Neil Blumenthal

Neil Blumenthal currently serves as the co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker, a transformative lifestyle brand focused on providing affordable and accessible designer eyewear. Focused on not only changing the profit-centric ways of the eyewear industry, the company was founded by Blumenthal and friends, who all realized how inaccessible eye care is to the same people who absolutely need it.

This resulted in high-quality eyewear starting at only $95. By cutting out the middleman and designing their products themselves, the team behind Warby Parker was not only able to price their eyewear affordably, they were even able to donate a pair for each one that was bought. So far, the company has donated around five million pairs.

The company being a social enterprise is not at all a surprise, as prior to Warby Parker, Blumenthal worked for VisionSpring, a non-profit organization that helps train women in low-income situations to sell eyeglasses to those who need them.

His knowledge of the eyewear industry, along with his drive for social causes, would then come in handy for the company that he is a part of today. And so, under his and his co-CEOs’ leadership, Warby Parker would launch social projects like “Pupil Project,” which has helped over 200,000 students in NYC who need eyeglasses and employee-led initiatives that support underrepresented people in tech, like the LGBTQ+ community. Warby Parker was even named the most innovative company in the world by Fast Company in 2015.

A New York native, Blumenthal had an entrepreneurial spirit from a young age and graduated with a double major in History and International Relations from Tufts University. He also received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.