About Josh Lowitz

Josh Lowitz is the principal of J. Lowitz Company and a partner at Consumer Intelligence Research Partners and Lab42 Research. He has founded and operated several businesses, and regularly advises entrepreneurs and private equity investors. His areas of expertise include retailing, marketing, survey research, media relations, real estate, and strategic planning.

In the late 1980s, Josh and his brother established Lowitz Family Development Company, a commercial real estate developer focused on urban infill space for growing national retailers. Josh served as real estate director for Sportmart, a chain of sporting goods superstores, and as a member of the board of directors of No Contest!, Sportmart’s start-up athletic footwear superstore subsidiary.

In 1991, Josh founded TV Land, a regional chain of mall specialty stores that became a leading retailer of licensed merchandise from the entertainment industry. In 1995, Josh successfully protected TV Land’s federally registered trademark in a highly publicized lawsuit against Viacom. The TV Land trademark was ultimately sold to Viacom for its Nick-at-Nite’s TV Land cable network.

Josh’s professional experience also includes a year of corporate strategy consulting at Strategic Planning Associates (SPA), now a part of Oliver Wyman Consulting.

Josh has taught courses in New Venture Strategy as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and in the MBA program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Josh is a member of the board of directors Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI), Francis W. Parker School, and served as president on Congregation Solel.

Josh is a magna cum laude graduate of Brown University in decision theory and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.