Gary Friedman has served as our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and Founder of the RH brand as we know it today, since January 2014. Mr. Friedman joined RH in April 2001 when the business was known as Restoration Hardware, a $350 million mall-based retail business on the verge of bankruptcy, selling mostly nostalgic discovery items and some Mission-style furniture. He has spent the past 25 years transforming every aspect of the business and building RH into the leading luxury interior design brand in the world today with revenues in excess of $3 billion. Prior to RH, Mr. Friedman spent 14 years in various positions at Williams-Sonoma Inc. lastly serving as President and Chief Operating Officer, and President of the Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, and West Elm brands. Mr. Friedman was responsible for transforming Pottery Barn from a $50 million tabletop and accessories business into a billion dollar plus home lifestyle brand. Mr. Friedman also developed the revolutionary Williams-Sonoma Grande Cuisine stores and conceptualized and developed the West Elm brand. Mr. Friedman began his career as a stock boy at the Gap store in Santa Rosa, California. He spent eleven years with the Gap, and held the positions of Store Manager, District Manager, and Regional Manager overseeing 63 stores in Southern California. Qualifications: Mr. Friedman was selected to our Board of Directors because of his leadership in re-conceptualizing and developing the RH brand and business into the leading luxury home brand in the North American market, his deep and unmatched expertise in developing and rapidly growing many of the leading consumer brands in the home furnishings space, and his extensive knowledge of building and leading complex multi-branded and multi-channel organizations.