Tytania Rose – President
Tytania Rose attended Parsons School of Design and graduated with a double major BFA in Illustration and Animation. She studied accessory design at F.I.T. and painting at The New York Academy, both in New York City. Through Syracuse University, she studied marketing while living in Paris and London. Tytania has worked in the fashion industry, designing couture embroidery and beading for companies such as Oscar De La Renta, Vera Wang and Bill Blass.
One cannot separate Tytania from the philanthropic work that has also shaped her life for the last ten years as a tireless advocate against CSEC, the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, a global problem but one glaringly obvious in Thailand. Not only has Tytania been financially supporting rescued girls over the years, one girl at a time, through the Garden of Hope; this year she founded The Nang Fah Project.
The Nang Fah Project is building sustainable, self-supporting centers for young girls of Southeast Asia and the Hill Tribe Communities in Thailand who have been forced into the sex trade industry for lack of any work to support their families. The center, located in Chiang Mai, not only provides rescued girls safe haven (room/board), counseling, medical treatment, education, and family stipends, it also provides vocational training in the production of eco-friendly fashion products. A fully staffed design and production workshop is on site at the school and all collections celebrate Thailand’s rich historic tribal traditions. Sales of the collections, sold under the Nang Fah Project label, will support the school. Rescued girls have the opportunity to schedule time at the design center into their activities. The goal is to build a growing company that can offer graduates part or full time paid positions depending on their age and ongoing educational needs, provides micro business loans to families and support the school’s educational and philanthropic mission.
Tytania works closely with the 20-year old Hill Tribe Resources Center and orphanage, located in the mountains. Hill Tribe elders are experts in organic dying and weave patterns which The Nang Fah Project will utilize in their collections, thus helping Hill Tribe children as well.
Tytania spends several months in Milan overseeing production of her line of high end accessories line, Tytania Rose, and several months in Chiang Mai as director of The Nang Fah Project school and design center.
Christian Jorg - Vice President/Assistant Treasurer
Christian oversees the business activities of the Island Def Jam Music Group in the online and mobile space. He is also responsible for expanding the company’s business beyond its traditional focus by finding new creative outlets for its artists and building new revenue streams. IDJ artists include Mariah Carey, Kanye West, Bon Jovi, The Killers, Rihanna, Jay-Z and many others. Prior to taking this position, he was EVP, Entertainment at Flycell, one of the world’s leading direct to consumer mobile entertainment companies. Before that he was CEO and co-founder of E-Magine Entertainment, an independent record label. He started his career at BMG Entertainment where he founded the New Technologies department. Christian has an MBA from Columbia University in New York.
Rina Oh - Secretary
Rina Oh is a native from the Republic of South Korea now residing in the United States. She has also lived part of her earlier childhood in Paraguay before arriving to New York where she studied art independently through private programs and Liberal Arts at The New School University. Recognized as a painter, sculptor, and illustrator who is classically trained through the studies of learning old master techniques for nearly a decade under the apprenticeship of sculptor Greg Wyatt during his residency at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in NYC and later finishing her studies at the Newington-Cropsey Academy of Art in Hastings-on-the Hudson, NY. In 2001, the sculpture “The Meditation”, a permanent installation in bronze consisting of 27 figures was unveiled at The Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC. The sculpture is part of an international sculpture garden project called “The Garden of Great Ideas”.
Her work experience includes design, fashion illustration, curatorial projects, and public relations with a prominent list of companies with a focus on art, fashion, food, artist representation, and the non-profit sector.
Nicoletta Giordani - Director of Strategy and Business Development
Nicoletta Giordani manages the investments and needs of International
clients (e.g. entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and family groups) at
UBS Wealth Management. She focuses on domestic and international wealth
planning, family offices, family governance, asset allocation analysis and
corporate advisory services to serve her client's needs.
Nicoletta's previous positions included that of Vice President of Strategy
and Business Development at Credit Suisse Private Banking USA and Senior
Engagement Manager at Accenture in the Capital Markets Strategy Group where
she led projects on corporate strategy and institutional sales. Her
clients included such prestigious firms as JPMorgan Private Equity and
Hedge Funds, MetLife International, and GE Capital.
Prior to her U.S. experience, Nicoletta worked as a marketing analyst and
assistant to the head of marketing for the leasing arm of the Mediobanca
Group, helping managing relationships with Banca Popolare di Milano.
Nicoletta graduated from the Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di
Milano with a dual degree in Economics and Corporate Law and with a
graduate thesis in urban economics.
She is involved with a number of philanthropic organizations: NPower NY, a
not-for-profit that provides technology assistance to other non-profit
groups nationally and the Anthony Kennedy-Shriver foundation "Best Buddies
International", a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives
of people with intellectual disabilities. She also dedicates time to the
Young Friends of Save Venice and the Venetian Community of New York.
Nicoletta works and lives in Manhattan, New York
Mark Crawford
Mark is Executive Director of Garden of Hope, a rescue center that helps place young girls in schools and safe havens in Thailand and Burma after they have been removed from brothels. Mark oversees operations and overall implementation of The Garden of Hope’s vision. He was an award-winning manager for the Ritz–Carlton Hotels. Mark holds a master’s degree in intercultural studies from Fuller Seminary School of Intercultural Studies and a bachelor’s degree in international management from Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of “A Theology of Mission to Women and Men in Prostitution in the South–East Asian Context.” Mark and his family have been in Thailand since 2000.
Zothansiami Ralte - Director of The Hill Tribe Resource Center
Zothansiami is Director of The Hill Tribe Resource Center. After graduating from Jorhat Theological College with a bachelor of theology degree, she took a job teaching at a Christian mission middle school for Tuikuk tribal children on India’s border with Bangladesh. The following year she arrived in Thailand as the first woman Mizo missionary to Thailand with the goal of teaching English to tribal Thai people. She taught at Prince Royal College for one year and taught herself to speak the Thai language. Presently there are more than 80 children (both boys and women) in residence at the Hill Tribe Resources and Development Center. The Center supports cooperative enterprises in the village for economic development (agriculture, productions of goods and services, and retail ventures). Zothansiami will manage and organize the center where our tribal fabrics will be made and organize tribal teacher schedules for the Nang Fah Project school.