About this episode
Samina Virk is the U.S. CEO and chief marketing officer of Vestiaire Collective, a global luxury resale platform. As a young girl, Samina loved fashion. She grew up making her clothes, thinking she might break into the industry on the creative side. Instead, she started her career in tech, working in e-commerce during the dot-com boom. She eventually went back to school to study business in hopes of merging her love for fashion with her tech experience. She joined Target’s MBA merchandising program before scoring a full-time job on the company’s marketing team. It was there where she dipped her toes into retail, overseeing Target’s designer collaborations before taking an interest in the resale market. Samina followed her curiosity to eBay, where she launched the platform’s new fashion vertical team, before she ended up at Vestiaire Collective. She helped launch the Paris-based brand in the U.S. market before going on to serve as the U.S. president and global chief marketing officer at Threads, a social-first styling service. She then realized her time at Vestiaire Collective wasn’t over and decided to return—this time as North American CEO and CMO.