At its Supervisory Board Meeting today, ECCO Sko A/S has decided to initiate a gradual generational handover in the Managing Board of the company.
ECCO’s Managing Director Dieter Kasprzak hands over the day-to-day management of ECCO Sko A/S to Steen Borgholm, presently member of the Managing Board and Chief Financial Officer of ECCO Sko A/S. At the same time, Steen Borgholm is appointed Deputy Managing Director.
The intention is to appoint Steen Borgholm Managing Director of the company in connection with the Supervisory Board Meeting and Annual General Meeting in May 2017.
Having been in charge of ECCO Sko A/S the past almost 12 years, Dieter Kasprzak wants to hand over the day-to-day management responsibility to Steen Borgholm in order to be able to focus more on especially ECCO’s design and product development. Furthermore, Dieter Kasprzak will continue as a member of ECCO’s Supervisory Board.
Steen Borgholm has a career of long standing in ECCO since his start in year 2000. After working some years in ECCO’s finance department, he shifted to sales and initially built up ECCO’s accessories company in Switzerland for three years. In 2006, he was appointed Managing Director of ECCO Canada and developed this subsidiary during a period of four years. In 2010, Steen Borgholm was appointed Regional Director with responsibility for the entire Asian region, based in Hong Kong, and in 2012, was appointed member of ECCO’s Managing Board, based in Bredebro.
Aside from Steen Borgholm, the day-to-day top management hereafter consists of Panos Mytaros, responsible for the Group’s leather and shoe production activities, Andreas Wortmann, product and brand director, and Michel Krol, global sales director.
ECCO’s Chairman, Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak, says: ”I am very pleased that we have a person from within our own ranks to take over the day-to-day management of ECCO. Steen Borgholm’s strong global market insight, considerable financial competences, and broad knowledge about ECCO and our products provide a solid background for taking on the job.
Further information
Contact: Søren Kragh Pedersen, Head of External Communication: +45 20 25 70 18 (dir.) or through ECCO’s reception +45 74 91 16 25. Alternatively press@ecco.com.
About ECCO
ECCO, a world-leading brand of shoes combining style and comfort, has built its success on great design, leather quality, and innovative technology. ECCO is one of the few major shoe manufacturers in the world which owns and manages every aspect of its leather and shoe productions and its retail sales. ECCO is among the largest producers in the world of high-quality leather, which is used in ECCO’s shoes and own production of leather goods and is also sold to several leading luxury brands. Today, ECCO products are sold in 87 countries in more than 3,300 ECCO shops and shop-in-shops and at more than 14,000 sales points around the world. The company is family-owned, founded in Denmark in 1963, and employs more than 19,000 people worldwide. www.ecco.com