Chad M Turney

Entrepreneurial, resourceful and insightful leader, bringing a proven track record in setting companies on course for accelerated growth, expanded market footprint and strengthened competitive advantage. Catalyst in building transformative business models, driving operational process improvements, and instilling new ways of working and thinking, to create thriving organizational cultures for sustainable success – on a global scale. Personal and professional adaptability necessary to integrate into any international market and business climate.

Positions Held: President / CEO / COO / Vice President / Director

30+ years of senior-level Retail and Wholesale experience, from promotional to luxury-level price points including Import Sourcing, Offshore Manufacturing, Product Design, Merchandising and Operations.

• 300+ trips to Asia, Europe and The Americas (China, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Russia, Turkey, Mexico).

• Extensive network of 2,500+ relationships with top retailers and e-tailers in the USA, Canada and Russia.

• Established growth targets and built effective sales plans that drove record revenues and profitability. 

• Managed and procured inventories valued at more than $100M from 16 different countries.

• Merchandised and sourced 10,000+ products worldwide from 500+ suppliers.

• Led and implemented spends and budgets of over $150M annually.

What may interest you most about my background is my deep understanding of Offshoring and how globalization can transform industries. From the onset of my career, I gained hands-on international exposure, including establishing multi-country Import Operations in Asia.

The end resulted was: streamlined production and supply chain processes, dramatically reduced costs, decreased prices and increased demand for products, acquisition of new customers, and entry into new markets. This experience provides me with a keen ability to recognize key performance improvements that globalization makes possible, savvy in developing proactive strategies to capture them, and the cultural literacy necessary to set companies on course for success in the global marketplace.

Furthermore, built into my background is an ability to cultivate productive relationships and credibility with suppliers, customers and key stakeholders, communicate a clear and compelling vision, and champion synergy across various functional teams towards a common goal. My empowering management style has significantly contributed to growing both people and the bottom line, while enhancing team engagement and creating accountable, thriving cultures.

Throughout my career, I have proven my ability to “walk into” diverse and complex business environments, assess operational processes, create efficient procedures and establish consistent standards – to accelerate revenue, market growth and control costs. I understand the core complexities of the home furnishings industry and what it takes to achieve ongoing profitability and competitive advantage.

BS, Business Administration, Guilford College (1994)