06/04/2016
our Speaker Mr. Michael Kercheval, New York, USA
Michael Kercheval is CEO Emeritus of ICSC. For the last 15 years he served as President and CEO, only the third CEO in the association’s almost sixty year history (ICSC is a global trade and professional association with 70,000 members in more than 100 countries, providing research, education, advocacy, and business-development resources to the world’s shopping-center and retailing industries. Headquartered in New York, with offices in London, Mexico City, Toronto, Beijing, Singapore, Dubai, Brussels and Washington, the organization has annual revenues of $83M and a staff of 170).
Michael had not only the rare privilege of ringing the closing bell at New York stock exchange, moreover he was invited frequently for TV interviews and met a very large number of world-renowned political and business leaders such as Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Howard Schulz. He has visited 87 countries in the world and can quite likely be considered as one of the best speakers when it comes to consumer trends and leadership. Many people can´t wait to purchase Kerchevals book about leadership, that he is actually writing.