Friday, 8 November 2013

A Day in the Life of Nike CEO Mark Parker

WERE YOU TO RUN into Mark Parker, Nike's NKE -1.38%  CEO, on the company's pristine Beaverton, Oregon, campus, you might mistake him for one of the 21 PhDs who work in the athletic powerhouse's top-secret research lab.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303376904579135802125126572

Creative-casual duds (blazer, polo, jeans, Nike Roshe sneakers) and a professorial bearing (quiet intonation, short beard, slight stoop) make it difficult to square this somewhat unassuming figure with his position as the fourth-highest-paid head executive in the country. A fanatical devotion to sneaker design and a technical fluency rare among CEOs propelled the 58-year-old Nike lifer to the top perch of the footwear and apparel giant, which has reached annual revenues of $24 billion, up 60 percent since he was appointed in 2006. Nike CEO Mark Parker

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