham
Creative Director & Co-Founder of Wolf & Badger
Henry Graham is Creative Director & Co-Founder @ Wolf & Badger.
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About Wolf & Badger: Wolf & Badger is a multi-channel retail platform for the finest independent, ethical and unique brands from around the globe.
Sebastjan Trepca
CPO, CoFounder of Lyst
Sebastjan is currently a cofounder and CTO of Lyst, a social curation platform for online fashion. Prior to founding Lyst, he was VP of Engineering at Noovo, a content sharing and discovery startup. He was also Technical Lead at Social Expeditions, founded the Python Community of Slovenia and studied Computer Science at the University of Ljubljana.
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About Lyst: Lyst is a global fashion search platform that allows users to browse through thousands of online fashion stores.
Chris Morton
Co-Founder & CEO of Lyst
Chris Morton is the CEO and cofounder of Lyst (www.lyst.com), a social curation platform for online fashion. Prior to founding Lyst, Chris was an investor at Balderton Capital and Benchmark Capital, focussing on consumer internet; specifically ecommerce, music and games. Chris was also Business Development Manager of the Energy and Materials division at QinetiQ, one of Europe’s leading technology R&D organisations. Chris earned his M.A. in Natural Sciences (Physics and Philosophy) from Cambridge University, 2003, and he is a DERA Scholar.
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About Lyst: Lyst is a global fashion search platform that allows users to browse through thousands of online fashion stores.
Nick Wheeler
Founder & Chairman of Charles Tyrwhitt
Nicholas Charles Tyrwhitt Wheeler (born 20 January 1965 in Ludlow, Shropshire) is an English businessman. He attempted a number of different businesses, including a photography venture and a Christmas tree delivery service. In 1986 he established the Charles Tyrwhitt company and shirt brand, which he owns. Wheeler grew up in Ludlow and was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Eton College, and the University of Bristol, where he studied geography. His first job was as a management consultant for Bain & Company. In November 1986, he set up Charles Tyrwhitt, now a well-known shirt brand in the United Kingdom. The business is a Limited Liability Partnership. It has grown to be the UK’s largest mail-order shirt business, and also has several brick and mortar locations (as of October 2014, 17 in the United Kingdom, 5 in the United States, and one in France). In 2008, he was a regional judge for the Entrepreneur Challenge in the UK. Wheeler is married with four children to Chrissie Rucker, founder of The White Company. In 2015, their collective wealth was estimated at £330 million by the Sunday Times Rich List. Together they live in Buckinghamshire and also own a chalet in Klosters, Switzerland named Haus Alpina.
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About Charles Tyrwhitt, Feefo: A multi-channel British clothing retailer, specialising in formal men’s shirts, shoes, suits, knitwear and accessories
Nick Robertson
Founder & CEO of ASOS
Nick Robertson is a Founder & CEO At ASOS.
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About ASOS, ASOS Ventures: Asos is an online platform engaged in the retail of fashion and beauty products for men and women.
Ben Phillips
CTO & Co-Founder of Thread
Ben is the co-founder of Thread.com and runs the development team there. Founded last year, Thread brings personal styling to everyone, and it’s free. Before Thread, Ben co-founded Playfire and scaled the site to over 1.5 million users. Ben also enjoys product and graphic design but leaves these things to the experts most of the time.
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About Thread: Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes.
Kieran O’Neill
CEO & Co-Founder of Thread
Kieran O’Neill is the CEO and co-founder of Thread.
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About Playfire, Thread: Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes.
Mahmud Kamani
Co-Founder and Joint Chief Executive of Boohoo Group
Mahmud founded boohoo.com with Carol Kane in 2006, leveraging over 30 years of experience in the fashion and clothing industry. Mahmud is an entrepreneur, with expertise encompassing all areas of the supply chain from sourcing, import and wholesale. Mahmud is an inspirational leader, having built a strong team and engendered loyalty from many long-serving employees.
