GLOBAL APPAREL DESIGN EXECUTIVE
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Global design executive with 20+ years leading brand vision, product strategy, and design organizations across women’s, children’s, accessories, and non-apparel categories, from luxury to mass retail. As Vice President and Head of Women’s Design at Old Navy, led design for a $3.6B business that grew $140M year over year and $380M versus two years prior. Builds commercially relevant assortments and high-performing teams while modernizing product creation through AI visualization, 3D design, PLM, and new operating models.
LEADERSHIP EXPERTISE
Global Design and Brand Strategy
Creative Direction Women’s and Children’s Apparel
Product and Consumer Insight
Design Organization Leadership
Talent Development
Cross-Functional Leadership
Market Relevance
Digital Product Creation
AI and 3D Innovation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Old Navy · Gap Inc.
San Francisco, CA · 2011–2026
Vice President, Head of Women’s Design
Feb 2024–Jun 2026
Led Women’s design for a $3.6B business, contributing to $140M in year-over-year growth and $380M in growth versus two years prior.
Reenergized women’s denim through new fits, trend-right details, and faster response to emerging demand, strengthening relevance, revenue, and market share.
Expanded the assortment into occasion dresses, establishing a new end use and broadening the brand’s relevance with the women’s customer.
Modernized the design workflow with AI visualization and CLO 3D; scaled 3D assets within product development to improve design intent, reduce sampling, and support sustainability goals.
Combined consumer-insight data, rapid visualization, and 3D sampling to accelerate trend capsules and improve speed to market.
Vice President, Head of Family Non-Apparel
Jun 2023–Feb 2024
Directed creative vision for accessories and non-apparel across divisions, strengthening brand consistency and product execution.
Designed a new operating model that focused limited internal design resources on brand direction while using vendor capabilities to expand creative output.
Vice President, Head of Kids Design
Apr 2020–May 2023
Senior Director, Girls Division
Jan 2019–Apr 2020
Led design for a children’s business that held the No. 2 market-share position; grew girls’ denim to the No. 1 market-share position.
Served as Old Navy’s design lead in Gap Inc.’s review and selection of a new enterprise PLM platform, helping modernize product-creation workflows and improve the development pipeline.
Shifted the organization to fully digital creative presentations during the pandemic, enabling continuity at scale and establishing more flexible ways of working.
Senior Director, Women’s Soft Wovens and Outerwear
Oct 2015–Jan 2019
Director, Women’s Woven Tops and Dresses
Nov 2013–Sep 2015
Senior Designer, Women’s Fast Collection and Wovens
Oct 2011–Oct 2013
Led women’s woven tops and dresses to reach the No. 1 market-share position and doubled the women’s dress business over three years.
Marc Jacobs International |
Little Marc Jacobs
New York, NY · 2010–2011
Senior Designer
Oct 2010–Oct 2011
Led seasonal concept, color, print, and silhouette direction for the global luxury children’s collection, partnering with Marc by Marc Jacobs teams to align the line with ready-to-wear direction.
Managed line design, presentations, production tech packs, fittings, and lookbook styling.
Urban Outfitters
Developed fast-turn women’s concepts, color, print, silhouettes, and brand-building product stories for a two-month delivery calendar; designed styles that consistently ranked among the division’s top 35 sellers.
EARLIER EXPERIENCE
Gap Inc. International Kids and Baby
Designer, Girls and Toddler Girls · 2005–2006
Translated emerging trends into commercially viable product for European and Japanese children’s markets, partnering with merchandising and production on innovation, cost, and execution.
Tommy Hilfiger
Associate Designer, Assistant Designer and Freelance Designer, Children’s
2002–2005
Contributed to seasonal concepts, color stories, and silhouette direction across girls’ knits and wovens while partnering with merchandising and production.
Anna Sui
Design, Patternmaking and Production Assistant and Intern
2001–2002
EDUCATION
Parsons School of Design
Continuing Education Fashion Certificate Program
2000–2002
University of California, Berkeley
BS, Conservation and Resource Studies
Law and Policy emphasis · 1998