Our Team
Our people are at the heart of how we are making change happen in the consumer goods industry. Meet the passionate people behind our work below.
Amanda Tucker is Vice President of Responsible Sourcing & Sustainability at Target, where she oversees the global function responsible for integrating responsible sourcing practices into Target’s business operations and advancing Target’s sustainability goals.
Prior to joining Target in 2021, Amanda held a series of progressive global leadership roles over her 20 year career at Nike, most recently serving as the Vice President of Global Sourcing. In addition to her private sector experience, Amanda has served in academia as a facilitator of LEAD, Stanford’s flagship online business program; in the public sector, including working for the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland; and in independent business advocacy, as the Director of International Labor Affairs with the U.S. Council for International Business (USCIB).
Amanda has a BA from Stanford University and graduate degrees from Stanford ‘s Graduate School of Business, the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and the Institute of Political Science in Paris, France. She currently serves on the Board of the Apparel Impact Institute and Nest.
Cindy Elliott heads Esri’s business industry marketing team. She helps to shape the role of geospatial analytics within the manufacturing industry related to new market analysis, supply chain operations, and advanced services. For more than fifteen years, Cindy has worked with global manufacturers and enterprise class technology companies to influence customer-focused business transformation. Her work has been pivotal in building awareness for location technology’s ability to meet the growing complexities in global networks.
Cindy is an advisory member of the USC Marshall Center Global Supply Chain Management Program (MCGSCM) and of the TCU Neeley School of Business Center for Supply Chain Innovation (CSCI) and is an established thought leader on the digital supply network and manufacturers’ advanced services. She earned a master’s degree in international management from the Thunderbird Graduate School and completed Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development.
Dr. Delman Lee is currently the Vice Chair of TAL Apparel Limited. He leads TAL Apparel on its long-term strategy and continuous innovations in various aspects of the business. Major focuses are digital transformation, disruptive technologies, business model innovations and sustainability. He is responsible for the innovative services of TAL such as Vendor Managed Inventory and leads the sustainability journey of TAL for the past 15+ years.
Dr. Lee possesses extensive experience in information technology and management in global operations. He also has a strong background in research.
Greg Rossiter is a global communications executive with more than 25 years of experience in advising business leaders and leading communications functions for several of the world’s top companies and brands. Currently, he is an Expert Board Advisor and Communications Consultant to Cascale, a group of 250 leading brands, suppliers and NGOs working to reduce the environmental and social impacts of products around the world.
Previously, he led corporate external communications and managed issues across organizations and geographies at Nike Inc., where he was Global Corporate Communications Director and the primary advisor to Nike co-founder and chairman emeritus Phil Knight. Prior to joining Nike, Rossiter led corporate communications and issues management functions and served as a spokesperson for five other Fortune 500 companies including Walmart, Gap Inc and FedEx.
An accomplished ESG leader in global consumer products corporations, I develop and implement integrated sustainability strategies, linked to purpose and impact, across diverse global businesses and supply chains. I deliver impact and enhance brand reputation through close partnership with internal business leaders, industry influencers, industry coalitions, and other critical stakeholders.
Krishna Manda is VP of Corporate Sustainability at the Lenzing Group, which is a world-leading producer of sustainable cellulosic fibers with brand names such as TENCEL™, ECOVERO™ and REFIBRA™.
Krishna has 17+ years of sustainability experience with various stakeholders, brands, manufacturers, associations, academia and NGOs. Krishna is passionate about embedding sustainability into core business functions (e.g. R&D, operations, procurement, marketing, strategy) to nurture culture change anchored in values and to create holistic sustainability impact from raw materials to the final product.
At Lenzing, he is responsible for sustainability & ESG strategy, targets, governance, incentives and strategic engagements with stakeholders and policy makers for orchestrating systemic change in the industry.
Krishna served as co-chair of Policy Hub from May 2020 – Oct 2022 and serves on the Board of Directors for Cascale.
