RALPH LAUREN CORP CLASS A (RL)
Sector: Consumer Discretionary
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Consumer Discretionary
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Director information for RL
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RL | Executive Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Executive Committee The Hearst Corporation; Lead Independent Director; Member of the Audit Committee | 93 | ["Executive Vice Chairman of Hearst","Chief Executive Officer of Hearst","Chairman of the executive committee at Hearst","Chairman Emeritus of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts","Chairman Emeritus of New York-Presbyterian Hospital","Chairman of The Paley Center for Media","Managing Director of the Metropolitan Opera","experience in finance, financial reporting, and strategic planning","member of boards of various public companies and non-profit organizations","financially literate","audit committee financial expert","Additional Public Company Executive"] | ["Audit Committee","Nominating Committee"] | 2026 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Mr. Bennack has been a director of the Company since January 1998 and served as Lead Independent Director of our Board from Fiscal 2017 until the 2021 Annual Meeting. He is Executive Vice Chairman of The Hearst Corporation ( Hearst ) and served as Hearst s Chief Executive Officer from 1979 to 2002 and then again from June 2008 to June 2013. Mr. Bennack has been the Chairman of the executive committee and Executive Vice Chairman of the board of directors of Hearst since 2002. He serves on the board and is Chairman Emeritus of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Chairman Emeritus of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Chairman of The Paley Center for Media, and a Managing Director of the Metropolitan Opera. He has previously served on the boards of Discount Corporation, Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., Wyeth Corporation, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. Mr. Bennack attended the University of Maryland and St. Mary s University. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from The University of the Incarnate Word. The Board has determined that Mr. Bennack is an audit committee financial expert. EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS, ATTRIBUTES AND SKILLS Mr. Bennack brings to our Board a distinguished career and extensive business experience as Executive Vice Chairman of Hearst, one of the nation s largest private companies engaged in a broad range of publishing, broadcasting, cable networking, financial and medical data services, and diversified communications activities. His current position as Hearst s Executive Vice Chairman and previous position as Chief Executive Officer gives him critical insights into the operational issues facing a large corporation and provides our Board with valuable experience in the areas of finance, financial reporting, and strategic planning. As a result of his current and past service as a member of the boards of other various public companies and non-profit organizations, he provides our Board with perspective with respect to governance and other important matters that come before our Board. Mr. Bennack has been a member of our Board since 1998, and therefore, his extensive knowledge of our business is a valuable aspect of his service on our Board.