PROGRAM LEADERSHIP & EXECUTIVE ADVISORY

Retail Development Deserves Executive Leadership.

PMC manages and leads retail development programs for retailers, restaurants and investors — running the people, partners and processes responsible for turning growth plans into successful openings.

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136

Projects in 2026

$300M+

Annual Construction Spend Under PMC Oversight

THE DEVELOPMENT GAP

Every major business function receives rigorous executive attention. Retail development is often the exception.

Finance. Operations. Marketing. Human resources. Each has dedicated leadership, defined processes and executive accountability. The system responsible for deploying significant capital into physical locations — and opening them on time — often does not.

PMC exists to close it.

FIVE QUESTIONS WORTH ASKING

Five Questions Leadership Should Be Asking.

A useful starting point for any organization running a retail or restaurant development program.

1. Are our store openings predictable?

2. Where do we repeatedly lose time or money?

3. Are the same problems happening project after project?

4. Who sees the development program end to end?

5. Is the system measurably improving — or simply completing projects?

If any answer is unclear, there may be value hiding inside the system.

Purple Mattress · Irvine Spectrum, California

HOW PMC THINKS

See the whole picture.

Every group can be doing its individual job while the overall program is still struggling. Someone needs to see the complete picture — across every phase, every team and every decision.

1

Strategy & Real Estate

2

Lease & Planning

3

Design & Permitting

4

Procurement

5

Construction

6

Opening

7

Lessons Learned

Who owns the complete development system?

That question is worth asking before the next project begins.

WHERE PROGRAMS ACTUALLY BREAK

Construction Is the Symptom, Not the Cause.

Problems usually begin upstream — in decisions that weren't made, information that didn't travel, and handoffs that weren't clean. By the time an issue reaches construction, the least expensive options may already be gone.

1

Incomplete Decisions

2

Unclear Information

3

Poor Handoffs

4

Field Problems

5

Cost + Delay

The job site is often where the problem becomes visible — not where it began.

JINS · Abbot Kinney, Venice, CA

HOW PMC WORKS

Evaluate first.

Before PMC recommends anything, we listen and evaluate. We look at the existing organization — people, partners, processes, roles, performance and accountability — and determine what the program actually needs.

PMC EVALUATES:

People & Roles · Processes & Controls · Partners & Vendors · Reporting & Visibility · Risk & Accountability · Growth Readiness

THEN:

Support · Strengthen · Augment · Realign

The objective is the right development organization and operating structure for the client's needs and growth plan.

When more significant change is necessary, PMC will say so.

PMC gives people the opportunity to succeed. But our responsibility is to the client.

UNIQLO · Dallas, Texas

ALO · Fashion Island, Newport Beach, CA

HOW WE HELP

Three ways PMC engages.

The engagement fits the need. The leadership standard does not change.

01 — CORE ENGAGEMENT

Program Leadership

End-to-end owner-side leadership across schedule, budget, design, procurement, construction, opening and risk — from the first meeting through the final walkthrough.

02

Embedded Team Support

Experienced PMC professionals integrated directly into the client organization to fill specific leadership or capability gaps — operating as part of the program, not simply filling a seat.

03

Executive Advisory

Experienced operator perspective for senior leadership when the question sits above day-to-day project execution — assessing whether the organization is structured to succeed.

Some organizations don't need PMC to lead day-to-day execution. They need an experienced outside perspective on whether their development organization can support the growth plan — before committing additional capital, expanding the program or accelerating growth. That is Executive Advisory.

PMC does not offer a standard package. Every engagement begins with understanding what the organization actually needs.

PMC represents one client on every engagement: You.

WHAT PMC MANAGES

Across every phase.
Across every decision.

PMC manages or provides executive visibility into the people, decisions, budget, schedule and risk that determine whether a development program succeeds.

People & Partners

Right people. Right roles. Right accountability.

Budget & Schedule

Disciplined spend. Clear schedule visibility.

Risk & Decisions

Issues surfaced early. Decisions made at the right level.

HOW PMC THINKS

Fixing a Project Saves One Project. Fixing the System Improves Every Project After It.

Most programs teach something important. The question is whether the organization captures it, acts on it and builds it into the next project. PMC does.

Better information. Better decisions. Greater cost certainty. More predictable openings. A stronger next project.

PMC does not simply complete projects. We help clients improve the system that produces them.

Tommy Bahama · Queens Marketplace, Hawaii · October 2025

WHO WE HELP

PMC works with organizations where development performance matters.

If the development program is a meaningful part of the business, it deserves meaningful leadership.

Retail & Restaurant Brands

Growing organizations that need experienced development leadership to execute growth plans consistently.

Development Organizations

Teams that need leadership, additional expertise, stronger process or additional capacity.

Executive Leadership

CEOs, CFOs and COOs who need greater visibility and confidence in development performance.

Private Equity & Investors

Firms that need an independent view of whether the development organization can execute the growth plan.

Every conversation starts with understanding the organization — not presenting a solution.

PRIVATE EQUITY & PORTFOLIO SUPPORT

Growth strategy is only as strong as the organization that executes it.

