Deborah Palmer Keiser’s appointment brings three decades of apparel operations and sourcing experience, while Michael Rabin adds textile machinery and automation expertise to unspun’s commercial push
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NEW YORK — unspun has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Deborah Palmer Keiser as Chief Operating Officer and Michael Rabin as Chief Commercial Officer, as the company moves its OneWeave™ 3D weaving technology toward commercial deployment.
The appointments bring together experience spanning global apparel brands, supply-chain management, textile machinery, automation and production technology at a time when unspun is seeking to translate its automated weaving platform into broader industry adoption.
COO brings Gap and global apparel experience
Keiser joins unspun with more than three decades of operational and supply-chain experience across major consumer brands, including Gap, Victoria’s Secret, Williams-Sonoma, AllSaints, Yeezy and Boardriders.
Her experience at Gap adds a significant large-scale apparel industry perspective to unspun’s leadership team, while her later work at Williams-Sonoma and Boardriders broadened that experience across international expansion, sourcing and distribution.
At Williams-Sonoma, Keiser helped establish the company’s brands in 16 countries. As Global Chief Operating Officer of Boardriders, she oversaw end-to-end planning, sourcing, logistics and distribution, with a focus on supply-chain transformation and speed to market.
At unspun, she will lead operations as OneWeave moves from technology development toward commercial deployment.
“Joining unspun is an exciting opportunity to help evolve how textiles and clothing are manufactured,” Keiser said. She argued that traditional manufacturing methodologies have contributed to waste across supply chains and said OneWeave has the potential to challenge established approaches to responsiveness, end-to-end cost and systemic waste.
Textile machinery expertise strengthens commercial push
Rabin brings 15 years of experience across textile machinery, automation and apparel production.
He previously represented Morgan Tecnica as Sales Director of the Americas and President of its Americas business, working with manufacturers on cutting-room technology and production workflows. He has also spoken regularly on localized, on-demand manufacturing and the integration of technology across production processes.
As CCO, Rabin will be responsible for building unspun’s commercial organization and supporting the adoption of OneWeave by manufacturers and brands worldwide.
Rabin described OneWeave as a differentiated technology aimed at one of the apparel industry’s major production challenges and said his focus will be on developing the partnerships required to bring the system to scale.
From yarn to product
Unspun’s OneWeave platform is designed around automated 3D weaving, with the company positioning it as a route to local, on-demand manufacturing.
According to unspun, the system converts yarn directly into woven products through a streamlined yarn-to-product process, with almost zero waste. The company says this can provide manufacturers and brands with a faster, cleaner and more efficient approach to apparel production.
The technology’s proposed impact extends beyond the weaving process itself. By linking yarn input more directly with finished-product manufacturing, the model is intended to reduce the need for some of the conventional stages and inventory associated with apparel supply chains.
Commercialisation could test the technology’s industry impact
The leadership changes come at an important stage for unspun because commercial deployment introduces a different set of challenges from technology development.
Keiser’s background in planning, sourcing, logistics and international operations could support the operational systems needed to implement a new production model, while Rabin’s machinery and manufacturer-facing experience could help bridge the gap between technology and factory adoption.
For textile and clothing manufacturers, the significance of OneWeave will ultimately depend on how effectively it can operate within real production environments and deliver improvements in lead times, responsiveness, cost and waste at commercial scale.
Unspun’s latest appointments therefore signal an effort to build the organisational capabilities needed for that transition. The combination of apparel supply-chain leadership and textile machinery expertise is intended to accelerate the company’s move from a technology proposition toward wider deployment across brands and manufacturers.
Leadership aligned with a changing apparel supply chain
The appointments also reflect unspun’s broader positioning around localized and on-demand apparel manufacturing. Rather than focusing solely on a new weaving technology, the company is presenting OneWeave as a potential alternative way of organizing production from yarn through to finished product.
For an industry facing pressure over inventory, supply-chain responsiveness and manufacturing waste, that proposition could make the commercialisation phase particularly consequential. The immediate priority for unspun, however, is to demonstrate that its technology can translate its promised production advantages into repeatable industrial performance.
unspun is a B Corp focused on automated 3D weaving and describes OneWeave as a proprietary system for local, on-demand production with almost zero waste.