Denise Seegal

Vice Chairman of Advisory Board and Executive Committee

Denise Seegal is a strategic global leader and CEO with proven success in brand building and management across multiple channels of distribution in the fashion industry for over 30 years. Her expertise in product development, merchandising, consumer focused marketing, and talent development has positively impacted the growth of apparel, accessory,and designer lifestyle companies including Ralph Lauren, DKNY, Calvin Klein, Liz Claiborne, and Nautica. She is currently consulting for Financo and several private equity groups. Ms. Seegal is also serving on the boards of Parsons The New School, LIM College, The Fashion Group International, The Head of the Charles, The EWIF Advisory board at FIT, and is an active member of The New York Women’s Forum.

In her last role as President of VF Corporation – Sportswear Coalition, she revitalized the iconic Nautica brand and drove the growth strategy by elevating the brand, product, marketing, licensing,and geographic expansion. Formerly Ms. Seegal was CEO of Sweetface Fashion,where she leveraged the JLO celebrity brand for Jennifer Lopez by expanding into ten licensed product categories including fragrances with Coty. As President of Liz Claiborne Inc., Ms. Seegal drove the transformation of the core Liz Claiborne brand across all consumer touchpoints and led the development of a multi- branded, multi-channel diversified portfolio strategy which including acquisitions of Sigrid Olsen, Lucky Brand Jeans, Laundry, and Monet as well as the startups of DKNY Jeans, Active, and Juniors, Kenneth Cole New York and Reaction, Crazy Horse for JC Penney, and Nikki Taylor for Target.

Ms. Seegal also was the founding President of DKNY and launched 6 divisions in 6 years, collaborating with Donna Karan on the lifestyle brand vision. Prior to this she was Executive Vice President of Ralph Lauren Womenswear. Ms. Seegal began her career at Bloomingdales and was fortunate to have Marvin Traub as her mentor.