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BFF (best friends forever), business soul mates, and the best at pushing each others buttons, meet the founders of Indochino.
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Kyle Vucko, Co-Founder and CEO
Kyle is responsible for the marketing, PR, and strategy at Indochino.com. Often traveling between fashion centres and the operational headquarters in Shanghai; Kyle is always in discussions with potential suppliers, designers, and clients. When not traveling (one of his passions), Kyle calls Victoria, Canada home.
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Heikal Gani, Co-Founder, President and CDO (Chief Design Officer)
As the company's creative director, Heikal is responsible for Indochino's customer experience and branding. A true fashionista, Heikal guides our design team and oversees the tailoring operation in Shanghai. Originally from Singapore, Heikal now resides in Shanghai, China (when not attending International fashion events).
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Lin Kai, VP Operations
Born only a few blocks from Indochino’s Chinese headquarters, Lin Kai is actually the son of one of our master tailors! Fully immersed in the intricacies of tailoring from a young age, Lin Kai has intimate knowledge of the anatomy of a quality suit. In charge of Indochino’s quality control and community development departments, Lin Kai ensures Indochino’s operation produces consistently great product.
Angie Ye, VP Online Marketing and Services
An English Major (and French Minor) from the University of Shanghai ensures Angie is the best linguist on the team. A former account rep for one of the premier Chinese website companies, Angie now oversees Indochino’s online marketing and customer service departments.
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Jackson, Indochino's first partner tailor.
Jackson has a knack for making you smile, a combination of cheesy broken English jokes and a priceless smile (he kinda looks like the Chinese actor Chow Yum Fat). A native of Suzhou province, Jackson came to Shanghai to start his tailoring business in the early 80’s. Fast turn around and excellent quality have earned Jackson great respect from the local business community and many tourists who frequent his shop. Jackson currently lives on the 23 floor of a relatively new high rise near his boutique with his wife (also a skilled Indochino tailor) and two children.
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Chen, The Master.
In the Chinese tailoring business, there are suit sales people (the people who try and sell you a suit) and master tailors (the people who actually make them). Chen is the latter. Surprisingly difficult to track down, Chen provides his services to a very select group of high end suit reps. A true master of his trade, Chen lives among his suits: cutting fabric, testing buttons, reviewing stitch work, and developing his aspiring master tailors.
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Fong, Mr. Details.
Down a quiet side street, Fong’s workshop (the lower level of his house) has no signs or indicators. Only working a well developed local clientele, Fong can rely on his reputation to bring him business. Approaching us in the early days, Fong (and more so his wife who, secretly, is actually the better tailor) played a major role in developing and refining the partnership system Indochino uses. A quiet, detailed oriented man; you can always find Fong enjoying a cup of tea outside his place around 2:15 in the afternoon.
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Located mostly in and around Shanghai, Indochino's suppliers are a key part of our Chinese community and the company's success.
Caption (below): Co-founder Heikal Gani with some of our suppliers.
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Hannes Blum, Ph.D., President & CEO, AbeBooks.com
Hannes Blum holds a Masters in Business and Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and a Ph.D. in business from the Otto Beisheim School of Management (WHU) in Germany. Blum started his career with the Boston Consulting Group in strategy consulting. He then co-founded JustBooks in 1999 and took on the position as President & CEO of AbeBooks Inc., the world’s largest marketplace for new, used, rare and out-of-print books and a top 100 internet retailer, following the acquisition of JustBooks by AbeBooks in October 2001.
Blum is an active investor in several internet related businesses (among others Suite101, Conducive Corp., Oprius as well as Indochino Inc.). He also serves on three other boards in addition to his mandate at AbeBooks Inc.
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Boris Wertz, Ph.D., COO, AbeBooks.com
Dr. Boris Wertz is the Chief Operating Officer of AbeBooks.com, the world’s largest marketplace for new, used and rare and out-of print books. Boris joined the company in 2002 after JustBooks, the German company he co-founded in 1999, was acquired by AbeBooks. Before starting up JustBooks, Boris successfully finished his PhD as well as his graduate studies at the Graduate School of Management (WHU), Koblenz, majoring in Business Economics / Business Management. Boris serves on the board of AbeBooks, Suite101 and the Book Industry Study Group and is an active investor in several Internet companies, among others: The German travel review site Tripsbytips.com, ad marketplace Conducive Corp., tailor made mens suits site Indochino.com and Vancouver technology community Techvibes.com. Living in Vancouver with his wife Luisa (a dog treats entrepreneur), he loves the outdoors, reading and traveling.
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Eric Jordan, former President & CEO of PureEdge (1993 - 2002)
Eric co-founded and served as President and CEO of PureEdge from 1993 through 2002, assuming the role of Chief Strategy Officer in 2002. Providing electronic forms and services, PureEdge had over 5 million users across 300,000 end user organization; totaling over 35 million transactions every year (over 100,000 transactions every day) before being acquired by IBM in 2005. Awarded Business in Vancouver's 'Top 40 under 40' Award, along with many others, Eric is a member of the Premier Technology Council and has played an advisory role to high potential startups such as Oprius Solutions, Genologics, and Indochino (us!).
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John Chase, CFO of Abebooks.com
John is the Chief Financial Officer of Abebooks Inc. and has over 25 years of business and financial experience. He has worked for Amazon.com's marketplace division, Exchange.com, an early competitor of eBay, and Rounder Records – the world's largest independent record label. Massachusetts-based Exchange.com was an online marketplace that specialized in niche markets, such as rare books, and eventually purchased Bibliofind.com – one of AbeBooks' early competitors. Amazon then acquired both Exchange.com and Bibilofind, and John relocated to Amazon's Seattle headquarters in 1999. John initially served as chief financial executive for Amazon's fledgling marketplace division before being appointed director of finance, planning and analysis. He also spent two years in AbeBooks’ hometown of Victoria, BC, (2003-2005) with Power Measurement - the energy management technology firm - as its chief financial officer.
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