Tuesday 1st March 2011

An Evening with Jemma Dyas and Katie Oldham - ASOS Marketplace

When: Doors - 6:30pm, Talk - 7:00pm. Tuesday 1st March 2011

Where: SANCTUM SOHO HOTEL, 20 Warwick Street, London, W1B 5NF

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Jemma Dyas

Jemma Dyas has over 8 years buying office experience having worked at Selfridges for 3 years as an assistant on designer and designer bridge before moving to Browns. After a season of assisting on the Browns buys Dyas took over the buying for Browns Focus. Whilst at Browns she had the pleasure of introducing emerging designers into the store, Mark Fast, Mary Katrantzou, Emilio De La Morena, David Koma, Holly Fulton and Elliot Atkinson were all launched at Browns Focus. After 3 years at Browns Dyas moved to ASOS to help launch the new ASOS Marketplace which is a brand new selling platform and now she is back buying the contemporary designer area for ASOS.com.

In July, while still working as a buyer for London super indie Browns Focus, Dyas was named as one of the emerging talents in a list of the hottest 100 people in the creative industries, compiled by private members’ club The Hospital and The Independent newspaper.

Katie Oldham

Katie trained as a textile designer and has worked in various areas of Merchandising for 10 years. Starting her career at a very young Net-a-porter, moving to Stephen Webster and then to Browns as the Merchandising Manager and also looking after wholesale projects.  Oldham then took a change of direction to become the Business Development Manager for the ASOS Marketplace, working very closely with all of the sellers on the site to help, them grow and develop and sell!

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