Meet Our Team
Harvey Lewis Stein: Co-CEO & Founder
Over the past 50+ years of his distinguished career, Harvey has been known around the world as the go-to expert for launching new products, breathing life into established programs, and expanding companies and product lines into global markets.
The secret to his success can be traced to his unstoppable personality, his business acumen, and philosophy. He thrives on situations where people tell him, "what you are proposing can't be done". Where true collaboration is required, he defies conventional wisdom to produce breakthrough solutions.
Kitty Fergus: Co-CEO
Kitty has 25+ years of managing National and International product development and acquisition for major U.S. retailers and trading companies. She is an expert in the direct import business with vast factory contacts throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim.
Kitty utilizes her broad scope of industry knowledge toward directing forward-thinking sales of multiple categories including overseeing projects from conception to realization. She is tenacious in her endeavors and does not take no for an answer.
Robert Torres - Director Digital Marketing
Robert is the founder of Millenials Digital Inc., a digital marketing agency that brings social media solution to small, mid-level and enterprise level businesses.
Early in Rob's career, he found success through emerging platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram in the earlier days of influencer marketing and paid advertising. Wanting to build a company at scale, he began pursuing the passion of other creatives and building a home for a future movement of social media marketers and influencers.
John Michael Ekeblad- EVP Chief Creative Officer
John Michael has over 30 years of design experience in consumer products and lifestyle trends. He was Creative Director at IKEA of Sweden, developing category platforms for style positioning and new business initiatives. He served as Tupperware's Vice President of Global Design directing an international design team.
John Michael is a proven leader in the convergence of global design and lifestyle trends into innovative new business concepts and is frequently featured in national and international publications and media.
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Vered Mullin - VP Product Development
Vered has a wide range of work experience from running a windsurf school to importing Turkish olive oil in which she was able to enter over 4,000 stores in the U.S. market. Aside from her olive oil business, Vered is an expert in packaging.
She is very active in environmental awareness and uses her experience in packaging and labeling to find solutions in the recycling industry.
Vered speaks three languages fluently and served as an official translator for the Israeli embassy in Turkey.