Meet Our Team

CEO 

Over the past 50+ years of his distinguished career, Harvey is known around the world as a go-to expert for launching new products, breathing life into established programs, and expanding companies and product lines into global markets.

The secret to his success can be traced to his unstoppable personality, his business acumen, and philosophy. He thrives on situations where people tell him, ‘what you are proposing, can’t be done?” Where true collaboration is required, he defies conventional wisdom to produce breakthrough solutions. 

As he looks to the future, Harvey continues to envision new products and markets, to empower and encourage his partners & associates and to model his life-long mantra, “Success Is The Only Option.”

President

Kitty has 25+ years of managing National and International product development and acquisition for major U.S. retailers and trading companies. She is an expert in the direct import business with vast factory contacts throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim. Kitty has strong relationships in the Drug, Extreme Value and all channels of distribution. 

She has a strong background in retailer and vendor relations overseeing projects from conception to realization. She is proficient in sales, merchandising, marketing and packaging. 

Kitty works with overseas manufacturers to guide them from the ground up on how to get their products sold within the competitive U.S.-based market.

She utilizes her broad scope of industry knowledge toward directing forward-thinking sales of multiple categories including handling all purchases from order process to sales through to completion.

Kitty creates extensive market surveys with photos / cost analysis to gain understanding of merchandise assortments with major retailers including researching across retail channels and providing data.

She handles the day-to-day operations within the company using her experience in administrative and management skills to oversee scheduling, travel, bookkeeping, sales analytics, revenue reports, planning and internal documentation with great focus on the details. 

EVP - Chief Creative Officer 

John-Michael has over 30 years of design experience in consumer products and lifestyle trends. He was Creative Director at IKEA of Sweden, developing category platforms for style positioning and new business initiatives. He then served as Tupperware’s Vice President of Global Design directing an international design team. 

John-Michael has consulted with Time Inc./Real Simple Magazine, and established their in-house product development department that designed successful collections of Real Simple branded products. 

His branding design experience has been instrumental in pilot projects for clients like BIC US, Ziplock, IKEA International, Siegal+Gale, Material ConnXion, Razorfish, TATTOO BOOSTER and SULA NYC to mention a few. 

John-Michael is a proven leader in the convergence of global design and lifestyle trends into innovative new business concepts, and is frequently featured in national and international publications and media.