Kenneth P Pucker

Joined Berkshire Partners as an Advisory Director in 2010. He is currently the Principal of Brand Brucke Holdings, an investment company with a focus on idea-based consumer brands. Ken served as interim CEO of MBT, a Berkshire portfolio company, from 2008 to 2009. Prior to MBT, Ken served as Chief Operating Officer of Timberland (NYSE: TBL). After joining the company in 1992, Ken served in multiple roles at Timberland over a fifteen year period. During his tenure with the company, the brand grew by tenfold to over $1.6 billion in sales and the company was recognized for nine consecutive years as one of Fortune magazine's 100 Best Companies, as a Forbes magazine's Platinum Investment and as a top ten ethical company according to Business Ethics magazine. Earlier in his career, he worked as an Analyst in the Municipal Finance Department at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and as a Research Associate at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Ken serves on the Board of Directors of Timbuk2 Designs, a messenger bag brand and retailer, and the Rashi School in Newton Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from Middlebury College and a M.S. from M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.