Joshua N. Lowitz Senior Consultant

Josh Lowitz’s consulting practice focuses on start-ups, family owned businesses, and growing privately held companies. His areas of expertise include retailing, Internet marketing, real estate, finance, and strategic planning.

A hands-on entrepreneur, in 1991 Josh founded TV Land, a regional chain of mall specialty stores that became a leading retailer of licensed merchandise from the entertainment industry. He has experience in retail real estate development and site selection, having served as real estate director for Sportmart and on the board of directors of No Contest!, Sportmart’s athletic footwear superstore subsidiary. Josh is a magna cum laude graduate of Brown University and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Josh is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, where he teaches a course in New Venture Strategy. In addition, he speaks frequently on entrepreneurship and retailing.