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Jay Schottenstein keeps going back to the floor
He learned retail in the family stores. Decades later, the American Eagle Outfitters chairman and CEO is still working through the same problem: how to grow a business without losing sight of the person buying the jeans.
Michael Mathias and the value of coming back
He joined American Eagle in 1998, left, returned, and spent six years as CFO. Now Michael Mathias is helping hand over the numbers - and the knowledge behind them.
Dana Seguin
Dana Seguin is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Altar'd State, the fast-growing Knoxville-based women's fashion retailer, where she leads all creative, marketing and eCommerce work across its family of brands - Altar'd State, Arula, Vow'd, Tullabee and AS Revival. A brand builder with roughly 25 years in retail and fashion, she began in merchandising at American Eagle Outfitters before moving into creative marketing for SPANX, Chico's and Aerie. She is best known for leading the creation and launch of the Aerie Real campaign, which stopped retouching model images and helped make body positivity a mainstream retail message.
Iris Yen
Iris Yen is the Chief Marketing Officer of Cupshe, the California-founded swimwear and beachwear brand that grew from a single-category bet into a global direct-to-consumer business with roughly $420 million in annual revenue. She joined in February 2025 after a run through some of the loudest brand-building rooms in the business: Head of Media, Content and Partnerships at Nike; VP and Head of Media, Strategy and Audiences at Red Bull; VP and Head of Communications at GUESS?, Inc.; VP of Communications at American Eagle Outfitters; and VP of Global Marketing and PR at Quiksilver. She started in music, running marketing and PR at Universal Records in the early 2000s, and has built campaigns around names including Britney Spears, Nelly, Kelly Slater, Tony Hawk and Torah Bright. A Washington University in St. Louis graduate who studied anthropology alongside marketing, Yen tends to treat brands as cultures rather than catalogs - a habit visible in Cupshe's 10th-anniversary work, its fourth Miami Swim Week runway show, and its 2026 Casa del Sol collaboration with Jessie James Decker.
Kristen D'Arcy
Kristen D'Arcy is Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Digital Growth at True Religion, the El Segundo, California denim and sportswear brand where she became the company's first-ever CMO in July 2023. With roughly two decades of marketing and e-commerce experience, she started on the agency side at Tribal DDB Worldwide and R/GA before moving brand-side to Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Coty, American Eagle Outfitters, PacSun and Homedics. At True Religion she has rebuilt the brand's cultural footprint through campaigns pairing fashion with music and sport - partnerships with the NFL and NBA, activations at the Super Bowl, NBA All-Star Game and Coachella, and campaigns starring Megan Thee Stallion, Key Glock and Quavo - while pushing e-commerce from roughly 35 percent of the business toward half of it. She has been named to Ad Age's Best Marketers Under 40, Brand Innovators' Top 50 Women in Brand Marketing, and Business Insider's Top 25 Most Innovative CMOs.