Leading Experts in Sporting Goods Retailers Experts

Steve Carnley is Director of Retail Sales at Famous Footwear, the $1B subsidiary of the Brown Shoe Corporation focused on family and specialty retail shoes. Mr. Carnley has over 25 years of experience in the footwear industry. At Famous Footwear he sells Adidas, Columbia, K-Swiss, Mudd, New Balance,...

Tom Cassidy is an independent management consultant in the athletic, outdoor, and skate/surf industries. Mr. Cassidy has more than 29 years of experience with performance and lifestyle brands, including 22 years at Nike. His extensive experience in strategic accounts and sales/marketing management capacities...

Jason Collins is a Footwear industry executive consultant and business strategic planner to several footwear manufacturers and retailers. Previously, Mr. Collins was the Global Director of Product Development at K-SWISS footwear company (KSWS), where he was responsible for a product category that exceeded...

Greg Dutter is the Editorial Director of Footwear Plus magazine, a division of Symphony Publishing in New York. Footwear Plus is the leading monthly B-2-B fashion publication covering the footwear industry. Mr. Dutter has more than 17 years of footwear-related publishing experience. He is knowledgeable...

Howie Gelbtuch is currently the Principal of Greenwich Realty Advisors Incorporated, a Real Estate valuation and appraisal firm. Mr. Gelbtuch has been involved in the real estate industry for 30 years, with experience in a variety of different fields. At Greenwich, Mr. Gelbtuch has performed real estate...

Elliott Kerbis was President and Chief Merchandising Officer of The Sports Authority, a sporting goods retailer, from 2000-2004. He has over 29 years of experience in the retail industry. Prior to his tenure at Sports Authority, Mr. Kerbis spent 18 months at Filenes, a division of the May Company....

Jason Kra is the President and Owner of Total Sports Resources and Foreign Resources Corporation (FRC), an apparel manufacturer in the USA and a supplier to virtually every major specialty apparel retailer, department stores, and discounters, since 1993. FRC is a US$ 225MM manufacturer of outerwear...

Michael Miller is an Independent Consultant specializing in retail real estate. Previously, he was the Senior Vice President of Real Estate for Toys R Us, from 1977-1999 and remained under contract as a consultant to Toys R Us until 2004. He was responsible for the real estate, legal, architectural,...

Tom O'Riordan is the Chief Executive Officer at American Sporting Goods, a footwear distributor, where he has worked since March 2007. ASG's brands include Avia, Ryka, And1, NSS, Nevados, and Yukon. He was a Chief Executive Officer at Fila until April 2004. He managed the turnaround of Fila Americas...

Michael Schwindle is the Chief Financial Officer at Musician's Friend, Inc., an online retailer. Prior to that, Mr. Schwindle was a former subsidiary CFO for The Home Depot, a GA-based home-improvement retailer. He has over 18 years of experience as accounting and finance executive, predominately in...

Thomas J. Slover is CEO of Shoe Sensation Inc., a Consumer Growth Partners portfolio company operating a chain of family shoe stores in the Midwest, since January 2008. Prior to this Mr. Slover was President and Chief Executive Officer at Foot Locker Europe, from 2002 to 2005. He is a senior executive...

Michael Zibel is an Independent consultant to the retail industry working with various retailers and vendors. Prior, Mr. Zibel was the Vice President at BJ's Wholesale Club, a chain of 172 Warehouse Clubs, where he was responsible for the merchandising, planning and sales for apparel, footwear, and...