Best Startup
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 CEO’ operating in the Fashion space. If you think a CEO’ 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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Rachel Horsefield
CEO – Beauty of THG
Rachel joined The Hut Group in September 2012 as Head of Trading for the Beauty Division after 5 years working at Boots The Chemist. She won Best New Comer in the annual 2012 Company Awards Rachel’s team delivered a record breaking 2013 with retail sales growth of 59% and Rachel was promoted to Managing Director of the Prestige Beauty Division in September 2013 Rachel was Awarded Employee of the year for the Prestige Division in the annual 2013 Company Awards.
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About THG: The Hut Group is an online retailing platform focused on fast moving consumer goods, specifically focused on health and beauty.
Darren Rajanah
CEO THG Ingenuity of THG
Joined The Hut Group in 2008 playing a key role in its rapid expansion over the past 5 years. Responsible for developing and implementing commercial strategies to drive efficiencies across the group. Also with responsibility for developing and delivery of group marketing strategies. CIMA Fellow and qualified accountant with 7 years senior finance experience at the Caudwell Group (revenues of £1.5bn).
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About THG: The Hut Group is an online retailing platform focused on fast moving consumer goods, specifically focused on health and beauty.
Matthew Moulding
Chief Executive Officer of THG
Matthew founded The Hut Group in 2004 and moved full-time into the business in 2006. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen and spent 8 years as Chief Financial Officer of 20:20, the distribution division of The Caudwell Group, revenues increased from £70m to £1.5bn. Matthew also led the £365m sale of 20:20 to private equity in 2006, before moving full-time to The Hut Group.
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About THG: The Hut Group is an online retailing platform focused on fast moving consumer goods, specifically focused on health and beauty.
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.
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
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.
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.
Troy Collins
Chief Executive Officer of Endource
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About CruiseLineFans.com, Endource, Microsoft Accelerator London, Secret Escapes: Endource.com is the pinnacle of curated fashion. We scour the most influential fashion sources to bring you the fashion that’s made the cut.
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.
Christoph Barchewitz
co-CEO of Global Fashion Group
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About Global Fashion Group, Kinnevik AB: Global Fashion Group designs a shopping platform that brings fashion online across 27 countries.
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.
Mary Turner
CEO of Koovs
Mary was Chief Executive of AlertMe.com, a pioneer in the “internet of things” technology which powers the UK’s leading smart homes solution, Hive Active Heating, acquired by British Gas in May 2015. Previously she was Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tiscali UK Limited from 2001 to 2009 and was a non-executive director of ASOS plc between 2009 and 2013. Prior to joining Tiscali, Mary was Chief Executive Officer of BTLineOne, the joint venture between BT and United News Media, and Senior Vice President Marketing (Europe) at CompuServe Information Services. She has also held the position of product & merchandising at Innovation Group and prior to that, worked in sales and marketing at Avon Cosmetics and Elizabeth Arden. Mary joined the board in July 2014 as a Non-executive Director and was appointed CEO in October 2015.
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About Koovs: KOOVS is the one-stop online fashion destination for all your fashion needs.
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
Ceanne Fernandes-Wong
CEO and Co-founder of Cocoon
Ceanne Fernandes-Wong is the CEO and co-founder of Cocoon.
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About Cocoon: Cocoon is a handbag subscription service that gives its members access to luxury designer handbags.
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
Olga Kotsur
Co-founder and CEO of Mercaux
Olga Kotsur is Founder at Mercaux.
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About Mercaux, The Boston Consulting Group: Mercaux brings the benefits of digital into retail stores to drive sales uplift.
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.
Stefano Martinetto
Co-founder & CEO of Tomorrow
Stefano Martinetto is CEO at tomorrow ltd.
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About Tomorrow: Tomorrow is an international sales platform that operates from four outstanding showrooms in the main fashion cities.
Mike Walsh
CEO of Tomorrow
Mike Walsh is the CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy on designing business for the 21st century. He advises leaders on how to thrive in this era of disruptive technological change. Mikes clients include many of the global Fortune 500, and as a sought-after keynote speaker he regularly shares the stage with world leaders and business icons alike. Mike previously founded Jupiter Research in Australia, and has also held senior strategy roles at News Corporation in the Asia Pacific Region. He is currently a board member and strategic investor in the North Alliance, Scandinavias leading digital marketing group. Mikes best-selling book FUTURETAINMENT, published by Phaidon was the winner of the design award by the Art Directors Club in New York. Rather than focusing on the distant future, Mike takes an anthropological approach scanning the near horizon for emerging technologies and disruptive shifts in human behavior, and then translating these into pragmatic plans for business transformation. A prolific writer and commentator, Mikes views have appeared in a wide range of international publications including BusinessWeek, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
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About Tomorrow: Tomorrow is an international sales platform that operates from four outstanding showrooms in the main fashion cities.
