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Management Team
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Management Team
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Chad Hartvigson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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Chad Hartvigson is the Founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of Prep Sportswear. Chad oversees the company’s entire management and operations. He brings 18 years of sports apparel industry experience along with expertise in management and marketing.
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In 2011, under Chad’s leadership, Prep Sportswear was named to the Inc. Magazine list of Fastest Growing Private Companies for the third consecutive year. In 2011, the company ranked #1205 on the list of Fastest Growing Private Companies and was #67 overall in the consumer product category. The company was also named to the Puget Sound Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Private Companies in the State of Washington for the fourth consecutive year. In 2007, the Puget Sound Business Journal named Chad one of the top forty professionals under the age of 40.
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Prior to founding Prep Sportswear, Chad was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Rainier Financial Group, an independent investment advisory firm located in Seattle, Washington. Chad entered the financial industry in 1999 and served three years as a top-performing financial advisor for a Fortune™ 500 financial services company.
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Chad played professional baseball for six years from 1994-1999 with the San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers and Colorado Rockies organizations. Prior to his professional baseball career, Chad was the team captain of the Pac-10 Champion University of Washington Baseball Team in 1993 and 1994. Chad started his college baseball career at the University of Notre Dame where he studied Finance and Economics for two years. He was also a member of the 1982 Little League World Championship team from Kirkland National Little League.
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Mr. Hartvigson holds a B.A. from the University of Washington in Economics and Business Management.
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Ivan Chachkov, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
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Ivan Chachkov brings over 15 years of international experience building consumer and business oriented e-commerce sites. His e-commerce experience has included many projects involving extensive integration of e-commerce providers, information technology and infrastructure companies.
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Ivan was the system architect responsible for the architectural design and implementation of American Express Shopping site www.shopamex.com and other e-commerce applications at InfoSpace, a leading technology company in Bellevue, Washington.
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Prior to InfoSpace, Ivan spent two years as the Senior Architect for INEX Corporation of Toronto, Canada, a Microsoft solution provider. While at INEX, Ivan was technical lead for the development of a scalable multi-web storefront system acquired by InfoSapce.
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In 1996-1997, Ivan designed, handled the lead development and deployment of the first e-commerce system based on emerging Internet technologies in Russia for Siberian Chemical Plant the largest enterprise producing nuclear plant in Russia. Ivan also worked for the Russian Oil and Gas Construction bank in the initial roll out of the ATM terminal network in Russia.
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Ivan graduated from the Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics with a Masters degree in Computer Systems.
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