Andy Krantz is the co‑founder and former CEO of Paravel.

I'm a founder and operator in brand-led companies. I focus on the business behind the brand—margin, pricing, scalability, and capital use—alongside brand promise, product experience, go-to-market strategy, and revenue model.

I co-founded Paravel in 2016 and ran it as CEO for nine years. We launched direct-to-consumer in the U.S. with Italian-made travel goods and built it into a global prestige brand reaching nearly 200,000 customers in more than 30 markets. It grew into a five-channel business across e-commerce, wholesale, marketplace, corporate gifting, and retail. We brought the first carbon-neutral luggage to market and developed the first hard-sided luggage with a fully recycled polycarbonate shell. Paravel was named best luggage brand for multiple years running by Travel + Leisure, Forbes, Condé Nast Traveler, and more. Paravel products were chosen twice for Oprah's Favorite Things list and appeared in film and television including Succession, The White Lotus, and Your Friends & Neighbors.

Before Paravel, I worked in private equity at Goldman Sachs' Merchant Banking Division. I later joined Delpozo, the Spanish fashion house, where I ran finance, operations, and retail under Indré Rockefeller, then President of the Americas and later my co-founder at Paravel.

I studied art history and economics at Harvard. I grew up in Kansas City, where I was a state champion in springboard diving and an Eagle Scout.