All Executive changes articles – Page 94
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Brian Mecham, formerly U.S. general manager for Icebreaker, has been...
Brian Mecham, formerly U.S. general manager for Icebreaker, has been appointed to a similar job at Salewa North America, where the brands owned by the Italian group - Dynafit, Salewa, Wild Country and Pomoca - still have strong potential for growth. Mecham reports to Claes Broqvist, who joined the Oberalp ...
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Jose María García Blasco is the new chief executive officer...
Jose María García Blasco is the new chief executive officer of Yuma, the Spanish company that owns the Altus outdoor brand, taking the place of Pilar Benedí
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Caro Krissman, the founder and chief executive of Outdoor Tech,...
Caro Krissman, the founder and chief executive of Outdoor Tech, has left the company after selling his shares to Rob Caulfield, the brand's lead investor. Charlie Gugliuzza, who has served as Outdoor Tech's chief operating officer, has taken over as the brand's new chief executive. Under Krissman's leadership, Outdoor Tech ...
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Ken Meidell, the former president and chief executive of Outdoor...
Ken Meidell, the former president and chief executive of Outdoor Research, has been named by Altamont Capital as chief executive of Dakine, which the investment firm acquired from Billabong in July 2013. He succeeds Leslie Lane, who left Dakine in January to take the position of president at Dr. Martens ...
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Ecco decided to initiate a gradual generational handover of responsibilities...
Ecco decided to initiate a gradual generational handover of responsibilities in the executive board at its supervisory board meeting and its annual meeting last month. After being in charge of the big Danish group for almost 12 years, Dieter Kasprzak is handing over its day-to-day management to Steen Borgholm, and ...
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Nester Hosiery has promoted Kelly Nester to the position of...
Nester Hosiery has promoted Kelly Nester to the position of chief executive officer, with immediate effect. Kelly Nester joined the company in 1996 and has been president since 2008. Marty Nester, the company founder and current chief executive, will continue to chair the company's board of directors. Nester Hosiery, based ...
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Dave Allen has been named senior vice president of sales...
Dave Allen has been named senior vice president of sales for Vista Outdoor, reporting to the company's chairman and chief executive, Mark DeYoung. He was most recently the president of Coleman USA. He was previously in charge of sales and marketing in the Americas for this brand of Jarden Corp., ...
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In an internal promotion, Ben Rivera has been appointed chief...
In an internal promotion, Ben Rivera has been appointed chief executive of the Leatherman Tool Group. He will continue as brand president of the U.S. company, with which he has been involved for 25 years. Founded in 1983, the Oregon-based company sells multi-purpose tools and other products in 120 countries, ...
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Mizu, the California-based maker of reusable water bottles, has hired...
Mizu, the California-based maker of reusable water bottles, has hired Hike Hoefer as executive vice president of sales and marketing. Hoefer has spent 17 years at Nixon as a sales executive. His 25-year experience in global retail and sales management has also included brands such as Burton and Salomon.
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Brian Jung, who previously headed Haglöfs' subsidiary in South Korea,...
Brian Jung, who previously headed Haglöfs' subsidiary in South Korea, has apparently been appointed managing director at the Blackyak Group and chief executive of Nau Clothing, the Oregonian outdoor apparel company acquired by the South Korean group in 2013. Jung spent the last five years as country manager for Haglöfs ...
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Primaloft has promoted Chris Humphris to director of sales for...
Primaloft has promoted Chris Humphris to director of sales for the Americas. Humphris has been serving as the company's European sales manager since 2014. He has also been a Primaloft sales agent for the U.K. and Scandinavia for more than a decade. Humphris is a textile specialist and outdoor athlete, ...
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Claudio Angaran, a 17-year veteran of the Italian outdoor industry,...
Claudio Angaran, a 17-year veteran of the Italian outdoor industry, has made another move. The 50-year-old manager has agreed to become sales and marketing manager of Zamberlan, a new position inside the Italian company, which recently signed up new distributors in Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Angaran had been ...
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Thule Americas has appointed a new national accounts and business...
Thule Americas has appointed a new national accounts and business development manager for the region to help develop new channels of business in the outdoor and other sectors. After reviewing hundreds of candidates for the job, the choice has fallen on Brian Bennett, who has worked for Patagonia for 13 ...
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Newell Rubbermaid, which agreed last December to acquire Jarden Corp....
Newell Rubbermaid, which agreed last December to acquire Jarden Corp. through a merger, has appointed Russ Torres to the newly-created position of chief transformation officer, starting on April 1. Reporting to Mark Tarchetti, who will become president of Newell Brands after the deal is completed, Torres will be in charge ...
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Trond Langeland has been appointed chief executive of Viking Outdoor...
Trond Langeland has been appointed chief executive of Viking Outdoor Footwear, the Norwegian outdoor footwear brand owned by Bertel O. Steen. Langeland will take over on May 13 after serving in several other sales, marketing and executive functions in consumer goods companies such as Orkla, Jordan and Canon. For the ...
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Filling two new positions, Osprey Europe has appointed a marketing...
Filling two new positions, Osprey Europe has appointed a marketing manager, François Esmenjaud, and a distributor brand manager, Tobias Baier. It has also appointed an operations manager, Alex Bottomley, who previously worked for a British online retailer, Wiggle. Esmenjaud was previously handling marketing for Polar in France. Baier previously worked ...
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Implus has appointed Mary Hannah Statham as marketing manager. She...
Implus has appointed Mary Hannah Statham as marketing manager. She will be responsible for all marketing efforts for the Implus family of footwear accessory brands which includes Sof Sole, Sof Comfort, Sneaker Balls, Penguin, ForceField, Apara and Airplus. Statham worked as the director of marketing and communications for Springs Creative ...
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Linda Balfour has been appointed global director of marketing for...
Linda Balfour has been appointed global director of marketing for Superfeet on the eve of its biggest product launch to date – outdoor sandals with inbuilt insole support. Prior to this, Balfour spent 10 years in the marketing department of Keen Footwear with responsibilities ranging from overseeing field services, retail ...
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Johnathan Nielsen has been confirmed as chief executive of Backcountry.com,...
Johnathan Nielsen has been confirmed as chief executive of Backcountry.com, starting on March 11. He had been named interim chief executive last December after the former CEO chief executive, Jill Layfield, left in the wake of Liberty Interactive's sale of the American e-commerce company to TSG Consumer Partners last July. ...
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VF Corp. has named Scott H. Baxter as president of...
VF Corp. has named Scott H. Baxter as president of its outdoor and action sports group in the Americas, which includes Eagle Creek, Eastpak, JanSport, Kipling, Lucy, Napapijri, Reef, SmartWool, The North Face, Timberland and Vans. Baxter previously held the same role at VF's Jeanswear Americas. The new role is ...
