Chairman of the Board of Directors
Max Gottschalk
Mr. Gottschalk has served as the Chairman of our board of directors since March 2021 and as a member of PMA’s board of directors since May 2012 and a member of PMUK’s board of directors since July 2017. Since April 2022, Mr. Gottschalk has been serving as Director at Nurture Brands Limited, a plant based food and beverage business. Since November 2021, Mr. Gottschalk has been serving as Director at various holding entities for investments of the Hycap Fund, an energy transition private equity fund that invests in the hydrogen ecosystem. Since August 2011, Mr. Gottschalk has also been serving as Director of Jing Holdings Limited, a holding company that operated Jax Coco, a leading coconut water brand that was acquired by Nurture Brands Limited in 2022, and from August 2019 to May 2023 served as Director of Jax Coco UK Limited. Mr. Gottschalk is also the Co-Founder of and since December 2020 has been serving as a Partner and Director at Ocean 14 Capital Ltd., a private equity fund investing in emerging companies and technology to help protect and sustain our oceans. Since September 2019, Mr. Gottschalk has been serving as Director at Aeon Investment Limited, a credit-focused investment company, based in London. Mr. Gottschalk is also the Founder of and since December 2015 has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer and Director at Vedra Partners Ltd., a multi-family office with operations in London and Switzerland. In addition, Mr. Gottschalk is the Co-Founder of and from January 2021 to April 2023 served as a Partner and Director at Hydrogen Equity Partners Ltd., an investment management firm with a focus on new hydrogen energy sources. Mr. Gottschalk also co-founded Gottex Fund Management in 1998, a global asset management company that he built and brought to market in 2007 on the Swiss stock exchange. Prior to Gottex, he ran Bear Stearns’s fixed income derivatives hedge fund sales team in New York. Mr. Gottschalk holds a B.A. in Finance from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. We believe that Mr. Gottschalk is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to his extensive leadership and business experience as an entrepreneur and investor, as well as his service on other boards of directors.
President, Chief Creative Officer and Director
Jane Gottschalk
Ms. Gottschalk has served as our Chief Creative Officer since September 2022, as a member of our board of directors since March 2021 and as a member of PMA’s board of directors since May 2012. From July 2017 to September 2022, Ms. Gottschalk served as the Creative Director of PMUK, and since September 2022, Ms. Gottschalk has served, and is serving, as the Chief Creative Officer of PMUK. From May 2012 to September 2022, she served as Creative Director of PMA, and since September 2022, she has served, and is serving, as Chief Creative Officer of PMA. Since August 2011, Ms. Gottschalk is also serving as Director of Jing Holdings Limited, a holding company that operates Jax Coco, a leading coconut water brand, and from September 2012 to May 2023 served as Director of Jax Coco UK Limited. Ms. Gottschalk holds a B.A. from University of Kent. Ms. Gottschalk is the wife of Max Gottschalk, the Chairman of our board of directors. We believe that Ms. Gottschalk is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience she brings as our Chief Creative Officer and her creative, innovative and entrepreneurial attributes that provide valuable insight to our board and are aligned with our unique culture.
Director
Andre Keijsers
Mr. Keijsers has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2023. Since May 2016, Mr. Keijsers has been serving as Director of PMA, and from July 2017 to September 2019, Mr. Keijsers served as Director of PMUK. Since October 2020, Mr. Keijsers has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management (UK) Ltd, an investment management company and the regulated UK subsidiary of Dutch-listed Van Lanschot Kempen N.V. From January 2017 to July 2019, Mr. Keijsers was a senior partner at Vedra Partners Ltd., a multi-family office with operations in London and Switzerland. Prior to that, Mr. Keijsers served as the Chief Financial Officer of Kings Rock Global Investment Partners Ltd from April to December 2016, and the Chief Financial Officer and Director of Fansz Ltd., a social media technology company, from April to December 2015. Fansz Ltd. filed for liquidation in January 2016. From 2008 to 2015, Mr. Keijsers was a member of the Executive Committee and the Head of M&A of Gottex Fund Management, a global asset management company. From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Keijsers served as the Chief Financial Officer of Swapstream, an electronic trading platform for interest rate swaps and a subsidiary of CME Group Inc. (Nasdaq: CME). Mr. Keijsers is the founder of Arnhem Consulting Limited, through which he provides financial and corporate governance advice to companies. From February 2017 until October 2023, Arnhem Consulting Limited provided consulting services to PMA. Since August 2019, Mr. Keijsers has been serving as Director of Pinkhurst Lane Ltd. Since November 2018, Mr. Keijsers has also been serving as Director of TGR1.618 Ltd, Iris Audio Technologies Ltd, Iris Audio Engineering Ltd and Iris Clarity Ltd. From May 2016 to September 2019, Mr. Keijsers served as Director of Jing Holdings Limited, a holding company that operates Jax Coco UK Limited, a leading coconut water brand, and from May 2016 to August 2019, he served as Director of Jax Coco UK Limited. Mr. Keijsers was an Equity Sales Associate at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. from 1991 to 1994 and Associate Director of Equity Sales at UBS from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Keijsers received a doctorandus degree in Computer Science from the Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. We believe that Mr. Keijsers is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to his extensive leadership, financial and corporate governance experience, his understanding of the Company’s operations, as well as his service on other boards of directors.
Chairperson
Member
Audit Financial Expert
| Audit Committee | Compensation Committee | Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Max Gottschalk | |||
| Andre Keijsers |