A retail investment does not stop when the transaction closes. Capital continues to be deployed through real estate, design, permitting, procurement, construction and store openings. PMC brings an operator's perspective to whether the development organization can execute the growth plan.

PRIVATE EQUITY / INVESTORS

Know What You're Buying — and What It Will Take to Scale It.

PMC evaluates the development platform behind the investment — people, organization, processes, partners, cost performance, schedule performance, quality, reporting, governance and scalability.

  • Where is capital being lost?
  • What risks are hidden in the current system?
  • Can the development platform support the investment thesis?
OPERATORS / PORTFOLIO COMPANIES

Make the Development System Perform.

Once improvements are agreed, PMC can help implement the organization, governance, processes, procurement, cost controls, schedule controls, reporting, accountability, communication, quality standards and continuous improvement required to execute at scale.

  • What is our current system costing us?

Assess the system. Agree on the changes. Execute them. Measure the improvement.

LEADERSHIP

The experience behind the work.

PMC was built by two executives whose careers span multiple sides of the development business. That breadth of experience shapes every engagement.

Chris Love

Principal

Retail · Restaurant

40 Years

Chris brings 40 years of experience across retail design, architecture, in-house brand leadership, general contracting and program management. His career has spanned both the design and architecture side of development and the construction and delivery side, giving him a complete view of the development lifecycle from concept through opening. That dual fluency allows him to identify where plans break down in execution and where execution fails to honor the design intent. He approaches every engagement with an owner-side perspective — understanding what is actually at stake when capital is deployed and schedules are set. The result is counsel grounded in how complex retail and restaurant development actually works.

Tom Dougherty

Principal

Retail · Restaurant · Hospitality · Entertainment

35+ Years

Tom brings 35+ years of experience leading complex development programs across retail, restaurant, hospitality and entertainment. His career has been defined by a focus on governance, risk, execution and predictable delivery — building the operating controls and accountability structures that allow large-scale programs to perform. He has managed multi-unit programs at executive level, overseeing program structure from strategic planning through construction completion. That experience shapes his approach to every engagement: establishing the right oversight mechanisms, surfacing risk early and holding the system accountable to cost, schedule and quality commitments. He brings an executive-level discipline to how development organizations are built and run.

75+ years of combined principal experience. Complementary backgrounds. One standard.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENT & PROGRAM EXPERIENCE

A track record built across retail, restaurant, hospitality and entertainment.

Selected PMC clients and programs from the past six years.

RECENT PMC CLIENT EXPERIENCE

Aerie

ALO

American Eagle

Cos Bar

Current Meditation

Foot Locker

JINS

Jushi

lululemon

Pirate Studios

POP MART

Purple Mattress

QDOBA

Theory

Todd Snyder

Tommy Bahama

UNIQLO

Plus decades of collective career experience across 100+ clients and brands.

Additional client and program experience available upon request.

BUILT TO EXECUTE

PMC is not simply trading on past careers.

136 projects in 2026 and $300M+ in annual construction spend under PMC oversight across selected current programs require more than two principals. PMC is supported by an experienced senior team with deep program leadership backgrounds.

CURRENT PMC PROGRAM ACTIVITY
136

Projects in 2026

$300M+

Annual Construction Spend Under PMC Oversight

6

Recurring Client Programs

PMC TEAM
12

Senior PMC Professionals

25+

Years — Average Senior-Team Experience

PMC SINCE 2020
335+

PMC-Managed Projects Since Our Founding in 2020

Six years of continuous program delivery.

COLLECTIVE CAREER EXPERIENCE
75+

Years Combined Principal Experience

$5B+

Programs Supported

25,000+

Projects Delivered

100+

Clients & Brands Served

Collective career experience across PMC's principals and senior team — reflecting their full careers, including PMC and prior roles, and not PMC production since 2020.

EXECUTIVE PERSPECTIVES

PMC publishes what it believes. Not what the industry expects.

PMC's principals share their perspective on retail development, organizational leadership and what separates programs that perform from those that don't.

TSA

The Strategic Advantage

Why retail development programs fail — and what executive leadership actually changes.

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PERSPECTIVE

Construction Is the Symptom, Not the Cause

The real source of development failure isn't on the jobsite. It's in the system upstream.

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PERSPECTIVE

Five Questions Leadership Should Be Asking

If your development program can't answer these questions clearly, the risk is already present.

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PMC publishes perspectives on retail development, program leadership and organizational performance. New pieces added as they are completed.

PMC has a point of view. These are the places where it shows up.

THE PMC STANDARD

The PMC Standard

See the whole picture.

Tell the client what they need to know.

Solve the root problem.

Do what is right for the client.

Follow through.

Make the next project better.

Represent one client on every project: You.

PMC

Program Leadership & Executive Advisory

Better. Faster. Smarter.

CONTACT

Every organization is different. Start with a conversation.

PMC starts by listening — understanding the situation, the organization and what leadership is trying to accomplish. Then we determine whether PMC can add value.

No predefined answer. No unnecessary presentation.

Chris Love

Principal

chris.love@pmconsortium.com

Tom Dougherty

Principal

tom.dougherty@pmconsortium.com

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Program Leadership & Executive Advisory

Better. Faster. Smarter.

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