Mariam Naficy, founder and CEO of Minted, is an early pioneer in e-commerce and crowdsourcing. Mariam founded Minted, a crowdsourced and crowd-curated design marketplace, with the mission of building an online retailer that remains continually fresh and ahead of design trends in limitless consumer categories. Minted now operates its direct- to-consumer brand, as well as a platform for licensing and wholesale to other retailers.
Mariam cofounded Eve.com, the first online cosmetics retailer, in 1998 and sold it successfully in 2000. She sits on the boards of Yelp and Every Mother Counts.