Board of Directors

Jochen Zeitz is our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. Mr. Zeitz has been a director of Harley-Davidson since 2007 and served as its Acting President and Chief Executive Officer from February 2020 until May 2020, when he was appointed as H-D’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Zeitz has served as H-D’s Chairman of the Board since February 2020. Mr. Zeitz served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the sporting goods company PUMA AG from 1993 to 2011. He was also PUMA’s Chief Financial Officer from 1993 to 2005. Mr. Zeitz served as a director of luxury goods company Kering (formerly PPR) from 2012 to 2016. He was a member of Kering’s Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer of its Sport & Lifestyle division from 2010 to 2012. Mr. Zeitz is an Advisor and Board Member of the Cranemere Group Limited and co-founded The B Team with Sir Richard Branson. He is also the Founder and Chairman of the ZEITZ foundation, Founder of Segera Conservancy and The Long Run, and Co-Founder of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town, which preserves and exhibits contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora.

William L. Cornog has served on the Board since September 2022 and is the former head of KKR Capstone (2002-2022), the portfolio operations team of KKR & Co. In addition to leading Capstone, Mr. Cornog chaired KKR’s Portfolio Management Committees for the Americas, Europe, Asia, Infrastructure, Impact & Technology Growth and was a member of the Investment & Distribution and Valuation Committees. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Cornog was with Williams Communications Group as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Network Services. Prior to that, Mr. Cornog was a partner at The Boston Consulting Group and also worked at Age Wave Communications and SmithKline Beckman Corporation (GSK). Mr. Cornog currently is a board member at Channel Control Merchants, which is a KKR portfolio company, and Brightview Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BV), a publicly traded company controlled by KKR. Mr. Cornog is Chairman of the Board at Channel Control Merchants and is Chairman of the audit committee and the conflicts committee of LiveWire. Private company and philanthropic boards include Griffin Highline, Blue Crow Sports Group, and The Knight Campus at the University of Oregon. Mr. Cornog earned a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Gina Goetter has served on the Board since September 2022. Ms. Goetter has been the Chief Financial Officer of H-D since September 2020. Ms. Goetter served as Senior Vice President Finance of the Prepared Foods Segment of multinational food company Tyson Foods, Inc. from 2019 to September 2020. From 2008 to 2018, Ms. Goetter held several leadership positions at multinational consumer foods manufacturer and marketer General Mills, Inc., including serving as Vice President, Financial Operations of the Meals & Baking Operating Unit from 2017 to 2019, Senior Finance Director of the Baking Operating Unit from 2015 to 2016, and CFO of the General Mills Canada segment from 2011 to 2015. Ms. Goetter holds a Bachelors of Applied Science from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and an MBA from Boston College.

Dr. John Garcia has served on the Board since September 2022 and is the Executive Chairman of AEA Investors LP. Dr. Garcia joined AEA in 1999 as a Partner and Head of AEA Investors LP’s then newly formed European operations based in London. In 2002, Dr. Garcia became President of AEA Investors LP while continuing to head European operations and lead AEA Investors LP’s global Value-Added Industrial Products and Specialty Chemicals teams. In 2006, Dr. Garcia also became Chief Executive Officer of AEA Investors LP, during which time he was responsible for all operational aspects of AEA including fundraising, investment review process, growth and strategy and operations. Dr. Garcia was also named Chairman of AEA Investors LP in 2012 and in 2019, in connection with relinquishing the title of Chief Executive Officer, he became the Executive Chairman. As Executive Chairman, Dr. Garcia remains responsible for AEA’s investment review process. Since 1999, under his leadership, AEA has made over 90 private equity investments totaling over $11 billion of invested capital. Dr. Garcia was also instrumental in the creation of the AEA Private Debt Funds in 2005 and the AEA Small Business Funds in 2004. Dr. Garcia has served on the board of numerous AEA portfolio companies in addition to various other companies. Dr. Garcia serves as the chairman or member of the investment committee for the various private equity and private debt funds. Dr. Garcia has a long history of working together with family owned and entrepreneur-led businesses and investors to help them maximize their potential and meet their long term needs. Dr. Garcia earned a B.Sc. from the University of Kent, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Princeton University, and an MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Gruner has served on the Board since September 2022. Dr. Gruner has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Porsche Cars North America since November 2020. He is also the Chairman of the Shareholder Committee of Porsche Canada, Porsche Motor Sport North America and Porsche Digital Inc. He serves the community as a member of the Board of Directors of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the German American Chamber of Commerce, South, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Woodruff Foundation in Atlanta. He is an honorary Professor at the European Business School in Germany.

Dr. Gruner served as the global Chief Marketing Officer of Porsche from 2010 to 2020. During that time he was responsible for product marketing, pricing and volume planning, marketing communication and experiential marketing, sponsoring as well as brand management. He was also the CEO of Porsche Smart Mobility, Inc. During his time as CMO, Porsche was able to increase global sales from 100.000 units to 300.000 units and simultaneously increasing brand strength. Dr. Gruner served as Director of Strategy Mercedes-Benz Cars during his tenure at Daimler AG from 2004 to 2010. Prior to that time he worked for Porsche and for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Glen Koval has served on the Board since September 2022. Mr. Koval has held several leadership positions at H-D since August 2001, including serving as Vice President of Engineering since January 2021, General Manager of Engineering from May 2020 to December 2020, Chief Engineer of EV Platform from January 2019 to April 2020 and Chief Engineer of Current Products from January 2017 to January 2019. Mr. Koval holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Marquette University and an MBA from Concordia University-Wisconsin.

Edel O’Sullivan has served on the Board since September 2022. Ms. O’Sullivan has been the Chief Commercial Officer of H-D since March 2021. From 2007 to March 2021 Ms. O’Sullivan held several positions at Bain & Company, including serving as partner from 2016 to 2021. Ms. O’Sullivan served in the Financial Planning and Analysis of Procter & Gamble from 2002 to 2005. Ms. O’Sullivan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Simon Bolivar and an MBA from Harvard Business School.