Katy O’Brien

Katy O’Brien currently serves as the Head of Sustainable Innovation at New Balance.  She is a passionate leader committed to driving positive impact in the global footwear and apparel industry.  Leveraging her background in engineering and master’s degree from MIT in system design, she built the data-driven holistic strategies to reduce waste and decarbonize New Balance’s footwear supply chain. Katy possesses the unique ability to balance deep technical expertise alongside a big picture perspective and uses this balance to envision the system transformation required to build a more sustainable future for the industry.