Creative Queue · through Nov 13, 2026
LinkedIn people and company research
Weekly company queues, connection status, and the people and company rubrics. Adrian connects with everyone at a company at once. Weekly target: 25–30 new names.
Key numbers
This week's queue · 2026-W45
Mon Nov 2, 2026 through Sun Nov 8, 2026. 39 people across 20 companies. Open a company to see up to five people, a why line, and connection status.
Single-brand buyers
American Tall
Saul Rajsky
Chief Executive Officer
Toronto-area DTC apparel for tall men & women, in ICP size; budget owner
not requested
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Jake Rajsky
President & Co-Founder
Owns brand image via strategic content and evaluates new software (ex-videographer/photographer): strong fit. X @jakerajsky bio blank, not kept
not requested
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Nicole Dalton
Sr. Director of Marketing
Head of marketing; moved email to fashion-forward content
not requested
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Shahira Ishak
Sr. Manager, Creative Operations (since Nov 2025)
Exact CQ user role at an in-ICP brand; new role focused on developing creative operations
requested
Thu Nov 5, 2026
BABYBOO Fashion
Argylica C.
Founder + Director
Founder-led AU occasionwear DTC; hiring remote Creative Producer for global shoots (Sep 2026). Budget owner. Size possibly over ceiling (Ittai decision). Time zone AU
not requested
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Will Conditsis
Co-Director (creative and brand director per Inside Retail)
Co-owner; owns creative/brand direction while scaling. Strong CQ creative buyer alongside founder
not requested
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Airi Sutherland
Global Head of Digital & Ecommerce (since May 2026)
Digital/ecom owner while brand hires Creative Producer for global shoot ops: strong champion
not requested
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Hallie Shahinian
Brand Marketing Manager (since Jan 2025)
Brand marketing champion; posts hiring for social/content roles
not requested
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Comfrt
Hudson Leogrande
Founder & CEO
Miami DTC comfort apparel; hiring a Producer to own multiple shoots a week, shot lists and production calendar. Likely over size ceiling (Ittai decision)
not requested
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Danielle Giarratano
Senior Creative Director (per search summary; verify)
Producer role reports to the Senior Creative Director. SVP Marketing Kirsten Guerry named (The Lead Direct 60), no LinkedIn URL
not requested
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Joma Jewellery & Katie Loxton
Tim Loxton
Director
Family-run (CEO Geoff Loxton, CD Katie Loxton: no URLs). Jewellery/gifts, category unvalidated in icp.md; two brands (Joma, Katie Loxton)
not requested
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Caroline Clemens
Acting Head of Marketing (since Sep 2025)
Was hiring a Katie Loxton Brand Manager (Nov 2025) for campaigns and brand moments; Head of Marketing US Sophie Bevan named, no URL
not requested
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Sanctuary Clothing
Ken Polanco
Co-Founder & CEO / President
LA contemporary womenswear, ~60-70 staff; was in exclusive sale talks with WSG (Mar 2026), check ownership before outreach. Budget owner
not requested
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Debra (Deb) Polanco
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer
Owns creative; head of brand marketing reports to her
not requested
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Bonnie Cook
Head of Brand Marketing & PR (since Jan 2025)
Leading shift from performance-only to integrated brand storytelling; seven-figure budget: strong CQ user/champion
not requested
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Studio Nicholson
Mark Suddards
CEO (since Dec 2024, per search summary; verify)
London menswear/womenswear; hiring a Creative Shoot Producer (per search summary). Founder & CD Nick Wakeman: no verified link
not requested
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Alison Ford
Brand & Marketing Director
Promoted from Marketing Director Dec 2024 (DIARY directory); likely owns shoots/campaigns
not requested
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Sweaty Betty
Talitha Moran
Senior Manager, Global Creative Operations
London activewear; owns end-to-end creative ops across brand, design, copy and studio. Exact CQ user role; verify parent-group ownership
not requested
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ThirdLove
Heidi Zak
Co-Founder & CEO
Bras/underwear/loungewear DTC, SF; over size ceiling (Ittai decision). Hiring Sr. Manager of Creative Operations (per search summary). X @heidizak bio blank, not kept
not requested
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Ra'el Cohen
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer
Profile says she built teams for art direction, editorial and creative operations; leads seasonal campaigns concept through production
not requested
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Sydney Gilbert
Creative Director / VP of Creative & Content (since Sep 2025)
Day-to-day owner of creative and agency partners: strongest ThirdLove user contact. Marketing leads Kelly Loreto / Amy Carr named, no URL
not requested
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Varley
Ben Mead
Co-Founder & CEO
Hiring Senior Shoot Producer (Oct 16 2026) to build systems for visibility and control across all shoots: direct CQ pain. Brand Managing Director not named
not requested
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Chloe Harris
Brand Marketing Director / Head of Content (per search summary; verify)
Content/marketing owner alongside Ben Mead Senior Shoot Producer hire: CQ user/champion. Bigger brand: Ittai decision
not requested
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Curtis Gibson
Brand Director (per search summary; verify)
Brand director at Varley; fills company for Adrian with Ben Mead / Chloe Harris. Lara Mead already on W44 master list