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About Boohoo Group: Boohoo is an online store that offers a range of clothing, accessories, and footwear brands.
Carol Kane
Co-Founder of Boohoo Group
Carol co-founded boohoo.com with Mahmud Kamani in 2006 following their shared recognition in the opportunity for online retail. As part of her role as joint Chief Executive, Carol oversees the Group’s product, marketing and brand strategy across the UK and internationally. She has worked in the fashion industry throughout her career, initially as a designer and then as a fashion buyer. Before setting up boohoo.com, Carol and Mahmud worked together for over 20 years supplying high street retailers.
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About Boohoo Group: Boohoo is an online store that offers a range of clothing, accessories, and footwear brands.
Fiorina Benveniste-Schuler
Founder & CEO of Selec.to
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About Selec.to: The leading B2B platform for the Fashion Industry
Rohan Dhir
Founder & CEO of Archibald London
CEO of Archibald Optics.
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About Archibald London: Luxury Eyewear sold exclusively online at disruptive prices. Designed in London and handcrafted in Japan.
Hasna Kourda
Co-Founder & CEO of Save Your Wardrobe
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About Save Your Wardrobe: FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable
Mehdi Doghri
Co-Founder & CTO of Save Your Wardrobe
Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor. Interested in the Fintech, Fashion Tech, Retail Tech and consumer mobile apps.
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About Save Your Wardrobe: FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable
Sophie Chadwick
Co-Founder of Seasalt
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About Seasalt: Seasalt is a Cornish fashion company.
Neil Chadwick
Co-Founder of Seasalt
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About Seasalt: Seasalt is a Cornish fashion company.
Daniel Price
Co-Founder of My 1st Years
Daniel Price is a Co-Founder at My 1st Years.
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About My 1st Years: My 1st Years offers personalised gifts for babies and children.
Amir Ofer
Founder & President of mySupermarket
Amir Ofer is Founder & President at mySupermarket.
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About mySupermarket: mySupermarket designs a supermarket shopping and comparison website that helps users to compare prices across different stores.
Jenny Griffiths
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Snap Vision
Jenny Griffiths is an award-winning technology entrepreneur and Computer Vision engineer. She founded her company Snap Vision in 2011, which was the first in the world to offer visual search for fashion retailers and publishers across both mobile and web. Being so early in the journey of the development and commercialisation of today’s AI market, Jenny is a thought-leader not only in AI and computer vision, but also in how to innovate and how to drive markets into adopting new innovations. Her work has led to her winning a number of awards, from the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver medal for personal contributions to UK engineering, to being awarded an MBE for Services to Innovation at the age of just 27. This year she was named as one of Forbes Magazine’s Top 50 Women in Tech in the world.
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About Snap Vision, University of Bristol: Snap Vision specializes in the fields of AI computer games and machine learning.
Matthew Scanlan
CEO & Co-Founder of Naadam
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About Naadam, Something Navy, Thakoon: Naadam is an American clothing company specializing in affordable, luxury cashmere products.
Harry Moore
Founder & CEO of PoGo
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About PoGo: PoGo is a social shopping platform that merges the physical and digital worlds to create the ultimate shopping experience
Natalie Massenet
Founder & Chairman of Net-a-porter.com
Natalie Massenet is cofounder and co-managing partner of Imaginary Ventures, a venture fund investing in early-stage opportunities at the intersection of retail and technology, as well as the non-executive co-chairwoman of Farfetch, a global e-commerce platform for luxury fashion. Massenet is best known for founding the luxury fashion online retailer Net-A-Porter, in 2000. In the year before she stepped down from her role following its merger with YOOX, the Net-A-Porter-Group recorded net revenues of almost $1 billion. Massenet began her career as a journalist and fashion editor, working at WWD and Tatler before setting up Net-A-Porter. In 2009, she was awarded an MBE, and in 2016 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, both in recognition of her contributions to the U.K. fashion and retail industry. Massenet was chairman of the British Fashion Council between 2013 and 2017.
