The team behind Seen + Known has built, scaled, and led at the forefront of modern commerce—inside global platforms like eBay, Levi Strauss, LVMH, and Deloitte — as well as at the helm of independent fashion and lifestyle brands. With collective experience spanning resale, retail, technology, and storytelling, they bring both operational rigor and cultural intuition to every engagement.
Their backgrounds include launching marketplace programs, shaping go-to-market strategies, and advising on brand evolution across fashion, beauty, and circular commerce. This isn’t theory—it’s what they’ve done. And now, through Seen + Known, that experience is applied to help others move with more clarity, more creativity, and more impact.
We operate independently, and always in your best interest.
We give real answers, not rehearsed ones.
Our recommendations are built on firsthand experience.
We believe in creating space—for ideas, identities, and industries in transition.
Charis Marquez has spent her career shaping how people shop and how platforms serve. As VP of Fashion at eBay and a digital leader at Walmart, and Levi-Strauss, she’s built teams, launched verticals, and pioneered marketplace innovation on a global scale.
Charis is an architect of systems and a believer in experience. She brings a rare blend of operational depth, cultural fluency, and technical savvy to every engagement—always with an eye on what comes next.
At Seen + Known, she helps companies move faster, think broader, and build ecosystems that last.
Mari Corella is a retail futurist with an operator’s discipline and a merchant’s eye. At eBay, she led Global Luxury and Apparel, where she redefined how recommerce could drive both growth and meaning. Before that, she scaled DTC and omnichannel businesses from inside iconic brands and global retail groups like LVMH and Saks Fifth Avenue.
At Seen + Known, Mari brings the connective tissue—between data and instinct, brand and business, digital and physical. Her superpower: translating complexity into clarity. Her passion: making great design accessible to the people who’ll truly value it.
Kim Phan is a creative strategist with a sixth sense for what people want—and how brands can meet them there. As a founder, marketer, and product visionary, she’s helped businesses across beauty, fashion, and lifestyle evolve in ways that resonate.
Her career spans the art of storytelling and the science of scale—from launching her own agency to shaping commercial strategy for multi-brand portfolios.
At Seen + Known, Kim helps clients distill their message, amplify their value, and create the kind of cultural presence that can’t be copied.