Our Team
Kate Larsen, Founding Director
Kate A Larsen has over 17 years experience in Responsible Sourcing and Supply Chains Environmental and Social issues management. Kate was the first Asia Corporate Responsibility Manager for Burberry, building and managing a team and programme that helped contribute to one of the strongest programmes against Modern Slavery and for ethical trade in the sector.
Kate was later Global Director Responsible Sourcing for the USA listed largest childrenwear retailer in north America, TCP.
In recent years Kate has trained and supported Procurement and Investment teams to understand the ESG and Business Human Rights Due Diligence steps expected of Companies, and how Companies can deliver these.
A Chinese speaker, Kate applies deep insight from her years working in China and Asia in business, also in non-profit, and as a Director Responsible Sourcing and participating in and leading industry initiatives and collaborations.
Kate has featured on the BBC, in VOGUE Business, Drapers, Apparel Insider, and was a Top 100 Corporate Modern Slavery influencer UK of 2018. She has spoken at conferences for the PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment), Thun group of banks meeting, TechUK, Innovation Forum, WWD and Drapers Sustainable Fashion conferences, and more.
Kate holds an MSc Environmental Management (thesis on preventing wastewater pollution from fashion and electronics supply chains south China), and a conjoint BA Chinese language/ BCom in Asia business.
Motthida Chin, Senior Associate USA
A former Nike, Columbia, REI and Nordstrom executive, Director Verite, and ILO Better Factories Cambodia manager, Motthida is experienced in working in and guiding companies on Supply Chains labour standards monitoring.
Motthida loves to train Purchasing teams, Suppliers and other personnel. She is a coach, trainer and mentor to companies to integrate anti-slavery and responsibility via integrity and strategic planning, towards ensuring organizational objectives are met and international stakeholder interests managed.
Motthida has also worked on industry initiatives such as a founding role in the ILO Better Work programmes “Better Factories” initiative in Cambodia, which spread to Vietnam, Indonesia, etc.
Cambodian born, Motthida understands issues workers and management face like few others do, yet as an American citizen, she helps guide companies through the challenges they face for impact.
Masters Adult Education/ Organization & Human Resource. BA Intl Business
Ajay Datt, Senior Associate India
Ajay brings more than 20 years experience working in and monitoring and guiding supply chains. A former South Asia Director Responsible Sourcing for north America’s largest childrenswear brand, Ajay knows working conditions and safety inside and out and is dedicated to improving conditions.
Ajay has an analytical mind, yet loves to coach and capacity build, supporting understanding in why and how to improve labour and safety conditions, and guiding and tracking their improvement.
Ajay has worked in the middle east, across south Asia, and with apparel, electronics and other industries.
Ajay’s past work has included leading assessing and monitoring of supply chain social compliance, contributing to code of conduct (CoC) standards, audit instruments and rating tool development for an USA based MNC and overall monitoring of regional social compliance activities.
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Labor and Industrial Relations; and Associate of Arts (AA) in Economics
Saif Khan, Senior Associate HongKong
Saif is a supply chains modern slavery and labour standards expert and audit teams leader with over 13 years’ leading Social Audit across Asia and globally for clients such as Adidas, and prior as a corporate manager for PVH (Calvin Klein license owner).
Saif has led deep investigative risk assessment social audits of sites for forced labour, such as of (legal) Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia expert factories, and can guide and manage how remediation to the expected international business human rights standards should occur.
Saif is an expert trainer, standards, policies and remediation guide for leading MNCs, with strengths in worker conditions realisation for international labour standards such as SA8000, ILO, etc and management-worker communication improvement.
Saif also assesses EHS (Environment, Health,Safety), and guides how companies cause supplier improvements in labour, safety, and environmental performance, and Saif has played a key role in development of related E&S tech databases.
Saif and his team assess sites in Bangladesh, Malaysia, China, Japan and around the world guiding on how to improve to international standards.