Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> January 17, 2005
ALLAN FELDMAN is President and Chief Executive Officer of LMCA. He has
more than 30 years' experience in marketing and management, including
over 20 years in brand extension licensing. Prior to forming LMCA in
1983, he was Group Vice President for Chromalloy America and spent seven
years at Rockwell International as Director of New Business Ventures.
Prior to Rockwell, he was Special Assistant to the Director General of
Rank-Xerox (Benelux, the overseas arm of Xerox Corporation). He is a
member of the American Management Association, American Marketing
Association, Licensing Executives Society and International Trademark
Association (INTA). He serves on committees of INTA, Licensing
Executives Society and the Intellectual Property Management Institute.
Mr. Feldman sits on the Board of the Licensing Industry Merchants
Association and is a frequent speaker on trademark licensing and brand
building, both in the US and abroad. His industry articles have been
widely published. Mr. Feldman earned an MBA from the University of
Chicago, and studied at the University of Louvain in Belgium and the
London School of Economics. He holds a BS from Roosevelt University, and
studied architecture at the University of Illinois. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a brief history of your company and an overviewof what you do?
Mr. Feldman: Founded 20 years ago, LMCA has pioneered the field of brand
extension licensing. We help