Judy is a proven Senior Executive in the world of fashion marketing and branding who has worked at top levels of retail and manufacturing companies. Currently she coaches business planning to entrepreneurs and underserved high school students while serving on several community and performing arts boards.

For the past several years she was the Executive Business Consultant to Hanky Panky, LTD., where she helped lead this exciting international fashion lingerie brand that proudly manufactures in the NY metro area and sells in 40 countries.

Creative Sense, Inc; is her management consulting business where she developed specialized profit enhancing brand growth strategies for over 30 businesses ranging from Polo Ralph Lauren to Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Retail, Coty Beauty, and The Rockefeller Center Group.

Earlier she was the creator and CEO of Kids “R” Us/ Babies "R" Us, the children’s apparel subsidiary of Toys “R” Us and the President of August Max, a women's sportswear specialty store chain. She started out her career as a sportswear buyer for Saks Fifth Avenue and then Bloomingdale’s.

Judy is on the Board of the American Popular Song Society, the Friends Committee for Downtown Stamford, CT. and Music on the Inside. She has served on the Executive Committee of The Palace Center of Performing Arts in Stamford, CT. and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Young President’s Organization (YPO). She is a member of the Retail Marketing Society and is an avid volunteer with NFTE- the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. She holds a B.A. degree as a sociology major from Northwestern University.

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