Experience

National Chain Group

• United States
• Retail Luxury Goods and Jewelry
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President

  • Apr 2020 - Present

  The National Chain Group has long had a reputation for providing top-quality precious and semi-precious pendant and fashion chain. But the new National Chain Group offers more than just chain—much more. Jewelry manufacturers, wholesalers, and high-volume retailers—especially those U.S. companies committed to making “homegrown” jewelry—can rely on National Chain to provide everything they need to ensure success. Based in Warwick, Rhode Island, the company has multiple locations around the state and a combined total of 200,000 square feet of manufacturing space. And thanks to its regular investments in state-of-the-art technology, as well as a workforce of 1200+ experienced professionals, the National Chain Group can ensure top-quality craftsmanship in all of its products and services, across all of its brand divisions: - National Chain: The prime source for chain of all types, from extremely lightweight pendant chains to box, byzantine, and more. - Standard Chain: The leader in finished product with unique knit, interwoven, and flexible metal patterns, achieved through proprietary methods. - James A. Murphy & Son: The specialist in beads, findings, and tubing of all shapes and sizes, in a variety of precious and base metals. - National Fabricated Products: Your source for everything from casting grain to sheet, wire, and solder, created to the most exacting specifications. - Colorado Casting: Through its state-of-the-art technology, Colorado Casting can take a design from model to finished casting, on time and on budget. - National Research & Development: From custom metal molds to requests for personalized chain, findings, and jewelry, our CAD/CAM design studio can handle it all. Thanks to its breadth, National Chain Group can offer the most competitive pricing, the highest quality craftsmanship, and exceptional customer service, ensuring that jewelry manufacturing continues to thrive in the USA.



LeachGarner

• United States
• Luxury Goods & Jewelry
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President of Manufacturing

  • Dec 2012 - Mar 2020

  The new LeachGarner is combination of companies dedicated to the jewelry industry with over one hundred years of know-how and over seven hundred employees devoted to the current and future needs of our customers. We are unique combination of brands that provide the jewelry industry with a source for their raw material, findings, beads and chain. At LeachGarner we control every aspect of the products we offer our customers, from the creation of alloys and manufacturing of the raw material to the findings, beads and chain that we deliver to our customers. When working with LeachGarner know that you will receive superb quality, an extensive selection of product and a company whose brands built the jewelry industry



The Richline Group, a Berkshire Hathaway Company

• General Manager

  • Jan 2008 - Mar 2020

  Richline Group, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is the USA’s foremost Fine Jewelry Manufacturer and Marketer. The Richline Group was formed in 2007. Currently, the major brands comprising Richline’s portfolio are LeachGarner, Inverness, Richline International and Richline Brands. Berkshire Hathaway, and its subsidiaries, engage in diverse business activities including property and casualty insurance, utilities and energy, finance, manufacturing, retailing and services. The Common Stock of the Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols BRK.A and BRK.B.



Prime Time Mfg

• United States
• Retail Luxury Goods and Jewelry
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Director of Manufacturing

  • Aug 1998 - Jan 2008

  Prime Time is a leading manufacturer of high volume promotional findings and jewelry in 10k, 14k, 18k gold and sterling silver. We offer a complete, extremely strong selling line of settings for CZs, gemstones, diamonds, and pearls, as well as click-closure, hoop, wire and stud earrings, lever backs, bracelets, posts, clutches and more. In-house stone setting is available. All of our findings and jewelry are manufactured in our state-of-the-art 50,000 sq. ft. factory located in Warwick, Rhode Island. We offer complete in-house tool making capabilities for exclusive item production for large volume manufacturers and wholesalers. Prime Time Chain division is a leading manufacturer of Karat Gold & Silver Chain. Because of our flexibility, we are able to offer out customers a product line producing the most popular styles from season to season.