Jane Philbrick, CEO & Founder

Jane assembles teams to solve critical problems, teams of the best young designers and the top engineers and scientists. She believes the role of artists now is artist training to re-build the world. We need to bring our vision, our ability to see and re-conceive whole systems, and our comfort with complexity to the urgent challenge of climate change, decarbonizing the everyday world of consumer products, from toxic synthetic textiles to plastics of all kinds.

Northeast Wool | The Bronx is a vertically integrated soil-to-soil ecological fashion and textile business focused on Northeastern American wools, as well as other consumer products where plastic can be replaced with wool. NE W BX grew out of a community-based design studio, Today’s Industrial Living Landscapes (TILL), a multi-sector redevelopment plan for a decades-long derelict brownfield in Northern Fairfield County, of which ecological fashion was one proposed element.

Jane conceived and produced TILL: bft LAB, a proof-of-concept design and production studio, and international thought leadership summit in 2019, debuting capsule collections commissioned from three recent graduates of Parsons School of Fashion aimed at decarbonizing the fashion industry.

She is a past artist fellow of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and MacDowell Colony fellow.

Christopher “Kip” Bergstrom, CSO

Kip Bergstrom has held executive positions in the private, public and non-profit sectors, including serving three mayors and three governors. He previously served as Deputy Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, with a portfolio that included the development of the innovation economy, statewide branding, as well as the arts and culture, historic preservation and tourism.

Prior to conceiving and executing Connecticut's major innovation initiatives, Kip founded Rhode Island's Slater Technology Fund, a publicly supported seed fund. He spent twelve years in the private sector as president or general manager, including the country's largest office furniture re-manufacturing plant and developing and executing a breakthrough retail strategy for Connecticut's largest bank. Kip holds a B.A. from UCSC and master degrees from the Graduate School of Design and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where he was the first student to specialize in economic development.

Katya Moorman, Creative Director, Digital Strategy

Katya Moorman is an entrepreneur, content creator and photographer who thrives in the digital space. From 2008 - 2014 she envisioned and developed StyleDefined NYC, a blog that grew into a website which according to Italian Vogue "developed a cult following by New York’s riotous underground tribe” with its unique mix of NYC nightlife, fashion and style. Over this period, as a creative director/influencer she collaborated with several brands creating visually striking “social first” campaigns including SONY, MAC Cosmetics, Diane von Furstenberg and Barneys New York.

After selling StyleDefined NYC in 2014 she was offered the position of Director of Communications for Manufacture New York, an incubator in Sunset Park with a mission to mentor and train the next generation of U.S. apparel designers on tech and sustainability. She is also the co-founder of No Kill Magazine that showcases culture with a conscience and fashion for the future.