Peter Boneparth
Former President & CEO
Jones Apparel Group

Peter Boneparth became the Chief Executive Officer of Jones Apparel Group in May 2002.  He was also the Chief Executive Officer of McNaughton Apparel Group Inc. at the time of its acquisition by Jones in 2001. Prior to joining McNaughton Apparel Group in May 1997, he was the Senior Managing Director in the Investment Banking Department at Rodman & Renshaw and was also a member of the Management Committee and on the Board of the Directors at the firm.  Prior to joining Rodman, Mr. Boneparth was Head of Investment Banking and a member of the Board of Directors of Mabon Securities Corp. where he worked for eight years.  Previously, he practiced corporate securities law at Shea & Gould where he worked extensively for two major investment banking firms.

Mr. Boneparth is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (1980) and received his J.D. from the University of Virginia (1984).

Richard W. Dreiling
Chairman, President & CEO
Duane Reade, Inc.

Richard (“Rick”) W. Dreiling was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Duane Reade, Inc., on November 21, 2005, and became Chairman on March 7, 2007. The company takes its name from its first successful full-service drugstore, which opened in 1960 on Broadway between Duane and Reade Streets in Manhattan. Since then, Duane Reade has grown to become the most recognized drugstore chain in metropolitan New York. Today, it operates over 250 stores in commercial and residential neighborhoods throughout New York.

Previously, Rick served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Longs Drug Stores Corporation, an operator of a chain of retail drug stores on the West Coast and Hawaii, starting there in 2003. Before that, he was Executive Vice President of Marketing, Manufacturing and Distribution of Safeway, Inc., a food and drug retailer. Earlier still, he served as President of Vons, a Southern California food and drug division of Safeway

Rick earned a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Relations from Rockhurst University in Missouri. He began his career in 1969 as a part-time clerk with Safeway, Inc. in Kansas and he worked his way through the retail ranks before being promoted in 1998 to President of Vons.

Rick serves on the Board of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) and the Board of Directors of Chain Drug Consortium, LLC. He was a recipient of the 2006 Human Rights Award given by the Jewish Labor Committee in recognition of his efforts to promote the shared social justice agenda between the AJC and the trade union movement and they honored him again in October 2006 as their “Person of the Year”. Rick was a Finalist in Ernst & Young’s 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards for the Metro New York area. He and his wife, Ellen, have a son, RJ and a daughter, Amy. Rick’s hobbies are reading, golfing, and he is an avid race car fan.

Brian J. Dunn
President and COO
Best Buy Company

As President and Chief Operating Officer of Best Buy, Brian Dunn is responsible for the profitable operation of the 800-plus U.S. Best Buy, Geek Squad and Magnolia Audio Video stores, as well as the company’s online channels. He also oversees the management of Best Buy’s merchant teams, customer business groups, its service business and its small business offerings.

Dunn started with Best Buy in 1985 as a sales associate when the company operated just a dozen stores. In the twenty years since, his career has been a reflection of the company itself – confident, optimistic and unafraid to grow and take on new challenges.

In 1989 he became a store manager and in 1990 a district manager in Minnesota. He was promoted to regional manager for Ohio, Indianapolis and Philadelphia stores in 1996, and in May, 1998 he became regional vice president of the northeastern region, leading Best Buy’s entry into that market. He was promoted to senior vice president of Division 3 Retail Sales in March 2000, which encompassed all of Best Buy’s East Coast operations. He was named Executive Vice President of U.S. Retail in 2002, and President of Retail, North America, in December 2004.

At every stop along the way, Dunn has demonstrated a rare ability to connect with people and inspire them to work together to accomplish extraordinary things. Dunn is a product of - and a steward of - a unique Best Buy field culture that has driven and continues to drive the company’s performance. He firmly believes that in order to be truly great, Best Buy must be fused together at its core by people with a set of shared, unshakeable values.

As Best Buy has grown, Dunn has used his own growing influence to ensure that the company continues to treat these values as precious: to have fun while being the best; to show respect, humility and integrity; to learn from challenge and change; and to unleash the power of people.

Dunn also has encouraged the company to fight against the slide to generic bureaucracy that often accompanies aggressive growth, and has championed an informal - often irreverent - internal culture. The successful preservation of these attributes has helped breed a fierce company loyalty among long-time Best Buy employees, and helped foster an organizational ability to adapt to constant change quickly and positively.

Dunn’s bottom-up career has equipped him with a special contextual understanding of how a company lives and breathes. He believes the rich history of the people who have made Best Buy what it is today is a story worth telling. And in his new role, Dunn will work to tell the Best Buy story as he has known it and lived it to customers, strategic partners and investors alike.

Dunn was born in New Jersey but spent his formative years in Edina, Minnesota, where he lives today with his wife Sue and their three sons.

