Sola Salon Studios Announces New CEO

Sola Salon Studios, the world’s leading leaseholder of high-end, one- to-two chair private studios for beauty professionals, announced that R. Randall Clark is CEO effective July 2017. Company co-founders, Stratton Smith and Matt Briger, sought Randall’s expertise as a key strategic requirement for hastening the 13-year-old company’s 2018 global expansion plans, noting, “Randall’s vast expertise as a private equity investor affords a keen understanding of the investment side of business but he’s also acted as a CEO, leading and growing platforms around retail and commercial businesses. He did this via creative and proactive utilization of strategic partnerships and industry-wide collaboration. His (more…)