Karen Katz joins the board of fashion apparel retailer Intermix

Karen Katz, former president and CEO of Neiman Marcus Team, has joined the board of Intermix, a fashion attire retailer primarily based in New York with 29 retailers and an e-commerce enterprise.

After 33 decades at Neiman Marcus, the previous eight as CEO, Katz retired from the Dallas retailer in 2018 and stayed on the board for two additional many years. Amid her board seats so far, Intermix is the most direct competitor to Neiman Marcus. Katz is also a director at Under Armour, The Genuine Real and Humana Health care. She has worked with several startups and private companies as an adviser.

She also chairs the board of the Perot Museum of Mother nature and Science in Dallas.

“Intermix is effectively-positioned to be an business leader, and I’m on the lookout forward to enable create the subsequent technology of a consumer-centered, multi-model style retailer,” Katz said. Intermix had a retail outlet at NorthPark Middle for 10 yrs and shut it in 2016. The store’s technique to style retailing is to combine set up and emerging designer models on the very same rack to give consumers customized seems to be.

Intermix CEO Jyothi Rao explained the retailer can leverage Katz’s “product- and client-centric approach” to bolster its place in the current market.

Intermix was owned by Hole Inc. for a couple of years until eventually previous May when it was marketed to private equity business Altamont Capital Companions. Gap acquired Intermix in 2012 but later on shifted its concentrate to its most significant manufacturers, and at the similar time offered its premium children’s apparel retailer, Janie and Jack.

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