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Kevin Audette Plank (born August 13, 1972 [1]) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Plank is the founder and executive chairman of Under Armour , a manufacturer of sportswear, footwear and accessories, based in Baltimore , Maryland.
Plank says he is resetting the business. That includes slashing 25% of the company's stock keeping units (SKU), cutting more costs (the other constant in recent years), and rededicating himself to ...
CVS Health: President and chief executive officer October 15, 2018 Juha Sipilä [74] Republic of Finland: Prime Minister: November 26, 2018 Kevin Plank [75] Under Armour: Founder, CEO and chairman of the Board November 27, 2018 Jerome H. Powell [76] [77] Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: Chairman January 10, 2019 Nancy Pelosi
Under Armour was founded on September 25, 1996, by Kevin Plank, a then-24 year old former special teams captain of the University of Maryland football team. Plank initially began the business from his grandmother's basement in Washington, D.C. [4] He spent his time traveling along the East Coast with nothing but apparel in the trunk of his car ...
Founder Kevin Plank remains Under Armour’s controlling shareholder. The visible ongoing presence of a charismatic founder can be a problem for a new CEO, says Neil Saunders, a GlobalData Retail ...
To say Plank is the cultural opposite of Linnartz is an understatement. Plank deserves full credit for working hard to bring Under Armour to life — the guy was selling T-shirts out of his car in ...
The MSNBC anchor also confirmed that she had three phones: a work phone, a personal phone and a so-called “Kevin Plank phone”. "We were friends and I covered his company," the anchor added ...
Patrik Frisk (born 1962/1963) is a Swedish/American businessman in the apparel industry. [3] From 2020 to 2022, he was the president and CEO of Under Armour, when he succeeded the company's founder, Kevin Plank. [2]