Regina is the Founder and CEO of PYRATEX® and leads the PYRATEX® team members by setting the company’s strategic path.

She was born in Vienna and is 31 years old. After living in several different countries throughout her life and spending most of her childhood in Africa she is trilingual in Spanish, French and English. With these experiences along with a Law Degree, she initiated the R&D path of PYRATEX® back in 2014 collaborating with different European textile institutes with the idea of developing biobased fabrics, bringing performance and well-being to the wearer.

During the development phase, Regina was a part of Fashion Fusion, an incubator program based in Berlin, powered by Deutsche Telekom and Adaidas and then participated in the french program Look Forward by Showroomprivé. In 2018, after 4 years of R&D to develop the first PYRATEX® 5 fabrics and set up a European supply chain for the production of these materials she initiated her first collaborations with brands.

Since then, PYRATEX® has been featured and mentioned in the most prominent fashion magazines worldwide, developed more than 80 fabrics and is the supplier for brands such as Camper, Pangaia, Asics, Ganni, Scotch & Soda, Fiorucci, the Kering Group amongst others.