People: Weight Watchers International Inc (WTW.N)
WTW.N on New York Stock Exchange
47.03USD
1 Aug 2013
47.03USD
1 Aug 2013
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Summary
| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
Raymond Debbane |
58 | 1999 | Chairman of the Board |
James Chambers |
55 | 2013 | President, Chief Operating Officer |
David Kirchhoff |
46 | 2013 | Chief Executive Officer, Director; CEO of WeightWatchers.com |
Nicholas Hotchkin |
47 | 2012 | Chief Financial Officer |
Bruce Rosengarten |
54 | 2011 | President, Asia Pacific |
Philippe Amouyal |
54 | 2002 | Director |
Jonas Fajgenbaum |
40 | 1999 | Director |
Sacha Lainovic |
56 | 1999 | Director |
Christopher Sobecki |
1999 | Director | |
Steven Altschuler |
59 | 2012 | Independent Director |
John Bard |
71 | 2002 | Independent Director |
Marsha Evans |
65 | 2002 | Independent Director |
Corey Kinger |
IR Contact Officer |
Biographies
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
Raymond Debbane |
Mr. Raymond Debbane is Chairman of Board of Weight Watchers International, Inc., since acquisition by Artal on September 29, 1999. Mr. Debbane is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of The Invus Group, LLC. Prior to forming The Invus Group, LLC in 1985, Mr. Debbane was a manager and consultant for The Boston Consulting Group in Paris, France. He holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business, an M.S. in Food Science and Technology from the University of California, Davis and a B.S. in Agricultural Sciences and Agricultural Engineering from American University of Beirut. Mr. Debbane is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and a director of Ceres, Inc. He is also the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Artal Group S.A. and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of a number of private companies of which Artal or Invus, L.P. are shareholders. |
James Chambers |
Mr. James R. Chambers is President, Chief Operating Officer of Weight Watchers International, Inc., since January 4, 2013. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Chambers served as President of the U.S. Snacks and Confectionary business unit and General Manager of the Immediate Consumption Channel of Kraft Foods Inc., a global food and beverage company, from January 2010 to July 2011. Prior to joining Kraft, Mr. Chambers held various positions in the North America business unit at Cadbury plc, a beverage and confectionary company, from September 2005 to January 2010, most recently as the President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Chambers began his career at Nabisco, Inc. and also held various executive positions with Rémy Cointreau USA, Paxonix Inc., NetGrocer.com, Inc. and Information Resources, Inc. Mr. Chambers received a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chambers is a director of Big Lots, Inc. Mr. Chambers was previously a director of B&G Foods, a food manufacturer. |
David Kirchhoff |
Mr. David P. Kirchhoff is Chief Executive Officer, Director of Weight Watchers International, Inc., and Chief Executive Officer of WeightWatchers.com, a subsidiary of Weight Watchers International, Inc. Mr. Kirchhoff has been a director and the company Chief Executive Officer since December 31, 2006. He served as the company President from December 31, 2006 to January 3, 2013. Mr. Kirchhoff has served and continues to serve as the Chief Executive Officer of WeightWatchers.com since rejoining WeightWatchers.com in June 2004. He also served as President of WeightWatchers.com from June 2004 until April 2008 and the company Chief Operating Officer, Europe and Asia from September 2005 until December 2006. Prior to rejoining WeightWatchers.com, Mr. Kirchhoff served as Chief Financial Officer of the Enthusiast Media Group of Primedia, Inc., a print and digital content provider, from September 2003 to June 2004. Mr. Kirchhoff originally joined WeightWatchers.com in January 2000 as Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, and served as Chief Financial Officer of WeightWatchers.com from January 2003 until his departure in August 2003. Prior to joining WeightWatchers.com in January 2000, he was Director of Corporate Strategy and Development for PepsiCo, Inc. Previously, Mr. Kirchhoff was a manager and consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in Washington, D.C. He holds a B.S. in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. |
Nicholas Hotchkin |
