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Three more managers leave Nike as internal probe continues
Updated on Apr 17, 2018 at 05:13 PM PDT
The senior-level personnel moves continue at Nike.
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The exodus of Nike executives continues.
Three more senior managers are leaving the company amid a sweeping internal review of personnel issues launched by its chief executive, Mark Parker .
Among the newly departed is Antoine Andrews, Nike's vice president of diversity and inclusion. Also gone are Vikrant Singh, a senior brand director for Nike basketball, and Daniel Tawiah, vice president of global brand digital-marketing innovation.
Whether the three were caught up in the workplace-behavior probe is unclear. Nike spokesman Greg Rossiter said only that, "I can confirm that Antoine Andrews, Vik Singh and Daniel Tawaiah are no longer with Nike."
The latest round of executive departures was first reported by The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News.
The departures come about a month after Parker told employees in a memo that the company had received complaints of inappropriate workplace behavior. Parker issued the memo just about the same time of the surprise announcement that his one-time heir apparent, Trevor Edwards, president of the Nike brand, would leave in August. Jayme Martin, one of Edwards' top lieutenants, also left the company.
The company has declined to specify the nature of the personnel problem. Some observers are convinced the company's hyper-aggressive culture got out of hand. Others speculate it's tied to the #MeToo movement and the way women are treated inside the executive offices.
Parker, typically more cautious than candid in his public statements, vowed in a March memo to employees that the internal probe would continue:
"Our culture is one based on mutual respect, inclusion and teamwork and we want Nike to be a place where everyone has an opportunity to play an important role and succeed," he wrote. "Behavior that is inconsistent with our values has no place at Nike and we will continue to look into matters and take appropriate action where we find behavior against our code of conduct."
In a subsequent memo, Monique Matheson, a senior Nike human resources executive, said the company "failed to gain traction" in its effort to hire more women and minorities. Though the 74,000-person workforce is evenly split by gender, just 29 percent of the company's vice presidents are women. Sixteen percent are non-white.
--Jeff Manning
Updated on Apr 17, 2018 at 05:13 PM PDT
The senior-level personnel moves continue at Nike.
(LC-)
The exodus of Nike executives continues.
Three more senior managers are leaving the company amid a sweeping internal review of personnel issues launched by its chief executive, Mark Parker .
Among the newly departed is Antoine Andrews, Nike's vice president of diversity and inclusion. Also gone are Vikrant Singh, a senior brand director for Nike basketball, and Daniel Tawiah, vice president of global brand digital-marketing innovation.
Whether the three were caught up in the workplace-behavior probe is unclear. Nike spokesman Greg Rossiter said only that, "I can confirm that Antoine Andrews, Vik Singh and Daniel Tawaiah are no longer with Nike."
The latest round of executive departures was first reported by The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News.
The departures come about a month after Parker told employees in a memo that the company had received complaints of inappropriate workplace behavior. Parker issued the memo just about the same time of the surprise announcement that his one-time heir apparent, Trevor Edwards, president of the Nike brand, would leave in August. Jayme Martin, one of Edwards' top lieutenants, also left the company.
The company has declined to specify the nature of the personnel problem. Some observers are convinced the company's hyper-aggressive culture got out of hand. Others speculate it's tied to the #MeToo movement and the way women are treated inside the executive offices.
Parker, typically more cautious than candid in his public statements, vowed in a March memo to employees that the internal probe would continue:
"Our culture is one based on mutual respect, inclusion and teamwork and we want Nike to be a place where everyone has an opportunity to play an important role and succeed," he wrote. "Behavior that is inconsistent with our values has no place at Nike and we will continue to look into matters and take appropriate action where we find behavior against our code of conduct."
In a subsequent memo, Monique Matheson, a senior Nike human resources executive, said the company "failed to gain traction" in its effort to hire more women and minorities. Though the 74,000-person workforce is evenly split by gender, just 29 percent of the company's vice presidents are women. Sixteen percent are non-white.
--Jeff Manning
