Zahlen Titcomb

About Zahlen Titcomb

I\'ve spent 20 years in leadership across several businesses, and I\'ve enjoyed all of it (especially the hard parts ). The alliterate people around me say I challenge, connect, and create, which seems about right for the roles I play, professional and personal. SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE Circular economy in apparel, fashion, and textiles, climatetech, technical green materials, startup and small business management experience, international sourcing, logistics, and supply chains, marketing and brand management, go to market, product design, project based consulting, foundations and grant-making, educational institution management, woodworking. THINGS I GRAVITATE TOWARDS - Big and audacious ideas or solutions addressing global problems - Collaboration- Elegant complexity, unambiguous simplicity - Trying new things, learning new things - Transcultural perspectives (I grew up in a few different countries) THINGS THAT FIRE ME UP - The success of others - Displays of selfless love and compassion - Injustice and lack of integrity or intentional misleading - Individual outbursts of creativity - Authentic art, in all forms, and the humans or natural forces and processes that create itPLEASE REACH OUT TO CONNECT 🤙 I love me a good quick intro zoom :)

Experience

1. CEO, Co-founder

   Ravel

   Jan 2020 — Present

   Challenging, Creating, and Connecting to enable a price parity circular economy solution for textile waste.Decarbonizing fashion and with high quality drop in materials for a sustainable apparel supply chain. Innovative purification recycling technology to transform blended fiber end-of-life textile wast back into its pure original base material.

Education

• The Hotchkiss School

  Focus on advanced science and mathematics

  1996 — 2000

• University of Chicago

  BA, Economics, Italian Literature, International Studies