Chairman of the Board of Directors
Max Gottschalk
Mr. Gottschalk has served as the Chairman of our board of directors since March 2021 and as a member of PMA’s board of directors since May 2012 and a member of PMUK’s board of directors since July 2017. Since April 2022, Mr. Gottschalk has been serving as Director at Nurture Brands Limited, a plant based food and beverage business. Since November 2021, Mr. Gottschalk has been serving as Director at various holding entities for investments of the Hycap Fund, an energy transition private equity fund that invests in the hydrogen ecosystem. Since August 2011, Mr. Gottschalk has also been serving as Director of Jing Holdings Limited, a holding company that operated Jax Coco, a leading coconut water brand that was acquired by Nurture Brands Limited in 2022, and from August 2019 to May 2023 served as Director of Jax Coco UK Limited. Mr. Gottschalk is also the Co-Founder of and since December 2020 has been serving as a Partner and Director at Ocean 14 Capital Ltd., a private equity fund investing in emerging companies and technology to help protect and sustain our oceans. Since September 2019, Mr. Gottschalk has been serving as Director at Aeon Investment Limited, a credit-focused investment company, based in London. Mr. Gottschalk is also the Founder of and since December 2015 has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer and Director at Vedra Partners Ltd., a multi-family office with operations in London and Switzerland. In addition, Mr. Gottschalk is the Co-Founder of and from January 2021 to April 2023 served as a Partner and Director at Hydrogen Equity Partners Ltd., an investment management firm with a focus on new hydrogen energy sources. Mr. Gottschalk also co-founded Gottex Fund Management in 1998, a global asset management company that he built and brought to market in 2007 on the Swiss stock exchange. Prior to Gottex, he ran Bear Stearns’s fixed income derivatives hedge fund sales team in New York. Mr. Gottschalk holds a B.A. in Finance from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. We believe that Mr. Gottschalk is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to his extensive leadership and business experience as an entrepreneur and investor, as well as his service on other boards of directors.
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Mark Buckley
Mr. Buckley has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since November 2022. Mr. Buckley has also been serving as our acting Chief Financial Officer since November 2022, and we expect him to continue to serve in that capacity until we identify a new Chief Financial Officer. Since November 2022, he has also served as the Chief Financial Officer or PMUK, and since January 2023, he has also served as the Chief Financial Officer of PMA. Since August 2022, he has also been serving as a director at 3rd Rock Private Limited, a rock climbing clothing company based in the United Kingdom. From February 2020 to October 2022, Mr. Buckley served as Chief Financial Officer of Rapha Racing Limited, a producer and retailer of cycling clothing, where he served as Finance Director from October 2016 to February 2020 prior to becoming the Chief Financial Officer. From October 2011 to October 2016, Mr. Buckley worked at Burberry Limited, the global luxury brand, where he held various roles before becoming the Director of Financial Planning Analysis in April 2015. Before that, from April 2000 to October 2011 Mr. Buckley worked at Marks and Spencer Group plc, a major British multinational retailer, including a 17-month secondment to Woolworths in South Africa. Mr. Buckley qualified as an accountant in 2004 from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. We believe that Mr. Buckley is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Chief Executive Officer and acting Chief Financial Officer.
Chief Creative Officer and Director
Jane Gottschalk
Ms. Gottschalk has served as our Chief Creative Officer since September 2022, as a member of our board of directors since March 2021 and as a member of PMA’s board of directors since May 2012. From July 2017 to September 2022, Ms. Gottschalk served as the Creative Director of PMUK, and since September 2022, Ms. Gottschalk has served, and is serving, as the Chief Creative Officer of PMUK. From May 2012 to September 2022, she served as Creative Director of PMA, and since September 2022, she has served, and is serving, as Chief Creative Officer of PMA. Since August 2011, Ms. Gottschalk is also serving as Director of Jing Holdings Limited, a holding company that operates Jax Coco, a leading coconut water brand, and from September 2012 to May 2023 served as Director of Jax Coco UK Limited. Ms. Gottschalk holds a B.A. from University of Kent. Ms. Gottschalk is the wife of Max Gottschalk, the Chairman of our board of directors. We believe that Ms. Gottschalk is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience she brings as our Chief Creative Officer and her creative, innovative and entrepreneurial attributes that provide valuable insight to our board and are aligned with our unique culture.
Director
Andre Keijsers
Mr. Keijsers has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2023. Since May 2016, Mr. Keijsers has been serving as Director of PMA, and from July 2017 to September 2019, Mr. Keijsers served as Director of PMUK. Since October 2020, Mr. Keijsers has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management (UK) Ltd, an investment management company and the regulated UK subsidiary of Dutch-listed Van Lanschot Kempen N.V. From January 2017 to July 2019, Mr. Keijsers was a senior partner at Vedra Partners Ltd., a multi-family office with operations in London and Switzerland. Prior to that, Mr. Keijsers served as the Chief Financial Officer of Kings Rock Global Investment Partners Ltd from April to December 2016, and the Chief Financial Officer and Director of Fansz Ltd., a social media technology company, from April to December 2015. Fansz Ltd. filed for liquidation in January 2016. From 2008 to 2015, Mr. Keijsers was a member of the Executive Committee and the Head of M&A of Gottex Fund Management, a global asset management company. From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Keijsers served as the Chief Financial Officer of Swapstream, an electronic trading platform for interest rate swaps and a subsidiary of CME Group Inc. (Nasdaq: CME). Mr. Keijsers is the founder of Arnhem Consulting Limited, through which he provides financial and corporate governance advice to companies. From February 2017 until October 2023, Arnhem Consulting Limited provided consulting services to PMA. Since August 2019, Mr. Keijsers has been serving as Director of Pinkhurst Lane Ltd. Since November 2018, Mr. Keijsers has also been serving as Director of TGR1.618 Ltd, Iris Audio Technologies Ltd, Iris Audio Engineering Ltd and Iris Clarity Ltd. From May 2016 to September 2019, Mr. Keijsers served as Director of Jing Holdings Limited, a holding company that operates Jax Coco UK Limited, a leading coconut water brand, and from May 2016 to August 2019, he served as Director of Jax Coco UK Limited. Mr. Keijsers was an Equity Sales Associate at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. from 1991 to 1994 and Associate Director of Equity Sales at UBS from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Keijsers received a doctorandus degree in Computer Science from the Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. We believe that Mr. Keijsers is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to his extensive leadership, financial and corporate governance experience, his understanding of the Company’s operations, as well as his service on other boards of directors.
