Harley-Davidson board picks candidate to replace member who resigned – BizTimes

Harley-Davidson announced its preferred candidate to fill Jared Dourdeville’s seat on the company’s board of directors. Dourdeville, a partner at New York-based investment firm H Partners Management, stepped down from Harley-Davidson’s board at the beginning of the month, citing several concerns with the company’s strategy and leadership. H Partners has since launched a campaign aimed at getting Harley shareholders to withhold re-electing three members to the board on May 14: CEO Jochen Zeitz, board member Sara Levinson and board member Tom Linebarger. H Partners, which owns a 9.1% stake in Harley, is also calling on the board to immediately remove Zeitz as CEO and install a senior leader to the position temporarily. Zeitz plans to retire by the end of the year. Lori Flees. Image sourced from LinkedIn. Lori Flees, the current president and CEO of Lexington, Kentucky-based Valvoline Inc., has been selected as the candidate who could fill Dourdeville’s seat. To take a seat on the board she will need to be elected at the company’s annual meeting. Flees also spent more than eight years working at Walmart in various corporate roles, most recently serving as senior vice president and chief operating officer of Walmart Health & Wellness. “The
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