All Executive changes articles – Page 56
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Mountainsmith, the American brand of outdoor gear, has hired Josh...
Mountainsmith, the American brand of outdoor gear, has hired Josh Kerns as national sales manager and Jeff Popp as product line manager. Kerns will be heading up the outdoor brand's independent sales representatives in North America and oversee sales strategy. He serves in the Army National Guard and he previously ...
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Scarpa North America has hired Matt Ginley and Danny Ciavarro...
Scarpa North America has hired Matt Ginley and Danny Ciavarro for its sales team. Ginley joins as the new North American sales manager. He previously worked as an account manager at Rock and Ice Magazine. Before then, he worked as a sales rep for brands in the outdoor and climbing ...
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Tretorn is developing its online business with the aim of...
Tretorn is developing its online business with the aim of boosting the proportion of online transactions with consumers and through retailers and internet marketplaces. The long-term goal is for online sales to account for 40 percent of total sales. To achieve it, a new team of three employees has been ...
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Big Agnes has made several executive hires. Robert Fry has...
Big Agnes has made several executive hires. Robert Fry has taken the new post of director of product and will be leading the development and sourcing teams. Fry formerly held senior posts in product design and merchandising at Black Diamond Equipment, Mountain Hardware, The North Face and Simms Fishing Products. ...
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Creating a new position, Asolo has appointed Marco Sancandi as...
Creating a new position, Asolo has appointed Marco Sancandi as European sales manager, effective from Feb. 1. The 56-year-old manager reports directly to the Italian company's chief executive, Luca Zanatta, who will continue to take care of sales in the rest of the world. Sancandi was most recently in charge ...
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Some media reported in the last few weeks that Antoine...
Some media reported in the last few weeks that Antoine Sathicq, formerly with Adidas, Le Coq Sportif and Odlo, has been appointed chief sales officer of Babolat, where he would be taking the place of Giovanni Pietra, who left the post several months ago. That's what his LinkedIn profile says, ...
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Duckworth, which makes source-verified, single-origin Merino wool and woolen products...
Duckworth, which makes source-verified, single-origin Merino wool and woolen products entirely in the U.S., has hired Andy Wunsch to be its chief executive. Last November, Wunsch ended a seven-year stint, most recently as business execution leader, at Sitka Gear, maker of hunting apparel and accessories. Before that, he worked for ...
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David Orr, an industry veteran who has worked for Keen,...
David Orr, an industry veteran who has worked for Keen, Timberland and Adidas, has been hired as general manager of Dakine, overseeing all aspects of sales, product creation and operations. He will report to Jonathan Hirshberg, the head of JR286, the company that has been contracted to operate Dakine by ...
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Microban, which develops chemical treatments for textiles to control odor...
Microban, which develops chemical treatments for textiles to control odor and prevent the spread of microbes, has appointed Maté Dzakula to the post of business development manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Dzakula was born in Croatia and raised in Sydney. He will be working out of ...
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Primus and Brunton, two of the outdoor brands owned by...
Primus and Brunton, two of the outdoor brands owned by Fenix Outdoor International, have hired Rebecca Day to be their marketing manager. She will be reporting to Per Wååg, general manager of both Primus North America and Brunton Outdoor. Day was most recently marketing manager at Topo Designs, the Denver-based ...
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David Parker has been made chief financial and operating officer...
David Parker has been made chief financial and operating officer at Pacific Market International (PMI), the manufacturer of food and beverage containers. Parker will be in charge of the company's finances, supply chain, IT, legal department and business transformation. He will report to Bob Keller, PMI's chief executive. Parker has ...
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Fjällräven assigned Dean Polic to the position of country manager...
Fjällräven assigned Dean Polic to the position of country manager for Germany at the beginning of this year. He succeeds Lars Ryslev, who is taking the newly created position of head of global sales for Central Europe at Fenix Outdoor, parent company of Fjällräven. Polic, 47, will be leading Fjällräven's German ...
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Dachstein has expanded its marketing department with the appointment of...
Dachstein has expanded its marketing department with the appointment of a new manager, the 29-year-old Romana Georg, in charge of online and social media
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Schöffel has appointed Peter Sontheimer to lead product development. Before...
Schöffel has appointed Peter Sontheimer to lead product development. Before joining Schöffel, Sontheimer worked for Ziener, where he was chief executive and head of product management, design and purchasing. Sontheimer also worked for over two decades at Vaude. At Schöffel, he will both lead the product management, design, technical development ...
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Timberland appointed Marc Martin to the newly created position of...
Timberland appointed Marc Martin to the newly created position of field sales manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Jan. 1. In addition to overseeing all product categories sold in specialist stores in those countries, Martin will lead Timberland's entire specialist trade team for German-speaking countries. He will report directly ...
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Amy Beck will become president of Oboz/Kathmandu North America, based...
Amy Beck will become president of Oboz/Kathmandu North America, based in Bozeman, Montana, on April 1. Beck has been vice president of North American sales at Smartwool, in Colorado, for almost eight years and previously held an executive post at another brand owned by VF Corp., Lucy Activewear (Lucy has ...
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At the beginning of this year, Hanwag appointed Albrecht Volz...
At the beginning of this year, Hanwag appointed Albrecht Volz to the new position of country manager for Germany. Thomas Gröber, chief executive of Hanwag, has until now been responsible for the German market. Volz has worked for Hanwag since 2013. He spent four years as a sales representative and ...
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Peter Novak has been appointed president of Sherpa Adventure Gear,...
Peter Novak has been appointed president of Sherpa Adventure Gear, maker of outdoor apparel and accessories, and plans to grow the brand in North America. Novak is coming off nine years – first as head of national accounts, more recently as vice president of sales – with 5.11 Tactical, which ...
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William D. Perez, founder of a firm specializing in consulting...
William D. Perez, founder of a firm specializing in consulting for family-owned businesses, has become an independent director of Johnson Outdoors
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Troy Sicotte will be Columbia Sportswear's vice president of North...
Troy Sicotte will be Columbia Sportswear's vice president of North American sales for the Mountain Hardware brand as of Oct. 22, 2018. He will report to Joe Vernachio, the brand's president. Sicotte has spent well over a decade in the footwear and outdoor industries, first at Birkenstock USA and then ...
