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MARCY KENT'S EDUCATION: - Fordham University School of Law, NY - JD degree - Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT - BA degree MARCY KENT'S EXPERIENCE: The Kent Company - President Marcy Kent of The Kent Company provides real estate consulting services to retailers to maximize portfolio value and performance. She has extensive knowledge of all US and Canadian markets (including Puerto Rico, Alaska and Hawaii) and all retail formats (including mall, lifestyle, outlet, strip and urban) and also has extensive industry relationships at the most senior levels. The Children's Place Retail Stores, Incorporated, d/b/a The Children's Place and The Disney Store - Vice President of Real Estate The Children's Place Marcy Kent led an aggressive expansion program from a regional base of just over 100 stores to an international real estate portfolio of almost 900 stores in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. Store locations include regional mall, urban CBD, outlet, lifestyle and traditional strip center locations. She was responsible for strategic planning, budgeting and implementation of the real estate program. She both oversaw and actively participated in market planning, site selection and deal negotiation, and coordinated the store development process from deal negotiation through the lease execution, store design, construction and store opening phases. The Disney Store Pending a corporate license from The Walt Disney Company to The Children's Place, Marcy Kent was responsible for renewal of approximately 2/3 of the entire Disney Store chain (180 of 313 stores). She negotiated both individual and package deals with all major landlords in US and Canada. Subsequent to the grant of the license, she created and began to execute a strategic plan for expansion and created a new outlet division for the chain. Woolworth Corporation (now Footlocker, Inc) - Vice President of Real Estate Marcy Kent led all real estate activities for the Western Region (western half of US) for all corporately owned chains including Footlocker, Lady Footlocker, Kids Footlocker, Kinney, Colorado, Afterthoughts, Champs Northern Reflections and others. She was responsible for new leasing activity, renewals, expansions, downsizes, kickouts, options and all other real estate related events. Previously she led all US real estate activities for the Kinney Shoe chain (approximately 600 stores) and co-managed a portfolio-wide lease renegotiation process with all major US landlords to lower occupancy costs through all corporately owned chains, achieving multi-million dollar savings through closures of underperforming stores, renegotiation of terms of other stores and repositioning and right-sizing of highly successful stores. The William Kaufman Organization/Sage Realty Corporation - In-House Counsel Marcy Kent was the sole in-house counsel for an owner/manager of ten first-class urban office properties, predominantly located in New York City.

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