PVH Revamps Leadership as Americas CEO Donald Kohler Steps Down

It’s the C-suite shuffle astatine PVH Corp.

Adelyn Cheong, who’s been president of PVH China since 2021, connected Tuesday was named main enforcement serviceman of PVH Americas, overseeing some the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger businesses successful their location markets.

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Cheong volition instrumentality her station successful precocious summertime and is succeeding Donald Kohler, who took the station starring the Americas part successful October 2024 and is leaving the institution arsenic of June 30 to go president and CEO of Banana Republic, a part of Gap Inc.

The institution said, “Mr. Kohler has decided to permission the institution to beryllium person to family, and with this, prosecute a caller nonrecreational opportunity.”

Kohler besides presently oversees planetary licensing, a work that is being transferred to the recently created relation of president, planetary licensing, partnerships and expansion.

That work volition beryllium taken up by Joel Samaha, who’s joining PVH from Boston Consulting Group, wherever helium was a spouse successful the planetary user and manner signifier and has been moving with the institution implicit the past year.

When Samaha officially joins successful July, helium volition pb strategy and execution of PVH’s “non-owned concern partnerships, overseeing class and marketplace licenses, associated ventures and strategical partnerships, arsenic good arsenic the company’s planetary existent property and enlargement strategy.”

And Jonathan Bottomley, planetary main selling serviceman of Calvin Klein, has expanded his portfolio and volition besides service arsenic PVH’S enforcement vice president, radical user and marque strategy.

Bottomley’s mandate is to “accelerate and standard the company’s planetary user capabilities, including insights and data.”

Stefan Larsson, CEO of PVH, said: “Adelyn and Jonathan are some seasoned leaders who person been cardinal drivers of the multiyear PVH+ Plan transformation. They harvester a beardown marque and user knowing with crisp commercialized instincts and successful their caller and expanded roles volition proceed to thrust momentum across the business.

“We are besides excited to invited Joel to PVH successful this recently created enactment role, which volition beryllium captious arsenic we unlock next-level maturation from our beardown licensing business, partnerships and planetary expansion,” helium said.

Larsson besides thanked Kohler for his leadership.

“Since joining PVH, helium has played an important relation successful advancing our PVH+ Plan successful the region, and we privation him each the champion successful his adjacent chapter,” helium said. “He is moving intimately with Adelyn, Joel and their teams to guarantee a creaseless transition.”