Company: CRWS
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-021381
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Company: CROWN CRAFTS INC
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form: DEF 14A
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 the Chief Financial Officer of Carbo Ceramics Inc., a global technology company that provides products and services to the oil and gas, industrial and environmental markets, from September 2020 to February 2021. Prior to that, he served almost 15 years in various positions at Tidewater Inc., a NYSE-listed company providing offshore marine support and transportation services to the global offshore energy industry. At Tidewater, he advanced to Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, a position that he held from June 2008 to December 2018. He also spent almost 17 years with KPMG, serving as an Audit Partner of the firm from 1999 to 2004. 
 Mr. Demarest will retire as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Secretary, effective June 30, 2025, and will cease employment with the Company on July 1, 2025.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
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| Donna E. Sheridan, 61        
 Executive Officer since 2019 | President and Chief Executive Officer, NoJo Baby & Kids, Inc. (“NoJo”) | Ms. Sheridan joined NoJo in January 2019. She was previously Senior Vice President at Lambs & Ivy for eight years. Prior to that, she served as General Manager for Disney Consumer Products over Soft Lines for North America and had previously held numerous other roles with the Walt Disney Company over a fourteen-year period, including brand management, merchandising and director roles.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |

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Claire K. Spencer joined the Company on June 16, 2025 as a Vice President and has been appointed by the Board as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Secretary, effective June 30, 2025 upon Mr. Demarest’s retirement as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. Upon commencing service as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, she will be an executive officer of the Company.

Ms. Spencer, age 35, served from July 30, 2021 through June 2, 2025 as Director of SEC Reporting for H&E Equipment Services, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed equipment rental company (“H&E”), where she was responsible for managing all aspects of H&E’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings and compliance. From July 2019 to July 2021, Ms. Spencer served as H&E’s