BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Blake W. Krueger
- Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Wolverine World Wide, Inc.
Director since 2006 | Age 58
Mr. Krueger's experience includes footwear, apparel and retail industry, corporate leadership, branded marketing, international operations, legal, and public company officer and board experience.
Mr. Krueger has more than 15 years of experience as an executive officer of Wolverine World Wide, Inc., including nearly five years as Chief Executive Officer with responsibility for all aspects of the business, including international operations, brand management, apparel and accessories and retail development, footwear wholesale, manufacturing, sourcing, corporate governance, human resources and mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Krueger is currently Chairman of Wolverine World Wide, Inc., a position he assumed in January 2010, and Chief Executive Officer and President of Wolverine World Wide, Inc., positions he assumed in April 2007. From October 2005 until April 2007, Mr. Krueger served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Wolverine World Wide, Inc. From 2004 to October 2005, he served as Executive Vice President and Secretary of Wolverine World Wide, Inc. and President of the Heritage Brands Group. From 2003 to 2004, Mr. Krueger served as Executive Vice President and Secretary of Wolverine World Wide, Inc. and President of the Caterpillar Footwear Group.
He has also previously served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Wolverine World Wide, Inc. with various responsibilities including the human resources, retail, business development, accessory licensing, mergers and acquisitions, and legal areas. During the preceding five years, Mr. Krueger was, but no longer is, a director of Professionals Direct, Inc.
Timothy J. O'Donovan
- Retired Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Wolverine World Wide, Inc.
Director since 1993 | Age 66
Mr. O'Donovan's experience includes footwear, apparel and retail industry, corporate leadership, branded marketing, international operations, public company officer and board experience and public company finance and accounting experience through audit committee service.
Mr. O'Donovan has more than 40 years of experience with Wolverine Worldwide, including two years as non-executive Chairman of the Board and seven years as Chief Executive Officer, with responsibility for all aspects of the business, including international operations, brand management, apparel and accessories and retail development, footwear wholesale, manufacturing, sourcing, corporate governance, human resources and mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. O'Donovan is a former Chairman of the Board of Wolverine Worldwide, and served in that position from April 2005 through December 2009. In April 2007, Mr. O'Donovan retired as Chief Executive Officer of Wolverine Worldwide, a position which he held since April 2000. Mr. O'Donovan served Wolverine Worldwide as its Chief Executive Officer and President from April 2000 until April 2005, and as Chief Operating Officer and President from 1996 until April 2000.
Before 1996, Mr. O'Donovan was Executive Vice President of Wolverine Worldwide. Mr. O'Donovan has more than 30 collective years of experience on public company boards and service on both audit (six years) and compensation (seven years) committees of public company boards. Mr. O'Donovan is currently a director of Spartan Stores, Inc. and Kaydon Corporation.
Jeffrey M. Boromisa
- Retired Executive Vice President of Kellogg International, President of Latin America
- Senior Vice President of Kellogg Company
- Member of Kellogg Company's Global Leadership Team
- (leading global cereal and specialty food company)
- Member of the Audit Committee
Director since 2006 | Age 57
Mr. Boromisa's experience includes public company officer, finance and accounting, corporate leadership, branded marketing and international operations experience. This experience includes service as Chief Financial Officer, other senior finance roles and in senior roles involving executive management, brand management, marketing and international operations, during his more than 25 year career at Kellogg Company, a publicly traded, multinational company and leading global cereal, snack and specialty foods company.
Mr. Boromisa was Executive Vice President of Kellogg International, President of Latin America; Senior Vice President of Kellogg Company, and a member of Kellogg Company's Global Leadership Team from 2008 through his retirement in March 2009. From 2006 until 2008, Mr. Boromisa served as Executive Vice President of Kellogg International, President of Asia Pacific and Senior Vice President of the Kellogg Company, as well as serving as a member of Kellogg Company's Global Leadership Team.
From 2004 until 2006, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Kellogg Company. In 2002, Mr. Boromisa was promoted to Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Financial Officer of Kellogg International. Mr. Boromisa served as Vice President and Corporate Controller of Kellogg Company from November 1999 until 2002.
In 1997, he was promoted to Vice President – Purchasing of Kellogg North America, and from 1981 to 1997, served Kellogg Company in various financial positions. Mr. Boromisa also is a director at Haworth, Inc., a privately held, international, office furniture design and manufacturing company.
William K. Gerber
- Managing Director of Cabrillo Point Capital LLC
- (private investment fund)
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Compensation Committee
Director since 2008 | Age 58
Mr. Gerber's experience includes public company, finance and accounting, apparel and retail industry, corporate leadership, international operations and public company officer and director experience. Mr. Gerber is Managing Director of Cabrillo Point Capital LLC, a private investment fund. He has held that position since 2008.
