ComfortShoeShop.com is led by a world class senior leadership team with a wide range of disciplines from shoe design to internet marketing. All are recognized leaders in the industries they serve.
Troy McClain Advisor - Apprentice, Season I
Troy McClain's story is different from most successful businessmen. He is not pedigreed or papered with long, rich lines of well-to-do ancestors and relatives. He has stumbled, struggled, and finally discovered success and happiness through family bonds, persistence, creativity, intelligence and commitment.
Today Troy McClain is a television host, actor,
public speaker, mortgage lender, real estate investor, husband, brother and son. Troy has fulfilled many promises -- to his
family and to himself. His baby sister Doralynn and his mother live in a house Troy purchased for them, he is happily
married, he has been to New York to meet his mentor and has made millions of friends, fans and believers along the way.
Peter serves as an advisor to ComfortShoeShop.com
and is the chief marketing officer at WorldWinner.com.
Prior to joining WorldWinner, Peter served as
senior vice president of marketing at Monster, the largest global careers website, where he negotiated and activated the
company's U.S. Olympic sponsorship and helped Monster become a top 20 most visited web destination. Before his time at
Monster, Peter spent five years at Converse, where he was the marketing director for Converse’s basketball business.
Peter is a graduate of Harvard University and has
received numerous awards and distinctions, including being named one of the top "Marketers of the Year" by Promo magazine.
In addition, Peter serves as a board member of Ad Club of Boston, the Boston chapter of the National Sports Marketing
Network (NSMN), New England Citybridge, ComfortShoeShop.com and Concord Academy.
Sloan D. Gaon is the Director of Corporate Development of FindWhat.com (NASDAQ: FWHT), a $170 Million global online search marketing company. Sloan is responsible for mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances. Before joining FindWhat.com, Sloan was Chief Operating Officer of RegistryPro, Inc., a subsidiary of Register.com (NASDAQ:RCOM), where he responsible for launching .pro, a new Internet top level domain name exclusively for doctors, lawyers and accountants. Prior to this appointment, Sloan was Director of Business Development at Register.com and Vice President of Internet Initiatives and Associate General Counsel at TurboChef Technologies where he was responsible for structuring global strategic alliances and joint ventures.
An alumnus of Clark University, he graduated cum laude from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1995 where he was Executive Editor of the Law Review and an Irwin Brodsky Securities Scholarship recipient.
Sloan is a volunteer for the Citi Bar of New York's Guardian Ad Litem program and serves on the Board of the Berkeley Carroll School as well as Eastward Bound Education and Ice Cream Planet. Sloan has appeared on CNNfn, CBS MarketWatch, Reuters and TechTV and has been quoted extensively in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Boston Herald, CNet and Wired.
He is married to Lori Gaon and has one child and lives in New York City.
With more than seventeen years of experience in software development, network and systems engineering, IT management and consulting, Joe Bai brings a wealth of experience as vice president of Technology and CIO to WorldWinner. In this role, Joe oversees all areas of WorldWinner's technology development, operations infrastructure and Web services.
Prior to joining WorldWinner, Joe served as the executive vice president of COLT Internet US Corp., leading in-house software development for Internet services. Before COLT, he served as chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at Adero Inc., where he played a key role in financing and acquisitions, in addition to brokering the substantial sale of all of the company's assets to COLT (City of London Telecommunications). Previously, Joe held a number of key technical positions at Fidelity Investments, including: vice president of network and system engineering for Fidelity.com, head of web site development for Fidelity.com, director of firewall engineering and operations, and technical consultant for global network architecture. He has also served as a technical advisor to numerous start-up ventures.
Joe holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics from Duke University and a B.S. in physics from the University of Florida.
Andrew T. Brandman
Advisor
Andrew T. Brandman is Senior vice president and Head of Corporate Planningof the New York Stock Exchange.
In his role, Mr. Brandman, 36, oversees the Corporate Planning Group, which operates as a financial liaison to the various business units of the Exchange, provides value-added analysis, assists with developing budgets and targets, and serves to continuously enhance financial processes and controls. This Group acts as a strategic advisor enabling transparency, effective processes and controls, and efficiency throughout the NYSE. In addition, Mr. Brandman is responsible for Procurement.
Prior to joining the Exchange in April 2004, Mr. Brandman was a director at Credit Suisse First Boston's IT Infrastructure group. There he headed strategic projects such as IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, IT Cost Transparency and was the technology lead for CSFB's divestiture of Pershing. He joined CSFB in 2000 as a director responsible for the business management of various IT departments.
Prior to CSFB, Mr. Brandman was with Banco Santander Central Hispano as Chief of Staff for the Fixed Income Division and, in 1998, became Senior Vice President and co-head of Project Management for BSCH's institutional client portal. From 1991 to 1997, Mr. Brandman held various positions in
the New York and Zurich trading and sales organizations of Union Bank of Switzerland. Mr. Brandman is a 1991 graduate of Clark University. He majored in Government with a concentration in Economics.
Charles Hattenbach
Advisor
Charles Hattenbach has long been involved in—and now runs—his family’s businesses, which includes temporary personnel agencies in NY and CT, several commercial properties, and retail--Colonial Wines & Spirits, located in Norwalk. His talent for business and real estate has helped to expand upon the enterprises established by his father nearly four decades ago.
Charles holds BA and MA degrees, and his experience as a husband and father has taught him the importance of good fitting and stylish footwear—and the ease of Internet shopping. He is also a lifelong customer of Hawley Lane Shoes.
Pat's lifelong involvement in shoes includes an impressive resume. He started his career at Nike and later joined the Rockport Company as Key Account Manager for national accounts. He was recruited in 1994 by Stride Rite Corporation to launch the Tommy Hilfiger Footwear line of which he became president. He later joined Nordstrom as General Merchandise Manager of Nordstrom.com and oversaw the launch of Nordstromshoes.com. Pat remains extremely active in the footwear industry and has been a keynote speaker at many events including The FN Annual Global Summit.
