Davide Ballico

Dear Hiring Manager 

In response to your job posting for the Senior Manager, Raw Materials Sourcing Strategy, I am including this letter and my resume for your review. With a degree on Fashion & Textile Technology and over 20 years of related professional experience, I have inspired and demonstrated trust, integrity, curiosity, professional knowledge, and a proficient overall business acumen while leading brands and RM sourcing strategies throughout a plethora of Mills and Trims suppliers across the globe. 

Partners with whom I have built, solidified, and shaped business relationships into long term influential partnerships so to leverage each other experience and seek innovative technologies and solutions in the RM field. Textile & Apparel technology is the backbone of my professional and personal growth and I've been deeply into material science and sustainability studies and practices attending seminars, classes, fairs, conferences as well as studying the latest works of D. Thomas, W. McDonough, M. Braungart, P. Blum, F.R. Rinaldi, K. Fletcher & L. Grose, A. Wickler (among others) about responsible innovation, sustainable and circular practices, and the best possible future for the textile & apparel industry. 

As the famous powerful quote of L. Bolman goes, “ A vision without strategy remains an illusion” so it is with passion and dedication that I adapted to the sustainable innovation requirements in place, and I have worked on short-medium-long range sourcing vision and strategies according to Businesses needs and direction while suggesting and implementing technical and governance requirements as needed. 

I love to mentor new generations and I lead with courage as I stick to my everyday life mantra of “aspiring to inspire before I expire” and along my career I have scouted, hired, trained, built, and directed large multicultural teams of talents across 5 continents while constantly inspiring new generations of talents and future managers. Thank you for your time and consideration. 

Sincerely, 

Davide Ballico

Dynamic and enthusiastic fiber, textile, and apparel professional connoisseur with a proven record of generating and building relationships through 20 years of supervising Product Commercialization teams. In love with Product innovation, engineering, and materials R&D, I’ve audited and partnered with over 100 mills worldwide and a plethora of finished garment vendors across all the apparel and travel/accessories product categories using every kind of materials, conventional and not. With a culture of innovation approach and insatiable curiosity for textile technologies, I’ve attended seminars and innovation fairs across the world, from Textile Exchange to ITMA, from Performance Days (Munich, PDX & NYC) to ISPO, TITAS, PV and others while connecting and get to work with professionals from the most advanced Mills to biotechnology Labs such as Modern Meadow, Bolt Threads, Renewcell, Evrnu, Fulgar, Ascend Materials and the likes. Innovation solutions is always at the core of Textile and apparel industry, even more today given the cultural shift from a massive consumerism of “fashion” to a more conscious “reduce-reuse-refuse (to overbuy)” approach that will target more durable and performing materials over higher quantities of poorly made nondurable textiles. My worldwide supply chain long-standing relationships built through trust, respect and professionalism provided me with additional industry R&D literature and insights, all while nurturing my passion and curiosity about fibers & textile innovation, circularity approaches, ethical sourcing and practices and the best possible future for the textile and apparel industry.

Padua University- Environmental and Forestry Sciences - Bachelor’s degree 1993-1996 • 

Natta School of Fashion & Textile Technologies – Padua, Italy High school diploma, Fashion & Textile Technology and Business Administration, 1993