Mr. Nicholas P. Hotchkin is Chief Financial Officer of Weight Watchers International, Inc., since August 20, 2012. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Hotchkin had spent several years at Staples, Inc., a in the office supply industry. Most recently, Mr. Hotchkin served as Senior Vice President of Finance for the U.S. Retail division of Staples based in Massachusetts, a position he held from May 2010 to August 2012. Before assuming that position, he had been Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer of Staples, a position he held from November 2006 to April 2010. Prior to joining Staples, Mr. Hotchkin held several corporate finance positions with Delphi Corporation and General Motors Corporation including assignments in the United States, Asia and Europe. Mr. Hotchkin received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. |
Bruce Rosengarten |
Mr. Bruce Rosengarten is President, Asia Pacific of Weight Watchers International, Inc., since December 5, 2011. Prior to joining the company, from January 2009 until December 2011, Mr. Rosengarten advised and mentored senior management in various industries on strategy, business development and leadership while serving as Director of International Ideas Pty Ltd, a company he founded and which specialized in strategic consulting as well as leadership coaching. Mr. Rosengarten also authored and published a book on leadership in April 2010. Mr. Rosengarten served as the President of Jewish Care (Victoria) Inc, a not-for-profit, humanitarian organization, from November 2009 to November 2012. Mr. Rosengarten held various senior marketing, retail management and business development positions at Shell International Petroleum Company beginning in August 1998, including most recently serving in the senior marketing role of Global Vice President Retail Marketing—Shell Downstream principally based in Singapore from January 2005 until September 2008 and prior to this role held the position Vice President Retail, Asia Pacific, Middle East from January 2001 until December 2004. Prior to joining Shell, Mr. Rosengarten held several senior retail management and business development positions with Crown Ltd, a casino operator, and the retailer Coles Myer Ltd. He is a graduate of Monash University in Australia, where he obtained a Bachelors degree in Economics and a Graduate Diploma in Physical Distribution Management. |
Philippe Amouyal |
Mr. Philippe J. Amouyal is Director of Weight Watchers International, Inc., since November 2002. Mr. Amouyal is a Managing Director of The Invus Group, LLC, a position he has held since 1999. Previously, Mr. Amouyal was a Vice President and director of The Boston Consulting Group in Boston, MA. He holds an M.S. in Engineering and a DEA in Management from Ecole Centrale de Paris and was a Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Alternatives of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Amouyal is a director and member of the Compensation Committee of Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and a number of private companies of which Artal or Invus, L.P. are shareholders. |
Jonas Fajgenbaum |
Mr. Jonas M. Fajgenbaum is Director of Weight Watchers International, Inc., since acquisition by Artal on September 29, 1999. Mr. Fajgenbaum is a Managing Director of The Invus Group, LLC, which he joined in 1996. Prior to joining The Invus Group, LLC, Mr. Fajgenbaum was a consultant for McKinsey & Company in New York from 1994 to 1996. He graduated with a B.S. in Economics with a concentration in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Fajgenbaum is a director of a number of private companies of which Artal or Invus, L.P. are shareholders. |
Sacha Lainovic |
Mr. Sacha Lainovic is Director of Weight Watchers International, Inc., since acquisition by Artal on September 29, 1999. Since 2007, Mr. Lainovic has been Managing Partner of Invus Financial Advisors, LLC, a New York-based investment firm, which he co-founded. From 1985 to 2006, Mr. Lainovic was Executive Vice President of The Invus Group, LLC, which he co-founded. Prior to forming The Invus Group, LLC in 1985, Mr. Lainovic was a manager and consultant for The Boston Consulting Group in Paris, France. He holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and an M.S. in Engineering from Insa de Lyon in Lyon, France. |
Christopher Sobecki |
Mr. Christopher J. Sobecki is Director of Weight Watchers International, Inc., since acquisition by Artal on September 29, 1999. Mr. Sobecki is a Managing Director of The Invus Group, LLC, which he joined in 1989. He received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He also obtained a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. Mr. Sobecki is a director of Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and a number of private companies of which Artal or Invus, L.P. are shareholders. Mr. Sobecki was previously a director of NitroMed Inc. |
Steven Altschuler |
