Pamela Opie: A Persistent and Determined Leader Making a Difference in the Textile Industry

Pamela Opie, CEO & Founder, Linen Obsession Textile Trading Being a successful entrepreneur isn’t for the faint of heart.The path to entrepreneurship is often long and grueling, filled with unexpected detours, roadblocks, and dead ends.There come moments when doubt, stress, and obstacles come in intense waves, plans don’t work out, and funding doesn’t come through. Despite those hardships, true entrepreneurs embark on the journey, determined to bring their vision to fruition and fill a need they see in society. They embrace these hardships and use them as fuel to move further along the path and to find even greater success. A prime example of one such perseverant entrepreneur is Pamela Opie, the CEO, and Founder of Linen Obsession Textile Trading, a leading supplier of branded home textiles to retail stores in the Middle East. Pamela grew up learning thatyou have to work hard to achieve anything in life,which helped her prepare for an entrepreneurial career.Growing up in Australia, which had a robust textiles manufacturing industry, she developed a keen interest in the sector and started working with Australian factories, making export sales around the world for them.Once the Australian factories closed their production and moved to become importers, she expanded her knowledge in the branded side of the business. “I love the history of brands and how they developed. Many of the brands that I work with now, like Christy England or Morris & Co are not just part of textile history but are part of the story of the development of global trade and the industrialization of Europe,” asserts Pamela. In 2008, Pamela moved to Dubai to start her own homewares trading business, which culminated in the creation