Meet the ReSuit Founders

 
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Nada Shepherd


Co-Founder & CEO

Nada Shepherd is an accomplished creative and business professional with an insider’s knowledge of the fashion industry. She spent 9 formative years studying in the performing and visual arts, achieving a B.Sc. Double Major in Neuroscience and Psychology from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Ivey School of Business, where she graduated as an Ivey Scholar with Distinction. She also has a Diploma in Fashion Design from The International Academy of Design and Technology, and has spent 18 years in the fashion industry; 10 of those years she was running her own fashion line. Nada’s career is as varied as her experiences, and she has founded and run a number of businesses including ReSuit, an online fit-based clothing sharing app designed to address the myriad impacts of fast fashion, and White Space Shepherds Inc., a boutique consulting firm that provides creative and technology-driven solutions for clients throughout the North American market.

 
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David Shepherd


Co-Founder & CTO

David Shepherd is an accomplished technology leader with over 30 years of experience in creating and bringing to market innovative products and technologies to the world’s largest financial institutions. He holds a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science - Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto and is passionate about creating innovative applications of new and emerging technologies.

 David co-founded and provided the leadership and technological vision to build two successful, high-growth tech companies in the competitive FinTech CRM market. Now, he provides fractional CTO and strategic management services for the technology and investment sectors. He helps companies create corporate, product and technology strategies that are aligned, and assists them in executing on these strategies, raise money, and position for a successful exit through the consulting company he co-founded, White Space Shepherds.

 David has also brought his technical expertise to the fashion industry, co-founding and serving as CTO of ReSuit, a peer-to-peer clothing sharing app that uses a proprietary fit-based approach that allows users to rent, purchase, lend or sell their apparel.