ABOUT
WE GROW SUSTAINABLE LUXURY BRANDS
The Afavre Group has a commitment to bringing eco luxury brands to a mainstream audience. Our growing portfolio includes the internet retailer, LUX & ECO, and the blog, True Luxury Life. Our dedication, expertise, and leverage of our vast network remains unsurpassed in the eco luxury world.

President
Jacquelyn Willard
Jacquelyn is a serial entrepreneur and dedicated activist. She co-founded LUX & ECO, Matrix Model Management and Staffing. For over 20 years, has worked with some of the biggest luxury brands in the world. She specializes in business development, strategic partnerships, sponsor liaison work and marketing from conceptualization to the exponential growth of small to medium sized businesses.

Packaging, Sourcing & Design
Diane Read
Diane is a Cum Laude graduate of NYU and holds a Bachelors of Arts degree with a major in Architecture and Urban Design. She furthered her design studies with interior elements at Parson School of Design and KLC Design in London. Most recently she has become and entrepreneur in the Green Beauty space and founded Modern Minerals Makeup.

Marketing Consultant
Ken Read
For over 20 years, Ken has been building products, building or fixing sales teams, and expanding businesses around the world, with large multinational companies, in Silicon Alley, and with PE-backed ventures or turnarounds. His focus has been sales, go-to-market strategy, business development, product development, and marketing.

Social Media
Carly
Digital marketer, web designer, and social media guru, Carly Colonnese knows how to elevate brands to reach their next level of business potential. Carly has spent multiple years working as a freelance social media manager, website designer, and branding expert. Carly has a bachelor’s degree in communications and art & design from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Carly has worked in several marketing roles from social media management to content executive.

Charity Liaison
Anna Reeves
Anna is creative entrepreneur, producer and writer with a passion for culture change storytelling. She was the US Campaign Director for a high profile worldwide anti-poverty campaign, The Global Poverty Project (now Global Citizen), and was Charity Partnerships Manager for Lux & Eco, an online eco-store working on projects such as Red Carpet Green Dress. She was part of the consulting team who reviewed the Australian Federal Government Envirofund policy, and as Program Director for B Ready program she devised a national program for startups to achieve B Corporation certification.







