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Gap Inc.
Gap Inc. is the largest specialty apparel company in the United States, a San Francisco-based house of brands that includes Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta. Founded in 1969 by Donald and Doris Fisher as a single Levi's jeans store, the company now operates roughly 3,500 stores plus a large e-commerce business, serving customers across value, core and premium price points. Under CEO Richard Dickson, Gap Inc. is executing a turnaround built on brand reinvigoration, a stronger operating platform and a diversified, more resilient supply chain.
Noriko Morimoto
Noriko Morimoto is the Chief Marketing Officer of Title Nine, the Emeryville-based women's activewear brand founded in 1989. A Bay Area native who cut her teeth building brands at Burton Snowboards, Gap, Zipcar, NatureBox and Boosted Boards, she has spent a career pointing well-known consumer names in the direction of growth and turnaround. She pairs a UC Berkeley undergraduate degree with an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, and specializes in brand platform development, consumer acquisition and digital-plus-offline engagement.
Melissa Wong
Melissa Wong is the CEO and co-founder of Zipline, the operations platform that fixes the broken communication chain between retail headquarters and store floors. Before building the product, she lived the problem — spending over a decade at Gap and Old Navy trying to get stores to actually execute corporate strategy. She started Zipline in 2014, raised $39.6 million, grew the customer base to 150+ brands including Sephora, American Eagle, and 7-Eleven, and co-authored 'Stores Don't Suck: The 5 Principles of Amazing Retail Execution.' In 2026 she was named to Inc.'s Female Founders 500 and won RetailTech Company CEO of the Year.