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Follow the Data: Mark Denkler's Journey From $2 Billion in Banking to Independent Shoe Retail
🎙️ Keeping Independent Shoe Stores Alive: Mark Denkler's Leadership at the National Shoe Retailers Association
In this episode, Mark Denkler, president of the National Shoe Retailers Association, shares how he turned down a $50,000 job managing his uncle's shoe stores for a $19,000 banking role at Fuji Bank, rose through corporate finance working on billion-dollar deals, and eventually walked away to run his family's shoe store instead. Mark opens up about being passed over for promotion, misjudging his own uncle's business as a young banker, and the rent increase that ultimately forced him…
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