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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 May 1, 1992, until October 24, 2003, and Executive Vice President of Superior prior to that. Mr. Benstock has served as Chairman of the Board of Superior since February 2023 and as a director of Superior since 1985. He also served as a director of USAmeriBank from 2007 to December 31, 2017, and chair of its audit committee from 2014 to December 31, 2017, at which time USAmeriBank was acquired by Valley National Bank.

Zenon S. Niehas served as Chairman of the Board of the Company since May 1, 2022. Mr. Nie served as Lead Director from August 2009 until he commenced serving as Chairman of the Board. He has served since 2001 asChairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of the CEO Advisory Board LLC, a management consulting firm he founded in 2000, and since 2001 has also been an operating partner in Tri-Artisan Partners, which merged with Morgan Joseph to form Morgan Joseph TriArtisan LLC in January 2011. From 1993 to 2000, he was Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Simmons Company, a billion-dollar international manufacturer and distributor of mattresses. From 1991 to 1993, he was President of the Consumer Home Fashion division of the Bibb Company, which included the Juvenile Products textile division. Prior to that, he was President of Serta Incorporated and held other senior executive positions at both Serta and Sealy Incorporated over the previous 13 years. Mr. Nie has earned the CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight for directors from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and is a National Association of Corporate Directors (“NACD”) Board Leadership Fellow.

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Dr. DonaldRatajczak retired as a consulting economist, having served in such role from 1983 until 2018 for various financial institutions/investment banks, most recently Raymond James. He served from 2000 to 2003 as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Brainworks Ventures, Inc., an enterprise development company he founded in 2000. He is also Regent’s Professor Emeritus at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. From 1997 to 2000, he was Regent’s Professor of Economics at Georgia State University, and from 1973 to 1997