Mark Saad is Chief Kinder Sole at Kinder Soles, LLC. Kinder Soles is a socially responsible designer of eco-friendly flip-flops.
As an importer/exporter, Mark has traveled around the world, often to third-world countries, where he was appalled to see tragic living conditions. Mark saw children walking barefoot in landfills; it made him sick to think of all the unused shoes sitting in his closet back home.
After learning more about the worldwide ‘footwear shortage movement’, Mark decided to get involved. He realized that getting people to donate old shoes was easy, the challenge was raising the funds needed to send those shoes to the people who need them most. Mark launched Kinder Soles in 2010 to help raise these funds. Proceeds from every Kinder Soles purchase go towards sending shoes to people in need through the SoleMates Foundation which is Kinder Soles’ non-profit arm.