Jay Robinson

Jay Robinson is the Senior Vice President Global Business Development & Chief Innovation Officer at Renfro Brands. He leads the Global Business operations for Renfro Brands with divisions in the Netherlands covering Europe, and in Japan covering Japan, Taiwan, Korea and a developing China.  Additionally, he leads the Global Innovation team on new technologies and new product categories along with Market Intelligence and New Brand Development Divisions.  Jay has 35 years of experience in Retail starting his career with Mervyn’s Department Store in Hayward, CA before moving to the manufacturing sector where he has held a number of positions in Sales, Brand Marketing and Business Development Leadership.  He has created over $300,000,000 in new value in both Branded and Private Label Programs. Jay has led development on more than 20 Top Brands and Managed Relationships with the top apparel organizations from Nike, Smartwool, Carhartt, Fruit of the Loom, John Deere, Haggar, and Dr Scholl’s to retailers such as Walmart, Target, JCPenney, Kohl’s and others. Jay holds a BSc in Marketing from the University of Santa Clara with additional program certification from the Retail Management Institute (RMI), a leading retail studies program at University of Santa Clara.