Director
Berndt Hauptkorn
Mr. Hauptkorn has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2023. Since September 2015, Mr. Hauptkorn has been serving as President Europe Region of Chanel SAS (Paris), Chanel’s European division, where he oversees all business units (e.g., fashion, fragrance and beauty, watches and jewelry), employee teams, and sales, service and experience channels across Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa. Since January 2019, Mr. Hauptkorn has been serving as Global Markets Officer of Chanel Ltd (London), where he is responsible for the cross-regional coordination of all Region Presidents at Chanel. Since September 2015, Mr. Hauptkorn has been serving as Director at various Chanel entities: (i) Chairman at Chanel Denmark ApS (Denmark), (ii) Chairman at Chanel Norway AS (Norway), (iii) Chairman at Chanel Sweden AB (Sweden), (iv) Executive Director at Chanel s.r.o. (Czech Republic), (v) Director at CHANEL s.r.o., organizacná zlozka, a branch of Chanel s.r.o. (Slovakia), (vi) Manager at Chanel Moda ve Lüks Tüketim Ürünleri Limited Sirketi (Turkey) and (vii) Director at Chanel spólka z ograniczona odpowiedzialnoscia (Poland). Prior to his roles at Chanel, from June 2012 to August 2015, Mr. Hauptkorn served as Chief Executive Officer of Uniqlo Europe and as Global Officer and Senior Vice President of Uniqlo’s Fast Retailing Group. Since March 2019, Mr. Hauptkorn has been serving as a Board Member of the European Brands Association (AIM), an organization that represents manufacturers of branded consumer goods in Europe on key issues, where he represents Chanel interests. Since November 2018, Mr. Hauptkorn has also been serving as a senior advisor to the founders and directors of LUKSO Blockchain. From August 2007 to December 2009, Mr. Hauptkorn served as Group Chief Executive Officer of Labelux Group, and from November 2009 to January 2012, Mr. Hauptkorn served as Global Chief Executive Officer of Bally International. From March 1998 to July 2007, Mr. Hauptkorn held various roles, including Principal, at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he provided retail, branding, media and private equity consulting services to companies. From August 1994 to August 1997, Mr. Hauptkorn served as an Account Director at AHEAD Marketing + Kommunikation, a full-service advertising and marketing agency. We believe that Mr. Hauptkorn is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to his broad and extensive experience in the fashion industry, his leadership and operational management experience, and his experience on other boards of directors.
Director
Tracy Barwin
Ms. Barwin has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2022. Ms. Barwin has also provided consulting services to the Company as the acting Ecommerce Director, since November 2022. Since November 2022, Ms. Barwin also serves as Founder and Director of Tracy B Ltd., a professional services company. From May 2022 until November 2022, Ms. Barwin was not actively engaged in business activities. Ms. Barwin was Executive Vice President at Hunter Boot Limited from May 2017 until May 2022, overseeing their direct-to-consumer business which included retail, ecommerce, shop-in-shops and pop-up stores. Prior to becoming Executive Vice President at Hunter Boot Limited, Ms. Barwin worked at Uniqlo, a large global SPA clothing retailer, where she held the position of Director of Customer Experience, from September 2010 to April 2017. Ms. Barwin held various roles at Myla, a luxury lingerie company, and Nike, Speedo and Hilton hotels, from 2001 to 2010 across digital, ecommerce and customer experience functions. Ms. Barwin holds a B.A. Honors degree in Modern History and Politics from Manchester University and later enhanced this degree with a post graduate diploma from The Chartered Institute of Marketing. We believe that Ms. Barwin is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience she brings across the fashion and retail brands she has worked across, specifically her direct-to-consumer experience as well as her experience on other boards of directors.
Director
Tim Nixdorff
Mr. Nixdorff has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2024. Since January 2024, Mr. Nixdorff has been serving as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of GORE Technologies AG, an investment company. Since August 2023, Mr. Nixdorff has also been serving as Chief Operating Officer of Neon Equity AG, an investment company. From August 2022 until May 2023, Mr. Nixdorff served as Chief Marketing Officer of Rag & Bone, a fashion brand. Prior to that, Mr. Nixdorff served as Chief Executive Officer of Galvan London Ltd., a luxury fashion brand, from May 2020 until July 2022; he also served as a member of the board of directors of Galvan London Ltd. from June 2020 until August 2022. From January 2018 until April 2020, Mr. Nixdorff served as Managing Director of BEJOND Germany GmbH, a marketing consulting firm. Mr. Nixdorff holds a Master of Science degree in Economics from Technical University of Dortmund and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from University of Duiburg-Essen. We believe Mr. Nixdorff is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the management and consulting experience he acquired as an officer of companies in the fashion, marketing and investment industries as well as his experience on other boards of directors.
Chairperson
Member
Audit Financial Expert
Audit Committee | Compensation Committee | Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee | |
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Max Gottschalk | |||
Andre Keijsers | |||
Berndt Hauptkorn | |||
Tracy Barwin | |||
Tim Nixdorff |