Total Compensation: $ 551,076.00
Chuck Crovitz was appointed as our interim CEO in September 2007 and has served as a director of the Company since 2004. Since 2003 Mr. Crovitz has operated Crovitz Consulting Co. in Tisbury, Massachusetts. From 1993 to 2003, Mr. Crovitz served in several senior executive positions, including as the Executive Vice President & Chief Supply Chain Officer for Gap Inc. Mr. Crovitz is also a director of United Stationers, Inc.
Total Compensation: $ —
Richard Paradise has served as our Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer since December 2007 and in such role is our chief accounting officer. He served as our Senior Vice President, Finance from November 2007 until December 5, 2007. Prior to joining us, from February 2000 to October 2007 Mr. Paradise served at American Standard Companies, Inc. as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Bath & Kitchen division, and most recently prior to that as Corporate Vice President and Controller.
Total Compensation: $ —
Patricia Gray has served as our Senior Vice President, General Counsel since October 2007 and Secretary since December 2007. Prior to joining us, from May 2005 to October 2007, Ms. Gray served as Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Panera Bread Company. Prior to Panera Bread Company, Ms. Gray served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Arch Wireless, Inc.
Total Compensation: $ 527,576.00
Mark Rose has served as our Senior Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer since November 2004. Mr. Rose previously served as our Vice President, Merchandising Procurement since 1992.
Total Compensation: $ —
On April 10, 2008, Celeste Risimini-Johnson has been promoted to Vice President. Ms. Risimini-Johnson, 38, most recently held the position of Senior Director, New Business Initiatives. In 2006, Ms. Risimini-Johnson led the Company"s efforts to launch its store-within-a-store shoe initiative which the Company introduced in 2007. In 2002, Ms. Risimini-Johnson was promoted to oversee the Company"s outlet division, which during her tenure experienced 30% sales growth on a compounded annual basis. Prior to this, she held several positions of increasing responsibility within the merchandising organization, most recently having served as Director of Merchandising. Ms. Risimini-Johnson joined The Children"s Place in 1992.
Total Compensation: $ 1.37 M
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Total Compensation: $ 658,794.00
Susan Riley has served as our Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration and as our interim Chief Financial Officer from January 2007 until December 2007. In her role as Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration she is our principal financial officer. From April 2006 to January 2007, Ms. Riley served as our Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (in which capacity she was our principal financial officer). From March 2006 to April 2006, Ms. Riley served as our Senior Vice President, Finance. Prior to joining us, from July 2005 to February 2006, Ms. Riley served as the Chief Financial Officer of Klinger Advanced Aesthetics. From February 2004 to April 2005, Ms. Riley served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Abercrombie & Fitch and from August 2002 to November 2003, she served as Chief Financial Officer of The Mount Sinai Medical Center. Prior to Mount Sinai, she served as Vice President and Treasurer of Colgate Palmolive Company from January 2001 to August 2002.
Total Compensation: $ 1.18 M
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Total Compensation: $ —
Robert Fisch has served as a director of the Company since 2004 and is a member of the Audit Committee and the Corporate Governance Committee. Since 2001 Mr. Fisch has served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of rue21, a leading specialty retailer of value priced apparel for young women and men with over 375 stores across the United States.
Total Compensation: $ 4.97 M
Ezra Dabah has served as a director of the Company since 1989. From 1991 to January 2007, Mr. Dabah served as our Chairman and CEO. Mr. Dabah resigned as Chairman in January 2007 and continued as our CEO until September 2007. Mr. Dabah is the son-in-law of Stanley Silverstein, another of our directors.
Total Compensation: $ —
Malcolm Elvey has served as a director of the Company since 2002. Mr. Elvey is the chairman of the Audit Committee and is a member of the Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Elvey is the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. licensee of The International Academy for Chief Executives, a UK"based executive education business. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Elvey served as the Chief Executive Officer of QLIMO, a ground transportation company he helped found in New York. Since 1999, he has also served as Managing Partner of Collaborative Capital, a venture capital fund focused on early-stage technology companies.
Total Compensation: $ 583,819.00
Richard Flaks has served as our Senior Vice President, Planning, Allocation and Information Technology since November 2004. Mr. Flaks served as Vice President, Planning and Allocation from March 2003 through November 2004. Prior to joining us, from May 2001 to March 2003, Mr. Flaks held various positions within Victoria's Secret Stores division of Limited Brands, Inc. most recently serving as Vice President, Planning and Allocation.
Total Compensation: $ —
Stanley Silverstein has served as a director since 1996. Since 1952 Mr. Silverstein has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nina Footwear, a company he founded with his brother. Mr. Silverstein is the father-in-law of Ezra Dabah, our former CEO and another of our directors.
Total Compensation: $ —
Sally Frame Kasaks has served as a director of the Company since 2000, as our lead director since 2005, and as our Acting Chair since January 2007. Ms. Kasaks is a member of the Board's Audit and Compensation Committees and is Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee. Ms. Kasaks served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc. from October 2006 through May 2007 when she became Chair and Chief Executive Officer. Since 1997, she has served as a business consultant to a number of retailers through ISTA Incorporated. In addition to being a director of Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc., Ms. Kasaks is also a director of Crane & Co., Inc.
Total Compensation: $ —
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Total Compensation: $ —
Joseph Alutto was appointed as a director of the Company in May 2008 and will be a member of the Compensation Committee and the Corporate Governance Committee effective as of June 1, 2008. Since October 2007 he has served as executive Vice President and Provost of the Ohio State University. Prior to this position, Dr. Alutto served as the institution's interim President from July 1, 2007 until September 30, 2007. Prior to these positions, Dr. Alutto served as the Dean of the Max M. Fischer College of Business at the Ohio State University for 16 years.
Total Compensation: $ —
On April 10, 2008, Dina Sweeney has been promoted to Group Vice President. For the past three years Ms. Sweeney, 42, has overseen the Company"s Canada business, most recently serving as Vice President, Canada, which has experienced substantial growth and profitability under her leadership. In addition to overseeing the Company"s Canada business, in 2007 she was promoted to oversee the Company"s fast growing e-commerce business. Prior to this, she held several positions of increasing responsibility within the merchandising organization, most recently having served as Director of Merchandising.
Total Compensation: $ —
Louis Lipschitz was appointed as a director of the Company in May 2008 and will be a member of the Audit Committee and the Corporate Governance Committee effective as of June 1, 2008. Mr. Lipschitz currently serves on the Boards of Finlay Enterprises, New York & Company, Majesco Entertainment and Forward Industries. Previously, Mr. Lipschitz served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Toys "R" Us, Inc. from 1996 until his retirement in 2004.
