DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC (DRI)
Sector: Consumer Discretionary
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Consumer Discretionary
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Director information for DRI
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRI | CEO, FULLBEAUTY Brands, Inc.; Director | 57 | ["operational and turnaround experience", "significant executive officer and director experience at a variety of public and private companies"] | ["F", "N", "Finance", "Nominating and Governance"] | 2025 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Mr. Fogarty has been the CEO at FULLBEAUTY Brands, Inc., a privately-held branded multi-channel retailer focused on fashion apparel and home goods for plus-sized women and men, since June 2019. Previously, he was the CEO and a director of Orchard Brands, a multi-channel marketer of apparel and home products, from 2011 until its sale in 2015, at which time he became a Senior Advisor to Bluestem Group Inc., the acquirer of Orchard Brands, through 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Fogarty was a private investor from 2010 to 2011. From 2009 until 2010, Mr. Fogarty was President, CEO and director of Charming Shoppes, Inc., a multi-brand, specialty apparel retailer. Other prior executive positions held by Mr. Fogarty include Managing Director of Alvarez & Marsal, an independent global professional services firm, from 1994 until 2009, President and COO of Lehman Brothers Holdings (subsequent to its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing) from 2008 until 2009, President and CEO of American Italian Pasta Company, the largest producer of dry pasta in North America, from 2005 through 2008, CFO of Levi Strauss & Co., a brand-name apparel company, from 2003 until 2005, and from 2001 through 2003, he served as Senior Vice President and CFO and for a period as a director of The Warnaco Group, a global apparel maker. Current Public Directorships: None Prior Public Board Service Within the Past Five Years: Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. (formerly known as Depomed Inc.), a specialty pharmaceutical company, Chairman of the Board from 2016 to 2020 through its merger with Zyla Life Sciences Qualifications: The Nominating and Governance Committee concluded that Mr. Fogarty is qualified and should serve, in part, because of his operational and turnaround experience, and his significant executive officer and director experience at a variety of public and private companies. Age 57 Tenure 11 Independent Director Director since 2014 Darden Committees: Finance (Chair) Nominating and Governance