New shareholders embody prime consultants in Numismatics, Forex, Leisure, Historic, Widespread Tradition, Illustration and Comedian Artwork classes, amongst many others
Heritage Auctions, one of many world’s main collectibles public sale homes, has ended 2024 with its fourth straight 12 months of record-setting gross sales. The information heading into February is not any much less celebratory, as Heritage started 2025 with six new companions amongst its govt management, together with prime consultants within the Numismatics, Forex, Leisure, Widespread Tradition, Historic and Comedian Artwork classes, amongst many others.
The brand new companions are, in alphabetical order: Government Vice President Todd Hignite (Comedian and Illustration Artwork); Vice President Dustin Johnston (Forex); Government Vice President Joe Maddalena (Leisure, Historic and Widespread Tradition); Senior Vice President Sarah Miller (Numismatics); Government Vice President Sam Spiegel (World and Historical Cash); and Senior Vice President Jim Stoutjesdyk (Numismatics).
These six new companions be part of Heritage’s long-time managing companions Co-Chairman and CEO Steve Ivy, Co-Chairman Jim Halperin, President Greg Rohan, COO Paul Minshull, Government Vice Presidents Cristiano Bierrenbach, Marc Emory, and Todd Imhof, and Director of Numismatics Ryan Carroll.
“My co-founder, Jim Halperin, and Heritage Auctions’ different senior companions couldn’t be extra happy to introduce our new companions,” Ivy says. “This transfer and others like it’ll guarantee Heritage Auctions’ success effectively into the long run.”
Biographies for Heritage’s new companions observe.
Todd Hignite is among the world’s prime Comedian Artwork consultants, overseeing quite a few record-setting outcomes and taking part in a key management position within the dramatic growth of that market over the past 15 years, which has seen Heritage established because the dominant worldwide public sale home within the subject. Together with his in depth expertise as a author and curator in each the museum and gallery worlds, and important experience and expertise in each Modern and Twentieth-Century American Artwork, Hignite has been instrumental in growing cultural consciousness of comics as an artwork kind, notably in organizing essentially the most important retrospective dedicated to Robert Crumb within the United States. He has additionally led the expansion of Heritage’s Illustration Artwork division, and as a part of Heritage’s govt workforce, he has mentored employees in a number of classes and has been integral to the corporate’s continued growth into broader artwork markets.
Dustin Johnston joined Heritage 26 years in the past. Working in numismatics fulfilled a childhood dream, and by the age of 14, he was shopping for and promoting cash at nationwide coin exhibits. Johnston joined Heritage as a U.S. Coin specialist, shopping for and promoting materials for the wholesale division after which working with consignors. After six years, he moved into Forex to assist information that division by way of exponential progress. He oversees the U.S. and World Forex classes, every the biggest and most trusted within the trade. Johnston’s involvement in numismatics and oversight of a major market share in auctions landed him on Coin World’s record of the High 100 Most Influential Folks in Numismatics.
Joe Maddalena, a 40-year veteran of the public sale trade and a trailblazer in Hollywood memorabilia and collectibles, achieved a historic milestone this 12 months on December 7, when Heritage bought Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz (1939) for $32.5 million throughout essentially the most profitable Hollywood and Leisure public sale ever held. Beforehand, in 2011, Maddalena was accountable for the Debbie Reynolds Public sale, which held the file because the highest-grossing Hollywood public sale till this month’s $38.6 million occasion. Maddalena, who joined Heritage Auctions in 2020, and his workforce are accountable for the highest 5 Leisure auctions ever held, with 4 of them – together with the Recreation of Thrones, Planet Hollywood, and Greg Jein occasions – carried out in 2023 and ’24. Now heading Heritage’s newly created Pop Tradition division, Maddalena leads greater than 20 classes, together with Leisure, Hollywood and Music, Film Posters, Historic, Video Video games, Animation Artwork, TCG Playing cards, Toys, Non-Sports activities Buying and selling Playing cards and Classic Guitars. His unparalleled experience, imaginative and prescient and stewardship have firmly established Heritage Auctions because the premier vacation spot for popular culture and leisure collectibles.
Sarah Miller relies in New York and has been with Heritage Auctions for 11 years. Her fascination with uncommon cash started in childhood, and years of expertise amassing, shopping for, and promoting uncommon cash have made her extensively recognized in numismatic circles. Whereas Miller’s experience is in numismatics, her enthusiasm for all types of amassing permits her to advise collectors in areas past her specialty. She works carefully with companions Todd Imhof and Greg Rohan to help a lot of Heritage’s prime world purchasers as a part of its Legacy Consumer program.
Sam Spiegel started as an historical coin specialist within the World and Historical Coin division in 2013, becoming a member of Heritage after he graduated from the College of Chicago. His position rapidly expanded to incorporate working with the class’s prime purchasers, bettering the division’s IT infrastructure and increasing Heritage’s world footprint. Beneath Spiegel’s stewardship, Heritage’s World and Historical Cash class has develop into the worldwide market chief, with technological options that present extra and higher data than another public sale agency within the area. In consequence, the class has realized greater than $100 million for every of the previous 4 years – a feat unsurpassed by another world and historical coin agency anyplace on this planet. Along with persevering with to supervise the World and Historical Coin division, he works carefully with all of Heritage’s worldwide workplaces in Hong Kong, London, Tokyo, and Europe, in addition to the corporate’s IT division, to assist hold Heritage on the innovative.
Jim Stoutjesdyk, Senior Vice President of Numismatics at Heritage, has been a pivotal workforce member since 1993. Stoutjesdyk was lively as a younger numismatist and was honored because the American Numismatic Association’s (ANA) Excellent Younger Numismatist of the Yr in 1987. Following this early accolade, he furthered his experience by graduating from the College of Michigan. Stoutjesdyk is accountable for shopping for and promoting tens of millions of {dollars} in uncommon cash every month, pricing all the new cash on the market and expertly managing the every day operations of the uncommon coin division at Heritage. In 2019, he obtained the celebrated Physician of Numismatics honorary diploma from the ANA.
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