Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> January 17, 2005

ALLAN FELDMAN – LMCA

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 overview

of what you do?

Mr. Feldman: Founded 20 years ago, LMCA has pioneered the field of brand

extension licensing. We help