Krishna obtained an M.Sc in Environmental Management and Policy from Lund University, Sweden and a Ph.D. in Sustainability Integration from Utrecht University, Netherlands. Krishna has worked and lived in 5 countries & currently lives in Austria with his wife and daughter who are a continuous inspiration.
In her role as Chief Operating Officer at BCI, Lena leads Better Cotton’s global operations and ensures the day-to-day work delivers positive change and impact for cotton farmers around the world. Lena joined BCI during its first year of operation and has helped guide the organisation towards becoming the largest cotton sustainability initiative in the world with programmes in multiple countries reaching millions of smallholder farmers.
Pascal Brun is VP Sustainability and D&I at Zalando. He is responsible for driving the company’s strong commitment in the areas of Sustainability and D&I, pivotal for transforming both Zalando and the wider fashion industry. In his quest to achieve positive impact across the value chain, Pascal is currently also part of the Board of Directors of Cascale, IFC and Circ.
Before joining Zalando in September 2023 and relocating to Berlin, Pascal worked at H&M where his experience spanned across different continents and a variety of execution and strategic management roles over the last 16 years, focusing on Sustainability and Supply Chain Management.
Sandra is the co-founder of Good On You, an established and trusted source for sustainability ratings in fashion. Since 2015, Good On You has rated over 3,000 brands for their impact and empowered millions of consumers to buy better. With years of experience in corporate social responsibility and governance, Sandra has long been concerned with supply chain issues in big business. She started Good On You because she sees huge potential in using the power of consumers to drive industry change.
Sean Cady is Vice President, Global Sustainability, Responsibility, Trade and Government Affairs at VF Corporation. VF Corporations is a global leader in lifestyle apparel, footwear and accessories. VF is the owner of 12 iconic brands, including The North Face®, Vans®, Timberland®, Dickies® and Supreme®.
Cady’s direction of VF’s global sustainability strategy has been instrumental in the implementation of the company’s comprehensive and industry-leading actions to reduce the environmental impacts of products, direct operations, and the supply chain. In leading VF’s global trade strategy, product stewardship team, government relations and global impact initiatives, Cady ensures best-in-class management of product impacts through design and manufacturing due diligence, regulatory compliance, traceability, and substantiation of raw materials, while simultaneously representing VF’s interests to eliminate barriers to free trade. Additionally, he oversees the global responsible sourcing team across VF, ensuring the nearly 1 million workers making VF products, which are sold in more than 125 countries and over 1,200 owned retail stores across the globe, are assured fair treatment and a safe workplace.
Prior to joining VF in 2010, Cady led various teams at Levi Strauss & Co. His perspectives have been shared in numerous publications and at recent events such as the Textile Exchange Sustainability Conference, the Redress Design Awards, MAGIC Las Vegas and the World Business Forum.
Cady holds an M.B.A. in International Business and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of California. He serves on the Board of Directors for Cascale and Worldy and the advisory board for the Business for Impact program in Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.
Tamar Hoek is Senior Policy Director Sustainable Fashion for Solidaridad. Her European and global agenda on policy influencing and market uptake focuses on influencing the private sector to commit to and implement responsible environmental management, decent work and fair value distribution within their supply chain, and the public sector to enforce national norms and regulatory frameworks for sustainability and due diligence. Important platforms for her policy influencing work are multi-stakeholder initiatives around sustainable fashion, like Cascale and the Policy Hub.
Solidaridad’s cotton and textiles programs focus on working with brands/retailers, factories, farmers and other stakeholders in the supply chain to improve the environmental and social performance of the textiles wet processing sector and the Read Made Garments (RMG) sector, and to increase the uptake of sustainable cotton.
Vidhura heads sustainability strategy & execution for Epic Group with focus on emissions, water, chemicals and sustainable product innovation. He comes with 15 years of experience in apparel sustainability and is also a renewable energy and climate activist.
His experience covers facility design, product LCA and standards design. He is an advocate for equal partnership in the apparel industry as it transitions towards sustainability.
