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Ashley Gill grew up on a cotton farm in Texas and served as an agroforestry Peace Corps Volunteer in rural West Africa before joining Textile Exchange in 2010. Since then, she has held a range of roles across the organization, spending the majority of her time as part of the Standards System team. There, she launched the first International Working Group for the Global Recycled Standard (GRS) and led the development of the Recycled Claim Standard (RCS), GRS, and Responsible Down Standard (RDS), before becoming Director of Standards in 2019. Promoted to Senior Director in 2021, Ashley spearheaded the initiative that is now the Materials Matter Standard.

Ashley assumed the role of Chief Strategy Officer in June 2022, where she focused on aligning the organization’s strategy across all its platforms, combining her personal and professional expertise to help bridge two interconnected worlds—the farming community and the global network of corporate brands and suppliers.

In August 2025, Ashley was appointed as Chief Standards and Strategy Officer, blending her experience in strategy with her deep knowledge of the standards system to achieve Textile Exchange’s mission: to transform how we produce, choose, and reuse materials to benefit the people and places at the source.

Beth Jensen is the Chief Impact Officer at Textile Exchange, where she leads the organization’s efforts to achieve beneficial climate and nature impacts. She oversees key functions including impact data and Life Cycle Assessment studies; impact tools and reporting mechanisms; reports and research; fundraising; and public affairs/policy.

Beth joined Textile Exchange in 2021 as the Director of Climate and Nature Impact. Before that, she held leadership roles advancing sustainable materials and products programs at VF Corporation - parent company to outdoor and active brands including Vans, The North Face, Timberland, and Smartwool; and at Outdoor Industry Association, the North American-based trade association for the outdoor apparel, footwear, and gear sector.

Lee Martin was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Textile Exchange in June 2025. He oversees the organization’s operational and administrative functions, providing strategic leadership to the Operational Integrity and Governance, Finance, Technology, Project Management, and People and Culture teams.

Lee joined Textile Exchange as Chief Business Officer (CBO) in 2022, after spending the last decade working in the forest conservation space at NGOs such as Rainforest Alliance and Preferred by Nature, with a heavy focus on standards, certification operations, and financial management.

Prior to joining Textile Exchange, he also worked for Forest Carbon Works and Chestnut Carbon as CFO in the carbon credit and project development sector.

In his previous roles, Lee focused on financial oversight and operational functions, often serving as a partner for a wide range of programmatic and operational teams. His personal mission always gravitates toward people and process—specifically, how the role of Operations can enable businesses to scale staffing responsibly and thrive through process improvement.