George Vorkas is the newest member to join Jay Foreman’s upstart service venture The Bridge Direct based in Boca Raton, Florida.
As the company’s GM of new business development, Vorkas will be developing new biz opps as well as acting as the direct liaison with The Bridge’s major clients. He comes from spending more than seven years at Li & Fung as head of Toy Island, where he managed supply chain projects and has a career that spans 20 years in the consumer goods biz, from design to sales. He also did a stint as head of Monogram International, a producer and marketer of impulse-driven gifts and licensed products, and previously held other positions in the toy industry, including a stint as senior executive at Toy Biz and one as director of research & development of Toymax.