Lisa Goldsand | Founder, Circular Thrift

Lisa Goldsand is the founder of Circular Thrift LLC, a textile circularity hub dedicated to the valorization of post-consumer waste through remanufacturing and hyper-local supply chain models. With over 30 years of senior leadership experience in the global apparel industry—most recently at Abercrombie & Fitch—Lisa bridges the gap between traditional industrial manufacturing and future-facing circular systems.

Leveraging her deep expertise in global sourcing, operations, and manufacturing, Lisa has transitioned from managing international supply chains in Central America and Asia to pioneering a "field-to-finished-good" remanufacturing pilot in Ohio. Through Circular Thrift, she is working to commercialize a line of accessories produced locally at the Hocking Hills Garment Center, utilizing exclusively post-consumer textiles as raw material feedstock. This work serves as a scalable blueprint for shifting consumer behavior and reducing the environmental toll of global fashion production.

A veteran of the apparel sector, Lisa is focused on catalyzing industry-wide change by developing high-efficiency, "low-friction" circularity frameworks. She is a vocal advocate for domestic manufacturing innovation, social entrepreneurship, and the development of the "Flat Expansion" structure for decentralized textile reclamation. Lisa’s mission is to drive the shift toward a more climate-resilient apparel economy by proving that textile waste is not a liability, but a high-value resource for the next generation of manufacturing.