Caroline Brown is a former CEO of major luxury brands including Donna Karan International, DKNY, Carolina Herrera, and Akris who now leads the fashion and beauty investment practice at Closed Loop Partners, making her likely the only former major apparel brand CEO working hands-on with early-stage circular fashion technologies. She serves on boards of circular fashion companies like Browzwear, Dimpora, By Rotation, For Days, and Eileen Fisher while also advising at MIT's entrepreneurship center, giving her an unusual combination of big-brand operating experience and deep engagement with next-generation sustainability founders.
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Closed Loop Partners
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Closed Loop Partners operates as a full circular economy platform that combines venture capital, private equity, project finance, and an in-house collaboration lab, using different pools of capital to back the same companies as they move from R&D to commercial scale while also purpose-building physical recycling infrastructure projects in North America. The firm's LP base is dominated by incumbent consumer, retail, and industrial corporates who serve as both capital providers and demand-side partners, using Closed Loop Partners as an outsourced R&D and deal flow engine for their circular supply chains.
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