Richard Stolls
CEO, Trimco Display LLC

Richard Stolls is CEO of Brooklyn-based Trimco Display LLC, a company he purchased in 1981. He began his career at a national chain of women’s shoe stores, working his way up to the position of executive vice president.

Stolls is active in the industry, currently serving not only as PAVE’s president, but also as treasurer of the National Association of Display Industries (NADI), the visual merchandising division of A.R.E., and a member of A.R.E.’s Board of Directors. He is a past president of NADI, a PAVE founder and former treasurer, and a founder of the Society of Visual Merchandisers (SVM). Stolls has served as a business advisor to the High School of Fashion Industry in Manhattan, has served on the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) Visual Advisory Board, and was a founder and past chair of a NADI AIDS task force.