Reinventing Retail and Fashion
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Blank Center
Babson College 231 Forest Street Babson Park, MA 02457Description
Lunch at 11:30am
Session starts at 12:00pm
Please Join Us for A Fireside Chat with Two Amazing Entrepreneurs, Seymour Holtzman and Peter Stratton ’94.
Seymour Holtzman
Serial Entrepreneur Seymour Holtzman took his first company public at age 26. A retail and jewelry industry veteran, he is now Executive Chairman of DXL the nation’s largest retail chain for big and tall men with 400 stores. Seymour has created successful retail businesses from jewelry, to luxury home goods in ecommerce, to fashion and banking – he has over 40 years of stories that all entrepreneurs can learn from. Seymour’s companies include: DXL – Jewelcor - HomeClick.com – CD Peacock – Rolex Boutique.
Peter Stratton ’94
Babson grad and successful businessman Peter Stratton ’94 is currently the CFO of Destination XL (NASDAQ: DXLG) retail. He helped lead the turnaround of DXL from bankruptcy to become the nation’s leading retailer of big and tall fashion. Peter’s story of reinventing everything – brand, product, merchandising, in store experience and employee training – shows how the retail world has evolved and where it is going next.
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Our mission: We accelerate new ventures of all kinds by providing Babson’s emerging entrepreneurs access to the opportunities, community, and critical resources that they need. We ignite the exchange of innovative ideas that will shape the future of entrepreneurship through our research and thought leadership.
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