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.
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 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.
Lara Mazzoni
CEO & CO-FOunder of Bodi.Me
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About 3D-A-PORTER, Bodi.Me: Fashion Fit Technology Innovator – UNIQUE AND AN EFFECTIVE SaaS CLOTHING SIZE SOLUTION FOR BRANDS & SHOPPERS
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.
Tomas Utting
Assistant to CEO of Combyne
Tomas Utting is an Analyst of combyne.
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About Combyne: Combyne is a social tool for creating outfits. It’s the fusion of a game, a practical utility and a social network.
Toby Darbyshire
CEO of Heist Studios
Toby Darbyshire started his career at management consulting firm Bain & Company, later moving on to co-found home energy provider Engensa, with the aim of delivering solar panels to the masses. After exiting Engensa to Chinese renewables company Hanergy, which later licensed Engensa to IKEA as part of their in-store solar offering, Toby was looking for other consumer sectors in need of disruption, and co-founded Heist in 2015.
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About Heist Studios: Heist Studios is an online bodywear brand that manufactures tights for women.
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.
Lee Jones
CEO of Tatami Fightwear
Lee Jones is the CEO of Tatami Fightwear.
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About Tatami Fightwear: Tatami Fightwear is a producer of clothing and equipment for Brazilian jiu jitsu fighters.
Gareth Dummer
CEO of Tatami Fightwear
Gareth Dummer joined Tatami Fightwear as CEO in 2009.
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About Tatami Fightwear: Tatami Fightwear is a producer of clothing and equipment for Brazilian jiu jitsu fighters.
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.
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.
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.
Hal Watts
CEO & Co-founder of UNMADE
Hal Watts currently works as a freelance designer and engineer for several companies. He also works as a speaker talking about his work, environmental issues and innovation more generally. Hal spends the rest of his the time working on commissions and his own projects such as Esource. In 2013 he founded a design and engineering studio with Ben Alun-Jones called Searu which led to a second company, Knyttan. Founded with Ben and Kirsty Emery Knyttan is a technology startup pioneering the use of digital manufacturing technics to revolutionise knitwear production. This is now his main focus.
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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.
Ingvar Helgason
Co-founder and CEO of VitroLabs
Ingvar Helgason is Co-founder and CEO at VitroLabs Inc.
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About VitroLabs: We work with nature to create real leather from cells, that’s slaughter-free and better for the environment.
Gerard Rubio
CEO & Founder of Kniterate
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About Kniterate: Kniterate is an affordable and compact digital knitting machine for your workshop.
Rob Feldmann
CEO of BRANDALLEY
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About BRANDALLEY: BRANDALLEY is an online retair of fashion, home and beauty products
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.
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
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.
Nikolay Piriankov
CEO of Taylor & Hart
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About Taylor & Hart: Taylor & Hart make proposing with a custom designed, high quality engagement ring, easy, affordable and enjoyable.
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.
Tamsin Lejeune
CEO of Common Objective (CO)
Tamsin is one of the pioneers of the sustainable fashion movement. Her entrepreneurial spirit and drive have seen her work with thousands of fashion professionals and businesses over the years, growing a global network spanning 141 countries, and pioneering solutions that overcome the challenges they face. Tamsin is a force to be reckoned with, and an inspiration to many.
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About Common Objective (CO): CO is an intelligent business network that drives more sustainable business practices, starting with the fashion industry.
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.
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.
Liam Young
CEO of Harper
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About Harper, Yourfittingroom: Harper delivers the in-store experience to online customers.
Sara Ahmadi
CEO of Shopest
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About Shopest: Shopest makes discovering nearby retail as fast and as simple as online.
Sarah Miles
CEO of Feelunique.com
Sarah Miles is the CEO at Feelunique.com.
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About Feelunique.com: Feelunique.com is an online e-commerce platform that offers beauty products and related advice.
