Minesh Pore
CEO / Co-Founder
Sales & Trade
25 years in global sales and international trade. Has personally sourced for Walmart, Target & Amazon.
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The unfair advantageWe didn't study this problem. We spent 95 years living it.
This site asks a buyer to hand over a purchase order, a quality inspection, a supplier's financial history and the freight that follows. Those are regulated functions, and a claim about them deserves names behind it. These are the people accountable for the platform you are reading about.
95+
Combined years sourcing and international trade across the founding team
200+
Combined years of global industry experience on the advisory board
6
Regulated functions with a named licence holder on every one
1
Team that has sat on both the buyer's side and the marketplace's
Where this team has worked
WalmartTargetAmazonGlobal SourcesGapTescoPrimarkCarrefourLe ToteIntertekBureau VeritasBSINomuraNew Street Research
Named in text only. No third-party marks are used, because a logo beside our product would imply an endorsement none of these organisations has given.
The team
The people who have run this work, not studied it.
Between them they have sourced for Walmart, Target and Amazon, scaled a global sourcing marketplace to a Blackstone exit, and built supplier relationships for global brands. The software exists because they spent decades doing the job by hand.
Brent Barnes
COO / Co-Founder
Operations & Scale
Former COO of Global Sources. 25 years scaling global businesses, including a Blackstone exit.
Michael Hung
CSO / Co-Founder
Supplier Intelligence
20 years working with global brands. Deep expertise in strategic sourcing and supplier relationships.
Amie Chan
CMO / Co-Founder
Brand & Growth
20 years as a global marketer across Hong Kong, Shanghai, London and the Bay Area. Expert in go-to-market and brand strategy.
Nickey Khem
CTO
AI & Engineering
15 years building technology products. Specialises in AI and machine learning applications.
Board of advisors
Guided by global industry leaders.
They are advisors, not operators. They do not run the company, its product or its day-to-day work, and nothing here implies they endorse it commercially. We publish them for a narrower reason: each one underwrites a specific capability we claim, and you should be able to check that.
Christophe Roussel
Supply Chain & Retail
- EVP Global Sourcing, Gap Inc.
- CEO International Sourcing, Tesco
- Primark Advisory Board
- Sourcing Director, Carrefour
Rakesh Tondon
Tech & Startup
- Founder & CEO, Le Tote
- Acquired Lord & Taylor ($100M)
- Venture Partner, Entrepreneurs First
- Fellow, South Park Commons
Jin Yoon
Finance & Research
- Partner, New Street Research
- Former Analyst, Nomura Securities
- Asia Internet & Tech Specialist
- Bloomberg TV Commentator
Mahir Karakoc
Manufacturing & Electronics
- Founder & Managing Director, Aryas International
- Managing Partner, Oculas Virtual Mfg.
- Electronics engineering
- Hong Kong manufacturing specialist
David Horlock
Compliance & Assurance
- VP Global Inspection, Intertek
- VP New Services, Bureau Veritas
- MD Asia Pacific, BSI
- 40+ years across 50 countries
On the record. Advisory roles are unpaid unless stated, carry no operating authority, and do not imply that an advisor's employer endorses, partners with or invests in SourcingGPT. Employment histories are shown as described by each individual. Where an advisor has not consented to be identified, we publish the profile without their name, photograph or employer rather than invent a substitute.
Who underwrites what
Every hard claim on this site traces to a person who has done it.
This is the part that matters more than the logos. Each capability we ask you to trust maps to a named advisor or founder with operational history in exactly that function — not adjacent to it.
Sampling and QC inspectionStage 7 of the workflow
David Horlock — VP Global Inspection at Intertek, VP New Services at Bureau Veritas, MD Asia Pacific at BSI. 40+ years in third-party inspection.
Supplier financial due diligenceStage 9 of the workflow
Jin Yoon — Partner at New Street Research, former analyst at Nomura Securities, Asia internet and tech specialist. Reads supplier financials for a living.
Enterprise sourcing standardsDiscovery, brief and comparison
Christophe Roussel — EVP Global Sourcing at Gap Inc., CEO International Sourcing at Tesco, sourcing director at Carrefour. Knows what a large buyer requires before a PO is ever raised.
Manufacturing and electronics categoriesCategory depth
Mahir Karakoc — Founder and MD of Aryas International, Managing Partner at Oculas Virtual Mfg., electronics engineer. Factory-side knowledge, not buyer-side.
Trade finance on the purchase orderStage 10 of the workflow
Minesh Pore — 25 years in international trade and trade finance structures, having sourced for Walmart, Target and Amazon. Sets the working-capital model the invoice-factoring partners price against.Put the same people behind your next purchase order.
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