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Cindi Kato is Vice President and Business Development Director for Global Retail. As a 25-year veteran of the design industry, she has managed retail, hospitality, restaurant, healthcare and banking projects across the U.S.

Her success through the years has been based upon a leadership style which fosters and encourages strong collaborative relationships between clients and project teams. She cultivates trust and loyalty throughout the teams she manages, ensuring they are committed to a shared vision and to achieving the clients’ goals.

She has worked for a diverse and exciting portfolio of clients, including:

• Sperry Top-Sider
• Smashbox
• Target
• Dockers
• Crocs
• T-Mobile
• Cole Haan
• Nordstrom
• Nike
• Adidas
• Sterling Bank
• Got Sleep?
• Ross.

CloseHarry Cunningham is the Vice President of Creative Services for Vera Bradley. This involves developing and implementing innovative visual merchandising and store design, overseeing new store construction and remodels, and selecting the real estate and sites for new stores.

Over the course of 25 years Harry worked his way through increasingly prominent visual merchandising roles with Liz Claiborne, Saks Department Store Group and Dillard's, before becoming Senior Vice President of Store Planning, Design and Visual Merchandising at Saks Fifth Avenue prior to joining Vera Bradley  

During his time at Saks Fifth Avenue, Harry was instrumental in the re-launch of the company's award-winning men's stores in Beverly Hills and Chicago, as well as developing their award-winning fashion windows and legendary holiday displays.   
He also launched new designs for the company's signature designer and contemporary businesses, and 10022-SHOE, the vast designer shoe floor.

Harry has won numerous industry awards including Design: Retail Magazine's prestigious Markopoulos Award in 2014. He was also recognized by the publication as a "Retail Design Luminary" in 2012 and as a "Retail Design Influencer" in 2011, 2013 and 2014. He is also heavily involved in the wider industry, serving on the board of directors of PAVE and as a member of several advisory boards.

Harry is regularly invited to participate in panel discussions and speaking engagements worldwide, sharing his experiences and knowledge with students and industry professionals alike.
 

CloseJerry Fox is the President / CEO of Bish Creative Display. He is a 35-year veteran in the point of purchase industry and has spent his entire career with the company, taking ownership in the year 2000. Since then, Jerry continues to lead Bish to its current position as a global leader in creative in-store merchandising.  He challenges himself and his team to continue to make their mark on being the leader in design, development, creation and innovation of award-winning merchandising programs from temporary, semi-permanent and permanent displays to complete store-within-in-a-store concepts.

Jerry has served on the POPAI Board and was the Treasurer on the Shop! Board of Directors. Jerry was also co-chair for the East Coast Pop-Up Gallery, a judge for the West Coast Pop-Up Gallery and an OMA and Display of the Year Judge at Global Shop. In 2017 he was selected to be a speaker at the international conference “POSitive-2017” held in Moscow, Russia and was recently inducted into the 2018 Shop! Hall of Fame.  

Jerry’s vast community contributions include support of the local YMCA, serving on the Board of the private high school that his two children attended and starting an elite travel baseball program in his local community that has grown to 22 teams, and has involved an estimated 3,000 young athletes over the last 15+ years.

When Jerry is not involved in business relations or volunteering his time, he is enjoying his life with his wife of 31 years, two children and their dog Coconut. He is a diehard Cubs fan and during the summer season, you can find him at Wrigley Field, cheering on his World Champion Chicago Cubs. 
 
 

CloseTodd is the Executive Director of PAVE and Shop! Environments Association.  Todd has been with PAVE and Shop! for the past 6 years and has over 25 years of Marketing and Finance experience with industry leading companies and associations in the retail space.
 
While working for Dairy Management (National Dairy Council) as the Vice President of Marketing and Analysis, Todd worked closely with global retail players such as McDonalds, Pizza Hut and Starbuck’s on their menu and product development strategies.

Prior to Dairy Management, Todd was a Director of Field Marketing at Arby’s Restaurant Group in charge of marketing planning and implementation for over 400 company and franchise units in 19 markets. While at Arby’s Todd sat on the board of directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters and was elected president and vice president of the Erie, PA and Pittsburgh, PA Arby’s cooperative respectively. Strategic initiatives that Todd implemented at Arby’s included the creation of a value menu, the rollout of the new line of chicken products, and the transformation of national media to local cable buys to improve message efficiencies.

Prior to Arby’s, Todd held the position of Manager of the Analysis Department, and later Field Marketing Manager, for Wendy’s International. Working closely with corporate and field partners, Todd successfully grew Wendy’s market share and effectively raised money for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

Early in Todd’s career, valuable experience was gained with companies such as Prudential, Borden, Wise Foods, and American National Can.

Todd holds a Masters of Business Administration from Loyola University, Chicago and a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati.