Andreas Dorner — CEO

At RE&UP Recycling Technologies, my leadership in greentech innovation is shaping the future of sustainable fashion. With expertise in circular economy principles, I've steered the company to become a key player in textile-to-textile recycling. Our cutting-edge technology transcends traditional limitations, enabling the recycling of diverse textile waste into premium, eco-friendly raw materials. RE&UP's growth reflects my commitment to aligning industry practices with environmental sustainability. By fostering strategic partnerships and harnessing the increasing demand for recycled fibers, we are crafting a new narrative for the fashion industry. My role involves driving business expansion and solidifying our reputation as a circular fashion advocate, catalyzing a shift towards a more responsible and regenerative model.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Greentech leader specializing in sustainable fashion and circular economy innovations.

Experience: 36 yrs 6 mos

Skills

Circular Economy
Sustainable Fashion
Event Management
Sustainable Fibers
Business Model Innovation
Product Development

Career Highlights

Pioneered textile-to-textile recycling technology.
Led significant growth in sustainable fashion initiatives.
Expert in circular economy and sustainable materials.

Work Experience

RE&UP Recycling Technologies

General Manager (2 yrs 7 mos)

Dornbirn-GFC

Co Managing Director (1 yr)

Lenzing and BCG

Digital Transformation with BCG (3 mos)

Lenzing Group

Sr Commercial Director Textiles - Global Key Account Management (3 yrs 2 mos)

Lenzing AG - JV

Start up - Thought leader, Innovator, Product development, Lead Sales (8 mos)

Lenzing Group

Regional Commercial Director Textiles, Europe and Americas (4 yrs 6 mos)

Global Brand Manager, Global Director Retail , Global Segment Head Activewear and Outerwear (8 mos)

Brand Manager (6 mos)

GLOBAL DIRECTOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Textiles (1 yr 8 mos)

Global Marketing Director / Business Unit Textiles (7 yrs)

McKinsey & Company

Key Coordinator with McKinsey & Company (6 mos)

Kufner Holding GmbH

Director Marketing and Sales Support (2 yrs 6 mos)

SCHNEIDERS BEKLEIDUNG

Produkt management (7 yrs 4 mos)

Sales and Marketing, Product Development (7 yrs)

Agentur Andreas Dorner

Owner and CEO (10 yrs)

Bregenzer Festspiele GmbH

Assistent to Stage Director and Lead Stage Manager (8 yrs 2 mos)

Education

Graduation May 25th at MIT Sloan School of Management

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION - PLATFORM STRATEGIES at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

at Universidad Complutense de Madrid

MBA at LIMAK - AUSTRIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL

MBA at LIMAK Linz- Austrian Business School

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION : PLATTFORM at MIT Sloan Executive Education

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION at MIT Sloan School of Management

Data Science at Harvard University

Data Science at John Hopkins University

DATA SCIENCE at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Crash Ciurse Data Science at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Coursera course at University of Pennsylvania

Coursera at University of Pennsylvania

Psychology at Yale University

CHANGE MANAGEMENT at Wharton Online

Certificates at Wharton Online

Andreas Dorner

CEO

Austria36 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Pioneered textile-to-textile recycling technology.
Led significant growth in sustainable fashion initiatives.
Expert in circular economy and sustainable materials.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Greentech leader specializing in sustainable fashion and circular economy innovations.

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Skills

Core Skills

Circular EconomySustainable FashionEvent ManagementSustainable FibersBusiness Model InnovationProduct Development

Other Skills

Leadership DevelopmentRecycling TechnologySustainable MaterialsSales and MarketingGlobal Client ManagementStrategic PartnershipsAgile MethodologyTeam ManagementCoaching & MentoringKey Account Acquisition & RetentionGlobal StrategyAGILE MethodEmployee Engagement

About

Experience

36 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs

Average Tenure

2 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Re&up recycling technologies

General Manager

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands · On-site

RE&UP Technologies: RE&UP is the next generation greentech venture providing a revolutionizing technology that enables to recycle textile waste into high-quality, sustainable and ready-to-spin recycled raw materials.
RE&UP Technologies (RE&UP) is a game changer in textile-to-textile recycling. RE&UP is accelerating the transition of the fashion industry towards a circular model and taking advantage of the growing demand for recycled fibers driven by new regulations and changing & challenging availability of traditional raw materials.
While textile recycling has so far been limited to recycling pure compositions at small scales, RE&UP can recycle the majority textile waste inputs and has a proprietary technology especially for recycling polycotton waste, turning it into recycled cotton fibers, cellulosic powder, and fiber-grade polyester chips. RE&UP fibers are not only recyclable, sustainable and traceable, but also very competitive with existing recycled and virgin fibers in terms of cost and quality.
Headquartered in the Europe, RE&UP is built upon the century-long textile experience of its parent company SANKO, leveraging the successful R&D track record of +330 patents. RE&UP is already proven and operational in Turkiye with more than 100 Kt recycling production capacity next year and plans scale-up to +1 Mt global recycling capacity by 2030.