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About Daily Harvest, Imaginary Ventures, Net-a-porter.com: Net-a-porter.com is an online luxury fashion retailer.
Eshita Kabra
Founder of By Rotation
Founder By Rotation – UK’s fashion rental app • Worked at various large buy and sell side firms as an investment analyst • Singaporean Indian living in London
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About By Rotation: The World’s First Social Fashion Rental App.
Filipa Neto
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Chic by Choice
Filipa Neto is co-founder and CEO of Chic by Choice, Europe’s leading luxury rental marketplace allowing women to rent the world’s best items sourced from brands and e-commerce platforms at a fraction of the retail price. Chic by Choice provides retailers a yield management solution that can help manage excessive stock in a clever way, providing an alternative that can generate up to 5 times more revenue than discounting or outlets. Filipa was able to raise €520k investment for the venture at the age of 23. The success of Chic by Choice later led to another €1.5m of investment to continue to grow the company in the UK and Germany. In July 2015, the company acquired Laremia, a German dress rental competitor, which already represents 20% of the company’s revenue. In little more than a year, Chic by Choice is established as the leading dress rental platform shipping to more than 15 countries in Europe and with outstanding month on month growth. Filipa currently manages a team of 16 with offices in London and Lisbon and she is also part of the Global Shapers community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum a network developed and led by young people who are exceptional in their potential, their achievements and their drive to make a contribution to their communities.
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About Chic by Choice, Farfetch, The World Economic Forum: Hire designer dresses curated by boutiques and department stores.
Luke Scheybeler
Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer of Tracksmith
Luke Scheybeler is the Founder at Scheybeler
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About Scheybeler, Tracksmith: Tracksmith is an American sports apparel brand that produces clothes for performance athletes.
Tom Singh
Founder & Non-Executive Director of New Look
Tom Singh OBE is the Founder of New Look, a leading UK entrepreneur and active private investor with family interests spanning: retail, technology, real estate, renewable energy sectors and private equity. He currently holds the position of Non-Executive Board Member for New Look with over 900 stores worldwide which he founded in 1969. In addition to his responsibilities at New Look, Tom is a founding member of: the Social Investment Task Force, the Chairman of the UK Advisory Council for the British Asian Trust, and is a Trustee of the Pakhar Foundation. Tom is an active philanthropist and social investor and in recent years, has taken an increasing interest in the world of technology.
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About New Look: New Look is a retail seller of mens and womens clothing.
Philipp Man
Co-Founder & CEO of CHRONEXT
Philipp Man holds a Master of Philosophy in Innovation, Strategy & Organisation from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School as well as a Bachelor of Science in Management from King’s College London, majoring in corporate finance, venture capital and market sociology. Besides his work at the Boston Consulting Group, Germany and Switzerland, he also gained experience at GlencoreXstrata in London. During his studies he worked for various watch dealers and focused his dissertations on luxury watch market dynamics.
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About CHRONEXT: Chronext is is a full-service platform for luxury watch trading where clients can buy, sell luxury watches.
Federico Marchetti
Founder and CEO of Yoox Net-a-Porter Group
Born in Ravenna in 1969, Federico Marchetti holds a degree in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan and an MBA from Columbia University. Upon completing his studies, he embarked on a traditional path in the corporate world and while those early years in his career proved to be an invaluable experience, he knew all along that he would need to go out on his own to fulfil his professional objective of becoming an entrepreneur. In 2000, after having served as an advisor for several chief executives and designers in the fashion industry, both in the U.S. and in Italy, he founded YOOX, the perfect venture in which he could unite his business vision with his passion for fashion and design.
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About Yoox Net-a-Porter Group: Yoox Net-a-Porter Group is the global Internet retailing partner for leading fashion and luxury brands.
Riz Smith
Co-Founder and Creative Director of Riz Boardshorts
Riz Smith is the co-founder and creative director at Riz. He is also a design tutor at Central Saint Martins. Riz is a former associate lecturer at London College of Fashion.
