Primary Job Title Co-Founder Primary Organization For Days
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Female
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Mary Saunders is a fashion industry veteran who is passionate about leading cross-functional teams within design-driven organizations to achieve business results. Most recently, Mary was the COO for the innovative luxury fashion brand, Maiyet where she led the opening of Maiyet’s first store, production, planning, distribution, finance, HR, and
investor and board relations. She spent her early career at Gap, Inc, where she excelled in the highly competitive Retail Management Program for recent college graduates. Subsequently, she was a merchandiser in the women’s division at both Gap and Gap Outlet. Mary cares deeply about equipping emerging designers with necessary skills for success and has been a dedicated mentor through the Design Entrepreneurs of NYC: a business plan competition for emerging fashion designers sponsored by the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Fashion Institute of Technology. For the past two years, Mary’s mentees (Haus Alkire and Haerfest) were both winners of the competition. Mary holds an MBA with second year honors from Harvard Business School and an MA in Sociology and BA in Economics from Stanford University.
