BLUE CAST Ep 514 - Andrew Olah

BLUE CAST Ep 514 - Andrew Olah

This BLUE CAST Episode, Tuncay Kilickan talks with Andrew Olah.

Andrew is the owner and CEO of Olah Inc. where he has worked since 1976 spending his early years involved in Denim Development and marketing . In 2004 he founded the Kingpins Show which is today the largest jean supply chain show in the world. 

Being a big believer in education Andrew spent 15 years helping FIT with their capstone jeans course.  In 2015 he started Kingpins Transformers, an event meant to educate the denim industry and in 2019 Transformer’s ED, a program to educate students about the jeans industry was launched.  He also started Ethical Denim Council in 2022 fighting for contract sanctity.

Tuncay Kilickan - Highly respected Industry figure, having cut his teeth at Turkish giant ISKO spanning 20 years. Most recently Tuncay was part of R&D team of ISKO. Tuncay has a number of patents under his name. No doubt most of us have worn fabrics developed by him and his team. Tuncay takes on the Head of Global Business Development - Denim at LENZING.  

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