Christine Marzano

Christine Marzano is the Founder/CEO of BODS, a groundbreaking digital experience that transforms fashion e-commerce by empowering individuals to find their perfect fit and explore their style. In leading a world-class team of AI engineers, game designers, and technical fashion experts, Christine draws upon her diverse experience in the fashion, technology, and entertainment industries. She worked as both a runway and fit model for brands such as Dior, Fendi, Gucci, Saint Laurent, Balmain, Armani, and Victoria Beckham, to name a few. Her work as an actress, appearing in award-winning television shows and films and doing voice over/ motion capture for video games, sparked her obsession with digital avatars and avatar applications beyond gaming. Prior to BODS, she co-founded a SoftBank-funded avatar creation/animation software company and was the first fashion model to create a photorealistic avatar of her likeness for her agency to represent. She is passionate about the power of combining AI and gaming technology to address e-commerce inefficiencies that wreak havoc on brands’ bottom lines, as well as consumer confidence. A pioneer in bridging deep tech and high fashion, she has been named as a Vogue Business Innovator, featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, WWD, Vogue, BBC, and was a speaker at SIGGRAPH, the premier conference in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Christine holds a B.A. in psychology/neuroscience from Princeton University and resides in Los Angeles.

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