WORLDLY - Key Persons
Francois Thrower is the Chief Financial Officer at Worldly, where his extensive experience in financial management and strategic leadership play a pivotal role in driving Worldly's growth trajectory. In his role as CFO, Francois oversees Worldly's financial operations, guiding financial strategy, capital management, and financial reporting.
With a career spanning over two decades, Francois has held pivotal financial leadership positions in numerous SaaS companies. His expertise in honing and transforming financial strategies, along with his forward-thinking approach, complements Worldly's dynamic team as we continue to broaden our customer base and refine our product line-up to better serve them.
Francois Thrower holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School, with a finance concentration.
James Schaffer is the Chief Strategy Officer of Worldly, where he oversees business development, client services, partnerships, and corporate development.
Before joining Worldly, James was co-founder and Managing Partner of Schaffer & Combs, a strategy consultancy that served purpose-driven organizations globally since 2009. During his tenure, James led numerous strategy engagements with leading sustainability organizations, including the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Apparel Impact Institute, ZDHC, BlueSign, World Resources Institute, B Lab, Rainforest Alliance, and Outdoor Industry Association, as well as with dozens of social sector organizations. In recent years, James has spearheaded negotiations that established the industry alliance between the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Textile Exchange, the Apparel Impact Institute, and ZDHC to drive efficiencies and accelerate sustainability efforts within the apparel industry. He also played a critical role in establishing Worldly as a standalone technology company.
Before Schaffer & Combs, James was CEO of Global Data Vault Corporation, a data storage technology company serving customers in the U.S. and U.K.
Jason Kibbey is the President and Founder of Worldly, a technology platform that helps consumer goods companies measure and improve the sustainability of their value chain. Jason has had a successful career as an entrepreneur and leader in the environmental and social impact sectors. He was the founding CEO of the global nonprofit alliance Cascale (formerly the Sustainable Apparel Coalition) where he and his team worked to reduce the environmental and social impacts of the global apparel and footwear sector. Under Jason's leadership, the Higg Index was created and launched, providing a scalable and unified framework for consistency and comparability in industry-level sustainability measurement.
Jason started his career at Bain & Company, where he worked on turnaround and product strategies for technology companies. He then moved to Patagonia, where he worked on environmental campaigns and later served as co-founder and interim Executive Director of Freedom to Roam, a non-profit initiative that brings together people, organizations, and businesses to enhance and protect wildlife corridors and landscape connectivity in North America. Prior to Cascale, Jason co-founded PACT Apparel, combining design, sustainability, and philanthropy.
Jason graduated from the University of California (UC) Berkeley with a BS in Environmental Economics and Policy and BA in Religious Studies, and received his MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
John Armstrong is the Chief Technology Officer at Worldly, where he is responsible for the development and strategic roadmap of Worldly technology.
John has deep experience conceptualizing, architecting, launching, and scaling products for a wide variety of organizations including start-ups, nonprofits and publicly traded corporations.
Prior to Worldly, he co-founded the development firm Bright & Shiny, where he put his expertise to use solving a variety of complex technical asks for clients of all sizes.
As the Technology Director for Frog Design, he worked with some of the world's leading companies, helping them build a wide range of meaningful products, services and experiences, depending on their individual need.
John has always relied on a common-sense approach to software design and construction rather than rigid conformance to any specific methodology or technology. He's happy to apply his diverse skill set to Worldly, where agile tech is the potent vehicle that can power massive global change.
John studied Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He enjoys mountain biking in the hills of southern California any chance he can get.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Leadership Team
Scott Raskin is the CEO of Worldly, where he champions the idea that impactful change springs from actionable measures. Leveraging years of leadership experience in tech companies, he steers Worldly toward sustainable growth, providing brands, manufacturers, retailers, and suppliers with solutions to enhance their positive environmental and social impact.
Stephanie Bastin-Wells leads the People Organization at Worldly and is responsible for supporting their global employee base.
Prior to Worldly, Stephanie built an international career across various industries implementing human resource strategies to support and engage global talent. She thrives in the startup space due to her unique combination of business acumen and HR expertise and is known for generating compassionate approaches to complex situations. Stephanie believes that leadership authenticity is the key to engaging and inspiring talent and she encourages leaders to be the best versions of themselves at work and beyond.
Outside of work, Stephanie advocates for global understanding by hosting high school students from around the world. She is a curious and enthusiastic international traveler, an average-but-passionate skier, an avid reader, a coffee lover and she enjoys spending time outdoors doing anything with her family and dopey Labrador.
Stephanie has held active SPHR and SHRM-SCP accreditations for 15 years and is an honors graduate from Portland State University in Oregon.