Business people : Team Express Appoints Three Industry Veterans to Executive Positions

Team Express, the online seller of team products, has bolstered its management team with the appointments of Greg Barbour as chief operations officer, Ben Marney as vice president of merchandising and Dan Shepler as product manager.
 
The trio is reunited with Team Express CEO Mark Marney, who early this year led an investor group to acquire the company and modernize its infrastructure, enhance websites, intensify marketing and create even stronger inventory management. Each worked with Marney at The Golf Warehouse (TGW.com) or BaseballSavings.com.

In addition to TeamExpress.com, the company’s popular BaseballExpress.com, Softball.com and FootballAmerica.com are the preferred choices for equipment, apparel, footwear, team uniforms and training aids. Product catalogs and a brick-and-mortar store near its San Antonio headquarters augment operations.

“Greg, Ben and Dan’s 25 combined years of e-commerce expertise is critical to Team Express capitalizing on the online channel’s rapid annual sales growth,” says Mark Marney, CEO of Team Express. “With the new management team in place, our ability to offer even more products at competitive prices is already benefitting consumers.”

Barbour will direct daily operations, including marketing, purchasing, customer service and the company’s 200,000-square-foot warehouse. Following eight years in purchasing at The Golf Warehouse, he managed merchandising at BaseballSavings.com.
                                                         
Charged with organization of more than 50,000 items, Ben Marney is responsible for creating product presentation to consumers and overseeing inventory control. His career started in the warehouse division of The Golf Warehouse before managing operations at online retailer DTYdirect.com.

A former college baseball player, Shepler will lead the full product cycle for the company’s sport-specific entities. In eight-plus years with BaseballSavings.com, he was chief buyer for equipment across all categories, negotiating prices and streamlining product lines to ensure profitability.

Team Express features a wide variety of products from adidas, Easton, Louisville Slugger, Mizuno, Nike, Rawlings, Schutt, Wilson, Under Armour and scores of other premium brands.

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