Craig Dubitsky

Craig is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of The Kind Group, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Art Directors Club (ADC). Put simply, Craig is a born arbitrageur. Throughout his varied career, Craig has been able to effectively identify and capitalize on "white spaces" in everything from commodity and currency pricing discrepancies to cultural shifts and their impact on consumer packaged goods.

The ADC is the oldest global marketing and communications organization, with a mission to connect, provoke and elevate creative visual communications professionals around the world. Kind a hybrid of venture capital and consumer packaged goods company with a mission to create the next wave of transformational consumer brands, products, and experiences, and unleash them across Kind's retail distribution network, comprised of thought-leaders in Food, Drug and Mass channels across North America. Craig is obsessed with design, form, voice and emotion as they relate to consumer products, and is on a crusade to turn the laconic into the iconic. Kind's first proprietary brand, eos, is a new women's personal care masterbrand recently launched at Target, Wegmans, Shoppers Drug Mart, Safeway and HEB.

Prior to Kind, Craig served as SVP of Venture Development for Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG), reporting directly to the CEO and co-founding Chairmen of the Board. Simon, with a market capitalization in excess of $21.5 billion, is the largest public real estate company in the US. Craig's role was to identify new investment opportunities and strategic partnerships that leveraged Simon's unique access to 2.8 billion annual consumer visits and $60 billion in retail sales.

While at Simon, Craig identified and led the original investment opportunity in Method Products, Inc. Craig served on the company's Board of Directors from inception in 2001 through December of 2004. Method continues to defy convention, reinventing the household cleaning products category, the personal care space, and the way relevant brands and modern companies are created and managed.

Believing that there was no compelling brand or elevated consumer experience in the moving and relocation space, Craig founded Bigmove, Inc. in 1998. Funded by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Bigmove created new ways to move for both individuals and businesses, with superior online logistics and offline fulfillment capabilities. The company was acquired by Public Storage (NYSE: PSA) in 2000. Public Storage is the largest self-storage REIT in the US, with a total market capitalization in excess of $13 billion.

Before turning his eye to consumer-focused arbitrage opportunities, Craig was focused on more traditional forms of financial arbitrage. Craig served as Vice President and London Metals Exchange Specialist at Citigroup, utilizing futures, options, and derivatives to take advantage of discrepancies in the base metals market, including what ultimately became known as the Copper Scandal of 1996.

Craig began his professional career in 1987 at the age of 22, becoming the youngest member of the New York Cotton Exchange, where he owned and operated a full service brokerage concern. As an early member of the Financial Instruments Exchange (FINEX), Craig was a pioneer in the area of currency arbitrage, and was an active market maker in various exchange-traded options. He was quoted regularly by Knight-Ridder, Bloomberg, and CBS News.

Craig earned his BA in Economics from the University of Rochester, New York, where he owned and operated three businesses sanctioned and approved by the University, and co-founded the Rochester chapter of ACETM, the Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs.