Biography
Eddie Levine is the President and co-founder of Wholesale Breakthrough. The company was developed as the educational side of Eddie's multi channel wholesale business, which is what he runs on a day to day basis. Since Nov. 2012, the company has grown from Eddie’s garage and $5,000 credit card debt into a 10,000 sq. ft. warehouse with diverse sales channels that includes Amazon.com as a 1P vendor, Amazon.com 3P/FBA, B-to-B outlets, retail stores, Rakuten, Jet, Walmart, the US government, and others. He works with manufacturers and distributors to source quick-turning inventory in multi-pallet quantities, truckloads or full containers. A logistics expert, Eddie keeps millions of dollars of inventory moving through his warehouse to sales outlets nationwide.
Eddie has presented at several conferences and events worldwide including ASD, Feedvisor's LA Summit, eCom Chicago, and the UK Seller Conference. He has presented on topics such as building a multi channel wholesale business, vendor relationships / best practices, logistics / operations, launching a successful Amazon based business, and much more.
Eddie Levine carries over 15 years of combined eCommerce and logistics experience, having worked for several Fortune 500 corporations in the hospitality, information technology, and logistics fields. He attended the University of Kansas and currently resides in the northern Chicago suburbs. Eddie volunteers as the Director of Operations for the 501c3 military organization Laughs for the Troops benefiting PTSD, works with 4 local high school entrepreneurship classes as a student coach / mentor, and also judges regional and national competitions for DECA, the nationwide youth business program.
