Jennifer Hyman is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Rent the Runway

Jennifer Hyman

Speaker March 7, 2025

Jennifer Hyman is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rent the Runway, a company that is disrupting the trillion-dollar fashion industry and changing the way women get dressed through the Closet in the Cloud, the world’s first and largest shared designer closet.

Jennifer has led the firm for 15 years and has stewarded her company through all stages of growth. From inception in 2009 to a scale of 3M+ lifetime customers, Rent the Runway has innovated a new category of business in the fashion industry.

The brand offers women the ability to subscribe, rent items a-la-carte and shop resale from hundreds of designer partners, all for a fraction of the retail cost.

Jennifer took the company public in 2021, making her the first woman ever to IPO a company with an all-female executive suite and the 30th female founder ever to IPO her own company.

She has been honored on the TIME Top 100 Most Influential People List, People magazine’s “Women Changing the World,” Forbes’ “12 Most Disruptive Names in Business”and the CNBC Disruptor List for 5 out of 10 years. She also serves on the Board of Directors of The Estée Lauder Companies and Zalando. She received her BA from Harvard University cum laude and MBA from Harvard Business School and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and three children, Aurora, Selene, and Desi.