Richard Kestenbaum of Triangle Capital LLC: Part Two

Richard is a co-founder and Partner of Triangle Capital and has been an investment banker for over 35 years. Richard has a great deal of experience advising clients in merchandising businesses, particularly in the Retail & Consumer sector. Richard sits down with Rob and Rebecca to talk about the s…

Richard Kestenbaum of Triangle Capital LLC: Part One

Richard is a co-founder and Partner of Triangle Capital and has been an investment banker for over 35 years. Richard has a great deal of experience advising clients in merchandising businesses, particularly in the Retail & Consumer sector. Richard discusses the current landscape of retail and what…

Redefining Lemonade - Bridget Lasda of Calypso

Bridget Lasda is the Chief Customer Officer for King Juice/Calypso. She joins us to discuss the story behind Calypso, the innovation pipeline that is bringing the brand into different categories, and how their team uses data to better tell the Calypso story. 

A Return to Normal - Troy Fischer of Bridgewater Commons

Troy Fischer is the Senior General Manager at Bridgewater Commons, a large super regional shopping center in Bridgewater, New Jersey. He joins us to talk about the impact that the pandemic has had on shopping centers, the tenants, the customers, and the vendors. Troy discusses how he has approached…

The State of Shopping Centers - Gabrielle Licht of Macerich

Gabrielle Licht sits down with Rob and Rebecca to discuss the current state of shopping centers and office buildings. She talks about how Macerich's Brandbox approaches  physical retail for digitally native brands to open and operate stores as as a complement to e-commerce growth.

Circle of Protection - Karl Wiley of All State Protection Plans

Karl Wiley, CEO of All State Protection Plans, set out with the goal of adding some much needed innovation to the product protection and extended warranty industry. He sits down with Rebecca and Rob to discuss how they have taken a very different approach to disrupt and turn the industry on its hea…

How Retailers Can Compete In a Fast Moving Environment - Michael Scharff of Evolv

The retail landscape is unforgiving and hyper-dynamic, and Michael Scharff, Co-Founder/CEO of Evolv (a pioneering AI technology whose Ascend platform enables organizations to optimize digital customer experiences and website performance) has witnessed first-hand the challenges faced by the biggest …

Precision Guided Shopper Acceleration - Mike Provance of 3x3

Mike Provance CEO of 3X3 says retailers need to use digital tools to retain one of their strongest assets, the magic of discovery. 3x3 in a joint venture between several multi-generational alcohol industry veterans and Loeb Enterprises is a digital marketing company. It uses a multi pronged approac…

Collecting In-Store Insights in Real Time - Maury Blackman of Premise Data

Maury Blackman is CEO of Premise Data, a market intelligence platform that allows businesses to collect in-store insights in real time, thanks to a global network of 2.5 million contributors. The platform is used by many Global 2000 businesses to conduct retail audits and "mystery shopper" exercise…

Automated Systems to Scale - Richard Schnitzel of Bow Tie Bots

Richard Schnitzel is founder, head chef and chief bottle washer at his company, Bow Tie Bots, a certified Zapier expert which will leverage the power of software and app integration, to create powerful custom automated workflows -- including marketing and client Intake, client management, fulfillme…