Katrina Lake

Katrina Lake (born December 24, 1982) is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur. She is the founder and interim CEO of Stitch Fix, a fashion-based subscription service that was established in 2011 in San Francisco and went public in 2017. Lake became the youngest woman to take a company public at the age of 34 and was the only woman in 2017 to lead an initial public offering in technology. As of November 2017, she held a 16.6% stake in Stitch Fix. Lake was born in San Francisco to a Japanese immigrant mother who taught in the public school system and a father who was a doctor. She initially pursued a pre-med course but later became interested in economics and business, ultimately becoming a successful entrepreneur.