Colby College

Senior Industry Advisor, Sports at The NPD Group 24,000+ connections

BCE Consulting (BCE)

Senior Advisor

Student of retail. Spurwink River is a consultancy focused on merchandising and marketing strategy and execution. Open for board work.

Spurwink River

Advisor

The NPD Group

Senior Industry Advisor, Sports

Sports Industry Analyst

Sports Industry Analyst, Vice President

Blogging for Forbes on the business of Sneakers and Sneaker Culture

Forbes

"Sneakernomics" Blog writer

Contributor and editorial writer for most widely read Industry trade Newsletter, Sports Executive Weekly
Contributing Editor, Sporting Goods Business magazine
Analyst for SportScanINFO, industry standard for sales data and analysis
Frequent contributor to Industry trade journals and financial media

SportsOneSource

Analyst

Princeton Retail Analysis provides independent research on the Athletic Shoe Industry to a small select group of investment managers.

Princeton Retail Analysis

Sneakerologist

Responsible for all merchandising and planning for Internet's largest General Sporting Goods e-tailer, owned by Michael Jordan, John Elway and Wayne Gretzky
Achieved first year sales of $35 Million and margin plan of 34% 
Position required extensive vendor negotiations and strong vendor relationships.  
Created vision for merchandise assortment and site hierarchy and design. 
Acted as primary industry liaison for company

MVP.com

VP/General Merchandise Manager

Retail consultant, responsible for Merchandising, Marketing, E-commerce and Sporting Goods Segment. 
Start-up consulting group specializing in retail and consumer goods full service consulting.

Renaissance Partners, LLC

Managing Principal

Responsible for all merchandising and planning for largest ($160.0 million) division.  
Store base was 80 stores, with a total volume of $360.0 million.  
Primary responsibilities were planning, open to buy, floor plans, matrix and assortment planning and human resources.

Modell's Sporting Goods

Vice President, Merchandising and Planning

Responsible for all merchandising and marketing 
Grew store base from 18 to 39, volume from 60.0 to 160.0 million, improved gross margin dollars from 25.0 to 70.0 million. 
Primary responsibilities were open to buy, strategic planning, vendor relations, negotiating co-op, discounts and dating, human resources and systems support.

Sneaker Stadium

Vice President, Merchandising

Prototype Athletic Lifestyle superstore.
Developed and executed new merchandising strategy and marketing direction to turn around a struggling division.
Responsible merchandising, human resources, marketing and store operations.

SportMart

VP/General Manager

Held mid and senior level positions including SVP/Regional Director of Stores and Divisional Merchandise Manager, Men's Sportswear

Matt Powell