Board of Directors

	Maxine Clark Founder and Chief Executive Bear Maxine Clark Maxine Clark, 63, has been our Chief Executive Bear since she founded the Company in 1997. She was our President from our inception in 1997 to April 2004, and served as Chairman of our Board of Directors from our conversion to a corporation in April 2000 until November 2011. She was initially elected to our Board of Directors pursuant to the terms of a stockholders’ agreement which terminated upon the closing of the Company’s initial public offering in 2004. Ms. Clark was re-ele...
	Mary Lou  Fiala Non-Executive Chairman Mary Lou  Fiala Mary Lou Fiala, 60, was originally appointed to the Board at a regular Board meeting on January 26, 2005, and then she was re-elected at our 2005, 2008 and 2010 annual meetings of stockholders. She was appointed as our Non-Executive Chairman in November 2011. From January 2009 until her retirement in December 2009, Ms. Fiala served as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Regency Centers Corporation (“Regency”), a publicly traded real estate investment trust specializing ...
	James Gould Director James Gould James M. Gould, 63, was initially elected to our Board of Directors pursuant to the terms of a stockholders’ agreement which terminated upon the closing of our initial public offering in 2004, and then he was re-elected to our Board at our 2007 and 2010 annual meetings of stockholders. Mr. Gould has served on our Board of Directors since our conversion to a corporation in April 2000, and he served on an advisory board to our predecessor entity prior to that time. Mr. Gould is a ...
	Virginia Kent Director Virginia Kent Virginia (Ginger) Kent, 57, was appointed to the Board of Directors at a regular Board meeting on November 17, 2010 and was re-elected to our Board at our 2011 annual meeting of stockholders. Since 2002, Ms. Kent has been an independent management consultant advising clients on a variety of business issues with primary focus on marketing strategy, global branding, and product development. She also served as Acting Chief Executive Officer of UniRush, LLC, a financial services com...
	Braden Leonard Director Braden Leonard Braden Leonard, 41, was appointed to the Board of Directors at a special Board meeting on April 28, 2011 and was re-elected to our Board at our 2012 annual meeting of stockholders. Since 2004, Mr. Leonard has been the Managing Member and founder of BML Capital Management, LLC, which is the General Partner of BML Investment Partners, L.P., a concentrated value oriented investment fund. At BML, he is responsible for research, capital allocation, and all investment decisio...
	Louis Mucci Director Louis Mucci Louis Mucci, 70, was originally appointed to the Board at a regular Board meeting on November 17, 2004, and then he was re-elected at our 2005, 2008 and 2011 annual meetings of stockholders. Since June 2007, Mr. Mucci has served as an advisor to the Board of Directors of Ruby’s Tequilas, a restaurant company. From February 2007 until June 2009, Mr. Mucci was a senior advisor to SMH Capital investment banking group, a company with shares registered pursuant to Section 12 of the ...
	Coleman Peterson Director Coleman Peterson Coleman Peterson, 63, was appointed to the Board of Directors at a regular Board meeting on November 10, 2005, and then he was re-elected at our 2006, 2009 and 2012 annual meetings of stockholders. He served as our Lead Independent Director from May 2009 until November 2011. Mr. Peterson is President and Chief Executive Officer of Hollis Enterprises LLC, a human resources consulting firm, which he founded in 2004 following his retirement from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (“Wal-Mart”). Mr. Peterson serv...
	Thomas Pinnau Director Thomas Pinnau Thomas Pinnau, 47, was appointed to the Board of Directors at a regular Board meeting on May 10, 2012. Since 2011, Mr. Pinnau has been the Chief Executive Officer of Knowledge Universe, Global Work Solutions, a provider of corporately sponsored employee work life support product services.  From 2009 to 2011, Mr. Pinnau was EVP/Executive Managing Director of the International Health and Beauty retail and product portfolio business at The Alliance Boots Company.  Prior to...
	Barney Ebsworth Director Emeritus Barney Ebsworth Barney Ebsworth, 74, was initially elected to our Board of Directors pursuant to the terms of a stockholders’agreement which terminated upon the closing of the Company’s initial public offering in 2004. Mr. Ebsworth has served on our Board of Directors since our conversion to a corporation in April 2000, and he served on an advisory board to our predecessor entity prior to that time. Mr. Ebsworth is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Windsor, Inc., formed in 1979 for the purpos...