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Larry brings more than thirty years of experience in the fashion and retail sector. He has held multiple C-level positions across the industry, started multiple businesses within large Fortune 500 companies and been a fashion tech entrepreneur, advisor and mentor. After starting his career at Federated Department Stores’ Rich’s division in merchandising, Larry held senior positions with Gloria Vanderbilt and Oppenheimer Financial’s Shirley division before joining a startup apparel company JIK Ltd as managing partner, growing sales to over $125MM. Subsequently, Larry was Group VP at Garan, a Berkshire Hathaway company, with P&L responsibility over design, manufacturing, sourcing, finance and sales. Larry has successfully completed multiple fashion turnarounds, including working on behalf of a major PE firm. Larry has guided several US and European consumer facing fashion tech start-ups as both a board advisor and operating officer, including a social selling technology which grew revenue 500% over the past year. Larry is a mentor at two fashion/consumer tech accelerators: XRC Labs at Parsons and The New York Fashion Tech Lab.

Expertise: Fashion and Consumer Products, Business Development, Connected Commerce, Social Media Marketing, Consumer Tech, Start-ups

Companies:Rich’s Dept. Stores, Murjani International/Gloria Vanderbilt, Shirley Ind./Oppenheimer, Garan/Berkshire Hathaway