Athletic Brand Under Armor announced that Dawn Fitzpatrick, Eugene Smith and Robert Sweeney are members of the company’s board of directors. Fitzpatrick has been CEO of Soros Fund Management, a private investment firm since 2017, and is currently in the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Financial Sector Advisory Council, the advisory board of the Bretton Woods Committee and the Bloomberg New Economy Advisory Board.
From 2005-24, Smith was a senior vice-president and athletic director at Ohio State University, in which he, among other things, the federal legislative working group of the NCAA-Federal State and participated in the NCAAs Management Council, among other things.
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Since 2019, SWEENEY has been President of Private Equity company Sycamore Partners, who previously spent 22 years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as a partner and worldwide head of the Consumer and Retail Investment Banking Group. During his term of office at SACHS SWEENEY offered an advisory support to Under Armor, including the first public offer in 2005.
Luxury conglomerate -executing Bernard Arnault told shareholders that Jonathan Anderson has been appointed artistic director of the collections of Christian Dior Couture Men. Before he left Loewe last month, Anderson served as creative director of the Fellow-LVMH-Maison since 2013.
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Bain Capital ownership Cheerleading Clothing Provider Varsity Brands has mentioned former pro-footballer Donald Driver as Surge by BSN Sports’ Inaugural Chief Motivation Officer. In this role, the driver will support the program that enables young women to stay at school and to stay in sport.
The appointment follows the settlement of 11 April to pay $ 82.5 million for an Antitrust Class Action law case that claims that Varsity brands have violated the federal antitrust laws (among other things) in 24 states about the monopolization of cheerleading events. In October 2023, Varsity brands agreed to pay $ 43.5 million to resolve similar claims submitted in May 2020.
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Piug brand Jean Paul Gaultier has mentioned Duran Lantink as creative director. The house announced his very first successor to five years after Jean Paul Gaultier retired, appointed head of both ready-made and haute couture collections. His debut is set for the September-fashion week of Paris with the first ready-made show of the brand in more than ten years in addition to the Shuttering 2014 of Prêt à Porter, while his Haute Couture debut is expected in January.
Yuji Okumura mentioned contemporary retailer Vince as Chief Financial Officer. Okumura has been served as an interim cfo of the company since March and as a controller since September 2020, although in 2018 he was affiliated as director of financial reporting. Before Vince, Okumura spent more than ten years in public accounting.
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Lauren Brindley has named the largest American beauty store, Ulta Beauty, chief merchandising and digital officer, with effect from 3 June. Brindley will follow Monica Arnaudo and retire after almost eight years at the company. In this role, Brindley will be responsible for merchandising, e-commerce, wellness and marketplace strategies, which leads the efforts of the brand fire building. Brindley was recently CEO of Revolution Beauty and previously held senior leadership positions at Walgreens and Boots UK.
Wood -based fiber producer Lenzing elected Patrick Dissenbucher and Leonardo Grimaldi as new members of the Supervisory Board and expanded the mandate of Stefan Fida. They will serve “until the end of the annual general meeting that takes on the resolution that the members of the supervisory council act in the financial year 2029,” the group said. The elections were due to the expiry of the office conditions for Fida and from chairman Cord Prinzhorn, who joins the B&C Group fully. During the subsequent component meeting of the supervisory council, Dissenbucher was elected chairman, Carlos de Almeida was elected first deputy chairman and Fida was elected second deputy chairman of the supervisory board.
Interlining and inner components producer Charaturs has added five managers to his growing team. The worldwide leadership team saw Riccardo Cossu mentioned as general director of the EMEA region and Laure Sénéquier-Crozeet mentioned as general director of the Senfa Cilander Division. The Executive Team was reinforced with the appointment of Dmitry Fedorov as a deputy CIO, as well as Claudia Roboli and Elisabetta Nicoli’s appointments such as the global sales director and supply chain manager of the Shirting Division.
Philantropic organization The Virgil Abloh Foundation (VAF) has mentioned Athiththan Selvendran as Chief Creative Officer. He is the old staff chef of the late designer and the current Chief Operating Officer of Virgil Abloh Securities (VAS). In its ‘double capacities’, Selvendran will continue to see the daily activities of VAS-De Virgil Abloh creative core ownership of Shannon Abloh-Die is also VAF’s business counterpart. As CCO, Selvendran will retain the Virgil Abloh Archives, catalogs and launch, cultural cooperation efforts CO will be launched and the creative design process of global initiatives leads.
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