Donna North
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Dressipi
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About Dressipi: The leading independently verified Revenue Optimisation Platform for fashion retailers.
Aisling Byrne
Founder & CEO of Nuw (The Nu Wardrobe LTD)
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About Nuw (The Nu Wardrobe LTD): Nuw is the app to swap preloved fashion. ‘Spend your money anywhere, spend your clothes on Nuw’.
Yang Liu
Co-founder & CEO of JustWears
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About JustWears: JustWears is an essential wear brand for urban men.
Ana Cláudia Huzenlaub
Founder & CEO of ChicBaby.com
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About ChicBaby.com: ChicBaby is an online platform that offers fashion and apparel products for babies.
Monica Vinader
Founder and CEO of Monica Vinader
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About Monica Vinader: Official account of the British luxury jewellery brand. Follow us for behind-the-scenes hidden gems and shining style inspiration.
Stuart Logan
Founder & CEO of Twine
As the Big Boss, Stuart spends his days in a large leather armchair, staring out over the Manchester skyline while smoking a cigar and plotting world domination. (He doesn’t really). Originally from Salisbury, he studied computer science at Manchester University but was always keen to break into the exciting world of start-ups, and was involved in a number of ventures before finalising his plans for Clowdy. When not wearing his chief executive hat (metaphorically speaking) he enjoys harbouring unrealistic expectations for Manchester United’s future success and live music.
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About Twine: Twine connects companies to diverse creative and digital freelancers
Edil Ajibaev
Founder, CEO of picVpic
Edil Ajibaev, the founder of several international startups, has made a significant impact in the tech industry with his AI-based clothing search engine. This innovative tool, leading in product search quality, has accumulated the world’s largest fashion product database, boasting 14 million products.
Edil’s company has pioneered a hybrid system of machine learning, visual search, and manual labelling. This system identifies prevalent fashion phrases and semantically integrates them into a Knowledge Graph, offering superior search quality in the fashion domain.
Edil’s entrepreneurial prowess has been recognized globally, with 7 international startup competition wins in cities such as London, San Francisco, New York, Kyiv, Almaty, Singapore, and Brussels.
In addition to his primary ventures, Edil has co-founded and advised several technology companies, helping them launch and achieve commercial success. He is also an active board member of various startups and organizations shaping the tech ecosystem.
Edil has authored several industry-related articles and is a passionate speaker on Entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence, and Leadership. In 2023, he received an award for the most significant contribution to the IT sector at the largest CA IT conference, supported by the US government.
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About picVpic: picVpic offers a search engine that enables its users to compare and rank products from various online stores.
Paul van Zyl
Founder & CEO of Maiyet
Kristy Caylor is a Co-Founder and the President and Creative Director of Maiyet. Kristy brings to the team a keen entrepreneurial spirit, a successful track record of growing globally recognized fashion businesses, and hands-on experience working within developing countries. Kristy began her fashion career in merchandising at Gap, Inc. While at Gap, Kristy led the Petite business for Banana Republic where she opened stand-alone stores and tripled the business over 2 years. She then relocated to Tokyo to lead the BR Japan merchandising division. Engaging an entirely new customer, Kristy was instrumental in positioning the BR brand and customizing product for the Japanese market. Upon returning to the US, Kristy became the head of merchandising for Gap Accessories and Product (RED). There, she redeveloped the accessories lines, led the development and launch of Gap Jewelry, and focused intensely on creating a more creative and effective business model for Product (RED). Kristy left Gap to start her own consulting business, during which time she worked with brands such as Stronghold Denim, All Saints, and Mercado Global, a fair trade company based in Guatemala. As a design consultant for Mercado Global, Kristy worked directly with indigenous artisans, teaching new techniques and guiding product development for an assortment sold to Nordstrom and Levi’s. After working as a consultant for the LA based luxury brand Band of Outsiders, Kristy joined the company full time as their President and COO, initiating a long-term growth plan that resulted in new product launches and expanded wholesale penetration. Kristy graduated with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Finance from University of Southern California.
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About Maiyet, New York University, The Conduit: Maiyet is a modern, artisanal luxury fashion brand that designs, sources and produces apparel, accessories, and jewelry.
Marija Butkovic
Founder and CEO of Women of Wearables
Marija Butkovic is founder and CEO of Women of Wearables – an initiative that supports, connects and empowers women in wearable tech, fashion tech, IoT and VR/AR.
