The troubled retailer American Apparel named a new interim chief executive Monday in a bid to rebuild its ranks and move on from a public battle with its rambunctious founder and former chief, Dov Charney.
The company said Scott Brubaker, a managing director at the turnaround firm Alvarez & Marsal, would temporarily take the label's helm as it looks for a more permanent chief executive.
American Apparel also named Hassan Natha as chief financial officer, replacing John Luttrell. Luttrell, who had also been interim chief executive since Charney's removal, is leaving the company. Luttrell joined American Apparel in 2011 from a management consulting firm, following stints as chief financial officer at retailers Old Navy and Wet Seal.
American Apparel stunned investors, and Charney himself, by firing him in June from leadership roles, accusing him of personal and professional misconduct, including misuse of company funds and failure to stop the publication of naked photographs of a former employee who had sued him for sexual harassment.
New York Times
