Merchandising Expert Witnesses

This expert is an industrial designer with over 50 years of experience in the field. His expertise ranges from retail store planning and product management to exhibits and design management. He earned his BA in industrial design from Pratt Institute and is active in his field as a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. For many years, he served in a retail safety and merchandising capacity. He has also worked with the U.S. government and various design firms as an industrial designer and design manager. This expert taught for twelve years at Pratt Institute, holding such positions as professor of industrial design and head of the design management and cultural management programs. Currently, he is a consultant for a design consultancy in New York.

This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in retail store management. She earned her BS in consumer, apparel, and retail studies from the University of North Carolina Greensboro with a concentration in apparel product design. She has formerly worked for companies such as Target and Anthropologie. While with Target, she held such roles as senior team leader of guest experience and softlines and executive team leader of assets protection. With Anthropologie, she served as the manager of the apparel and home departments, as well as selling and hiring. She also held the role of store brand leader. Most recently, she worked with Cuyana as a store manager and retail project manager.

This highly-qualified expert has 25 years of experience in marketing and product innovation for personal care products, with her work focusing on beauty, consumer products, consumer behavior and product positioning. She earned her AA in merchandise marketing at the Fashion Institute of Design followed by her BA in Business Administration at the University of Phoenix. She began her career as a visual merchandising manager at Macys and P&G Professional before going on to serve in senior marketing positions at Millennium Salon Systems, John Paul Mitchell Systems, and Spilo Worldwide. She is currently the founder and president of a beauty and lifestyle brand consultancy in California.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in cyber law, risk management, and insurance, as well as data breach response and e-commerce. He earned his BA from Gonzaga University, his JD from Washington University School of Law, and his LLM in cyber and telecommunications law from the University of Nebraska. Today, this expert is a practicing attorney who specializes in cyber law and insurance. Formerly, he served as the director of the Make-A-Wish Montana and managed all operations surrounding legal, non-profit compliance. He has additional experience as an attorney and counselor at law and as a partner and practicing attorney at Joseph, Vicevich & Whelan, PLLC. Currently, this expert is the president of a private law firm and serves as the director of a community bank and a Montessori school in Montana.

This qualified expert earned his BS in business economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has extensive experience in the field of retail planning, merchandising, and operations, with expertise in both brick and mortar and online retail and full price and off price products, as well as in-depth knowledge of all financial operations inside retailers as well as with external partners. He formerly served as the vice president and merchandise manager of men's furnishings and suits at Robinsons-May, the vice president of planning for the men's and children's departments at Macy's, and the director of business development and the vice president of operations of Wireless Advocates. Most recently, he worked for Nordstrom as the vice president of planning for men's and kids apparel, the Rack division, and the shoe department. Currently, this expert is the principal for a retail consulting firm based in Washington state.

This highly-qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in the field of risk management, specializing in retail risk assessment, enterprise risk management, retail safety and security management, claims management, liability, and property claim negotiation. He earned his BS from Eastern Kentucky University and has completed professional development courses in risk management services, casualty claims adjusting, and criminal interrogation and behavioral analysis. He is active in his field as a member of the Risk and Insurance Management Society. He has formerly served as the manager of risk control and claims for Chiquita Brands International, the director of risk services for the Pillsbury Company, the vice president of risk management for Advance Auto Parts Company, and the director of risk management for Central Parking System. Most recently, this expert served as the director of liability claims for Publix Super Markets.

This highly-qualified expert has 45 years of experience in the field of security and risk management. His areas of expertise include premises liability, nightclub security, security guards, apartment properties, retail loss prevention, negligent hiring/retention and cargo losses due to inadequate security. He earned his BA in sociology with an emphasis in criminology from Louisiana State University. This expert is active in his field as a member of the American Society for Industrial Security, as an author of several published security articles, and a speaker at various security conferences. He began his career with Southern Research Company, serving as a security guard supervisor and as part of the investigations division working on theft and narcotics investigation. He then went on to serve as a patrol officer with the Dallas Police Department and the single unit and area loss prevention manager for Sears. For 12 years, he worked with Eckerd Corporation, serving first as a regional loss prevention manager before becoming the director of loss prevention operations. For nearly 20 years, this expert has served as the president of his risk analysis and security management consulting firm in Texas.