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About Women of Wearables: Women of Wearables is first global organisation supporting and connecting women in wearable tech, fashion tech, health tech, IoT, VR and AR.
Edda Hamar
Founder & CEO of Lána
Edda advocates for sustainability and ethics in the fashion industry. She’s the founder and CEO of Undress; an online marketplace to list, discover and borrow quality clothing. It’s the share economy for fashion, welcome to the future. Edda is also the founder of Australia’s largest sustainable fashion runway show, Undress Runways. Exhibiting since 2011, the event engages 50,000+ people each year to celebrate sustainable designers. Edda is a UN Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals.
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About Lána, Undress Runways: An online, peer-to-peer marketplace where you can list, discover and borrow quality clothes for all occasions.
Justin Sedgmond
CEO of Boutique Social
Boutique Social is a new social shopping platform for fashion and beauty products. We enable brands and retailers to access a highly engaged shopping audience. We provide our users with the latest social functionality and unique content to create, share and shop for the hottest products from hundreds of premium and boutique online stores. We are building a stack of great products which include unique blogger and magazine content all of which are designed to drive user engagement, retailer conversions and insights for brands. Our platform has been over a year in the making and will be launched October 2015.
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About Boutique Social: Boutique Social is a social commerce platform for fashion & beauty.
Douglas Heidergren
CEO and Founder of Hyber
Founder of Hyber.
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About Hyber: Hyber is Sweden’s largest subscription rental platform for clothes and baby products for parents and children.
Partha Goswami
CEO of OOSTOR.com
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About OOSTOR.com: An online marketplace showcasing products from independent and unique brands from across the world!
Mark Solomon
CEO and Founder of Love the Sales
Mark Solomon is the Founder and CEO at Love the Sales.
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About Love the Sales: Love the Sales takes the sales on many websites and puts them on one website.
Lev Grybov
CEO & Co-founder of Shopdrobe
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About Shopdrobe: A social-networking platform, where you and your friends can democratise fashion, resolving these daily “What should I wear” dilemmas.
Ryan Genz
CEO of CuteCircuit
Ryan Genz is a CEO at CuteCircuit.
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About CuteCircuit: A pioneer in the field of wearable technology, design and manufacture of 3D audio products, sensor enhanced apparel, illumination, haptics.
Stephanie Margaronis
CEO of Blaiz
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About Blaiz: Blaiz a retail platform of online and physical stores curating best of Latin American womenswear designers, bringing completely new styles.
Mark Harrop
CEO of WhichPLM
Mark Harrop is the founder and Managing Director of WhichPLM. During a career that has spanned more than four decades, Mark has worked tirelessly to further the cause of PLM – providing the unbiased, expert advice that has enabled some of the world’s best known retailers, brands and manufacturers achieve efficiency savings across their entire supply chain through informed technology investments.
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About WhichPLM: Whichplm is an on-line magazine and advisory service dedicated to the global technology fashion industry.
Uche David
CEO of Riset
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About Riset: A Platform for Fashion Brands with an Appreciation for Unique Fashion Items
Salvatore Vacante
CEO, Founder of Shoppi
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About Shoppi: Shoppi is a marketplace to connect local companies with travelers by overcoming existing cultural barriers.
Nancy Johnston
CEO & Founder of Tengri
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About Tengri: Tengri is a London-based lifestyle brand and technology specialist.
Claudia Lambeth
Founder and CEO of Luna Mae London
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About Luna Mae London: Luna Mae London is a specialist celebrating British craftsmanship and the female form.
Claudia Lambeth
Founder and CEO of Luna Mae London
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About Luna Mae London: Luna Mae London is a specialist celebrating British craftsmanship and the female form.
Alex Feechan
CEO -Founder of FINDRA
Founder Alex Feechan is an award winning Fashion designer with a 1ST Class honours degree from the renowned Heriots Watt University and an MA in fashion Textiles from the Royal College of Art London. Throughout her 20 year career Alex has worked on the knitwear for fashion houses such as Chanel, Calvin Klein and Escada.
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About FINDRA: FINDRA. Fashion led, performance driven, bike wear and outdoor apparel specifically for women.
Clover Lewis
Founder and CEO of Clover Lewis Swimwear
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About Clover Lewis Swimwear: Clover Lewis Swimwear is the post-surgery brand of the Year in the UK Lingerie Awards
