Lizanne Kindler, chair and a Class C director, is the executive chair and chief executive officer of KnitWell Group, a multibrand specialty retail company comprised of the apparel brands Ann Taylor, Chico’s, Haven Well Within, Lane Bryant, LOFT, Soma, Talbots, and White House Black Market. This collection of brands generates nearly $6 billion in sales annually, making KnitWell one of the largest specialty apparel companies in the United States. Kindler is on the board of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and serves as an executive trustee of the American Scandinavian Foundation. She served as an expert-in-residence for Babson College’s Women Innovating Now Lab, an accelerator for female entrepreneurs and was on the advisory board of the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. In 2024, she was named “Person of the Year” by the American Apparel & Footwear Association and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Kindler is a native of Denmark and graduated from the Copenhagen Business School with a bachelor’s in economics.