JOHN HANNA

**** *. ***** **. ********** Beach FL.33009 310-***-**** ad38vs@r.postjobfree.com

Bio: …

CEO, Private collection & Co.

Consulting for Creative Luxury Real Estate. a Saudi Arabia branding company. Building, managing, and designing, high-end Branded Retail Operations Luxury Hotels, F&B concepts Including full price and outlets malls. The project exceeds USD 3 Billion. Instrumental in consulting and negotiate land leases, advising on projects parameters, leading the vision and beautification on the designs, accountable for the creation seed fund and second round of money raise and, taking a lead position to review and advise KPMG on project details. Chairman/CEO/Owner Donald J Pliner Holdings and The House of Pliner: Acquired the brand form Private Equity firm and immediately began revamping of the brand from bottom up.

Decrease dilation from 22% to 8% at the wholesale level by increasing IMUs. Also improved brands margin from 28% to 57%, reduced burn-rate by $6.2Mm per month in 45 days. Ecommerce direct- to-consumer margins performance improved from 21% to 60%. Moved all production to Italy and Brazil, within the first year increased the revenue by 65%. Instrumental in brand merchandizing, design, and segmentation which resulted increase top line sales within the first 12 months by 225%.

CEO Thomas Wylde

A global luxury ready-to-wear, accessories footwear and leather items. The brand enjoyed a strong and diverse global customer base with sells to top retailers in over 15 countries worldwide. The brand is typically sold alongside, other marquee global luxury brands such as Alexander McQueen, Azzedine Alaia, Givenchy, Balenciaga, Rick Owens, Stella McCartney, Céline, Ann Demeulemeester, Valentino, and Saint Laurent.

CE0. Charles David

Mr. Hanna served as CEO of Charles David of California, where he was able to increase the business in a short time by 400% in wholesale and retail. 2

He built a successful e-commerce operation and developed a strong international distribution. Created different merchandising and design with price points in mind. With 25 boutiques state side and 65 global stores.

CEO The House of Lloyd Klein

As the CEO of The House of Lloyd Klein, restructured the company and created Five labels for the designer with an emphasis on ready-to-wear and footwear at designer and mid-tier price points. Brand was distributed through limited channels of very exclusivity high end retail in US and overseas.

CEO and President Fashion House

Mr. Hanna was CEO for The Fashion House, a design, manufacturing, and licensing company, that developed women/ men footwear and leather goods with high-profile brands. Under his leadership, The Fashion House acquired the licenses for iconic brands such as Richard Tyler, Oscar De La Renta, Isaac Mizrahi, Bill Blass, and Nicole Miller for domestic and global markets.

In 2005, he led the company’s IPO on NASDAQ and drove market capitalization over $800 million. As a respected fashion/branding executive with a strong understanding of global markets distribution and licensing strategy,

Board Member and Advisor

John also set on the board of few fashion companies, as Advisor and a Board Member to BCBG, True Religion, Branded online, Vantera Partners LLC Investment firm. He has obtained over $1.2 Billion in debt and equity financing for luxury companies. Enabled and directed 4 branding companies on Nasdaq and the New York stock markets, with collective market valuation over $2.0 Billion.

In 2006, Mr. Hanna was named number 49 on Branding News’ U.S. “POWER 100” prominent fashion executives in its annual list of industry leaders. Mr. Hanna started his career in Merchant Banking at the Bank of Montreal. He spent 5 years overseas at Gulf Bank as a Senior Executive where he was instrumental in bringing the Bank’s assets from $250M to $1.5B

Mr. Hanna holds a BA degree in Business Management from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 3