Leadership DevelopmentCircular EconomySustainable Fashion

Dornbirn-gfc

Co Managing Director

Jun 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr · Wien and Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Österreich · Remote

The annual GFC - Global Fiber Congress in Dornbirn has become the meeting and collaboration platform of fiber Innovations. Even it started in 1961 especially the past 8 years by the leadership of Fritz Weninger this format became the hot spot of creative and innovative fiber innovators and it attracts annual 550 plus people. I´m very honored and delighted to get the responsibility and move the GFC forward

Leadership DevelopmentEvent Management

lenzing and bcg

Digital Transformation with BCG

Jan 2021 – Apr 2021 · 3 mos · Upper Austria, Austria

Creative Contributor for Digital Transformation

Lenzing group

Sr Commercial Director Textiles - Global Key Account Management

Sep 2020 – Nov 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos

I am passionate about building a more sustainable Fashion industry. I am a Senior Commercial Director at Lenzing AG based in Austria, advising brands and Retailer in apparel, home and technical texitles. My areas of expertise include sustainable fibers, business model innovation, ecosystems, circulartity, digital transformations, supply chain management, apparel sourcing

Sales and MarketingGlobal Client ManagementLeadership DevelopmentStrategic PartnershipsSustainable FibersBusiness Model Innovation

Lenzing ag - jv

Start up - Thought leader, Innovator, Product development, Lead Sales

Mar 2020 – Nov 2020 · 8 mos · Vienna, Austria

Moonshot concept : From idea to prototyping, implementation of production of fully certified face masks for Adults, Children and FFP2 face masks, Made in Austria - in 2 months, highly agile and creative Start up Team to make it happen and successfully running- Revenue of app EUR 55million and 50 % EBITA within 12month

Lenzing group

5 roles

Regional Commercial Director Textiles, Europe and Americas

Mar 2016 – Sep 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Global Brand Manager, Global Director Retail , Global Segment Head Activewear and Outerwear

Mar 2016 – Nov 2016 · 8 mos

All in parallel

Brand Manager

Aug 2015 – Feb 2016 · 6 mos

Great journey, exciting experiences and fantastic insights and results in collaboration with a great team of McKinsey

GLOBAL DIRECTOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Textiles

Dec 2013 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos

BUSINESS DEVLOPMENT, APPAREL, DENIM, SHIRTING, UNDERWEAR, WORKWEAR, INDUSTRIAL TEXTILES, SUPPLY CHAIN MARKETING, B-B

Global Marketing Director / Business Unit Textiles

Aug 2008 – Aug 2015 · 7 yrs

MARKETING, COMMUNICATION, BUSINESS DEVLOPMENT, APPAREL, HOME TEXTILES, PERSONAL PROTECTIVE WEAR, WORKWEAR, Supply Chain Management, SUPPLY CHAIN MARKETING, B to B, INGEDIENT BRANDING

Mckinsey & company

Key Coordinator with McKinsey & Company

Aug 2015 – Feb 2016 · 6 mos · Global

Great Learnings from a great team

Leadership DevelopmentProduct Development

Kufner holding gmbh

Director Marketing and Sales Support

Jan 2006 – Jul 2008 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Communication, Innovation, Pull Marketing, Strategy

Schneiders bekleidung

2 roles

Produkt management

Promoted

Aug 1998 – Dec 2005 · 7 yrs 4 mos

Product Manager Schneiders Women

Sales and Marketing, Product Development

Jan 1998 – Jan 2005 · 7 yrs

Strategic

Agentur andreas dorner

Owner and CEO

Sep 1989 – Sep 1999 · 10 yrs

Agent fo leading Fashion brands and Shoe companies in Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein

Bregenzer festspiele gmbh

Assistent to Stage Director and Lead Stage Manager

Jun 1989 – Aug 1997 · 8 yrs 2 mos

I had the honor to be part of an Stage Director assistant team of the artistically very successful period to contribute to the perfomances of: Der Fliegende Hölländer in 1989,1990 ( Assistant to David Pountney as Stage Director) , Carmen 1991,1992 ( Jerome Savery) , Nabucco ( 93-94) and Fidelio - 95-96 ( David Pountney) then Porgy & Bess ( Götz Friedrich 97-98)