The Commander
Bart Silberman has spent more than three decades doing what he does best: helping great ideas turn into products people actually want to buy. His career spans licensing, creative direction, sales, brand building, and apparel design - often all at the same time.
Bart’s experience runs deep across entertainment, sports, music, and lifestyle, working with everyone from iconic global properties to emerging brands finding their footing. He’s helped shape licensed programs, create distinctive product concepts, navigate complex deal structures, and get product onto shelves - from major national retailers to specialty and collector-driven channels.
At Golden Sombrero, Bart brings a rare blend of creativity and commercial instinct. He understands how IP behaves in the real world, how retailers think, and where brands win - or stall - once ideas meet the market.

The Strategist
Steve Kazanjian has spent his career helping brands and creative businesses figure out what actually matters - and what to do about it. His work sits at the intersection of pop culture, strategy, and growth, shaped by decades inside entertainment, consumer products, and brand-led organizations.
Steve previously served as President & CEO of Promax, where he worked closely with studios, networks, streamers, agencies, and brands around the world. Over the years, he’s partnered with Fortune 100 companies, independent creators, and emerging businesses, helping them sharpen positioning, unlock opportunity, and make smarter commercial decisions.
Today, Steve leads Golden Sombrero with a simple focus: bring clarity to complex situations, connect the right people, and help ideas move from potential to progress - without unnecessary noise.

The Engineer
Clint Miller has spent more than two decades inside the machinery of brands - building them, launching them, fixing them, and getting them into the world the right way. He started his career at Foot Locker during the height of the 1990s sneaker boom, rising through the retail ranks just as streetwear was finding its footing.
From there, Clint moved into national brand representation, helping introduce and scale fashion, footwear, eyewear, and lifestyle brands across North America. He’s led launches for names like Ksubi, Le Specs, Quay, 3Sixteen, Waiting for the Sun, and others - overseeing everything from merchandising and pricing to logistics, sales strategy, and market rollout.
At Golden Sombrero, he helps brands align product, timing, and distribution so ideas don’t just launch - they land, scale, and last.

The Liaison
Glenda Beltran has spent her career building and scaling licensing programs where creativity, commerce, and precision intersect. With deep experience across licensing strategy, brand development, and operational execution, she’s helped shape programs for some of the most recognizable names in entertainment, toys, and pop culture.
Her background includes senior roles working across global portfolios such as Viacom and Madame Alexander, where she guided licensing strategy, partner relationships, and long-term brand stewardship. Glenda is known for her ability to balance creative ambition with commercial discipline - protecting brand integrity while unlocking meaningful growth.
She brings a steady hand to complex ecosystems: managing stakeholders, navigating approvals, and keeping programs on track as they scale.

The Specialist
Nick Halkias brings deep creative and commercial experience shaped by years inside skateboarding, apparel, and pop culture. At Golden Sombrero, he applies a sharp point of view built on both brand-side leadership and hands-on product experience.
Nick previously served in senior roles at Nike SB, where he worked across sales leadership and brand management during a formative era for the category. That experience grounded his approach to scale, community, and cultural relevance. He later held leadership roles at Super7, including Vice President of Sales and Brand Management, helping guide the growth of a modern collectibles and lifestyle powerhouse.
Earlier in his career, Nick founded and led StrangeLove Skateboards and worked across specialty retail, curation, and archival preservation—bringing a deep respect for history, craft, and the stories behind the product.

The Navigator
Andy Hyman has been immersed in sports, pop culture, and vintage storytelling long before it became a category. What started as hours spent playing Stat-O-Matic Baseball quietly turned into a career helping define the modern throwback movement. In 1998, Andy founded Distant Replays, a retail concept that helped ignite the vintage jersey boom - earning national attention as athletes, artists, and fans embraced classic sports design as cultural currency.
Following the success of Distant Replays, Andy went on to shape brand, marketing, and historical storytelling at Original Retro Brand and later Ebbets Field Flannels/LIDS, where deep licensing knowledge met authentic sports heritage. Today, Andy brings decades of category insight, collegiate expertise, and cultural intuition to Golden Sombrero - helping legacy brands feel timeless, relevant, and lived-in once again.

The Communicator
Brian Lew has spent more than two decades working at the intersection of licensing, product, and pop culture - helping ideas move from subculture to shelf with credibility intact. His career spans licensing, merchandising, product development, e-commerce, and marketing roles with companies like Lucasfilm, Sony Signatures (now Live Nation), Bravado, Global Merchandising Services, and most recently, Super7.
He understands how fandom works because he’s lived inside it - whether shaping merchandise programs, building product lines, or translating creative worlds into things people actually want to own.
Beyond licensing, Brian is the co-author of Murder in the Front Row, a definitive chronicle of the Bay Area thrash metal scene. The book - now in its fifth printing - spawned a feature documentary that premiered in 2019 and has screened in more than 60 cities across nine countries.

The Architect
Bryan Coats is a creative problem solver with deep roots in vintage-inspired apparel and storytelling. Known as the ultimate utility player, Bryan built his career at Ebbets Field Flannels, where he worked across nearly every function - from production and sewing to digital and wholesale - before leading the brand’s Custom and Wholesale Department.
That hands-on understanding of how things actually get made informed nearly 2,000 collaborations with brands such as Supreme, Golf Le Fleur, and Comme des Garçons. Bryan brings a rare balance of craft and practicality to every project, navigating the space between design, production, and partnership with ease. His work includes original designs for Blue Moon, Dead & Company, AEG, Leica, Todd Snyder, CREEM Magazine, and the New York Islanders. When he’s not working with clients, he’s designing gig posters, album art, and merch for the bands he plays in - on tour or around Seattle.