Lisa Morales-Hellebo

Lisa Morales-Hellebo has 28 years in tech, design and systems thinking, entrepreneurship, and community building, and has recently added V.C. to her list of titles as founder and co-managing GP at REFASHIOND Ventures: the Industrial Transformation Fund. She has always been obsessed with how things are made, pioneering mass customization, personalization, and on-demand micromanufacturing for P&G in Silicon Valley in 1999.

Ms. Morales-Hellebo is catalyzing the paradigm shift to localized fashion demand chains as CEO and founder of REFASHIOND OS (rOS), which is orchestrating the digitization of local fashion value chains from fibers to finished goods, delivering sustainability, living wages, and better margins. She is also a founder of the Worldwide Supply Chain Federation, an organization that is changing how supply chain professionals learn about, collaborate, and adopt early-stage supply chain innovation around the world.

A Carnegie Mellon alum, Ms. Morales-Hellebo founded and built the New York Fashion Tech Lab and serves on the board of three other accelerators. She has been featured in numerous publications along with two books and has been the recipient of several awards, including Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine’s Top Woman in Supply Chain 2022; Top 100 Women in Supply Chain 2020, 2021, 2022, & 2023; and WWD’s Most Influential ESG Leaders 2023.