Frank Zambrelli is an sustainability and ESG subject matter expert with C-suite experience in retail, fashion, material innovation, and branding. His specialized approach overlays the multiple lenses of design and operations, profit and loss priority, and the mitigation of negative environmental and social impacts – expressly demonstrating the additional value sustainable systems-change creates across organizations and supply chains. After more than a decade working for world-class brands, Mr. Zambrelli began the award-winning consultancy Design Quadrant, where his work was transformational in the success of companies for over 15 years with a roster including Chanel, Calvin Klein, Estée Lauder, Restoration Hardware, Gucci, and many others.
Today, Mr. Zambrelli leads sustainable transformation from several perches. He is Managing Director and Sustainability Co-lead within Accenture’s global retail practice, guiding an industry in dynamic change toward more sustainable, experiential, and equitable growth. He is also Vice Chair of Fashion Makes Change, a sponsored project at Rockefeller Philanthropy Associates, where more than 50 chief executive officers support the cross-sector collaboration of industry and education to drive ESG management as a business approach. In doing so, they are steering toward a sustainable, regenerative, and circular future that considers people, planet, and profit.
Mr. Zambrelli is a regular face in digital and broadcast media discussing responsible business and the acceleration of positive environmental and social practices. He further leverages a global platform to support industry as Chairman of the Accessories Council, an executive alumni board member at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and as a course author and Adjunct Professor at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business.