Richard Tong
Chief Product Officer, Designer & Entrepreneur
Canada
Skills
Education
- CU
- NC
Work Experience
2021 - 2024
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
2021 - 2024
2019 - 2021
Creative Director & VP of Product and Design
2019 - 2021
2012 - 2019
Founder & Chief Product Officer
2012 - 2019
- Cofounded Fohr, a B2B platform helping fashion brands discover creators, launched in January 2013 in partnership with the CFDA, KCD, Oscar de la Renta, Kate Spade NY, Lucky Magazine, PUMA & Fashion GPS - Leading product, creative direction & development - Clients to date include: Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Tom Ford, Hermes, Cartier, Barneys, Henri Bendel, Montblanc, Estee Lauder, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica, Michael Kors, Kenneth Cole, H&M, Macy's, Bloomingdales, J. Crew, Madewell, Bonobos, Express, Aritzia, Anthropologie, and more.
2012 - 2014
Digital Advisor
2012 - 2014
- Advising Chanel Digital on current technology companies, developments and strategies
2012 - 2012
Outreach
2012 - 2012
- Led industry outreach and education on The Fancy’s E-Commerce platform - Facilitating strategic partnerships with key partners including Oscar De La Renta and Coco Rocha
2010 - 2011
Fashion Director
2010 - 2011
- Led industry outreach to over 200 of the world’s top creative fashion publications, designers, brands, photographers, models & stylists to join the Tumblr platform - Created Tumblr’s #NYFW initiative (tumblr.com/nyfw), inviting 40+ creators to cover fashion week, producing some of the most compelling fashion week coverage as noted by the NYT, WSJ, The Cut, Refinery29, and Interview Magazine - Led all event partnerships for #NYFW intiatives, including Vogue, MILK Studios, Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Warby Parker, Opening Ceremony, Park & Bond, Madewell, Kate Spade, Donna Karan, GQ, Lucky Mag & Paper Mag - Speaker at L2, IFB Conference, Lucky FABB Conference, Teen Vogue Fashion U, Fashion 140 & Chanel Social Media Day - Designed & coded Tumblr themes for Vogue, Teen Vogue, Oscar de la Renta, CFDA, J.Crew, DKNYPRGirl, DKNY Notes on a City & Prabal Gurung
2008 - 2009
Co-Founder
2008 - 2009
- Cofounded Weardrobe, a community for creators to share photos of what they wore everyday - Acquired by Google in 2010, via Like.com in 2009 for $3.2MM - Led the overall creative and technical design of the product - Grew the community to 15K users, 250K visits/mo and 1MM+ pageviews/mo - 2009 SXSW Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator Winner & 2009 FbFund Finalist