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Kenneth D. Cole has served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since its inception in 1982 and was also President until February 2002. Mr. Cole was a founder and from 1976 through 1982 a senior executive of El Greco Inc. a shoe manufacturing and design company which manufactured Candies women's shoes. Mr. Cole is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (''AmFAR''). In addition he is on the Board of Trustees of the Sundance Institute and the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Mr. Cole is also a Director and President of nearly all of the wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company. | 