An award-winning creative director with decades of global advertising experience, Tina is a natural problem solver with expertise in building successful teams to bring exceptional projects to life, including the plant-based leather handbag label LOM Australia.

Through end-to-end delivery of the handbag label, Tina identified gaps in the market for a petroleum plastic-free leather alternative. This triggered the quest to develop an ethical, Australian-made material that ticks all boxes for product designers worldwide. With access to Australia’s rich agricultural landscape and world-class research institutes, Alt. Leather was born.

Duc is a material engineer who brings with him three years of quality assurance working for Panasonic in Vietnam, and most recently two years at Deakin University’s Institute of Frontier Materials, Carbon Nexus where he was responsible for researching and developing the best method for dissolving plant-based biopolymers (cellulose, lignin) to form carbon fibre.

Duc is passionate about bringing world-class materials to the real world and is excited to apply his experience to the research and development team at Alt. Leather.

Tuan is a highly qualified material scientist with decades of global experience designing and synthesising polymeric materials, including as a postdoctoral fellow at CSIRO, Australia with the polymer chemistry team in the biomanufacturing department.

Tuan also held a lead research and development role at a Vietnamese start-up where he was responsible for a team developing 3D printed products across multiple verticals, synthetic leathers and elastic materials. Tuan has witnessed first-hand the damage that the PVC and PU synthetic manufacturing processes can have on the health of people and our planet, his interest in creating sustainable biomaterials led him to Alt. Leather.