Dr. Demitri Balabanov is a CEO & CTO of Apparel Robotics Corporation. He has degrees in Physics and Nanoscience and was a physics researcher at universities in Massachusetts and North Carolina. For over 7 years, Demitri has worked for some of the largest global apparel brands developing automation systems and future-oriented technologies for apparel and footwear manufacturing. In 2022, he co-founded Apparel Robotics Corporation in order to automate clothing manufacturing and provide a pathway towards a more sustainable clothing industry.

Troy Coverstone is the COO of Apparel Robotics Corporation. He has degrees in Aerospace and Manufacturing engineering. Troy has over 15 years of industry experience in engineering and technical operations that ranges from advising 3+ person small start ups to offshoring 300+ person multimillion dollar a year operations. 

Alexander Balabanov is the Chief Software Architect of Apparel Robotics Corporation. His undergraduate degree was done in Industrial & Systems engineering from North Carolina State University and he is in the last year of his masters in Analytics at Georgia Institute of Technology. For the last 6 years, Alexander has been working in software engineering and analytics roles first as an individual contributor and later as a leader.