EcoConnect - ethical fashion
sourcing platform
Working inside luxury CX for a decade meant sitting close to a specific kind of risk: brands knew exactly how their sales associates performed at the point of sale, but had almost no visibility upstream. When Loro Piana’s Peruvian supply chain came to light, or when LVMH houses found themselves unable to account for labour practices three tiers deep, the pattern was consistent, not negligence, but a genuine absence of infrastructure. Certifications lived in PDFs, supplier claims were unverifiable, and the industry found out about problems the same way the public did.
EcoConnect was built to close that infrastructure gap: supplier discovery, certification verification, RFP management, and contract tracking in one stack. Over 4,000 verified suppliers at launch. The same trust problem I had been solving on the consumer side (are these people who they say they are?) applied just as clearly to the supply side.
Built with a three-person team across three continents. Paused in 2025 as US-China tariffs made the green premium untenable.
Timing was wrong. The build was not.
Beat ventures with $1M+ in government contracts. Bootstrapped , built during a full-time executive role and an ESSEC EMBA with Mannheim dual degree. No dedicated time. No external funding.