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About Riz Boardshorts: Riz Boardshorts designs and produces sustainable boardshorts and swim shorts for men.
Alistair Murrell
Co-Founder and Director of Riz Boardshorts
Alistair Murrell is the co-founder and director at Riz Boardshorts. Prior to co-founding Riz, Alistair worked at Cairn Capital and JP Morgan.
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About Riz Boardshorts: Riz Boardshorts designs and produces sustainable boardshorts and swim shorts for men.
Jonathan Kruger
Co-Founder and CEO of The Drop
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About Google, The Drop: Building the future of personalised fashion
Constantin Bjerke
CEO and Founder of Crane.tv
Based in the UK for 10 years, Constantin Bjerke is a Founder and CEO of TheCrane.tv, the first online video magazine with emphasis on contemporary culture. Constantin started his career working in TV and film production and was involved in Emotional Brand Building at an Omnicom agency. He has worked with a host of international clients including FIFA World Cup, Mercedes Benz, Laureus World Sports Awards, Orascom, Deutsche Telekom and Pro7Sat1. In the past, he also worked in Finance across various positions at companies including UBS, Lazard and most recently, Citigroup in London and Madrid. Constantin holds a Diplôme de Grande Ecole and a Master’s from ESCP-EAP.
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About Crane.tv: Crane.tv is a contemporary-culture video magazine, focusing on arts, design, style, food and travel around the world.
Iris Anson
Founder/CEO of Solely Original
Iris is a founding director at Solely Original, an online bespoke women’s footwear brand. As a fashion conscious city professional, she decided to leave behind her career as a tax consultant to pursue a solution for women like her, who had trouble finding fashionable shoes that are comfortable to walk in.
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About Etiq AI, Solely Original: Solely Original is a shoe brand allowing clients to design their own shoes, have custom made to fit the specifications of the feet.
Akin Onal
Founder & CEO of MORI
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About MORI: MORI (babymori.com) is an innovative and sustainable babywear brand. D2C
Imran Amed
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Business of Fashion
Bringing a unique understanding of the creative and commercial sides of fashion, Imran Amed has emerged as one of the fashion industry’s leading writers, thinkers and commentators. In 2007, he started writing a blog called The Business of Fashion (BoF) from his sofa just as social media and smartphones were about to explode onto the scene, new markets were rapidly emerging in China, India and Brazil, and the financial crisis threw the industry into a tailspin. Five years on, with its award-winning editorial franchises and a global reputation for intelligent, analytical content, BoF has grown into the pre-eminent daily destination for the global fashion community. Imran has been named to British GQ’s list of the 100 Most Influential Men in Britain, Indian GQ’s list of the 50 Most Influential Global Indians, British Vogue’s list of 25 New Fashion Faces to Watch, and Wired UK’s list of the 100 most influential figures in Britain’s digital economy. Previously, he was a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.Com from McGill University. He holds Canadian and British citizenship.
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About The Business of Fashion: The Business of Fashion is a online platform for the global fashion industry, offering content and tools to industry professionals.
Ben Farren
Founder & CEO of Spoke London
Ben Farren is a Founder & CEO at SPOKE.
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About Spoke London: Spoke London is a privately held company that provides better fitting, better looking men’s clothes, sold exclusively online.
Roderick Bradley
Director, Co-Founder of PlayerLayer
Bradley is a freelance artist and design urban clothing for Rudey Arts and new sportswear for PlayerLayer. Rod supports many charities including the Vitiligo Society and is a great supporter of sports in schools.
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About PlayerLayer: PlayerLayer is a designer and retailer of premium sports performance clothing.
Katharina Vandamme-Eybesfeld
Founder of BECOCO
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About BECOCO: London based fashion-tech startup.
