Madison Maxey and Mary Vogt

Madison Maxey is passionate about working at the intersection of design and engineering to create useful products. She is currently focused on bringing soft, flexible circuits (e-textiles) to scale through her company, Loomia. Throughout the course of her work at Loomia, she has developed e-textile prototypes and workshops for companies like North Face, Google, PVH, Flextronics, Adidas and Corning. Her work has built the foundation for 5 granted patents and has led to invited lectures at universities such as Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, NYU and University of Illinois Champagne Urbana. She holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Mary Vogt is a marketing consultant for Loomia, and has worked with many startups in the tech and fashion industry through her consultancy, Verve Creative Communications. Companies and organizations she has worked with include, but are not limited to: Adafruit, Sparkfun, Smart Textile Alliance, Techtextil, and Accenture. She holds a B.A. in Journalism from University of Massachusetts Amherst.