The spearhead of HATCh Showroom, Kay has created a unique, progressive environment that integrates art and design, to inspire and provoke. With the deep authentic relationships Kay possesses in the marketplace, she is a respected force, a brand builder, a tastemaker and visionary creative innovator.
Her acumen of developing products, brand strategizing, merchandising, and integrating marketing, messaging, and distribution in an astute and creative manner has been demonstrated throughout her career. Kay has had the pleasure of revitalizing the Lacoste brand for the US market in the early part of 2005, debuting Alexander McQueen’s McQ in the US, launching Yohji Yamamoto Coming Soon, building Soludos from a concept to a large scale business, as well assisting James Perse with design direction and strategy since 2005 – just to name a few. She walks what she talks and champions her teams to work with passion and create dimensional lives.
Fashion is not all that Kay does… a former ballerina, and yoga teacher, Kay is a proud mother, who is extremely present in guiding her teams to create and live full and dimensional lives. She is deeply committed to her home state of Hawaii, health, sport, fitness, adventure and service. Her daily life encompasses surfing, strength training, boxing, yoga, pilates and running, and when she can squeeze it in, rock climbing! Her newest passion is endurance adventure backpacking, with her most recent adventure summiting Mount Kilimanjaro – one of the 7 peaks of the world. A lifelong learner, traveler and student, Kay has achieved sport nutrition and plant-based certifications, and has a deep passion for learning more about “foods as healing for the body”. She is currently enrolled in deeper yoga training as well as sports nutrition and kinesiology studies. She loves sharing nutrition, yoga, meditation, pranayama, and myofascial release to her teams.
