Governance

Amy Banse became a member of our board of directors in September 2021, upon the listing of our Class A ordinary shares on the NYSE. Ms. Banse brings leadership and experience in starting, investing in and building businesses and has held several executive leadership roles in doing so. Ms. Banse served as senior adviser to the executive committee of Comcast Corporation, a global media and technology company (including Comcast Ventures, LLC, its venture capital arm), from September 2020 to December 2021. She previously was an Executive Vice President at Comcast Corporation, and Managing Director and head of funds at Comcast Ventures LLC from January 2011 to September 2020. From 2005 to 2011, Ms. Banse was Senior Vice President at Comcast Corporation and President at Comcast Interactive Media, a division of Comcast responsible for developing online strategy and operating the company’s digital properties. Ms. Banse joined Comcast in 1991 and early on held various positions at the company, including content development, programming investments and overseeing the development and acquisition of Comcast’s cable network portfolio. Ms. Banse also serves as a director of Adobe Inc, The Clorox Company and Lennar Corporation, as well as on the boards of a number of private companies. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a doctor of law degree from Temple University Law School.

Alexandre José da Costa Pérez has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2016 and member of the audit committee since February 2017. Mr. Pérez has business experience in the financial industry and with capital management. Mr. Pérez is the founder and Managing Partner of Point Break Capital Management LLC, which he founded in 2012. Mr. Pérez is also a limited partner in Point Break Capital LP and a member and director of Point Break Capital GP Ltd. Prior to forming Point Break Capital Management, Mr. Pérez was a founding partner of 3G Capital from 2002 to 2011. Prior to forming 3G Capital, Mr. Pérez was the Chief Financial Officer of São Carlos Empreendimentos, an investment and commercial property management company, from 1999 to 2002. Before working at São Carlos Empreendimentos, Mr. Pérez was a Private Equity Analyst for GP Investments, an alternative investment firm, from 1993 to 1999. Mr. Pérez graduated from the University of Rio de Janeiro, with a B.S. in Economics, and from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas with a Master’s in Business Administration. 

Caspar Coppetti is one of our Co-Founders and has served as the Executive Co-Chairman of On since April 2021. Mr. Coppetti was previously the Chairman and Global Sales Director of On since January 2010. Mr. Coppetti brings leadership in conceptualizing and developing our brand and has business experience as an executive officer in the marketing industry. Prior to joining On, Mr. Coppetti served as a Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer for the brand agency Young & Rubicam from 2004 to 2010. Mr. Coppetti also worked at McKinsey & Company as a Management Consultant from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Coppetti has served on the board of InnHub La Punt AG since 2018. Mr. Coppetti holds a Dr. Oec. Diploma from the University of St. Gallen. 

David Allemann is one of our Co-Founders and has served as the Executive Co-Chairman of On since April 2021. Mr. Allemann was previously leading On as an Executive Co-Founder since January 2010. His special focus has been product creation, setting up production, design, global marketing and branding as well as the scaling of the DTC business of On. Mr. Allemann brings leadership in conceptualizing and developing our product, brand and business, and has experience in the marketing and consulting industries. Prior to joining On, Mr. Allemann served as Chief Marketing Officer for Vitra, one of the world’s iconic design furniture brands, from 2006 to 2010. Previously, Mr. Allemann served as the Managing Director of advertising agency Young & Rubicam in Switzerland from 2002 to 2006 and advised global clients as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company in their sports, internet and media practices from 2000 to 2002. Mr. Allemann holds a Master of Law degree from the University of Zurich and completed an AMP at INSEAD.

Dennis Durkin became a member of our board of directors and chairman of the audit committee in May 2022, and previously served as a board observer from September 2021 through May 2022. Prior to that, he had served as the Chief Financial Officer of Activision Blizzard Inc (ATVI) before retiring from the company in May 2021. He originally joined ATVI as CFO in March 2012 and held that position until May 2017. He served as Chief Corporate Officer from May 2017 until January 2019. From January 2019 until his retirement, he served as Chief Financial Officer and President of Emerging Businesses. Prior to joining ATVI, from 1999 until February 2012, Mr. Durkin held a number of positions of increasing responsibility at Microsoft Corporation, most recently serving as the Corporate Vice President, and Chief Operating and Financial Officer, of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, which included the Xbox, Xbox Live and games business. Prior to joining Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business in 2006, Mr. Durkin worked on Microsoft’s corporate development and strategy team, including two years where he was based in London, England driving pan-European activity. Before joining Microsoft, Mr. Durkin was a financial analyst at Alex. Brown and Company. Mr. Durkin holds a B.A. degree in government from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University.

Kenneth A. Fox has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2018. Mr. Fox brings experience as an investor in the consumer sector. Mr. Fox is the founder of Stripes, LLC, a growth equity firm that invests in branded consumer and SAAS companies that it believes have amazing products. Mr. Fox oversees the firm and is also actively involved with many current Stripes’ portfolio companies including Monday.com, Ltd., On Holding AG, and Udemy, Inc. Mr. Fox previously served on the board or was actively involved in many of Stripes realized portfolio companies including: Grubhub Inc. (NASDAQ:GRUB), Blue Apron Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:APRN) and Flatiron Health, Inc. (acquired by Roche). Mr. Fox currently serves on the board of directors of Super Nova Acquisition Company, Supernova Acquisition Co. II, Supernova Partners Acquisition Co III. Prior to forming Stripes, Mr. Fox was a Managing Director and one of the founders of Internet Capital Group, Inc. He was also the founder and Chairman of ICG Asia Ltd., a Hong Kong-listed joint venture with Hutchison-Whampoa Ltd. that Hutchison later acquired. Mr. Fox holds a B.S. in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University.  

Olivier Bernhard is one of our Co-Founders, and has served as an Executive Board Member of On since founding the company in January 2010. Mr. Bernhard brings leadership in conceptualizing and developing our brand as an athlete as well as his business experience and knowledge of premium athletic sportswear. Prior to joining On, Mr. Bernhard was a professional Triathlete and Duathlete racing on world class level. During his professional career from 1993 through 2005 he collected three World Championship, one European and 15 Swiss Championship titles in various Triathlon and Duathlon competitions involving different distances.