Moda Operandi is the first online luxury fashion retailer to allow members to pre-order tomorrow’s styles today.
Working closely with the world’s top designers, Moda Operandi provides fashion trendsetters with access to complete collections from the finest brands – including exclusive ready-to-wear, accessories and jewelry – immediately following their runway show.
With membership perks that include recommendations from top stylists, access to a personal shopping assistant, and tools to review looks from every angle, Moda Operandi puts its customers front row at the runway, from the comfort and privacy of home.
Rotimi Akinyemiju is the Chief Operating Officer at Moda Operandi, where he holds overall responsibility for global supply chain, warehousing, logistics, HR, facilities, and accounting functions. Previously, Dr. Akinyemiju was the Head of the US Operations at Net-A-Porter.Com, the UK based online luxury retailer, where he worked from October 2005 to January 2012. Prior to this, Dr. Akinyemiju was a Distribution Manager with Net-A-Porter.Com at their London Distribution Center, between 2005 and 2007. He has been in the luxury industry for over eight years and has a complete understanding of the online luxury market. Dr. Akinyemiju also specializes in global supply chain and logistics issues associated with global ecommerce space. He previously worked with Sheffield Insulations as a Logistics Manager and prior to that worked with Tibbett & Britten as a Warehouse Operations Controller, both in the United Kingdom. Dr.
CEO, Co-Founder at Moda Operandi
New York Observer has named Lauren Santo Domingo as one of the most influential people in New York City, calling her a digital-age socialite. She is the creative director and co-founder of Moda Operandi, an online luxury retailer and a contributing editor at Vogue magazine. The New York Observer has called her the next Mrs. Astor as she is connected to some of the most influential people in the world.
She is the daughter of Ronald Davis, the former CEO of Poland Springs and Judy Davis, an artist. Lauren grew up in Greenwich, Conn., and attended the Kent School. She received a degree in history at the University of Southern California.
At the age of 14-years-old, Lauren was introduced to the fashion industry as a teen model for Sassy magazine. She told Goop.com she knew at a young age that she wanted to call the shots and become an editor. In her career, Lauren has worked at Vogue as a fashion assistant and associate market editor.
Thanasis Delistathis is a co-founder and managing partner at [New Atlantic Ventures](http://www.navfund.com/). He has invested in entrepreneurs whose technology brought text messaging mainstream in the United States, movies to the Web, radio to your phone and the ability to buy couture straight from the runway. Thanasis brings two decades of experience to his entrepreneurial teams and access to to a premier set of syndicate investors as companies quickly scale. Before he became a venture capitalist, he spent three years providing corporate restructuring and financial strategies for 20 public subsidiaries and early-stage technology opportunities that are now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific. He started his career at McKinsey & Co. He received his B.S.E. in Electrical Engineeringfrom Princeton University and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Moda Operandi
Director, UX at Moda Operandi