Kimberly Carney is Founder and CEO of The Wires, an innovative 2-sided marketplace home to Fashwire and its sister platform GlossWire.
With over 20 years of experience in marketing for wireless and tech companies and 15 years leading in the multi-brand retail space, Kimberly is at the perfect intersection to feel the pulse of the fashion, beauty, tech and commerce landscape.
In 2018 Kimberly saw an opportunity in the fashion sector to launch a low cost, scalable solution to help emerging and established fashion designers succeed with discoverability and the opportunity to acquire new global customers. Kimberly combined her previous experience in mobile and tech with her fashion knowledge and industry experience to develop a platform where emerging and established brands could co-exist in one space, providing valuable data for the industry as a whole. This drive to bridge the connection between consumers and designers was the catalyst for Kimberly to launch Fashwire.
After successfully disrupting the fashion space, she recently launched into the beauty industry with GlossWire. GlossWire integrates the same technology with a focus on curation, personalization, education and community. Kimberly researched the beauty landscape and quickly identified the growth in the digitization of beauty and already proving to be a front-runner by offering a dynamic technological solution.
Kimberly has a unique perspective into fashion and beauty’s interplay of data and marketability. Kimberly is a rare mix of fashion, beauty and tech with an entrepreneurial spirit. She has an innate talent to know what the market needs and delivers it through passion, vision, drive and authenticity. Simply put, she is a trailblazer within the retail digital sector.
Kimberly has been listed in CEO magazine as one of the top 20 most dynamic CEO’s of 2020.