Party City Appoints Sarah Dodds-Brown to Board Of Directors
October 19 2020 - 4:15PM
Party City Holdco Inc. (the “Company”, “Party City” or “PRTY”;
NYSE:PRTY) today announced that Sarah Dodds-Brown, Executive Vice
President and Managing Counsel at American Express, has joined the
Company’s Board of Directors as an independent director, effective
October 15, 2020.
“We are pleased to add another highly accomplished executive to
our Board,” said Norman Matthews, Chairman of the Party City Board.
“Sarah brings to Party City extensive expertise in the regulatory,
legal and consumer merchant spaces as well as significant
experience activating cultural engagement and promoting diversity
and inclusion across global organizations. We are excited about the
many contributions we anticipate Sarah will make to the Party City
Board.”
With the addition of Ms. Dodds-Brown, the Party City Board is
comprised of 12 directors, including 10 independent directors, the
Company’s Vice Chairman James Harrison and President and Chief
Executive Officer Brad Weston. Party City has added five
independent directors since 2019.
About Sarah
Dodds-BrownSarah Dodds-Brown has served in a
variety of leadership positions in the General Counsel’s
Organization at American Express, including currently as Executive
Vice President and Managing Counsel for the Business Legal Group.
In this role, Ms. Dodds-Brown serves as a strategic business
partner overseeing the legal and regulatory guidance for the
company’s U.S. consumer, commercial, merchant and network services
businesses. For several years, Ms. Dodds-Brown also led the global
privacy law center of excellence at American Express and helped
develop the company’s principle-based approach to privacy and data
governance. Ms. Dodds-Brown currently serves as an Adviser on an
American Law Institute project focused on developing principles for
a data economy. Previously, Ms. Dodds-Brown worked at Paul, Weiss,
Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in the firm’s M&A and
private equity practices.
Ms. Dodds-Brown received her J.D. from Columbia University
School of Law in 1998 and her Bachelor of Arts from Duke University
in 1995.
Ms. Dodds-Brown is active with educational and civic
organizations, including Duke University, Rye Country Day School,
the City of New Rochelle Planning Board and DirectWomen.
About Party City
Party City Holdco Inc. is the leading party goods company by
revenue in North America and, we believe, the largest vertically
integrated supplier of decorated party goods globally by revenue.
The Company is a popular one-stop shopping destination for party
supplies, balloons, and costumes. In addition to being a great
retail brand, the Company is a global, world-class organization
that combines state-of-the-art manufacturing and sourcing
operations, and sophisticated wholesale operations complemented by
a multi-channel retailing strategy and e-commerce retail
operations. The Company is the leading player in its category,
vertically integrated and unique in its breadth and depth. The
Company designs, manufactures, sources and distributes party goods,
including paper and plastic tableware, metallic and latex balloons,
Halloween and other costumes, accessories, novelties, gifts and
stationery throughout the world. The Company’s retail operations
include approximately 850 specialty retail party supply stores
(including franchise stores) throughout North America operating
under the names Party City and Halloween City, and e-commerce
websites, principally through the domain name PartyCity.com
ContactsInvestor
RelationsFarah Soi / Rachel
SchacterICR203-682-8200InvestorRelations@partycity.com
Media RelationsLeigh Parrish / Barrett Golden /
Andrew SquireJoele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher212-355-4449
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