Stuart Ahlum is Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of SuperCircle, the full-stack textile waste platform turning waste into a profit driver for more than 85 leading retail brands, including Reformation, J.Crew, and FIGS. SuperCircle's AI-powered sortation dynamically routes textiles across more than 50 reuse and recycling streams, powering both consumer trade-in programs and back-end excess inventory solutions. To date, SuperCircle has diverted more than ten million textiles from landfill.

 Before SuperCircle, Mr. Ahlum founded Thousand Fell, the first circular footwear company, where he built the reverse logistics and recycling infrastructure that became a blueprint for retail circularity. He brings a decade of apparel and tech startup experience, including supply chain development in China.
 
He is a Princeton alumnus, recipient of Princeton's PEN Entrepreneurship Award, and a graduate of Google's Circular Economy and AI Accelerator.