Margaux Avedisian and Deborah Metts, co-founders of Beyond the Runway, are on a mission to transform online shopping.
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CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Titled Wall Street Journal’s “Queen of Bitcoin” Margaux's experience as an entrepreneur on the ground floor of innovative technology spans a decade. In 2012 she relaunched the first American Bitcoin exchange, Tradehill, and co-founded two others, Alphapoint and Monetago respectively. She has also served as Executive Vice President for the Transform Group from 2016-2018 during the ICO boom. She also worked with Like.com, the first fashion visual search engine, that Google bought. In her work, Margaux has connected hundreds of entrepreneurs with business leaders, technologists, policymakers, and creatives to promote tech startups and cryptocurrency. She has spoken at numerous conferences and had a podcast Burning Bridges with Margaux. She has a BA from Mount Holyoke College and a MFA in Fashion Merchandising from the Academy of Art University.
CO-FOUNDER & COO
Deborah is also a global educator, brand storyteller, and leading technologist with 10+ years of experience both from the Marketing and the E-commerce side of luxury retail branding. Her specialties include Management at startup companies, Innovation, Software as a Service (SaaS), SaaS Operations, high availability, and scalability. She’s worked with some of the world’s most recognized fashion and retails brands such as Bloomingdales, Calvin Klein, IMG, Max Mara, Macy’s, and Nicole Miller. Deborah regularly speaks at fashion tech events throughout the world and has recently discussed her views with media outlets such as Nasdaq, Gals Talk Tech and Forward-Thinking Founders. She has a BBA from Georgia Southern University and a MFA in Fashion Merchandising from the Academy of Art University.