Mr. Lane was born and raised in Long Island, New York. As part of his High School experience, he won public speaking and numerous other county, state and national awards with the Distributive Education Clubs of America. During his graduating year, he most notably won New York State Outstanding Student of the year and then later became the chapters Alumni President.
Working his way through school as a territory salesman for Nestler Enterprises, Inc. a manufacturers representative company, he Graduated Nassau Community College majoring in Marketing and subsequently attending Bernard Baurach College majoring in Management. In 1985 Mr. Lane became the first National Sales Manager for Stanton Carpet Corporation an importer of wool carpets at the age of 23. Mr. Lane took the company national and created a sales organization of 38 sales agents in the United States and Canada, brought the company from three products to over forty, along with three acquisitions (New Eastern, Contract Distributors (CDA) and Mira-X).
In 1992 he became a partner and Executive Vice President of The Rug Hold Company. They were the first company to bring non-skid rug under lament to the United States. Mr. Lane was brought in for a corporate turn-around. After preventing the company from being closed, and making them profitable after just three consecutive quarters he later sold his interest in Rug Hold to start his own Management Consulting Company, Lane Enterprises, Inc. in 1994.
At Lane Enterprises, which was based in Hauppauge, Long Island, Mr. Lane consulted to such companies as Weight Watchers International, Coldwell Banker, AT&T, and ABC Carpet & Home. Mr. Lane sold Lane Enterprises in 1997 to the Ross Consulting Group based out of New Jersey. Mr. Lane went on to another turn around hired to turn around the ailing New York Region of Collins & Aikman Floor Coverings, Inc (Now know as Tandus) handling Pennsylvania/Delaware to upstate New York, with an office and showroom based in New York City.
In August of 2002 Mr. Lane opened Lane Sales, Inc. an exclusive manufacturers representative company of quality floor covering products. Later in 2003 Lane lead Lane Sales to take over Nestler Enterprises, Inc. a separate flooring sales agency. Over the preceeding years Lane Sales expanded into covering the entire New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut tri-state area.
In 2011 Lane expanded by creating a hospitality division to go specifically after commercial/hopsitality segmented business using a different sales force. By years end Lane had also expanded Lane Sales Inc. into the State of Florida. Mr. Lane's leadership over the years helped Lane Sales to obtain numerious sales awards and in 2021 Mr. Lane expanded Lane Sales to handle all of North American (U.S. & Canada). In 2021 Lane had the company rebrand to LSI Flooring.
In 2022, Mr. Lane lead LSI to take over Daltonian Flooring's carpet and rug pad business, manufacturing these products in the U.S. In 2023 Lane lead the company to start importing and selling hand made, made to order rugs under the Tisca Rugs by LSI brand.
Mr. Lane is an industry consultant and sort after guest speaker on Sales, Marketing, Operations and on Environmentally Responsible Home Furnishings Products, including a spot on the Fox News Channel. With close to 40 years experience in carpet and rug padding, having been a part owner of the Rug Hold Company and now owning LSI Padding, Mr. Lane is an industry expert on carpet and rug padding products and is often consulted and asked to speak on this topic.
