Bruce Huffa LCG
CEO, Principal and Co-Founder of Fabdesigns, Inc.
An alumnus from Hinckley Poly-Tech in the UK, protoge of the brilliant inventor and futurist, Thomas Stoll, as well as a world-class certified flat knitting engineer from one of the most prominent machine builders, Bruce Huffa is also a master of adapting machinery, elite programming, and electronics analytics. For more than 35 years, Bruce has created intellectual property for Fabdesigns as well as many global brands.
Since the early 80's his specialty has been 3 dimensional shaped structures that integrate multiple yarns and strategic textures, with minimal sewing and nearly zero waste. He has set up production or improved flow rates in knitting factories all over the world in designing, developing and producing on many types of machinery and currently assists clients to select the right tools for each project. He had built and advanced major projects for aerospace, medical, footwear, and industrial textiles. Many dozens of patents bear his name.
Hi is the man who brought 3D technical knitting to the mainstream with the FIRST 3D knit running shoe in 2008, to win awards all over the globe for world-class design, engineering, sustainability, by using our Fabdesigns game-changing technology.
He believes that the most difficult complex and impossible is made possible by not giving up.
Connie Huffa
Principal and Co-Founder of Fabdesigns, Inc.
Connie holds a US Bachelor of Science in textiles from Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, where she also taught in the Masters of textiles program. She has over 35 years of experience in designing, developing, and manufacturing 2D, 3D, 4D, and 5D textiles, apparel, medical devices, and other products using knitting as additive manufacturing.
Connie has designed and engineered knitwear, wovens, and nonwovens for top apparel brands including PhillipsVanHeusen and Tricots St Raphael in NYC, and their manufacturing facilities around the globe.
She also has over 20 experience designing, developing, engineering, testing, and manufacturing knitted, woven, and nonwoven textiles, products, and components using various soft goods technologies (laminates, composites, coatings, co-molding) for extreme environments.
She has held executive roles in automotive materials/product development, ranging from Director to VP of Product Development at Shell Oil US, and Kraco Enterprises. Ms. Huffa has demonstrated success in building financial models, customer-centric development road maps, robust material/product test plans, and sustainable supply chains to implement innovative manufacturing, managed/mitigated risks, optimized operations, and accelerated the launch of game-changing products/materials to market. She is the key person responsible for bringing fashion to a dying industry through material science and innovative product development infrastructure, reviving the Shell aftermarket division from a waning $100 million business unit into a $450 million powerhouse in less than 3 years and later Kraco Enterprises. She speaks marketing, design, risk analysis, operations, and EBITDA fluently. It is with this zeal and passion for materials that she pays knowledge forward, speaking at prominent conferences and symposiums around the world.
She is an industry contributor to (Knitting Trade Journal, Knitting Industry, Textile World, Advanced Textiles Source, Specialty Fabrics Review, WTin, Textile innovations), and International Consultant and Conference Speaker on innovation and textile technology (IFAI, Techtextile, ANPIC, CITME, TTI Vanguard), and has developed customized in-house technical workshops for many fortune 100 brands around the world. She is also a mentor in the Make it In LA program in Los Angeles and has been written about in Forbes, Voyage LA, IFAI, and others.