Kostas Koukoravas
Founder and CEO of Intelistyle
Project & Product management, business development, software engineering, AI. Has 13 years experience leading the development of ideas from inception through to delivery and has launched high profile online services including BBC iPlayer Radio, Microsoft Skype on Windows 8 and Surface Hub. Has varied experience in applied machine learning ranging from real time action detection in video (Microsoft Surface Hub) to portfolio optimisation in financial data. Holds an MPhil on unsupervised learning from the University of Manchester and a coursera machine learning certificate from the University of Stanford.
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About Intelistyle: Intelistyle provides A.I. styling solutions to fashion retailers, helping them address the needs of customers looking for styling advice.
Michael Michelis
Co-Founder & COO of Intelistyle
Michael Michelis joined Intelistyle as Co-Founder and COO in 2017.
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About Intelistyle: Intelistyle provides A.I. styling solutions to fashion retailers, helping them address the needs of customers looking for styling advice.
Michael Truluck
CEO & Founder of La Redoute
Michael Truluck is the CEO & Founder of La Redoute.
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About La Redoute: La Redoute is an e-commerce website that offers clothing and accessories for women, men, and children, home appliances, and more.
Angela Ene
Founder of Modafirma
Angela Ene is a Technology entrepreneur, Managing Partner/ CFO. She is the founder of Modafirma a fashion technology and affiliate marketing platform that allows carefully selected brands to locate, advertise and sell directly to consumers globally. The company was nominated twice for a prestigious drapers award, and was also shortlisted for fashion website of the year in 2015 and 2018. In 2018 Angela was shortlisted as UK technology founder of the year at the Prestigious BMW i Technology awards in two categories: MAD Tech and E-commerce she subsequently went on to be selected as UK first runner up UK Technology founder of the year for Advertising and Marketing. She also serves as group CFO at Star Real Estate Group a boutique investment management firm specialising in real estate. Interests: SaaS technology, Blockchain, Investment Management, Fintech, MAD Tech, proptech Alma Mater: Queen Mary University of London, Said Business School University of Oxford , Cass Business School University of London Specialisms: MAD Tech, E-commerce. Omni Channels, Investment Management, Chartered Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst , Structured products, Marketing and Advertising technology Marketplaces.
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About Modafirma, Star Real Estate: Modafirma is an exclusive social commerce fashion platform for designers to sell and showcase directly to consumers.
Jason Tripp
Co-Founder of FRAHM Jacket
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About FRAHM Jacket: FRAHM Jacket makes detailed and beautiful men’s jackets for curious minds.
Nick Hussey
Co-Founder of FRAHM Jacket
Nick Hussey is the Co-Founder of FRAHM Jacket.
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About FRAHM Jacket: FRAHM Jacket makes detailed and beautiful men’s jackets for curious minds.
Gill Davies
Founder of Wilderooms
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About Wilderooms: Try what you see online before buying
Malcolm Bell
Founder CEO of Saint and Sofia
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About Harvard Business School, Saint and Sofia, Seedcamp: Saint and Sofia is a fair and sustainable fashion and accessory brand.
Joanna Przetakiewicz
Founder & Creative Director of La Mania
Joanna Przetakiewicz is a Founder, Creative Director, and Owner at La Mania.
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About La Mania: La Mania is a leading fashion brand in Poland, which is developing towards the European markets of luxury goods.
Bonnie Takhar
Lead Founder and CEO of LetsBab
Bonnie Takhar is the founder and CEO of LetsBab, a digital mall that is disrupting the way you shop and digitalising word of mouth. Takhar, a seasoned fashion executive with over 20 years experience, has held a number of high ranking positions.
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About LetsBab: LetsBab is a digital mall revolutionizing the way you shop and share products with others.
Clare Julie McKeeve
Founder & CEO of Luxcite Limited
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About Eaton Gate Capital Partners, Luxcite Limited, TLNT Holdings SA: Investor – Luxury and Premium Brands
Reuben Selby
Founder and CEO of Contact
Reuben Selby is the Founder and CEO at Contact.
