Former Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts joins Airbnb’s board

Angela Ahrendts, the ex-CEO of Burberry as well as Apple’s onetime Senior Vice President of Retail, has joined Airbnb’s board only equally the companionship is preparing for an initial populace offering.

CNBC reports that Ahrendts is right away the 3rd independent, non-affiliated fellow member of Airbnb’s board, joining onetime American Express CEO Ken Chenault as well as onetime Pixar CFO Ann Mather.

In the proclamation from Airbnb, the startup noted that Ahrendts’ travel unopen to “building community with customers” would live an property to the board. “Angela has a reputation for pushing brands to dream big, as well as she told me that’s just what she hopes to select to Airbnb’s board,” CEO Brian Chesky told CNN.

She is equally good a board fellow member of the Ralph Lauren fashion show. Earlier this month, Ahrendts mentioned Airbnb equally a companionship to cash inward one's chips on an optic on inward the technology scientific discipline sector, according to an interview on the Hello Monday podcast:

The instant affair was movement faster than y'all could always fathom because they’re waiting, as well as they come across how much their technology scientific discipline is changing everything. They’re living on Uber, they’re staying at Airbnb, right? They’re living on Youtube as well as Instagram. They await your leadership to live only similar that because that’s the basis they are living inward today.

Airbnb’s initial populace offering could live exist laid equally before long equally afterward this year.

Having been hired from Burberry, Ahrendts led Apple’s online as well as offline retail initiatives for 5 years before the Cupertino firm announced her difference before this year. In its announcement, Apple noted that Ahrendts was leaving “for novel personal as well as professional person pursuits”.

She was replaced with Deirdre O’Brien inward her expanded purpose equally Apple’s caput of Retail + People.

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