Ed Blake

Background

About Ed Blake

I am a veteran furniture retailer with 20+ years of experience building high-performance sales teams that exceed goals through creative marketing strategies and exemplary customer service. By identifying and mentoring promising associates for leadership roles, I build strong teams. A strategically minded executive, I drive high-performance retail operations and achieve exceptional sales and revenue growth. Key Accomplishments—At Ashley Furniture, led the opening of an outlet location, generating $4.5M in revenue and establishing lucrative relationships with suppliers, securing steep discounts on supplied merchandise—Managed sales operations while expanding from 1 to 12 locations, training and developing hundreds of sales associates and managers to meet aggressive growth targets—At Haynes Furniture, increased annual revenue by 100%, from $12M to $24M over 6 years.