Amit Gautam is Chief Executive Officer & Founder of TextileGenesis, a Lectra company. As a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, TextileGenesis enables fashion brands and sustainable textile manufacturers to ensure a reliable, secure and fully digital mapping of their textiles, from the fiber to the consumer, thereby guaranteeing their authenticity and origins.
 
Before starting TextileGenesis, Mr. Gautam was Executive Vice President for the global fashion business at Lenzing, a global innovation leader in sustainable materials from Austria. He led global sales, marketing and commercialization of innovations for the textile business.
 
He holds a Master of Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Technology from IIT Bombay.