Robert McNulty

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Mr. Robert McNulty founded & served as Chairman at Café Serendipity. Mr. McNulty is an accomplished entrepreneur with over 30 years of significant experience in specialty retail, e-commerce, branded consumer products, retail start-ups and developing new concepts and technology platforms for utilization in the retail industry. Mr. McNulty founded Shopping.com and served as its President and CEO. Shopping.com was the first online retailer selling a broad range of consumer brand name products on the Internet offering over 25 major categories and 2,000,000 SKUs while utilizing comparison shopping engines to drive sales. Shopping.com was able to ramp up sales to $55 million in its first 12 months and was purchased for $220 million in an all cash transaction by Compaq Computers. Mr. McNulty also founded Home Club and served as its Chairman and CEO. Home Club was a chain of home improvement warehouse stores for contractor trade and do-it-yourself customers, servicing U.S. western states with 38 stores and 14,000 employees with 1 billion dollars of revenues. He was the first to institute and implement the "everyday low price strategy" in the U.S. Home Improvement industry. Mr. McNulty was a founding board member of the Home Cancer Industry Council for the City of Hope Cancer Research Center.