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Founder of Build-A-Bear Workshop

Maxine Clark (née Kasselman, born March 6, 1949, in Coral Gables, Florida)^[1] is the founder and former CEO of Build-A-Bear Workshop, an American retailer that sells customizable teddy bears and other stuffed animals.

Education

Clark graduated from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, in 1971^[2] with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.^[3] She holds an honorary doctor of laws degree from Saint Louis University School of Law.

Career

In 2006, she published her first book “The Bear Necessities of Business: Building a Company with Heart”. After college, she worked at Hecht's, a division of the May Company department store chain, and in 1976 was promoted to the corporate offices in St.

Louis, Missouri.^[4] In 1992, Clark became the president of Payless Shoe Source, and left the company in 1996.^[5]

In 1997, Clark founded Build-A-Bear Workshop after being inspired during