Company: IPAR
Filing Date: 2025-07-14
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001753926-25-001139
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Company: INTERPARFUMS INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-14
Form: PRE 14A
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 that provides consulting and financial advisory services to merchandising and products companies. Mr. Harrison’s other activities include his membership and past membership on the Advisory Council of the GRC Global Conference World Retail Congress, Shoptalk and the Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit. Additionally, he created a course on mergers and acquisitions at The Wharton School and has published various articles and academic studies on the state of retailing and mergers and acquisitions, including a chapter in the book entitled, “The Mergers and Acquisitions Handbook.” Mr. Harrison lectures throughout the country, including chairing seminars for Retail Week as well as for the International Council of Shopping Centers, the National Retail Federation, Young President’s Center, The Wharton Aresty Institute of Executive Education and The President’s Association of the American Management Association. He also appears frequently on Bloomberg TV and CNBC as an expert on retail and apparel.

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Mr. Harrison received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania in 1962 and his Juris Doctor from The University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1965. He is also Chairman Emeritus of the Fashion Division of UJA, Treasurer, a former board member of the Southampton Hospital, a retired Director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and former board member of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We believe Mr. Harrison is qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors due to his tremendous depth and breadth of knowledge about the merchandising and consumer industry, and he has a long track record of facilitating value-creating transactions for companies in this sector. Mr. Harrison’s autobiography, Deal Junky , was published in January 2022. Kappauf Gerard Kappauf (“Kappauf”), age 63, an independent director, was born in Madagascar. After studying Classic Literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, he attended the San Francisco Art Institute on a scholarship and worked as a special effects make-up artist in Los Angeles. Upon traveling to Paris, Kappauf became interested in fashion and worked at a Jean Paul Gaultier fashion show. Thanks to this experience, he began to expand his network by meeting emblematic figures in the industry such as Paco Rabanne. While providing marketing and acquisition consulting services to L’Oreal Group during the tenure of Lindsay Owen Jones as its Chairman, in a bid for independence and emancipation he founded his own magazine in 1992, Citizen K. Through Citizen K , he realized his ambition