Retail Growth | Creating Value
Find out how retail is surviving and thriving at the November's DFW Retail Executives Association event @ SMU Cox Collins Center. Learn how retail companies are still growing in the retail space by creating value in unique places for their customers.
Featuring: Alan Shor, Co-Founder - The Retail Connection
Topic: Retail Growth | Creating Value
Agenda
6:00pm Networking (with complimentary hor d'oevres, beer, wine & soft drinks) 7:00pm Welcome and Introduction of Speaker… Show more 7:05pm Speaker Presentation 7:50pm Audience Q&A
Save even more by registering by noon on Friday, November 14!
Pre-Registration ends at 10:00am - Wednesday, November 19, 2014
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Alan Shor | President & Co-Founder
Alan P. Shor, a co-founder of The Retail Connection, L.P. in January, 2004, serves as its President and Co- Chairman of the Board of Directors. Alan is involved in the strategic direction and oversees the day-to-day operations of the company and also leads its investment and merchant banking business. He is an operating partner with Parallel Investment Partners and Brazos Private Equity Partners, leading private equity firms with great experience and success in retail investments.
Alan was formerly a Board member of Teavana Holdings and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Mealey’s Furniture, Inc., USA Discounters Inc. and European Wax Center. Prior to launching The Retail Connection, Alan served as President, Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Zale Corporation, North America’s largest specialty retailer of fine jewelry with 2,300 retail locations throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. As President and COO, he was responsible for all support functions and operations of the company including real estate, construction and design, technology, legal, human resources, distribution, loss prevention, credit and customer service.
Alan joined Zale in 1995 as its Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Prior to joining Zale, he spent 12 years with Troutman Sanders, a national law firm, where he built a strong track record of advising the senior management teams of Fortune 1000 companies. Alan was the Managing Partner of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office at the time of his departure. Alan is active in a number of professional and charitable organizations and is an adjunct professor at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University. He is a member of the World President’s Organization, National Retail Federation and International Council of Shopping Centers. Alan has served on the Board of Directors of UPLIFT Education, a charter school initiative to create and sustain schools of excellence for students of diverse economic and ethnic backgrounds and was the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Aaron Family Jewish Community Center of Dallas from 2009-2011. He currently sits on the Boards of the Aaron Family JCC, Temple Emanu-El and the JFGD.
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