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About Contact, Cortex: Contact is the place where creatives manage their career and get paid.
Adam Thacker
Co-Founder of PAKT
Adam started his career trading commodities in London and Tokyo before deciding to follow his inner tree hugger by joining a design led renewable energy product start up. The experience triggered a love of design, and he became a founding partner of Katana, a London & Beijing based branding agency. Adam is well travelled and grew up in Asia. He is a multi-tasker with a brilliant eye for detail and design. He constantly seeks innovative ideas and always thinks outside the box. Adam loves to read, soaking up information from myriad sources, enjoys all sports, is a dedicated aikido student and a foodie.
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About PAKT: PAKT stores your items in ‘clean room’ and catalogs items to create a personal digital wardrobe.
Whitney Hawkings
Co-Founder and CEO of Flowerbx
Whitney Hawkings is a co-founder and CEO of FLOWERBX.
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About Flowerbx: Flowerbx is an online, wholesale, flower-delivery service.
Jamila Jamani
CEO and Founder of Modist
Jamila Jamani is the founder and CEO of Modist. She is also a business development director at Village Supermarket Ltd. Jamila holds a master’s degree in fashion and luxury brand management.
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About Modist: Modist is a digital platform that gives sales teams one access point to e-commerce, client, inventory, and digital marketing information.
Kate Jackson
Co-Founder & Director of silkfred
Kate Jackson is a Co-Founder at silkfred.
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About silkfred, TableCrowd, We Are In The Loop: SilkFred is a luxury retail platform that helps independent brands and emerging designers get their products to market.
Emma Watkinson
Co-Founder & CEO of silkfred
Emma Watkinson is a Co-Founder & CEO at silkfred.
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About silkfred: SilkFred is a luxury retail platform that helps independent brands and emerging designers get their products to market.
Emma Watkinson
Co-Founder & CEO of silkfred
Emma Watkinson is a Co-Founder & CEO at silkfred.
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About silkfred: SilkFred is a luxury retail platform that helps independent brands and emerging designers get their products to market.
Ben Alun-Jones
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of UNMADE
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About UNMADE: Unmade provides customizable design through industrial manufacturing.
Kirsty Emery
Co-Founder & Chief Customer Success Officer of UNMADE
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About UNMADE: Unmade provides customizable design through industrial manufacturing.
Pablo Barclay
Founder/CEO of Rubbersole
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About Rubbersole: Rubbersole is a company that sells various name brand shoes in an online store.
Gerard Rubio
CEO & Founder of Kniterate
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About Kniterate: Kniterate is an affordable and compact digital knitting machine for your workshop.
Stefan Michalak
Founder, Creative Director of Wantfeed
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About Wantfeed: Wantfeed lets you store and curate things from around the web into your own personal wantlist.
Matthew Mueller
Founder & President of Knot Standard
Matthew Mueller, Co-Founder & CEO of Knot Standard, added, “The clothing industry is entering a new period of rapid change as new products and technology take hold. Knot Standard’s customers have made it one of the 10 fastest-growing retails brands in the country, and proven that custom, personalized apparel is the future of fashion. The talented group at TRAUB will help us reach new clients worldwide, expand to new products, and launch the new standard for custom retail in the months to come.
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About Knot Standard: A custom menswear brand, revolutionizing the way customers shop for clothing both online and across 10 national showroom locations.
Mark Bernstein
Founder & CEO of Wearable Technologies
Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young, Mark has spent the bulk of his career taking early stage technology companies from inception to exit. He has been involved in five IPOs, and has sat on UK LSE and AIM public company Boards for 20 years, including Moss Bros. Plc, a leading UK clothing retailer. Mark has worked with VCs and strategic equity partners including IBM, Motorola, BT, Sky and Dixons.
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About Visijax, Wearable Technologies: Wearable Technologies designs, manufactures, and distributes intelligent clothing that are embedded with washable electronics.
