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David Stoddard
David Stoddard is a co-founder of Brixton, the Oceanside, California lifestyle apparel brand he started in 2004 with two friends and a single vintage-inspired hat. He built the company out of a garage after a decade working his way up from a $6-an-hour warehouse job at TransWorld Magazine, and grew it into a globally distributed brand known for heritage headwear and clothing. He now serves as a marketing and creative leader for the company, and speaks locally about entrepreneurship and betting on where you come from.
Jenna Woodhull
Jenna Woodhull is Chief Merchandising Officer at Sendero Provisions Co., the Waco, Texas apparel brand that started with a single hat in 2014 and now sells a full Western-meets-outdoor line. She has spent close to three decades in apparel, beginning as a Volcom sales rep in the late 1990s, moving through Hurley as National Sales Manager and Director of Retail Marketing, returning to Volcom as global VP of design and merchandising from 2010 to 2013, then co-founding the Newport Beach brand agency and showroom Band of Martians. She spent roughly ten years at Brixton, rising to Senior Vice President of Design & Merchandising and later Chief Merchandising Officer, before a stint as global head of women's product at Liberated Brands overseeing Volcom, Billabong and RVCA. She joined Sendero in February 2025 to run merchandising strategy, product vision and category expansion. She is known in the industry for balancing creative instinct with commercial discipline, and she describes her own style as vintage classic, usually finished with boots.
Branded Bills
Branded Bills is an Arizona-based premium headwear and apparel company that started in a garage in 2015 with a branding iron, a knife, and a leather patch hat. It grew from one-of-one state-pride caps into a direct-to-consumer and business-to-business brand offering custom and stock hats, apparel, and corporate branding. The company has sold more than $50 million of product, employs roughly 200 people, and operates the first Branded Bills retail store inside the Phoenix Suns' Footprint Center.
Brixton
Brixton is a California-based lifestyle apparel and headwear brand founded in a Oceanside garage in 2004. Named after The Clash song 'The Guns of Brixton,' it started with a single vintage-inspired newsboy cap and grew into a full line of hats, clothing and accessories inspired by heritage workwear - from mariners and aviators to cowboys and laborers. Distributed in more than 30 countries and backed by Altamont Capital Partners, Brixton blends classic silhouettes with modern function and a growing commitment to sustainable materials.
Randa Apparel & Accessories
Randa Apparel & Accessories is a privately held, family-run fashion company and the world's largest men's accessories business. Tracing its roots to a 1910 Lower East Side neckwear shop, Randa designs, sources, manufactures and distributes belts, wallets, headwear, gloves, umbrellas, slippers, tailored clothing and sportswear across a portfolio of 30-plus owned and licensed brands - including Levi's, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Columbia, Dickies, Haggar and Totes Isotoner. Operating in roughly 11 countries with about 2,000 employees, the company topped $1 billion in sales and quietly supplies the accessories sold in more than 10,000 stores under names most shoppers recognize but rarely connect to Randa.