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Larry Nusbaum
Larry Nusbaum is a consumer-products and retail turnaround executive who serves as President and Chief Marketing Officer of Work 'N Gear, the Mid-Atlantic and New England workwear, footwear and healthcare-apparel chain, and as an operating partner at Dark Alpha Capital. Over two decades he has run companies as CEO, CMO and COO across housewares, electronics, personal care, apparel and fitness, most visibly at Ronco, the Ron Popeil gadget brand he bought out of bankruptcy with Marlin Equity Partners in 2007 and steered from a reported $7.5 million annual loss to roughly $4 million in profit on about $30 million of 2009 sales. He has also led Midwest Trading Group, where he acquired the phone-accessory brand TYLT in December 2023, and restructured the artisan-goods company GlobeIn into a subscription model. At Work 'N Gear he took a 25-year-old, roughly $40 million retailer through a 2025 Chapter 11 filing, a DIP financing, a shrink from 38 stores to 26, and a April 2026 asset sale to a family-office-backed operator that repaid the lender in full and set up a relaunch of the e-commerce platform and up to ten stores.
Nick Abramovich
Nick Abramovich is the CEO of Workers Benefit Fund, a New York-based benefits platform that builds the plumbing between gig workers, freelancers, independent contractors and the government, union and private benefits they are eligible for but almost never enroll in. He has been running the company since 2019, when WBF acquired BeneStream, the Medicaid-for-the-workplace outfit he ran as President. Under him, WBF added Upward Finance in December 2024, extending the platform from healthcare enrollment into tax and earnings tools for gig workers. Before benefits, he was CEO of Synaptic Digital and CMO of Ditech Holding Corporation, with earlier stops at MetLife, MoveOnIn.com, and BizSlate. Columbia MBA, Tulane BS.
Thomas Galligan
Thomas J. Galligan III is the longtime restaurant operator who ran Papa Gino's, the New England pizza institution, and its sister chain D'Angelo Grilled Sandwiches. A PepsiCo and Morse Shoe veteran, he joined Papa Gino's in the mid-1990s, took the top job in 1996, pulled the chain out of a crushing debt load with a 1997 recapitalization, then turned a struggling pizzeria into an acquirer by buying D'Angelo from Pizza Hut for $55.5 million. In 2005 he co-founded Papa Gino's Holdings Corporation alongside Boston's Bunker Hill Capital, and he stayed at the helm as Chairman, President and CEO before serving as Executive Chairman until his retirement in 2014.