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BIOGRAPHY
Rick Horwitch is Vice President, Solutions Business Development and Marketing, for Bureau Veritas - Consumer Products Services. Bureau Veritas is the world's oldest and one of the largest providers of Quality, Healthy, Safety, Environmental and Sustainability (QHSES) services. Bureau Veritas' customers include 48 of the top 50 retailers in North America and 41 of the top 50 consumer products brands. Rick's focus is on developing QA and QC solutions to encompass the entire supply chain, which help their customers manage risk, protect their brands and reduce cost.
Rick has 30 years experience in the consumer products industry covering all facets of business - Sales, Marketing, Operations, Sourcing, Manufacturing and IT.
He started his carrier in 1979 with Deena, Inc, his family's intimate apparel manufacturing business (founded in 1916). Over 17 years, positions included National Sales Manager, EVP Sales and Merchandising and President. Deena was acknowledged as an industry leader in a variety of areas including IT (including being the beta site for Manhattan Associates, Gerber and Lectra), Production and QA systems.
From 1996 to 2000 Rick was President of Solutions Providers consulting, specializing in sales and marketing, supply chain process and operations as well as worked as an Associate Consultant to Kurt Salmon Associates.
In 2000 Rick caught the "start-up" bug and joined Fasturn as Vice President of Industry Solutions. Fasturn was a web based supply chain and sourcing application provider.
From 2003 until 2005 Rick was with Warnaco, Inc., as Vice President, Private Brands, where he was responsible for developing and managing programs for Wal-Mart, The Gap, Soma by Chico's, Sears, JC Penney and others.
Rick is a graduate of Tulane University. He is married, has 2 children and lives in Calabasas, California.
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