From 1998 to 2007, Mr. Gerber was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Kelly Services, Inc., a publicly traded global staffing solutions company with operations in more than 35 countries. In this role, Mr. Gerber was responsible for investor relations, mergers and acquisitions and purchasing in addition to core Chief Financial Officer functions.
In addition to Mr. Gerber's 10 years of experience as Chief Financial Officer of Kelly Services, Inc., he has 15 years of experience in various finance roles, including Vice President, Finance, and Vice President, Corporate Controller, for Limited Brands, Inc., a publicly traded company in the apparel and retail industry. Mr. Gerber is a director of and Chairman of the Audit Committees of AK Steel Holding Corporation and Kaydon Corporation.
Alberto L. Grimoldi
- Chairman of Grimoldi, S.A.
- (shoe manufacturer and retailer in Argentina)
Director since 1994 | Age 70
Mr. Grimoldi's experience includes footwear, apparel and retail industry experience, corporate leadership, international operations, government and branded marketing experience. Mr. Grimoldi has more than 25 years of experience in the footwear and retail industries with Grimoldi, S.A., a publicly traded company in Argentina that sells footwear and apparel in both wholesale and retail markets.
Mr. Grimoldi has been Chairman of Grimoldi, S.A. since 1986. Mr. Grimoldi has significant additional international operations and finance experience in the private sector, including as a member of the Advisory Board of Ford Motor Company and as Vice Chairman of Banco Privado de Inversiones, S.A., an investment bank, as well as leadership and finance experience earned while in government service in Argentina as Undersecretary of Foreign Trade, Undersecretary of Economics and Labor, Secretary of Industry and a member of the board of the Central Bank of Argentina.
Joseph R. Gromek
- Retired President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of The Warnaco Group, Inc.
- (apparel, sportswear and swimwear wholesaler and retailer)
- Member of the Compensation Committee
- Member of the Governance Committee
Director since 2008 | Age 65
Mr. Gromek's experience includes footwear, apparel and retail industry, corporate leadership, international operations, public company officer and branded marketing experience. Mr. Gromek has more than 30 years of experience managing and marketing brands and 40 years of experience in the retail and apparel industry, including 15 years as a chief executive officer.
From 2003 until his retirement in 2012, Mr. Gromek served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of The Warnaco Group, Inc., a publicly traded company which designs, sources, manufactures, markets, retails, licenses and distributes a broad line of intimate apparel, sportswear and swimwear worldwide.
As Chief Executive Officer of The Warnaco Group, Inc., Mr. Gromek oversaw extensive U.S. and international branded operations and points of distribution. Mr. Gromek also served as Chief Executive Officer of Brooks Brothers, Inc. from 1995 until 2002. Mr. Gromek is a Director of The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc. and Stanley M. Proctor Company.
David T. Kollat
- Lead Director of the Board of Wolverine World Wide, Inc.
- President and Chairman of 22, Inc.
- (research and management consulting firm)
- Member of the Compensation Committee
Director since 1992 | Age 73
Mr. Kollat's experience includes apparel and retail industry, branded marketing, corporate leadership, public company officer and board experience and public company finance and accounting experience through audit committee service. Mr. Kollat has been President and Chairman of 22, Inc., a company specializing in research and management consulting for retailers and consumer goods manufacturers, since 1987.
In addition to his marketing and management experience as President and Chairman of 22, Inc., Mr. Kollat has 11 years of experience as Executive Vice President, Marketing, and a member of the executive committee of Limited Brands, Inc., a publicly traded company operating in the apparel and retail industry, and three years at Limited Brands, Inc. as President of Victoria's Secret Direct. Mr. Kollat has 90 collective years of experience serving on public company boards, including experience on audit (13 years), compensation (17 years), governance (9 years) and finance (9 years) committees of public company boards. Mr. Kollat is Lead Director of Wolverine and currently serves as a director of Limited Brands, Inc.; Big Lots, Inc.; and Select Comfort Corporation.
In 2009, prior to Mr. Kollat's re-election as a director, the Board decided to waive the Company's age 72 resignation requirement for Mr. Kollat, allowing him to serve an additional term ending in 2013.
Brenda J. Lauderback
- Retired President of the Wholesale and Retail Group of Nine West Group, Inc.
- (footwear wholesaler and retailer)
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Governance Committee
Director since 2003 | Age 61
Ms. Lauderback's experience includes footwear, apparel and retail industry, corporate leadership, branded marketing, international operations, public company board and public company finance and accounting experience through audit committee service. Ms. Lauderback has more than 25 years of experience in the retail industry and more than 20 years of footwear, apparel, and accessories industry experience.
