Leah Park was featured in Business Insider as one of ten female retail entrepreneurs to watch in 2020.
She is a design and consumer tech entrepreneur with brand and e-commerce expertise. Leah has experience funding, scaling, and exiting businesses. She has been responsible for brand ethos, voice, customer journey, complex backend product systems, UX/UI designs of apps, e-commerce, marketplaces, press relations, marketing, production and creative services.
Leah is a board member of an environmental trust, a co-founder of a charity raising funds and support for the local food bank in Costa Rica, and an advisor, mentor, student, and mother.
CANNARAY
Co-founder & Chief Creative Officer, London
A leading UK medical THC and CBD wellness brand. Leah was responsible for launching the brand, ethos, vision, design, PR, media, website design, e-commerce, production, marketing, digital, content, social media, and brand partnerships. Cannaray is listed in Harrods, Tesco, ASDA, Superdrug, and Waitrose.
PROJECT SEPTEMBER
Co-founder & Chief Design Officer, New York City
The app that makes the visual world shoppable. Leah conceptualized the brand ethos, editorial voice, mobile and web UI, email marketing, advertising content, and every customer touch-point. Project September enables the community to link their photos to brand partners and receive a payout directly from the app. The photo-sharing platform seamlessly links users with over 8K brands and 2M SKUs from retailers Saks, Topshop, Matches, and Revolve.
VAUNTE
CEO & Founder, New York City
The world’s most stylish secondhand marketplace. Leah founded a luxury marketplace with a sophisticated merchandising platform using organic micro-communities based on persona and style archetypes. The mission was to humanize e-commerce by curating the emotion of desire, the excitement of the hunt, and the satisfaction of buying and selling.
GILT GROUPE
Vice President, Creative & Brand, New York City
The leading luxury flash fashion e-commerce site. As the creative founder and the eighth founding team member, Leah was the visionary lead that launched Gilt from a small start-up to a household name. Responsibilities included building an internal design agency and bringing to life the business verticals (Women, Men, Children, Home, Jetsetter, Gilt City, Gilt Taste, Gilt Japan). Leah hired and managed a team of web designers, production designers, art directors, stylists, retouchers, copywriters, and editorial teams of over 60. She was responsible for the site design, user interaction, customer journey, mobile, tablet, voice, editorial, identity, print collateral, content, packaging, video, film, collaborations, and exclusive partnership deals (Vogue, Shape, Volkswagon, Range Rover, Target, etc), and new business.
BERGDORF GOODMAN
Senior Art Director, New York City
A prestigious luxury department store. As Art Director, Leah created the visual identity, strategy, and advertising across all business verticals. She redesigned the Bergdorf Goodman Magazine, and created campaigns for W, Allure, Lucky, New York Magazine, New York Times, New York Post and brand catalogs. She built the 5F contemporary brand identity system and applications. Leah directed photoshoots, editorial, retouching, and production teams.
LANDOR ASSOCIATES
Senior Designer, New York City
An advertising and brand agency. Leah designed and created brand identities, strategies, and customer experiences for Delta Airlines, Bath and Body Works, Ramada, Gatorade, Philip Morris, Pfizer, Nicorette, Roomba, Jewish Community Center, Shore Medical Center, Webster Bank, Wyeth, McCormick, Mayflower Inn, Altria, Phillips Van Heusen, amfAR (American Foundation for Aids Research), and Clairol.