Fashion Service Network
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For information about the Fashion Service Network, please email Abe Beyda at contact@fashionservicenetwork.com and/or contact our members directly.
“It is the goal of the Fashion Service Network to assist fashion companies seeking to expand, strengthen, and energize their business.”
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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
David Votano
Principal
David specializes in C-suite to VP level searches for startups and public companies focusing on fashion, beauty, retail, and general consumer.
After growing up in London and San Francisco, David’s career started in retail with renowned brands such as Louis Vuitton, Brooks Brothers, and Neiman Marcus before transitioning to search in 2008. Prior to True, David spent four years...
Abby Parsonnet
Regional President
Based in mid-town Manhattan, Abby joined Webster Bank in 2013 to lead the build-out of Webster’s middle market banking activity, providing the full range of credit and banking products and services to companies in the New York and Northern New Jersey market, continuing Webster’s successful geographic expansion of middle market banking across the Northeast.
Abby’s career in financial services...
Karen Giberson
President
A genuine style insider, Karen has years of experience in merchandising, marketing and public relations. As President of the Accessories Council, a non-profit national advocacy group, she represents nearly 300 dynamic companies in the fashion footwear, accessory and jewelry industry.
Beyond current members, Karen works with hundreds of brands, retailers and industry support executives. Interacting mainly with C-level...
Jed Ferdinand, Esq.
Senior Managing Partner
Jed, the firm’s founder, is a leading authority in the areas of intellectual property, licensing, valuation and entrepreneurship, and these specialties form the core of his legal practice, his work as a valuation expert and his role as an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School in New York.
Bradley W. Snyder
Executive Managing Director
Bradley is a recognized authority and leading corporate advisor on global business strategies in the commercial world.
His expertise spans mergers and acquisitions, debt financings, corporate restructurings, asset maximization via strategic re-positionings and disposition programs, and the acquisition, perpetuation and full-utilization of global brands of distressed retail companies.
Additionally, Snyder is a member of senior leadership responsible for the...
Paul Magel
President, Applications & Technology Outsourcing
Paul, who joined CGS in 1997, has over 25 years of experience in the information technology space. Leading the Application Solutions group at CGS, Mr. Magel oversees the company’s flagship BlueCherry Enterprise Suite of solutions for the fashion, apparel and consumer lifestyle products industry as well as the Technology and Infrastructure practice overseeing sales, delivery,...