Arthur T Shorin

Mr. Shorin served as Chairman and CEO of The Topps Company, Inc., a trading card and confectionery business, from 1980 to 2007. During his tenure, the business grew from $60 million in sales to a worldwide enterprise generating profitable revenues well over $300 million. The business involves confectionery lines such as Bazooka Bubble Gum, Ring Pops, Push Pops, Baby Bottle Pops and a wide variety of collectible products, including Topps brand sports trading cards featuring professional athletes as well as pop culture iconics in film, music and games such as Pokemon. Mr. Shorin participated in the firm’s initial public offering in 1972 (American Stock Exchange), its leveraged buyout by Forstmann Little & Co in 1984 which resulted in record returns to investors, its second IPO (Nasdaq) in 1987 and, most recently, its acquisition by The Tornante Co, a private equity firm led by former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, in association with Madison Dearborn Partners, for $385 million. After the most recent sale of The Topps Company, Arthur undertook to apply his considerable experience to a unique acquisition and growth model. ARTUITIVE is both a vehicle through which Arthur and his team seek to incubate new business ideas and a platform on which to acquire and grow companies, particularly young ones. In addition to his extensive commercial career, Arthur is a philanthropic New Yorker, having donated the Beverly and Arthur Shorin Music Performance Center at New York University, the Shorin Room at Carnegie Hall, the Shorin Comprehensive Transplant Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital, the Shorin Heart Transplant Center at the new Milstein Family Heart Hospital at NYPH and significant research projects at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angles. Besides chairing the Topps board, Arthur has served as a trustee of the Julliard School bringing increased focus on its branding activities and the board of Reprise Capital Corp.