JAMES R. ALEXANDER: MANAGING DIRECTOR

Jim Alexander has over forty years experience in the retail/mail order industries. Since 1980, he has been President and sole proprietor of his own consulting firm, providing merchandise, marketing and financial analysis to high-ticket, name-brand consumer catalog/retail companies. He has worked with over 200 mail order titles and analyzed in excess of 1,500 individual catalog efforts. His clients have included Brooks Brothers, Coach, Design Within Reach, Garnet Hill, Gorsuch, Gump’s, Nordstrom, Orvis, Pendleton Woolen Mills, Saks Fifth Avenue, Tiffany, Title 9 Sports, White Flower Farm and Williams-Sonoma. In 1989, he co-founded Tucker Alexander, an investment banking alliance focused on providing strategic advice and merger/acquisition services to the consumer catalog industry.

Jim is a member of the New England Mail Order Association (NEMOA) and the American Catalog Mailing Association (ACMA) and was a member of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) from 1981-2007, serving 15+ years on its Catalog Council Operating Committee. He has been a speaker at various industry events, regional catalog club meetings and also at the industry’s Annual Catalog Conferences.

Prior to starting his own firm, Jim was General Manager of Dunham’s of Maine, Merchandise Manager for Carroll Reed, Inc., and held several operating and merchandising positions with Dayton Hudson (now Target). He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and holds a MBA from Michigan State University.

Jim is a member of the board of Directors of Coldwater Creek (NASDAQ: CWTR), serving on its Audit Committee and chairing its Compensation Committee. He enjoys saltwater fishing, restoring his colonial house in the seaside village of Stonington, Connecticut and collecting late 18th and early 19th century American furniture and decorative arts.