Movers: May 18, 2001
Dane O’Neal was named vice president of retail and marketing for Los Angeles-based knitwear manufacturer French Rags...Kathy Prost was named excutive vice president of Los Angeles-based Cherokee Inc., replacing Nina Leong, who left the company...Jeffrey N. Boyer has been appointed executive vice president of Troy. Mich.-based Kmart Corp...Paul J. Liska has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer of Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based Sears, Roebuck and Co...Eric Sprunk has been promoted to vice president of global footwear for Beaverton, Ore.-based Nike; Mary Kate Buckly succeeds Sprunk as vice president of the Americas for the company; Gary DeStefano will take over Buckley’s duties as president of U.S. operations; Eunan McLaughlin was promoted from vice president global sales to vice president of the Asia Pacific region, a position formerly held by DeStefano...Troy Stanley was promoted to director, textile strategy for Charlotte, N.C.-based fiber manufacturer Kosa; Achim Heyer will assume Stanley’s previous position business as director for the U.S./Canada textile staple business line...Nordstrom Inc. appointed Mike Koppel as the company’s new CFO. Koppel, who had been acting chief financial officer since last September, started at Nordstrom in 1999 as vice president and corporate controller...Christopher Bailey has been named designer director of London-based Burberry...Katherine Lawther Krill has been promoted to president of Ann Taylor Loft, a division of New York-based Ann Taylor Inc.; Krill was previously executive vice president of the division...Hialeah, Fla.-based Gepetto Inc. has named Sandra Alexander vice president of product development...Irene Miller was named to New York-based Coach Inc.’s board of directors...Andrea M. Weiss was named president of Delia’s Corp.; she has also joined the company’s board of directors...Nordstrom has presented Exclusively Misook and J&A Shoe Company with the company’s ninth annual Partners In Excellence Award during its annual meeting of shareholders in Seattle. The award recognizes Nordstrom vendors that demonstrate exceptional commitment to quality, value, service, partnership and business ethics.
