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, founder of The Lieff Company and former CEO of Spec's Music, brings thirty years of experience in specialty retail involving merchandising, operations, marketing and real estate. Lieff has formed Miami-based, The Lieff Company, in order to incorporate her current special projects and corporate board affiliations. Her expertise and interests range from public speaking to CEO mentoring and leadership development and to devising corporate strategies to assist and expand organizations in the management of their business practices. In the past several years, Lieff has committed the majority of her time to her on-going advisory services as a corporate director to several leading regional and national retail operations.
Ann Spector Lieff has made the retail music industry her career for over three decades. Lieff, former CEO of Spec's Music, led the company her father, Martin Spector, founded in 1948, to become a dominant music retailer -- both in its markets and reputation. In 1985, Lieff took the family-held company public and created one of Florida's largest and most respected public companies.
In May of 1998, Ann Lieff/Spec's was named as one of America's Top 500 Women-Owned Businesses by Working Woman Magazine. After establishing Spec's position as one of the regions premiere specialty music retailers, she orchestrated the execution of a definitive merger agreement between Spec's and Camelot Music, completed on July 31, 1998.
Throughout her career, Lieff's professional accomplishments have been acknowledged in the communities she serves. She received the University of Denver Professional Achievement Award in 1989. She delivered the 1989 Graduation Convocation Address at the University of Miami School of Business Administration, was honored by the National Association of Women Business Owner's (NAWBO) in 1995, and was named a Top Woman Achiever by South Florida Magazine. In 2000 Harvard Business School chose to publish a case study of Spec's Music.
Long active in the music industry, Lieff is past president of the National Association of Record Merchandisers (NARM). Her current professional involvements include membership in the Committee of 200, Chief Executive Organization, the Executive Advisory Board University of Denver-Daniels College of Business, and the Executive Board of the Women Executive Leadership. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund, Hastings Entertainment, Inc., Birks and Mayors, Inc.
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