Made to be Seen, Built to be Known

Charis Marquez has dedicated her career to shaping how people shop and how platforms serve within the realm of modern commerce. As VP of Fashion at eBay and a digital leader at Walmart and Levi-Strauss, she has built teams, launched verticals, and driven marketplace innovation on a global scale. 

Charis is an architect of systems and a believer in experience, focusing on effective growth strategies. 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, fostering sustainable marketplace innovation.

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 marketplace innovation could drive both growth and meaning. Prior, she scaled DTC and omnichannel businesses within iconic brands and global retail groups like LVMH and Saks Fifth Avenue, focusing on innovative growth strategies.  

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 products accessible to the people who’ll truly value it in the realm of modern commerce.

Kim Phan is a creative strategist with a sixth sense for understanding what people want—and how brands can meet them there through effective growth strategies. As a founder, marketer, and product visionary, she’s played a pivotal role in helping businesses across beauty, fashion, and lifestyle evolve in ways that resonate with modern commerce. Her career spans the art of storytelling and the science of scale—from launching her own agency to driving marketplace innovation and shaping commercial strategies for multi-brand portfolios. 

At Seen + Known, Kim guides clients in distilling their message, amplifying their value, and creating an unmistakable cultural presence that sets them apart.