{"id":44422,"date":"2013-12-11T15:02:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T23:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44422"},"modified":"2013-12-11T15:02:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T23:02:39","slug":"marckx-joins-spy-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44422","title":{"rendered":"Marckx Joins Spy Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"072513<\/a>Apparently Spy<\/a><\/strong> President and CEO Michael Marckx<\/strong> didn’t have enough titles after his name so the Spy board of directed added him to the board. Yep, now he’s President, CEO, and Member of the Board of Directors.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichael has been instrumental, and inspirational, in ensuring that SPY\u2019s truly innovative products and its unique message are resonating throughout the marketplace,” said Seth Hamot, Spy Inc. chairman of the board. “We happily welcome him to the Board!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the official world from Spy, follow the jump.SPY\u00ae PRESIDENT & CEO APPOINTED TO SPY INC. BOARD OF DIRECTORS
\nSPY\u00ae<\/p>\n

CARLSBAD, Calif.\u2014SPY\u00ae Inc. (OTCBB: XSPY), a leading eyewear company known for its patent-pending Happy LensTM technology, today announced that SPY President and CEO Michael Marckx will join the SPY Inc. Board of Directors, effective December 11, 2013.<\/p>\n

Having joined SPY in February 2011, Marckx has been instrumental in reinvigorating the SPY brand and developing innovative sales and marketing strategies as well as product extensions. Dedicated to spreading happiness, Marckx is a vital part of SPY\u2019s mission to inspire people to see better and feel better with the Happy LensTM. Prior to his appointment as CEO, Marckx served briefly as SPY\u2019s Vice President of Marketing before being named President and eventually taking on both President and CEO roles. Having served as Surfrider Foundation\u2019s Chairman of the Board from 2010 to 2012, Marckx has been a part of Surfrider\u2019s Board of Directors since 2000 and is currently a board member of the Leucadia 101 Main Street Association. A former USA Cycling amateur world champion and US National team member, Marckx enjoys several sports and continues to compete as a UCI Category 1 bike racer.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the President and CEO of SPY Inc., I am very excited to be joining its Board of Directors,\u201d said Michael Marckx. \u201cSPY is taking its innovative Happy LensTM and disruptiveness and connecting with consumers and retailers in new ways. I look forward to helping SPY with our Board to extend our leadership role as the brand that puts happy smiles on the faces of everyday people\u2014which is at the core of everything we do in the eyewear world we live and smile in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seth Hamot, SPY Inc. Chairman of the Board added, \u201cMichael has been instrumental, and inspirational, in ensuring that SPY\u2019s truly innovative products and its unique message are resonating throughout the marketplace. We happily welcome him to the Board!\u201d
\nTo learn more about the SPY Happy LensTM, go to http:\/\/www.spyoptic.com\/happy. For more information about SPY, log-on at www.spyoptic.com, www.facebook.com\/spyoptic, Twitter @spyoptic and @spyoptic on Instagram.<\/p>\n

SPY Inc.:
\nWe have a HAPPY disrespect for the usual way of looking (at life). This mindset helps drive us to design, market and distribute premium products for people who “live” to be outdoors, doing intense action sports, motorsports, snow sports, cycling and multi-sports\u2013the things that make them HAPPY. We actively support the lifestyle subcultures that surround these pursuits, and as a result our products serve the broader fashion, music and entertainment markets of the youth culture. Our reason for being is to create the unusual, and this is what helps us deliver distinctive products to people who are active, fun and a bit irreverent, like us. It’s what makes us HAPPY, and our customers, too. Our principal products\u2013sunglasses, goggles and prescription frames\u2013 are happily marketed with fun and creativity under the SPY\u00ae brand. More information about SPY may be obtained from: www.spyoptic.com, www.facebook.com\/spyoptic, Twitter @spyoptic and Instagram @spyoptic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently Spy President and CEO Michael Marckx didn’t have enough titles after his name so the Spy board of directed added him to the board. Yep, now he’s President, CEO, and Member of the Board of Directors. \u201cMichael has been instrumental, and inspirational, in ensuring that SPY\u2019s truly innovative products and its unique message are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44423,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44422\/revisions\/44423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}