Flavia De Pfyffer
CEO & Founder of PASHION
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About PASHION: PASHION was founded with the mission of disrupting and innovating the communication line between professionals in the fashion industry.
Anton Firth
Co-Founder & CTO of DyeRecycle
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About DyeRecycle: DyeRecycle develops an innovative dyeing fibers technology using recycled dye from textile waste.
Ronnie Somerville
Founder of 5pm.co.uk
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About 5pm.co.uk, simpleERB: 5pm.co.uk is an online lifestyle site that provides free booking for restaurants, health and beauty spas, and daily 5pm Big Deals.
Rosie de Malmanche
Founder of o|urmoire.
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About o|urmoire.: The Brighter way to Buy & Borrow
Amanda Langford
Founder Director of Blue Badge Style
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About Blue Badge Style: Blue Badge Style provides a retail merchandising system offering style guides for less physically-abled users.
Daniela Cecilio
CEO & Founder of asap54.com
CEO & Founder at ASAP54
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About asap54.com: Asap54 is an app that provides customers information about items of clothing based on photos the customer has submitted.
Marc Worth
Co-Founder & CEO of Stylus Media
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About Stylus Media: Stylus is a trends intelligence service. We deliver insights that businesses need to make transformative business decisions.
Cally Russell
Founder & CEO of Mallzee
Cally is a young entrpreuner with a big vision. He holds a passion for changing the way we interact online and how design and data should be key in this. He is currently the lead on Mallzee.com and aims to have this new way to shop online live in the later stages of 2012.
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About Mallzee: Mallzee is a B2C clothing retail app and a B2B data suite for clothing retailers to improve margins and make smarter buying decisions
Abel Samet
Co-Founder of Troubadour Goods
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About Troubadour Goods: Troubadour Goods is a menswear fashion brand
Nick Smith
Co-Founder of Alpkit
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About Alpkit: A Nottingham, UK-based outdoor clothing and equipment retailer.
Colin Stocker
Co-Founder of Alpkit
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About Alpkit: A Nottingham, UK-based outdoor clothing and equipment retailer.
Flora Davidson
Co-Founder & Head of Product of SupplyCompass
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About SupplyCompass: Empowering fashion brands and manufacturers to produce better, together.
Gus Bartholomew
Co-Founder & CEO of SupplyCompass
Gus Bartholomew is the Co-Founder and CEO of Supplycompass.
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About SupplyCompass: Empowering fashion brands and manufacturers to produce better, together.
Doina Ciobanu
Founder of The Golden Diamonds
Influencer. Blogger. Model. Traveller. For most, fashion is what you wear. For Doina, it’s where you’re going. Born in Moldova, a country that straddles both European and Russian cultures but without a true fashion scene of its own, fashion and style have been Doina’s interpretation of what’s cross-culturally cool next. Her style recognised in print issues of Vogue as varied as the UK and Mexico, her first feature in the Conde Nast title coming at the age of 17. Since then she’s been recognised by the likes of Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, and Tatler all the while being tapped as one of the top 19 Young Entrepreneurs of Romania by Forbes and as the most stylish Fashion Icon under 30 by Harper’s Bazaar. Doina has worked with luxury fashion brands as diverse as Agent Provocateur, Degrisogno, Dior, Fendi, Jimmy Choo, and Versace, was the first ever digital influencer to be the face of a Paul Smith campaign, and has worked with beauty brands such as L’Oréal and Bobbi Brown. Despite being on a plane each second week, photographing by day and attending London’s key social events by night, Doina also recently completed a bachelor degree in political science and diplomacy.
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About The Golden Diamonds: The Golden Diamonds offers luxury fashion brands.
