Mark Kaplan
Co-Founder, Chief Marketing and Sustainability Officer at Wholechain

Mark Kaplan is the Chief Marketing and Sustainability Officer at Wholechain, where he's spent years driving traceability adoption across seafood, textiles, and beef & leather supply chains. He's led Wholechain's work on FSMA 204 compliance, GDST seafood standards, and the EUDR-aligned global beef and leather traceability framework, and has written extensively on how transparency builds trust across global trade, from Estée Lauder's vanilla sourcing to industry standards work with GS1.
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