All Donna Carpenter articles

  • Chill_Europe1
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    The Chill Foundation is officially launching in Europe

    2020-11-04T12:07:00Z

    25 years after Donna Carpenter and her late husband Jake Burton Carpenter, owners of Burton Snowboards , founded the non-profit organization in the U.S. and after 13 years of running small, non-formalized programs in European countries, the Chill Foundation has announced the official launch of its youth-development ...

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    News briefs

    Burton cancels 2021 U.S. Open

    2020-05-27T09:40:00Z

    Burton Snowboards announced that due to ongoing uncertainties around the Covid-19 pandemic, the company had canceled the 2021 Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships scheduled for March 1-6, 2021 at Vail Mountain Resort in Colorado. Burton’s chief executive, John Lacy , explained that it was a difficult decision as ...

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    John Lacy becomes sole CEO of Burton

    2020-02-26T14:32:00Z

    (SGI) Burton Snowboards announced that John Lacy will be the company’s sole chief executive. He has shared this role over the past 18 months with Donna Carpenter , who will now take over the position of chairperson of Burton’s board of directors from her late husband and ...