Under Armour announced that David Baxter and Mehri Shadman will join the company’s leadership team, effective Oct. 24. Baxter will assume a regional leadership role as president of the Americas, succeeding Stephanie Pugliese, who will step down from her role and leave the company. Pugliese will remain until early 2023 to support Baxter’s transition. Shadman has been named chief legal officer and corporate secretary as John Stanton, the company’s current chief legal officer, has decided to retire at the end of 2022 after 16 years of service.
Prior to joining Under Armour in 2020 as SVP Americas wholesale, Baxter was president and CEO of Lids Sports Group from 2016 to 2019. Prior to that, he was vice president of Adidas America’s sport performance division from 2010 to 2014, and before that, head of Adidas and Reebok’s sports licensing business. Before that, Baxter spent nine years in various leadership roles at Reebok, including the on-field and sports licensing divisions.
Shadman has more than 15 years of experience as legal counsel in both corporate and private practice. As deputy general counsel, corporate and risk, and assistant corporate secretary, she spent nine years at Under Armour, advising the company’s board of directors and senior executives on complex and high-profile corporate matters. She is currently responsible for corporate, global ethics and compliance, data privacy and enterprise risk management. In her new role, she will oversee the company’s global legal function and serve as corporate secretary. Before Under Armour, Shadman began her career as an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, a renowned global law firm, in its capital markets practice.