Dr. Steven M. Altschuler, M.D. is Independent Director of Weight Watchers International, Inc., since September 30, 2012. Dr. Altschuler has served and continues to serve as the Chief Executive Officer of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), one of the children’s hospitals in the United States, since April 2000. Prior to assuming the role of Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Altschuler held several positions at CHOP, including Physician-in-Chief and chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Prior to joining CHOP, Dr. Altschuler was faculty member and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Altschuler received a B.A. in mathematics and an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Altschuler is a director of Mead Johnson Nutrition Company, serves on its Compensation and Management Development Committee and is also Chair of its Nutrition Science and Technology Committee. |
John Bard |
Mr. John F. Bard is an Independent Director of Weight Watchers International, Inc., since November 13, 2002. From 1999 to 2008, Mr. Bard was a director of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, where he served as Executive Vice President from 1999 to 2000, Senior Vice President from 1990 to 1999, and at the same time serving as Chief Financial Officer from 1990 until his retirement from management in 2000. He began his business career in 1963 with The Procter & Gamble Company in financial management. He subsequently was Group Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and a director of The Clorox Company and later President and a director of Tambrands, Inc., prior to joining Wrigley. Mr. Bard holds a B.S. in Business and Accounting from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Cincinnati. |
Marsha Evans |
Ms. Marsha Johnson Evans is Independent Director of Weight Watchers International, Inc., since February 12, 2002. Ms. Evans served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Red Cross, the preeminent humanitarian organization in the United States, from August 2002 to December 2005, and previously served as the National Executive Director of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. from January 1998 to July 2002. A retired Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, Ms. Evans served as superintendent of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California from 1995 to 1998 and headed the Navy’s worldwide recruiting organization from 1993 to 1995. Ms. Evans also served as the Acting Commissioner of the Ladies Professional Golf Association from July 2009 to January 2010. Ms. Evans received a B.A. from Occidental College and a Master’s Degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Ms. Evans is also a director of Office Depot Inc. and The First Tee. She chairs the Compensation Committee of Office Depot Inc. Ms. Evans was previously a director of Huntsman Corporation and the Estate of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. |
Corey Kinger |
Basic Compensation
| Name | Fiscal Year Total |
|---|---|
Raymond Debbane |
-- |
James Chambers |
-- |
David Kirchhoff |
4,671,040 |
Nicholas Hotchkin |
1,125,990 |
Bruce Rosengarten |
-- |
Philippe Amouyal |
-- |
Jonas Fajgenbaum |
-- |
Sacha Lainovic |
-- |
Christopher Sobecki |
-- |
Steven Altschuler |
-- |
John Bard |
-- |
Marsha Evans |
-- |
Corey Kinger |
-- |
As Of 28 Dec 2012
Options Compensation
| Name | Options | Value |
|---|---|---|
Raymond Debbane |
0 | 0 |
James Chambers |
0 | 0 |
David Kirchhoff |
80,275 | 2,635,290 |
Nicholas Hotchkin |
0 | 0 |
Bruce Rosengarten |
0 | 0 |
Philippe Amouyal |
0 | 0 |
Jonas Fajgenbaum |
0 | 0 |
Sacha Lainovic |
0 | 0 |
Christopher Sobecki |
0 | 0 |
Steven Altschuler |
0 | 0 |
John Bard |
0 | 0 |
Marsha Evans |
0 | 0 |
Corey Kinger |
0 | 0 |
| Name | Shares Traded | Price |
|---|---|---|
SOBECKI CHRISTOPHER J |
207 | $0.00 |
BARD JOHN F |
207 | $0.00 |
LAINOVIC SACHA |
207 | $0.00 |
ALTSCHULER STEVEN M |
207 | $0.00 |
FAJGENBAUM JONAS M |
207 | $0.00 |
EVANS MARSHA JOHNSON |
207 | $0.00 |
AMOUYAL PHILIPPE J |
207 | $0.00 |
DEBBANE RAYMOND |
207 | $0.00 |
BASONE MICHAEL A |
24,750 | $25.76 |
BASONE MICHAEL A |
22,100 | $40.82 |
BASONE MICHAEL A |
257 | $42.43 |
BASONE MICHAEL A |
3,800 | $42.07 |
LAINOVIC SACHA |
224 | $0.00 |
ALTSCHULER STEVEN M |
224 | $0.00 |
DEBBANE RAYMOND |
224 | $0.00 |
BARD JOHN F |
224 | $0.00 |
SOBECKI CHRISTOPHER J |
224 | $0.00 |
FAJGENBAUM JONAS M |
224 | $0.00 |
EVANS MARSHA JOHNSON |
224 | $0.00 |
AMOUYAL PHILIPPE J |
224 | $0.00 |
STUBBING MELANIE |
2,063 | $0.00 |
STUBBING MELANIE |
1,073 | $41.10 |
KIRCHHOFF DAVID P |
4,125 | $0.00 |
FIARMAN JEFFREY A |
763 | $41.10 |
FIARMAN JEFFREY A |
2,063 | $0.00 |

