My Journey

I started in healthcare. At Applied Silver, I founded and developed a silver ion treatment for hospital bedding, designed to reduce the skin and soft tissue infections that quietly hurt patients in hospitals every day. We rolled it into several healthcare systems and eventually launched an at-home consumer version. Eight years of work, all pointed at one question: can the textiles people sleep on actually make them less sick?

The answer, it turns out, is yes. But it also opened a much bigger question.

If hospital bedding can hurt or help people that much, what about the textiles we wear every day, against our skin, for hours at a time? And who exactly is checking?

That question pulled me into fashion. After moving into an advisory role at Applied Silver, I went looking for the place I could have the biggest impact, and the math was hard to ignore. Fashion is one of the largest polluting industries on the planet, behind oil and gas. The materials, the chemistry, the supply chains, all of it operates with a fraction of the scrutiny we apply to almost any other product category. So I spent the next 7 years on the other side of the problem: developing next-generation sustainable materials at companies like MycoWorks, taking biomaterials from lab bench to commercial scale, and opening European offices to expand US-built innovation into global markets.

Healthcare was about saving lives. Fashion was about saving the environment. And now, with FabricsVetted, those two threads have come full circle.

Because it turns out fashion is a health issue too.

Why Fabrics Vetted Exists

You shouldn't need a degree in materials science to know if your clothes are safe. But right now, you basically do.

The textile industry runs on forever chemicals (PFAS), endocrine-disrupting synthetics, hidden resins, and finishes nobody discloses. Your skin is a porous boundary, and the fabrics you put against it act as a continuous delivery system for whatever chemistry they hold. Most people don't think about this. Most of the industry would prefer they didn't.

I started FabricsVetted because after 15 years of looking at this industry from the inside, I got tired of watching smart people get duped by clever branding. "Eco." "Natural." "Sustainable." Most of those words mean nothing. Some of them mean the opposite of what you'd assume. And the gap between what's printed on the label and what's actually in the fabric is wider than most consumers can imagine.

So FabricsVetted does the work the industry won't. Deep-tier supply chain audits. Plain-English breakdowns of what your clothes are actually made of. Recommendations for natural and organic fibers that hold up under real scrutiny, not just marketing scrutiny. And I do it with a sense of humor, because this stuff is depressing enough without making it boring too.

The mission is simple. The clothes you wear should not be slowly making you sick. The fact that I have to say that out loud is the entire reason this exists.

15+

6

Material Innovation Patents

Yrs Materials Innovation Experience

I also work with founders building in materials and biotech

Deep Industry Roots

Expertise Rooted in Health & Material Integrity