Stuart Redsun, most recently SVP of global brand marketing for Under Armour and a former Nike marketing exec, will join COLM on Oct.6 as chief marketing officer,a new poisition at the Portland, OR,company.Meanwhile, Steve Woodside, a 25-year veteran of apparel and footwear manufacuturing, joined Columbia late last month in the newly-created poisition of VP of global manufacuring. After spending 23 years at Nike where he helped develop the advanced lean manufacturing processes by the company's contract manufacturers, Woodside was ,most recently VP of global footwear for VF Corp. in HK.
In two separete personnel developments, Columbia announced the pending retirements of current VP of global marketing, Dan Hanson, and current VP of global apparel manufacturing