not requested
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Portfolio groups
Hype2wear (acquired RETERNITY, 2026)
Łukasz Żak
Brand & Key Account Manager (per search summary; verify)
Polish/German streetwear brand group adding labels. Founder & CEO Łukasz Lepczyński named, no LinkedIn URL. Small, Europe; lower priority
not requested
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NYC Alliance (525 America, 89th & Madison, Derek Lam 10 Crosby; licenses Juicy Couture, Frye)
Wen Huang
Head of Branding & Marketing
Quoted by WWD on the Derek Lam 10 Crosby deal; group is building out design and production team and pursuing more M&A
not requested
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SNOCKS Group (SNOCKS, Les Lunes)
Johannes Kliesch
Co-founder & Managing Director
German D2C group that scales brands; bought Les Lunes out of insolvency (Feb 2026). Size at/over ceiling: Ittai decision. German-language
not requested
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Rehan Choudhry
Co-CEO (since Dec 2023), leads SNOCKS Group
As above; group-level buyer for multi-brand content planning
not requested
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The Hedgehog Company (Frances Austen, Swoveralls, Bridge & Burn, Rec Room, Wai Wear and others)
Fan Bi
CEO & Co-Founder
Rolls up small DTC fashion brands with a shared production and marketing services model: one team planning content for many brands. Strong portfolio fit
not requested
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Jamie Murnane
Head of Marketing
Shared marketing across the portfolio
not requested
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Nicole Rattner
Head of Product (The Org lists her as Advisor; verify)
Product side; lower priority than Fan Bi / Jamie Murnane
not requested
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Vivid Brands (Roller Rabbit, 18 East, Loudmouth)
Carolyn Phillips
Chief Marketing Officer, Roller Rabbit
Hiring a Photo & Video Producer (Oct 18 2026) to own the production calendar across ecom, video and campaign shoots, reporting to the CMO: direct CQ pain
not requested
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Emily Swapp
VP eCommerce & Marketing, Roller Rabbit
Producer role also reports to this VP
not requested
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Build partners
ArcLine NYC
Andrew Thurman
Founder
NYC high-volume apparel ecom studio (ghost mannequin, on-figure, editorial); maps warehouse-to-upload workflow
not requested
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EyeMedia Studios
Bill Dhandev Gidda
Founder (per search summary; verify)
UK fashion ecom photography (models, flat lay, ghost mannequin); role from search summary only
not requested
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Materealist
Evan Miller
Owner & founder
NYC mobile fashion photography studio: catalog, lookbook, ecom, social for fashion brands (since 2011)
not requested
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NYC Photo Group
Vicki Ades
Founder & Production Director
Brooklyn apparel/footwear studio; 100-500+ SKU programs, intake systems to cut reshoots: very close to CQ problem
not requested
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Studio Neue Haus
David Yoo
Founder (per search summary; verify)
LA ecommerce fashion photography studio; role from search summary only
not requested
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Zeelum LA
Sarifka Jungreis
Zeelum LA (role per search summary; verify)
LA arm of Zeelum (Miri Brecher already listed); high-volume fashion ecom studio
not requested
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Archived weeks
- 2026-W44 — 56 people, 41 companies (4 requested, 0 accepted)
Connection tracker
| Week | People | Companies | Not requested | Requested | Accepted | Messaged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-W44 | 56 | 41 | 52 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-W45 | 39 | 20 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 95 | 61 company-weeks | 90 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Full tracker notes, including the five names marked requested on Nov 5, 2026, are on the tracker page. A monthly LinkedIn export at initiatives/linkedin/exports/YYYY-MM.csv is matched to mark people accepted.
Rubric summaries
People
For each brand, list up to three or four people who are a good fit, not only the founder (agreed Nov 3). The economic buyer is the founder or CEO at emerging and scaling brands, or the head of creative or marketing at larger brands. Champions — producers, production managers, art directors, creative-operations roles — are the people who would use Creative Queue day to day. A person is contactable only when at least one LinkedIn, X, or Instagram URL has been verified; never invent or guess a URL. Adrian connects with everyone listed at a company at once, from his personal LinkedIn, written in Creative Queue's voice, sent by hand. New people stay on that day's archive until their links check out, then move to the master list.
Companies
Creative Queue is for founder-led or newly scaling fashion brands (e-commerce) whose existing content process is breaking under growth. The size ceiling is about $100M revenue, written as an estimate with its source; rows that may be over the ceiling stay on the list, flagged, and are not contacted without Ittai's yes. Footwear, homegoods/lifestyle, jewellery, and beauty are unvalidated expansion hypotheses until Ittai says they are in. Multi-brand / portfolio is the least-validated buyer path and stays labelled as such. Qualified buyers and build partners are kept separate; a partner session counts toward the six-call target only when the brand's buyer joins. Warm accounts KYODAN and Manhattan are not viable to restart (decision, Nov 3 — Ittai agreed). Company signals that have been used so far: hiring for shoot production now, and fast growth covered in press. Include the company website on every row.
Sources: Rules & rubrics · icp.md · themes.md · product/overview.md · positioning.md · wedge and MIKUTA postmortem · Nov 3 meeting