Traceability made tangible: navigating DPPs in complex supply chains

Akhil Sivanandan is the co-founder and CEO of Green Story, a leader in sustainability solutions tailored for the fashion industry. With a robust background in data science and sustainability, Akhil has driven Green Story's mission to simplify and enhance sustainability practices through advanced lifecycle assessment, carbon footprint measurement, and transparent supply chain traceability.

Under Akhil's leadership, Green Story has partnered with numerous fashion brands and manufacturers globally, enabling them to quantify, improve, and effectively communicate their environment. His expertise in utilizing technology to drive environmental change has made Green Story a trusted name in the industry.  

Akhil holds a degree in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. His dedication to sustainability is fueled by a commitment to helping the fashion industry create a greener, more sustainable future.

Arianna Nicoletti is a Senior Consultant, auditor, and project manager with over 15 years of experience in sustainable textiles, specialising in circular systems, design practices, and textile certifications (GOTS, GRS, RCS, OCS, ISO 9001). As an accredited Control Union Germany auditor for six years, she has conducted more than 150 factory audits across Europe, with a strong focus on the Global Recycled Standard (GRS) and expertise spanning both post-consumer and post-industrial waste.

For the past six years, she has served as Textile Waste Management and Certifications Expert at Closed Loop Fashion (CLF), where she has been involved in multiple international Public-Private-Partnership and development cooperation projects in Asia and North Africa. Her work includes the development of CLF’s proprietary Textile Waste Management Standard (TWMS by CLF) and waste-mapping methodology, the establishment of circular supply chains, and the design of capacity-building programmes, including Train-of-Trainer formats and university-level educational modules.

Daniela Kolodziej is an experienced professional in the chemical and recycling industry with a strong background in plastics and textile circularity. Daniela has held positions in BASF in Marketing, Market and Business Development. She currently serves as Global Business Development Manager for Circular Economy at trinamiX GmbH, where she leads the rollout of advanced Mobile NIR-based identification solutions for on-the-spot material identification of plastics and textiles. Her focus includes working with recyclers, sorters, and brands globally to accelerate fiber to fiber systems by advancing material transparency and enabling scalable infrastructure.

With over 30 years' experience in garment manufacturing, Tim Cross founded Project Plan B to create recyclable clothing and partnered with Salvation Army Trading Company to set up Project Re:claim, the UK’s first commercial-scale textile-to-textile polyester recycling facility.

Cross also founded the non-profit Circular Textiles Foundation (CTF), which aims to bridge the gap between clothing brands and post-consumer textile recycling technologies via workshops — focusing on design for recyclability and the use of recycled content — and certification. In 2024, the UK Intellectual Property Office recognised the CTF’s 'Infintee' mark as the country’s official certification mark for recyclable clothing.