many
businesses, including Sport Brands International (the parent company of Fila, CloudVeil,
and Ciesse); Elite Model Management, S.A.; and Prince Sports, Inc., maker of the Prince
and Ektelon racquet brands ... April, 2005, Sport Brands International asked Mr. Hero to become the acting CEO
of Ciesse, Italy's oldest manufacturer of down outerwear. For the prior five years, Ciesse
had been ... margins had improved from 21% to 47% and
EBITDA was slightly above break-even. Ciesse was sold by SBI in 2007.
Mr. Hero served on the Board of Directors