Ross Barr - Principal

Ross is an avid collector of Star Wars, GI Joe, and other vintage toy lines and memorabilia from the 1970s and 1980s. Ross is an active member of the vintage Star Wars action figure collecting community, having been the founder and administrator of several well-subscribed online collector groups and author of articles on collector websites aimed at helping collectors. Ross deeply values the connections he has with his fellow collectors and enjoys interacting with the collector community above all else. Ross is a corporate lawyer in the in-house legal department of a Fortune 500 retailer. He lives in southern New Jersey with his wife and three young children.

Todd A. DeMartino – Principal

Born and raised in Syracuse and while going to college for Architecture Technology in 1989, Todd began collecting a wide variety of toy lines from the ‘70s and ‘80s, attending monthly toy shows on the East Coast and reading every issue of Toy Shop magazine from cover to cover. Hobbyists around the globe now know him best for his world-class collection of rare Kenner Star Wars items. His passion has also resulted in a wide-ranging variety of other high-end items, including Mattel's He-Man Masters of the Universe, Battlestar Galactica, Clash of the Titans, and Flash Gordon; Knickerbocker's Lord of the Rings; Ideal's Evel Knievel; Remco's Universal Monsters; Kenner's Indian Jones, Six Million Dollar Man and Stretch Armstrong; Aurora model kits and AFX slot car sets; Atari 2600 and Mego Planet of the Apes, Black Hole, Buck Rogers and Kiss dolls. He has specialized in department store exclusives sold originally at Sears, JC Penney, Montgomery Ward, Spiegel and Alden holiday catalogs and is most proud of his Droids Boba Fett original artwork. Todd and his family lives in Palm Beach, Florida, is the proud father of Sofia and is involved in high-end condominium development. 

Ken Black - Chief Operations Officer

Ken has spent the majority of the last 25 years in the antiques and collectibles market and has extensive experience on eBay and various other online marketplaces. He has a strong backgoround in AutoCAD and acrylic fabrication along with a background in computer networking and database programming while holding several Microsoft certifications.

Anthony Spinnickie

Anthony is a passionate collector of Star Wars, both vintage and modern, as well as Star Wars Lego. Over the years, Anthony has enjoyed building an Instagram following for his Star Wars account on which he regularly microblogs about collecting topics and engages other collectors to participate with dialog and content. Anthony is an Orthopedic Trauma Surgeon at a Trauma Center in Northern NJ, where he lives with his wife and two (soon to be three!) children.

Chris Whitlock

Chris is a husband, father of four and an enthusiastic Star Wars collector! Always proud of his Motor City heritage (he is from the Detroit, MI area), Chris has been in manufacturing and machining for over twenty years, and carries a degree in manufacturing trades and 3D modeling. Chris began collecting Star Wars in the early 90’s and has become an active and helpful member of the collecting community. Self-described as a “fan boy’s fan boy,” Chris finds just as much value in the friends he has made in the collecting community as he does the hobby itself.

Brendon Falsioni

Brendon, or “Chef” as he is more commonly known among the G.I. Joe collector world, is a retired Army Officer after serving 20 years of active service, which included deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo, with overseas tours in Japan and Korea. Currently he is a Junior R.O.T.C. instructor with Chicago Public Schools. Brendon is an active member of the various G.I. Joe Facebook groups and is always willing to share his knowledge. He is married and lives in Chicago, IL, with his wife, two boys and Shiba Inu dog. Brendon is a regular at the Kane County Midwest toy show, where you can expect to see him there twice a year, as well as at some of the other big conventions.

Kenneth Lombardi

Born and raised just north of Boston, MA, Ken began collecting comics in the late ‘80s and started collecting Star Wars in 1995. He moved on to other lines in the late ‘90s and collects everything from the early ‘80s to late ‘80s, including Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon, Clash of the Titans, Sectaurs, Willow, Crystar, Super Powers, GI Joe, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, etc. Ken runs several collectors sites, including the Vintage Indiana Jones collectors page on Facebook. Ken is also an avid collector of Star Wars prop replicas, Gentle Giant statues and busts and Sideshow Statues. Ken lives with his wife, Aliki, and 3 boys – Joe, Jay and Jax – in Tewksbury, Massachusetts and currently serves as a Police Officer and In the Army National Guard.

Matthew Chipera

Matthew watched Star Wars in the theatre when it first came out in 1977. When the first figures were released in Canada, his first figure he bought was R2-D2. Matthew has been a fan ever since. Matthew started to collect Star Wars toys again in 2014. He also collects Matchbox cars and comic books. Matthew has worked in the film and television industry for 32 years and currently works as a Producer on TV shows. Matthew is a father of three children, who laugh at him for the toys he collects.

Moises Rodriguez - Director of Collector Relations in Mexico

Better known as Moi, is the founder of the Facebook group STAR WARS COLECCIONISTAS / COLLECTORS, the world's largest of it’s kind. As such, he has participated in several panels in toys conventions in Mexico. He collaborates in Facebook videos under the hashtag #VacaVision, about toys collecting. He has been a collector for fifteen years, focusing on the vintage lines of Star Wars, Super Powers, GI Joe and Masters of The Universe, with special enthusiasm in foreign versions, particularly Mexican. Moi was born in 1976 in Mexico City, where he lives with his wife and dog. He is a public officer in service of the Federal Government of his country.