James Salter

Bio

For more than 20 years, Mr Salter has consistently generated upper quartile returns for investors in numerous Lifestyle Brand related activities. Mr Salter's success encompasses the full spectrum of business activities. Brands that Mr Salter has controlled include Ride®, Sims®, Lamar, ®, LTD®, Kemper®, Volant®, Hespler®, Ultra Wheels®, Rage®, Airwalk®, Vision Street Wear®, Dukes™, Tommy Armour®, Ram®, TearDrop®, Zebra®, Caribbean Joe, Halston, Bombay, Ellen Tracy and most recently The Sharper Image. Mr Salter co-founded Kemper Snowboards, which he grew into one of the top three snowboard companies of that time. He was the CEO of Ride Snowboard Company where he completed an IPO. Ride was the best performing stock in the Pacific Northwest during 1995. Mr Salter created Gen-X Sports which he built into a diversified sporting goods company with annual sales in excess of $100 million. In that same year he was named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the year in the Pacific Northwest Region. Later Mr Salter was appointed CEO of GSI’s Opportunity and Action Sports division where he introduced the e-commerce strategy through which GSI secured licenses to sell goods from many of North America’s leading sporting goods retailers online. In 2000, Mr Salter was once again named Ernst & Young’s Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2004, Mr Salter founded and became Chairman of Lifestyle Brands Ltd (“LBL”), a brand licensing business. Early in 2007, LBL was sold to Payless Shoe Source Inc for approximately USD 100 million. Today, Mr Salter provides leadership, innovation and vision as President and CEO of Hilco Consumer Capital Corp, a Private Equity firm focused on lifestyle brand investments.