Won M. Kim is the Regional Director of FGILA is an accounting and finance expert in all aspects of the fashion industry including manufacturing, wholesale distribution and retail operations. His knowledge, expertise and business acumen has been gathered over the years through several key roles such as business owner, IRS revenue agent, controller of a $50 Million company. He is an active member of The California Society of CPAs.
In 2009 he was elected to the board of directors for Fashion Group International, Los Angeles and chairs the Membership Committee. In 2011, he was elected to a Regional Director for 2012-2013. He is an advisory board member of the California Fashion Association and a Program Advisory Committee member for the Art Institute – Hollywood. Mr. Kim is fluent in Korean. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Loyola Marymount University. You can contact him at wkim@fgila.org
Christine Alexandra Chiu does Community Outreach for FGILA and is a recognized tastemaker, beauty expert and authoritative voice for connoisseurship and the ultra-affluent lifestyle. She has been featured in local, national, and international leading media outlets: The Wall Street Journal, UsWeekly, Beauty Blitz, Examiner.com, LA Times, Los Angeles Confidential, Angeleno Magazine, Elle France, InStyle magazine, France’s TF1, Elle China, Harper’s Bazaar China, Marie Claire China, Haute Living magazine, and more. Christine is recognized as one of Vogue’s 100 women.
Christine has been endowed with the ability to understand the true essence of luxury, and has presented this expertise as a columnist for “Los Angeles Confidential”, a well-respected Los Angeles publication, as well as for Haute Living, a publication for an audience who appreciates only the very best in luxury living. She attended Stanford University for economics and graduated from PepperdineUniversity with a degree in International Business before spending 6 years in the beauty and public relations industries. Christine became the Managing Partner for Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery Inc. (BHPS Inc.). You can email her at coordinator@bhpsinc.com.
Lori Ann Robinson is a Los Angeles-based image and fashion consultant and the Nominating Chair of FGILA and Website Chair. As well as a speaker and Emmy-nominated costume designer. Lori Ann’s talents for style, design, color and fashion are the foundation of her career shopping- for and dressing women and men. From movie and television personalities to chief executive officers and everyone in between, she knows how to translate dreams and desires into fashion and image success. Her consulting strategy is matching personality, lifestyle, and body type to today’s current styles while solving the ‘I don’t know how to shop or what to buy and what to wear’ challenges everyone faces.
Lori Ann’s corporate clients use her talents to help them dress for success and then take her guidance on professional development including dining, social, and networking etiquette and the power of body language to enhance their ‘visual business card’. Her clients include: Pepsi Bottling Group, Macy’s, Morgan Stanley, AIG SunAmerica, Disneyland Resort, Paramount Pictures, First Private Bank and Trust and California Association of Physicians Group. Lori Ann is a member of the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI) and the Fashion Group International (FGI). You can contact her at lori@larconsultants.com.
Sherry Wallen, Treasurer for FGILA, has been providing tax, accounting & audit and business consulting services to her clients for over 10 years. She works with both large corporations and small entrepreneurial companies in numerous industries which include apparel, manufacturing and retail.
Prior to beginning her career in Public Accounting, Sherry worked in the internal accounting department of a precious metals company and spent two years teaching English in Seoul, South Korea. You can contact her at swallen@fgila.org
Staci Riordan is the Past Regional Director of FGILA and Chair of the Fox Rothschild Fashion Law Practice Group. As a fashion lawyer, Staci’s practice focuses on both transactional and litigation issues faced by the fashion community, be it fashion licensing, copyright, trademark and business litigation as well as digital media, social commerce and geo location, business agreements, strategic planning and client counseling. Staci can be contacted at: sriodan@foxrothschild.com, you may follow her on twitter@StaciRiordan.
She regularly counsels clients on the creation, use and exploitation of creative content, while developing strategic growth plans aimed at brand cultivation. Staci understands the importance of building and sustaining a brand in the fashion industry, and as such, formulates business opportunities that enable her clients to define, manage and expand their brands via traditional media such as television, film and celebrity endorsement.