Paul Preuveneers
CEO & Founder of Uncommon
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About Uncommon: Uncommon designs and develops bespoke merchandise and teamwear
Annette Albrecht-Wetzel
CEO, Creative Director and Co-Founder of PIPPA&JEAN
Annette complements with her female intuition, strategic creativity, and sense of style. As a Creative Director, she is responsible for the collections of PIPPA&JEAN. As Brand and Project Leader, she led large, multicultural, global teams and launched brands such as Dove in Europe, the USA, South America and Asia, where she also lived with her family. After the birth of her two daughters she found it shocking that the career of women stalls as a result of starting a family. That’s why she has been behind PIPPA&JEAN with full conviction from the very beginning. She takes a particular interest in fulfilling the wishes of many women who strive for a more flexible and self-determined working style – for Annette, a healthy work-life balance is vital.
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About PIPPA&JEAN: PIPPA&JEAN is a social selling community with the aim of many women’s wish for a self-determined life.
Raphaëlle Mura
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Change of Paradigm
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About Change of Paradigm, MIXIMALISTE.COM: Change of Paradigm is a 3D virtualization, content and experiences creator for the fashion industry.
Philip Delamore
Co-Founder & CIO of Change of Paradigm
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About Change of Paradigm, MIXIMALISTE.COM: Change of Paradigm is a 3D virtualization, content and experiences creator for the fashion industry.
Christopher Roach
Founder of City Surfer
A passionate, well educated and skilled individual who produces excellent results. Organized, efficient and driven – a natural networker and team builder who thrives under high pressure situations. I enjoy creating and implementing creative communications campaigns including but not limited to, social media promotions and Out of Home advertising. In 2017 I was chosen as one of the top 30 under 30 Future Travel Leaders by TTG (Travel Trade Gazette), one of the industry s leading travel trade magazines. My focus is currently on the launch of the City Surfer app being released in Feb 2018. My duties as founder include implementing a strong PR and marketing campaign for launch.
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About City Surfer: City Surfer is your inner hipster, foodie, raver and fashion guru all combined into one simple to use app.
Lindsay Trombley
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Wovn
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About Wovn: Wovn provides fashion brands with real-time predictive insights to better predict demand, reduces waste, and increasing sales.
Victoria Whitbread
Founder of Designed In Colour
Victoria Whitbread is a Founder of Designed In Colour.
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About Designed In Colour: A creative hub dedicated to offering the very best in shopping for contemporary & colourful design-led products.
Jackie Piper
Co-Founder of Designed In Colour
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About Designed In Colour: A creative hub dedicated to offering the very best in shopping for contemporary & colourful design-led products.
Carolina Molossi
Co-Founder & CMO of Bookalook
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About Bookalook, MOLOTOF Studio: Bookalook is the platform for the new generation of fashion professionals.
Melissa Fernandez
Co-Founder & CEO of Bookalook
Co Founder and CEO of Bookalook.
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About Bookalook, Vibia: Bookalook is the platform for the new generation of fashion professionals.
Thibault Marion de Procé
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Vyking
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About Vyking: Making Digital Fashion Wearable
Tamara Norton
Founder of Sweaty Betty
Tamara Norton is a Founder at Sweaty Betty.
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About Sweaty Betty: Sweaty Betty is a London-based women’s activewear brand.
Jefferson Hack
Co-Founder of Dazed Media
Jefferson Hack is the CEO and co-founder of Dazed Media, an independent media company that produces stories across its print, digital and video brands.
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About AnOther Magazine, Dazed Media: Dazed Media is the world’s leading independent fashion and culture media brand.
Thomas Smilowicz
Co-Founder of iine Card
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About iine Card: iine Card is an online-shopping application that plugs the internet directly into the pages of lifestyle and fashion magazines.
Thomas Smilowicz
Co-Founder of iine Card
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About iine Card: iine Card is an online-shopping application that plugs the internet directly into the pages of lifestyle and fashion magazines.
Erica Feld
President/Co-Founder of Wagdrobe
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About Wagdrobe: Wagdrobe is the first and only pet fashion company that offers a uniquely curated box of surprise apparel and accessories.
Thomas McKay
Founder of Fountain Greetings
Founder of Fountain Greetings.
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About Fountain Greetings: The Best Greetings & Gifting Experience
