David Chu, our Chief Executive Officer, is a highly regarded entrepreneur, business builder, designer, and creative executive in the global consumer sector, with extensive experience in brand development and repositioning. Mr. Chu was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nautica, and between 1983 and 2003 he led its expansion into a global lifestyle brand with a distribution and license portfolio spanning 100 countries. Starting with outerwear, Mr. Chu led Nautica’s category expansion into sportswear, activewear, womenswear and childrenswear. He also strategically extended the Nautica product line by augmenting centralized brand management with tightly controlled license agreements, adding fragrances, tailored clothing, dress shirts and accessories. In 2003, Nautica was sold to VF Corporation. Between 2007 and 2009, Mr. Chu was the Executive Creative Director and a board member of Tumi. During his time at Tumi, Mr. Chu successfully repositioned the brand from high quality, functional luggage to a premium lifestyle brand for men and women. In 2012, Mr. Chu joined Georg Jensen A/S, where he served as the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Creative Officer and chairman of the board; Mr. Chu is currently still a member of the board.

Donald Tang, our President, has extensive experience as a private equity investor. In 2018, he founded Celadon Partners (Asia Pacific) Limited, or Celadon Partners, a private equity firm focused on mispriced opportunities ready for operational or strategic transformation, with an emphasis on the consumer space. From 2004 to 2017, Mr. Tang worked at D.E. Shaw & Co., most recently as Chief Executive Officer of D.E. Shaw & Co. (Asia-Pacific). He was the sole D.E. Shaw & Co. partner on the investment side in Asia, and a founding member of the firm’s Asian private equity business. Mr. Tang started his career at Citadel Investment Group in 2003. He is a member of the Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Advisory Council, Special Advisor (China) to the Milken Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Donald graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in computer science and business administration, and a minor in computational finance.

Michael Kives is the founder and CEO of K5 Global, an advisory and investment firm - with clients including Creative Artists Agency, TPG, and Sequoia China - and investments including SpaceX, the Boring Company, and Catalyte. Prior to founding K5, he was an Agent at Creative Artists Agency for 15 years, where he represented a wide range of talent, including Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Katy Perry, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, as well as world and business leaders, Mikhail Gorbachev and Warren Buffett. Prior to joining CAA in 2003, Mr. Kives worked in the Harlem office of President William J. Clinton, where he served as an interim spokesperson for the President. He then transitioned to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s D.C. office, where he worked alongside Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors of Cirque du Soleil and Shutterfly.

Mr. Kives graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Distinction from Stanford University.

Fred H. Langhammer is Chairman, Global Affairs, of The Estee Lauder Companies Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of cosmetics products. Prior to being named Chairman, Global Affairs, Mr. Langhammer was Chief Executive Officer of The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. from 2000 to 2004, President from 1995 to 2004 and Chief Operating Officer from 1985 through 1999. Mr. Langhammer joined The Estee Lauder Companies in 1975 as President of its operations in Japan. In 1982, he was appointed Managing Director of its operations in Germany.

He was a director of Central European Media Enterprises, Ltd. from December 2009 through March 2014, a director of The Shinsei Bank Limited from 2005 to 2009, a director of AIG from 2006 to 2008 and a director of the Walt Disney Company from 2005 until 2019. He also serves as Chairman Emeritus of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University and is a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Association. Mr. Langhammer holds dual citizenship for U.S.A. and Germany. Educated in Germany, Canada and Japan, he speaks fluent Japanese and German. He is also a recipient of the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Terry Lundgren served for 14 years as CEO of Macy’s, Inc., operator of Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, Bluemercury and one of the largest retail ecommerce businesses in America. He retired from Macy’s, Inc. in January 2018 after serving for 10 months as the company’s Executive Chairman. Prior to becoming CEO of the company in February 2003 and Chairman and CEO in January 2004, Lundgren had been President and Chief Merchandising Officer since May 1997 (the company’s name changed to Macy’s, Inc. from Federated Department Stores, Inc. in 2007). Mr. Lundgren joined Neiman Marcus in 1988 as Executive Vice President and shortly thereafter was named Chairman and CEO. He held that position until 1994 when he returned to Federated as Chairman and CEO of the Federated Merchandising Group. As CEO of the corporation, Lundgren led Federated’s acquisition of The May Department Stores Company in August 2005, nearly doubling the size of the company.