JAN ROGERS KNIFFEN

Founder and CEO, and CNBC Contributor

J ROGERS KNIFFEN WORDLWIDE

Jan Rogers Kniffen is a retail expert and CNBC contributor, with decades of real world experience and knowledge that connects the dots between the past and future to help retailer Boards of Directors build the future with sound financial assumptions and executable operational structure. Jan consults with investors in retail companies and is a regular CNBC contributor. Jan is self-described as the "country's leading expert on retailing." As a former retail finance and operations executive, Jan now provides his deep knowledge, experience and innovative thinking with the ever expanding retail eco-system. Jan’s deep knowledge and direct experience comes from twenty years as a senior executive at The May Department Stores. A company that operated Lord & Taylor, Filene’s, Fox, Hecht’s, May-Cohen’s, Robinson’s of Florida, Sibley’s, Horne’s, Kaufman’s, Foley’s, Marshall Field’s, Famous Barr, ZCMI, Goldwater’s, May D&F, The Denver, Meier and Frank, Robinson’s, Strawbridge’s, Thalhimer’s, May Company Cleveland, May Company California, May Company Akron, Strauss, Venture, Caldor, Sycamore, Loehmann’s, Payless ShoeSource, as well as developing, owning and operating 26 super regional shopping malls. Kniffen majored in English at the University of Illinois, received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Southern Illinois University, an M.B.A. in finance from Lindenwood University, and did doctoral work in finance at St. Louis University.