Sean Makovsky with his role as Business
Sean Makovsky with his role as Business Development Director of Fashionphile are Sponsoring and Presenting at the 2025 International Pawn Symposium
Sean Makovsky along with Fashionphile who recently acquired Two Authenticators will be sponsoring and providing a high level session on the intricacies of establishing and developing a luxury brand profile in your operation with access to unlimited sources of product.
PCG International Pawn Symposium
2025 Theme – In search of lost knowledge and treasure, in the ancient city of Atlantis!
Dates are October 12th – 17th and will be hosted at the World Class Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.
Bio On Sean Makovsky
It should be noted that Sean has a long history in our beloved Pawn Industry. Aside from his accounting degree from University of Central Florida, he started as a Manager for Cash America from 1999 – 2002. From there he became a market Manager for Cash America directly supervising 13 stores and close to 100 associates before being promoted again to Director of Field Operations over seeing 68 stores for Cash America in South and West Texas. His span ran from 1996 – 2015 with Cash America.
From there Sean was an Area Supervisor for Brittex Financial another highly successful Pawn Chain started out of Texas (Money Mart) that grew to 28 stores in several states before being acquired by First Cash. Another highend brand started by Larry Nuckols out of Texas, a long term very prominent figure within the Pawn Industry.
Post the Pawn World, Sean became the National Sales Director for Marque Luxury America one of the first major entries into the pre-owned luxury handbag business and more. He was successful in driving strong sales and business growth nationally and more while directing the company.
Today, Sean is the Business Development Director for Fashionphile & 2a authenticators. He has been in charge of Business Development, Sales Strategy and Planning, Client Relationship Management, along with maintaining extensive performance analysis of these products and services within and outside the Pawn Industry today.
Sean created amazing results in implementing, developing, training, and monitoring the success of these programs across a wide-spectrum of operators and continues to do so today.
Through their sponsorship and presentation, Sean will be providing an indepth examination of how their platform can work seamlessly to enhance any operators presence and knowledge with talking, providing, and dealing with luxury handbags and more.
This session promises to be another high level presentation packed with usable takeaways coming from another Pawn professional with real life and practical experience in enhancing product lines and revenues in the Pawn Space for decades. Hear it from another proven professional in the Pawn space.
It should be noted that Sean will also be one of our Pawn Experts that will be hosting our panel of Pawn professionals which is shaping up to be like no other ever seen in the Pawn Industry today. Our panel is lining up with the following experts thus far:
- Jerry Whitehead – Founder of the Pawnshop Consulting Group
- Special Guest —
- Vito Wise – Pawnbroker / Creator of Pawnbrokers Helping Pawnbrokers Market Place and Much more
- Kevin Prochaska – CEO of Lombard Financial – A premier group of high end pawnshops / Former president of the NPA
- Sam Shockett – Owner – Kings Pawn – One of the largest and most distinguished single store Pawn Operations in the USA
- Maurice Fuller – Owner – Chesapeake Pawn – A newer rising star in the Pawn Industry
- Sean Makovsky – Multi-Unit Pawn Operating Specialist and much more
- Nicholas (Nick) Cohen – Business Development Leader for EZ Corp / Pawnbroker
- And ?? TBA
A footnote from PCG – Producer of the International Pawn Symposium
Our events are not trade shows nor conventions. They are high level inter-active educational seminars conducted by numerous experts within and outside the Pawn Industry.
These events also center on close interaction of ALL of the participants by keeping them together for all of the functions, seminars, food, and ALL social functions which are a primary component of the event itself.
In effect, High Level education and social networking on steroids.
AS for exclusivity, we keep attendance at a controlled level to insure maximum benefit of time with our educators, presenters, participants, and sponsors. All of which are required from our experience to obtain the best of the best, from the best!!
This event is limited to 100 attendees and is only $1495 per head – which includes all meals, social functions and the seminars being presented at this world class resort.
We are currently accepting paid participation to guarantee slots on the roster. We have about 85+ participants on the list currently and paid reservations are coming in now.
We have also procured a room-block at this EPIC resort of only $149 a night plus their resort fees.
IF YOU WISH TO ATTEND THIS EVENT – CONTACT ME DIRECTLY NOW TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR ATTENDNACE PAYMENT AND CONFIRMATION AND WE WILL PROVIDE THE ROOM BLOCK HOTEL PASSKEY TO GUARANTEE YOUR DISCOUNTED ROOM AT THIS WORLD CLASS RESORT.
Jerry Whitehead @ 954-540-3697 – Pawnshopconsultinggroup@gmail.com
This year’s PRESENTERS provide a wide-range of expertise and subject matter, once again making the International Pawn Symposium THE event to attend for Pawn Professionals seeking to advance their business acumen and more.
Jerry Whitehead – Pawnshop Consulting Group – International Pawn Symposium
