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 programs in Europe. With ...

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    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 the next event ...

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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 company founder, Jake Burton ...