Jack Ostrowski

Jack
Ostrowski

Serial entrepreneur and Impact Investor in sustainable fashion and technology solutions. Trusted provider of innovative sustainable solutions to leading global brands and retailers in the fashion industry. Active investor in the field of circular fashion projects.

Jack turns “commercial sustainability” into reality by building profitable business models dedicated to circular fashion.
A highly engaged and principled sustainability champion actively involved in industry associations and advocacy groups promoting the fashion industry’s shift to circular economy based solutions.
Multiple business awards’ recipient including The Queens’ Award for Enterprise and EDIE Sustainability Leaders Awards.
Jack holds Masters in International Enterprise from Leeds Metropolitan University, UK and Executive Education Certificates from Harvard Business School and Singularity University in Silicon Valley, CA. Cohort 13 of Masters in Sustainability Leadership from Cambridge University.
Jack’s mantra is “less bullshit, more good shit”.

MY APPROACH TO LIFE AND BUSINESS

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

"The Man In The Arena"
Theodore Roosevelt Speech

Sorbonne Paris, France | April 23, 1910

Explore projects

YELLOW OCTOPUS

Founder

Yellow Octopus Group is a leading European provider of Commercial Sustainability Solutions to the Fashion Industry. Within Yellow Octopus Group Ecosystem and its Circular Fashion Impact Fund there is a family of companies within sustainability and technology space working toward achieving an ultimate goal of creating Circular Fashion. Yellow Octopus Group companies are working with major global brands providing sustainable and technology services including Take Back Programs, Stock Exits, Re-commerce Models, Upcycling, Digital Wardrobe and Web 3.0.

LOOP DIGITAL WARDROBE

Co-Founder & CEO

LOOP is a plug and play sustainability and marketing platform, integrated directly with retailer checkout, that makes positive impact through digitalizing and connecting wardrobes of fashionistas and their friends and involving them into engaging social media style activities where doing good is simply the outcome. Providing fashion resell, swap, charity donation or upcycling services for retailers’ customers.

UPCYCLE LABS

Co-Founder

UPCYCLE LABS is a material science and technology company providing innovative upcycling services for fashion brands & retailers to convert their unwanted inventory into new high- quality décor products, store fittings and more. Innovative patent pending technologies to accelerate fashion’s transition from linear to circular business model.

REFLAUNT

Investor & Board Member

Reflaunt is a circular designed technology that bridges 1st and 2nd hand fashion e- commerces. Development of a re-ecommerce tech solution that connects brands to second-hand marketplaces. Currently Reflaunt is the fastest growing Resell As A Service provider in the world. (adopted by e.g. Balenciaga, COS, H&M Group, Harvey Nichols and Net- a-Porter among many others).

OTHER INVESTMENTS

Love The Sales
Investor & Board Director
A discount marketplace offering brands & retailers a new way to manage stock and improve margin in-season. LTS partners with over 850 of the biggest retailers worldwide to find the best offers on the web for customers, their wardrobe and their home.

Hide Biotec
Investor
Hide Biotech is a Cambridge-based fast growing startup developing disruptive sustainable biomaterials inspired by leather. Their product is intended for leather goods and fashion brands that are seeking sustainable alternative fashion materials, without compromising on quality. The material is cow-free, climate friendly, non-plastic, waste-derived, non-polluting, while being made of collagen, the same protein that constitutes real leather.

Evrnu
Investor
Evrnu is a textile innovations company creating a circular ecosystem. Evrnu technologies are used to create engineered fibers with extraordinary performance and environmental advantages, made from discarded clothing.

ADVISORY ROLES

PSD Multinational
Sustainability & Executive Board Member
PDS is a 1.5B USD global consumer-driven manufacturing and sourcing platform serving the world’s leading brands and retailers. PDS is present in more than 22 countries around the world and is a publicly listed company on the Indian Stock Exchange.

Textles 2030
Advisory Board
Textiles 2030 is a British Government expert-led initiative, harnessing the knowledge and expertise of UK leaders in sustainability to accelerate the whole fashion and textiles industry’s move towards circularity and system change in the United Kingdom.