Jim Hagale
President/CEO
Bass Pro Shops

Jim Hagale, a well known leader in the outdoor retail industry, was named President and Chief Operating Officer of Bass Pro Shops in January 2003 with responsibility for the overall day-to-day operations of the company.

With the help of Mr. Hagale’s guidance and leadership, Bass Pro Shops continues to expand their popular destination retail stores across the United States and Canada. Sporting Goods Business Magazine named Bass Pro Shops the #1 Outdoor Retailer in America two consecutive years. Internet Retailer in their 8th annual recognition of market leading retail sites included Bass Pro Shops in the “Best of the Web Top 50” for the Specialty/Non-apparel category for the second consecutive year.

Prior to being named President and COO, Mr. Hagale was Executive Vice President responsible for merchandising, distribution, finance, human resources, and information technology. In August 2002 he was promoted to Chief Operating Officer.

A native of Springfield, Missouri, Mr. Hagale founded Hagale Industries, Inc in 1969 and began a successful career in apparel manufacturing and marketing. With just 25 employees, he began producing men's and women's apparel and marketed nationally to major branded catalogers and retailers including Land's End, L. L. Bean, J. Crew, Nordstrom, Brooks Brothers, Joseph A. Banks, J. C. Penney, and many more.

Mr. Hagale’s marketing ingenuity and strategic business vision have been recognized within his industry and community. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Wonders of Wildlife, has served on the Board of Directors of Empire Bank and on the Board of Trustees of St. John's Regional Health Center in Springfield, Missouri. He was nominated for the Theodor Herzl Award in 2006, was inducted into the Greater Ozarks Business Hall of Fame in 1992 and received the W. Curtis Strube Ethics in Business Award in 2001. The Springfield News-Leader featured Mr. Hagale in an article, "The 100 Ozarkers of the Century Who Shaped Our Future" in 1999.

Hagale Industries was awarded Manufacturer of the Year in 1997 and Exporter of the Year in 1998 by the state of Missouri.

Mr. Hagale received his B.A. in Accounting/Finance from the University of Notre Dame.  He and his wife, Mary Martha, have six children, including two sets of twins.

Sandra Horbach
Managing Director
The Carlyle Group

Sandra Horbach is a Managing Director and Head of the Consumer/Retail Group at The Carlyle Group.  The Carlyle Group is a global private equity investment firm with approximately $71 billion under management.  The firm invests in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings.
           
Ms. Horbach currently serves on the board of directors of the following companies: Dunkin’ Brands, the leading QSR company operating under the Dunkin’ Donuts, Baskin-Robbins and Togo’s brands; Oriental Trading Company, a leading direct seller of value-priced novelty items and party supplies; and philosophy, a premium skin and personal care products company.  In addition, she serves as a member of the Executive Committee & Board of Trustees at Rockefeller University, Chair of the Investment Committee at Rockefeller University and the Board of Trustees of The Chapin School in New York.  Ms. Horbach is a former member of the Stanford Business School Advisory Council.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Ms. Horbach served as a General Partner of Forstmann Little (“FL”), a private investment firm that has invested $15 billion in 30 acquisitions since it was founded in 1978.  She joined FL as an Associate in 1987, and became a General Partner in 1993.  Ms. Horbach was responsible for the management and oversight of many of FL’s most successful investments, including: Gulfstream Aerospace; Aldila; Department 56; Ziff-Davis Publishing Company; Community Health Systems; Yankee Candle Company and Citadel Communications.  Prior to joining FL, Ms. Horbach spent two years in the mergers and acquisition department of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.  She received her MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

David Jaffe
President and CEO
dressbarn, inc.

David Jaffe is President and CEO of dressbarn, inc., a leading national retailer with over $1.4 billion in annual sales and 1,400 stores through its dressbarn and maurices brands.  He joined dressbarn in 1992, holding numerous positions of increasing responsibility until being promoted to President & CEO in 2002.  David was responsible for spearheading the transition of dressbarn from an off-price discount store to a lifestyle specialty store brand, and later for the acquisition of maurices.

Prior to joining dressbarn, David was a General Partner of what is now JP Morgan Partners, a private equity firm.  He began his career at Merrill Lynch as a portfolio manager.  David received his BS/BA from the Wharton School/University of Pennsylvania and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

David is the founder, secretary/treasurer and a director of the Food Allergy Initiative, and a trustee of the New Canaan Country School.  He lives with his wife and four children in New Canaan, CT.

George Jones
President & CEO
Borders Group, Inc.

George became President and Chief Executive Officer of Borders Group, Inc. in July 2006.  He brings more than three decades of retail experience to the company including his most recent post as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Saks Department Store Group.

Prior to Saks, Jones was President, Worldwide Licensing and Retail, for Warner Bros., where in addition to his core responsibilities, he oversaw Warner Bros. Worldwide Publishing, Kids WB Music, Warner Bros. Interactive Media, WB Sports and Warner Bros. Studio Stores.  His background also includes key merchandising and operations positions at Target Corporation, including Executive Vice President-Store Operations and Senior Vice President-Merchandising.

