Shamini Dhana is CEO of D/Sphere, a creative fashion technology platform founded in 2020, for people to create, collaborate and story tell through the medium of fashion. D/Sphere empowers the consumer to be the solution to climate change by reengineering second life materials and recreating existing clothing into zero-waste fashion, thereby diverting the 70% of the $3 trillion fashion industry that would end up in the landfill. D/Sphere is democratizing the creation of fashion and launching in November 2021.

Shamini Dhana founded Dhana Inc. in 2008, a Certified B Corp, headquartered in California, a pioneer of circular and regenerative fashion, a purpose driven leader and climate advocate with over a decade experience in global sourcing, supply chain management and a recognized leader in sustainable fashion. A former investment banker, turned entrepreneur, Shamini Dhana witnessed firsthand the exploitation of children, workers and the environment while doing business in India over twenty years ago, which was the pivotal moment in her life vision “Uniting Humanity Through Fashion”.

In 1999, Shamini Dhana joined Silicon Valley Bank, and as senior vice president, Shamini Dhana managed the India operations, private equity and investor relationships and grew cross-border technology clients in seven years. Credited for the landmark Silicon Valley VC mission to India in 2002, Shamini Dhana successfully paved the way to much of the foreign VC investment today in India including the set up of new funds, collaboration, and teams to support the growing emerging technologies arising in India.

Prior to banking and finance, Shamini Dhana worked with multinational companies in the Asian Pacific Region bringing foreign direct investment into the State of California, the seventh largest economy in the world in 1990s and was on the lead team for the governor’s business trade and investment mission to seven countries in Asia. With over 20 years of experience in international strategy, global operations, venture capital, business development, and executive leadership in Corporate America, Shamini Dhana has served on numerous non-profit boards, including the UNA which organized the first ever climate and sustainability conference in California post the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

Shamini Dhana has won numerous awards including Best for The World 2016-2021, the CO Leadership Award in Sustainable Business and launched the first social campaign WearOurValues in 2016 which propelled a new way of thinking about the power of connecting people and planet through the piece of clothing we wear every day. Shamini Dhana launched the WearOurValues.com report at the Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) Copenhagen Fashion Summit in 2019 which has been cited for the need of “Brand-Customer Value Alignment” and greater brand transparency. Dhana Inc. was also a case study in the GFA final report 2020 Circular Fashion System Commitment.

Shamini Dhana is an avid golfer, global traveler and cyclist having completed ten international events to raise funds on behalf of the environment, awareness of climate change, sustainability and currently serves as board member of Climate Ride, Ethical Fashion Forum and an associate producer of The True Cost documentary- a response to the 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse (Rana Plaza collapse) where over 1300 people were killed and is considered the worst garment factory disaster ever recorded.

Today, Shamini Dhana continues to write, stand up and speak out on behalf of garment workers, worker’s rights, youth and our children, sustainable fashion, circularity, women empowerment, climate change, fashion technology and the new frontier of digital fashion. Shamini Dhana finds deep presence and peace in Nature and is blessed to live in Marin, California with her husband, son, daughter, and dog.

Dr G Subrahmanya VRK Rao (Dr Rao) has over Twenty six years of work experience which include Government, Industry, Academia and Research careers. A Ph.D Gold-medalist, Dr Rao is a passionate Research & Development professional with 9 US patents, 90+ Refereed International Research Publications and also authored a book entitled ‘WiMax-A Wireless Technology Revolution’ and Editor of the book entitled ‘Web Services Security and   E-Business’. A Senior Member of IEEE and a Senior Member of ACM, Dr Rao is an active (White Hat) Ethical Hacker.

A fashion industry veteran with 19 years of experience in technical design, product development, sourcing, brand management and production.

Simone has 22 years of accounting, bookkeeping, payroll, and budgeting supporting non-profits, high-net-worth individuals, partnerships, trusts, small businesses, and C Corporations.

Faith is a strategist and has 15+ years of experience with 200+ organizations worldwide via innovative and pioneering business approaches including Circular Economy prototypes within Consumer-Packaged Goods, Fashion, and other industries.

Sheldyn Nicholson is a fashion designer at Dhana Inc. Focusing on sustainability, she creates low impact garments built for circularity. She has a BFA in fashion design from the Columbus College of Art & Design in Columbus, Ohio.

Saleema Vellani is an award-winning Innovation Strategist, 9x Founder, TEDx Speaker, Adjunct Professor, and the Author of Innovation Starts With I. For nearly 15 years, Saleema has led 100+ startups, international organizations, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies to their next stage of growth and innovation. She contributes to Forbes Women and has been published in 15 research publications, most recently on promoting a circular economy and improving refugee livelihoods through hydroponics. Saleema is the CEO of Ripple Impact, which is a business accelerator and community that helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses and scale their platforms. She also teaches Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship at Johns Hopkins University and is a frequent guest lecturer at business schools.

Olive is a designer to Dhana’s Circular Fashion Collection and contributed to product ecommerce operations.

Senthil heads the engineering team at Dhana Inc. Responsible for architecting and designing algorithms for core problems D/Sphere is solving. He has a MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas

Yagna oversees the product design and human factors for the D/Sphere platform. A passionate user advocate helping users do without doing.

Annie has an overall experience of 14 years in IT industry, With her strong leadership skills, she inspires, motivates and drives the team towards qualitative on-time project delivery. She has managed many projects and keeps process structure and business tight and together.

Yogeswaaran is a dedicated and efficient full-stack developer. Expertise in problem-solving and end-to-end requirement mapping.

Aravind as an experienced developer on the engineering team, specialises in full stack development across a wide variety of platforms and using a range of differing technologies.

Anandha Manikandan is a project manager of the engineering team. Anand has strong project mangement skills with good team bonding and high adaptability skills. He drives the team towards the success of the projects.