Alissia Melka-Teichroew, founder and creative director of byAMT Inc (formerly known as AlissiaMT Design) is a New World-Old World mash-up. The daughter of a French mother and American father, she was born and raised in The Netherlands. She is a graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven and holds a Master of Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA.

After stints in Paris, San Francisco, and Boston, she now lives and works in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn. While developing her own original projects, she also served a design residency at the renowned design consultancy IDEO and also worked on staff at Puma International.

Alissia’'s transcontinental background is reflected in her fluidity and fluency of her designs. Attuned to the latest design innovations, trends, and materials, she infuses her work with her own unique, charismatic personality and mischievous sensibility. Her products are savvy, sophisticated, and witty. ID Magazine, Nylon Magazine, New York Times and InView among many other publications, have featured byAMT products.