Kevin Monogue
President
DKNY Jeans

Kevin Monogue is President of DKNY Jeans and Active.  In this role, he is responsible for all business aspects of DKNY Jeans Womens, Mens, Juniors and Active.

In May 1999, Mr. Monogue joined the company as National Sales Manager to spearhead the launch of the Junior Jeans division.  He was promoted to Vice President/General Manager of DKNY Jeans in 2001 and in 2003 left to become Sales Director, US Apparel Womens, Mens and Kids for Nike.  Mr. Monogue was appointed Vice President/General Manager of Dana Buchman in January 2005 and the following year, returned to DKNY Jeans as Vice President/General Manager.

Mr. Monogue has built a strong reputation with his extraordinary sales abilities, thorough knowledge of the industry, and consummate ability to relate to and support a broad range of products and categories of merchandise.  He began his career as a Department Manager working at Burdines in Florida.  He has also held positions at Michael Kors and Polo Jeans.

Outside of DKNY Jeans, Mr. Monogue is a member of the Mouse committee.  Mouse is a nonprofit organization that creates technology-based opportunities that motivate underserved students to succeed in today’s information society.

Mr. Monogue graduated with a degree in Fashion Merchandising from the University of Wisconsin.  He is the middle of five children originating from Wisconsin.  He currently resides in New York City.

John Schnatter
Founder and Executive Chairman
Papa John's International, Inc

In 1983, John Schnatter delivered his last campus pizza, picked up his business degree from Ball State University, and went home to Jeffersonville, Indiana.  There, at age 22, he knocked down the broom closet in his father’s tavern, installed an oven and began delivering pizza out of the back of the bar. 

From day one, John believed he could make a better traditional pizza by using fresh dough and superior-quality ingredients.  Today, Papa John’s boasts 3,054 restaurants in 50 states and 32 countries.  Papa John’s remains focused on using the highest quality ingredients to make its customers a superior-quality pizza. 

In 1996, Schnatter and his company earned the praise of residents in their hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, by making a substantial funding commitment for a new 42,000-seat football stadium on the University of Louisville campus.  The structure, which opened in September 1998, is called Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium.

Schnatter’s numerous business achievements and philanthropic efforts culminated in his induction into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2007.  He was also named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans in 2000 by the National Jaycees Organization and the 1998 National Ernst & Young Retail/Consumer Entrepreneur of The Year.

Greg Scott
CEO
bebe stores, inc.

Greg Scott rejoined bebe stores inc. in 2004 as CEO with prior experience as Vice President of Merchandising from 1996 to 2000. Given his understanding of the company, Mr. Scott was quickly able to implement strategic growth initiatives in merchandising, new store growth, brand extensions, marketing and the expansion of the brand internationally.
As a result of these initial efforts, fiscal 2005 sales increased 37% to $509 million, which represented a 25.7% comp store sales increase with a 20% operating profit. 

Mr. Scott has continued to implement his vision and growth strategy for the company which has included the expansion of the BEBE SPORT division, the launch of a signature denim business, a branded bebe accessory business and the opening of accessory side-by-side stores. In marketing, the company has increased advertising, grown the online business and implemented an extremely successful direct-to-consumer marketing initiative focusing on catalogs and the 2006 launch of the clubbebe Client loyalty program. Currently there are 2 million members enrolled in the program.

Fiscal year 2007 marked the beginning of a new strategy for bebe’s International business. With a total of 14 stores, International sales for the year increased 142% with a comparative store increase of 33%.  In fiscal 2008, Mr. Scott will focus International growth on existing markets in the Middle East and South East Asia. Additionally, bebe will open their first store in Mexico.

Focusing on contemporary women's apparel and accessories for 21 to 35 year-old women, bebe operates 273 stores, of which 198 are bebe stores, 20 are bebe outlet stores, 54 are BEBE SPORT stores and 1 is a bebe accessories store. These stores are located in the United States, the District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Canada. In addition, there is an online store at bebe.com and licensees operate 14 International stores.  (as of August 1, 2007)

Since rejoining bebe, Mr. Scott has overseen the creation of bebeCARES, a company-wide initiative to provide volunteer opportunities, awareness and financial support for organizations that focus on health-related issues and the wellbeing of families in and around the communities where bebe does business.

Prior to his appointment at bebe stores, inc., Mr. Scott was President of Arden B. a division of The Wet Seal Inc., from 2000 to 2004. His previous positions included President of Laundry by Shelli Segal, a division of Liz Claiborne Inc; Senior Merchandiser for Ann Taylor, and Merchandiser for Henri Bendel, a division of Limited Brands. Mr. Scott began his retailing career in the executive training program at Macy's West, a division of Macy’s, Inc. (formerly Federated Department Stores), where he rose to the rank of Buyer, Bridge Sportswear. 

Mr. Scott earned a BA in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.