From 1995 until her retirement in 1998, Ms. Lauderback was president of the Wholesale and Retail Group of Nine West Group, Inc., a footwear wholesaler and distributor. She previously was the President of the Wholesale Division of U.S. Shoe Corporation, a footwear manufacturer and distributor, a position that included responsibility for offices in China, Italy and Spain, and was a Vice President/General Merchandise Manager of Dayton Hudson Corporation, a retailer.
Ms. Lauderback has more than 45 collective years of experience on public company boards and collective experience of more than 20 years on both audit committees and governance committees of public company boards and is chair of three governance committees. Ms. Lauderback is a director of Big Lots, Inc.; Denny's Corporation and Select Comfort Corporation. During the preceding five years, Ms. Lauderback also was, but no longer is, a director of Irwin Financial Corporation.
Nicholas T. Long
- Chief Executive Officer of MillerCoors LLC
- (brewer and marketer)
Director since 2011 | Age 53
Mr. Long's experience includes corporate leadership, branded marketing and international operations. Mr. Long has more than 20 years of experience as a senior executive in the beverage industry, including senior assignments in more than 60 countries. Mr. Long has been Chief Executive Officer of MillerCoors LLC since 2011.
From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Long served as President and Chief Commercial Officer of MillerCoors. From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Long served as Chief Executive Officer of Miller Brewing Company and he served as Chief Marketing Officer of Miller Brewing Company from 2005 to 2007.
Prior to joining Miller Brewing Company, Mr. Long spent 17 years in various senior leadership positions at The Coca-Cola Company, including Vice President of Strategic Marketing Global Brands, Vice President Strategic Marketing Research and Trends, President of Coca-Cola's Great Britain and Ireland Division and President of the Northwest Europe Division.
David P. Mehney
- President of The KMW Group, Inc.
- (medical and marine products distributor)
Director since 1977 | Age 72
Mr. Mehney's experience includes corporate leadership, branded marketing and international operations experience. Mr. Mehney has been President of The KMW Group, Inc. since 1966. The KMW Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries import and distribute medical products in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia and distribute marine products in Michigan.
Mr. Mehney's experience with The KMW Group, Inc. includes establishing foreign-owned brands in the United States market and the distribution of sourced products in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. Mr. Mehney has been associated with Wolverine's business and industry for nearly 35 years as a member of Wolverine's Board of Directors.
Shirley D. Peterson
- Retired Partner of Steptoe & Johnson LLP
- (law firm)
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Governance Committee
Director since 2005 | Ag 70
Ms. Peterson's experience includes legal, financial and executive management experience from both the public and private sectors, public company board, government and public company finance and accounting experience through audit committee service.
Ms. Peterson has diverse management experience in various private and public sector roles, including President of Hood College, Assistant Attorney General of the Tax Division for the U.S. Department of Justice, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and more than 20 years in private law practice as a tax attorney at the law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP.
From 1995 until her retirement in 2000, Ms. Peterson served as President of Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. Ms. Peterson has more than 35 collective years of experience on public company boards, including experience on boards of companies with significant international, retail, brand development, manufacturing and sourcing operations, as well as more than 25 collective years of experience serving on public company audit committees and more than 35 collective years of experience serving on public company governance committees, with an additional 13 years of experience serving on the governance committee of the DWS Fund Complex.
Ms. Peterson is currently a director of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and of AK Steel Holding Corporation. During the preceding five years, Ms. Peterson also was, but no longer is, a director of Federal-Mogul Corporation and Champion Enterprises, Inc., and was a director or trustee of various funds within the DWS Fund Complex.
Michael A. Volkema
- Chairman of Herman Miller, Inc.
- (designer and manufacturer of office and home furnishings)
- Member of the Compensation Committee
- Member of the Governance Committee
Director since 2005 | Age 56
Mr. Volkema's experience includes corporate leadership, branded marketing, international operations, public company officer and board experience and public company finance and accounting experience through audit committee service.
Mr. Volkema has more than 20 years of experience as a senior executive in the home and office furnishings industry, including nine years as Chief Executive Officer of Herman Miller, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of furnishings for the office and home, and a publicly traded company with international, branded operations.
Mr. Volkema has been Chairman of Herman Miller, Inc. since 2000. Mr. Volkema became President and Chief Executive Officer of Herman Miller in 1995 and held those positions until 2003 and 2004, respectively. Mr. Volkema has more than 25 collective years of experience on public company boards, including 11 years as Chairman of the Board at Herman Miller, Inc., and including service on public company compensation and audit committees.
Mr. Volkema also is a director at Milliken & Company, a privately held, innovation-based company serving textile, chemical, and floor covering markets. During the preceding five years, Mr. Volkema was, but no longer is, a director of Champion Enterprises, Inc. and Applebee's International, Inc.
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