Vice President, Sports & Entertainment Division ► Finance✔ Operations✔ Entertainment Category Mgmt✔
New York, Ny
Topps is a well-known nostalgia brand and leader in sports and entertainment trading cards, including their own brands of Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids and licenses with MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, UFC, WWE, Club Penguin, Disney properties, Spongebob, Star Wars, Moshi Monsters and Marvel. I joined Topps full-time after a two year contract with their games business, WizKids. I served in several roles including:● Vice President of Finance & Operations for the Sports & Entertainment Division - Responsible for management and financial turn around of this $150M, 100 employee business, leading the Finance, Project Management, Creative Services, Production, Sourcing, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Customer Service and Logistics functions.● VP, Entertainment Products - Served as the interim Category Manager which included full P&L responsibility, strategic planning, brand planning and sales channel expansion.Key contributions:✔ Reduced inventory holdings by 70%✔ Introduced new technologies to automate the product development processes✔ Colead a strategic repositioning project for the CEO