This qualified expert has more than 20 years of experience in safety compliance with more than 10 years in managing supermarket and retail location safety. He previously worked at Winn-Dixie Stores as a District Manager and Division Safety Director. He holds several certifications from various associations including the National Association of Safety Professionals and the National Safety Council in Principles of Occupational Safety & Health. He was also formerly acted as Corporate Safety Director for Piedmont Service Group. He currently works as President of a retail safety, compliance, and indoor air quality consulting firm.

This expert has more than 20 years of experience as a retail executive (Senior VP, Executive VP, Merchandise VP, and President) with Macy's, Bloomingdales, the U.S. division of a major dutch retailer Steinbach, and more. He has also spent 18 years as a financial advisor, equity analyst, and investment banker. He earned a BS in Retail Management/Marketing from Drexel University and has authored multiple publications in the retail finance space.

This expert graduated from Colorado State University with a B.S. in Apparel Design & Merchandising, and she has 10+ years of experience in fashion merchandising. She began her career at Freeze CMI and then held increasingly senior merchandising roles at Cole Haan for nearly five years. The expert also served as the Director of Women's Merchandising for Handbags and Small Leather Goods at Kate Spade for a brief period in 2014 before becoming an independent product merchandising, brand positioning, and channel segmentation consultant. She has strong knowledge of women's fashion merchandising, pricing, marketing, and planning.

This visual merchandising professional recently served as the Vice President of Visual Merchandising & Store Design for all Carter's and OshKosh B'gosh stores. He held this role from 2007 until 2016 and was responsible for the design and visual merchandising in 400 new stores. He also developed and trained field leaders in store merchandising standards. Previously, the expert served as an Associate Vice President of Visual Merchandising for Victoria's Secret and as the Director of Visual Merchandising at Limited Too. In total, he has 20 years of retail design experience. The expert is currently consulting independently on retail store design.

This retail security professional joined Walmart in 1980 and held increasingly senior loss prevention and security positions until leaving the company in 2016. Most recently, he was the Senior Director of Global Security Services, in charge of managing safety and security of 20,000 employees and 250,000 customers at U.S. locations. The expert is a member of the American Society of Industrial Security's Retail Loss Prevention Council and is an ASIS Certified Protection Professional. Currently, he runs his own retail security consulting business. He earned his B.S. in Criminal Justice from Missouri Southern State University.

This expert is a human resources and training professional with 10 years of experience in the industry. This expert has worked as a manager, trainer and generalist for a variety of retail stores and service companies.

This expert specializes in safety/loss prevention, training and facility maintenance, safety program design & development, and retail management. He has more than 20 years of experience serving with retail/wholesale industry leaders, including The Home Depot, Sears, Kohl's, and C&S Wholesale Grocers. Currently, this expert is the owner of a private retail safety consulting firm.

This certified cyber security expert has over 25 years' experience in the global digital technology industry having spent the early years of her career as a software developer before working as a management consultant. She earned her post graduate diploma in e-commerce, economics, and technology at the University of London and a graduate diploma in law at University of Westminster. She has been a registered Information security auditor with International Register of Certified Auditors (IRCA) since 2013 and has been a member of ISACA since 2010. Her experience and specialism cover risk management, information privacy, IT governance, IT auditing, IT assurance, online fraud, mobile value-added products, digital & cryptocurrency and IT contractual dispute management, software development and IT/network technology. This expert has practical experience of civil procedural rules and evidential matters.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 35 years of experience in internet technology, specializing in mobile operating systems and eCommerce. He earned his BS in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo and began his career as a group manager of the Network File System at Sun Microsystems. He then served as the principal engineer and mobility team manager of GO, a mobile computing startup, before accepting a position at Microsoft. While at Microsoft, he held a number of roles, including technical program manager for Internet Explorer 1.0, Visual Interdev 6.0, Windows CE 1.0, ASP.NET 1.0, and Visual Studio.NET. He also served as the vice president of product for Earth Class Mail before founding and serving as the CEO of Touchfire. Currently, this expert is the owner of an Internet technology consulting group in Washington and the director of product and technology for an eCommerce and AdTech startup in California.