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Nancy Rhodes

Speaker; Founder & CEO, Alternew

Nancy Rhodes is a veteran design insider who’s worked in the fashion industry for almost two decades, with exclusive insight into mass production, building footwear for brands such as Beyonce's House of Dereon and Kenneth Cole as well as multiple private labels for stores ranging from Nordstrom to Target, Marshalls, and Costco.  Nancy launched alternew, a mobile clothing alterations and repairs platform, to enhance the post consumer purchase experience by providing accessibility, convenience, and transparency to clothing repair while reinvigorating a declining industry.