Ken Pucker

Ken Pucker is an operator, advisor, investor, and educator with an abiding focus on sustainability and ESG. He serves at Berkshire Partners as an Advisory Director, focusing on the consumer and retail sectors and as a founding member of the firm’s Responsible Investment Committee. In addition, Ken serves as a Senior Lecturer at the Tufts Fletcher School. Ken is a published author in periodicals such as the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Institutional Investor and the Harvard Business Review. Ken also is an investor and board member at Rag & Bone and Nexite and serves on the boards of the Commonwealth School, Green City Force, and The High Meadows Institute.

Pucker spent most of his professional career working at Timberland (formerly NYSE: TBL)
serving as COO from 2000 to 2007. After joining the company in 1992, Ken served in
multiple roles over a fifteen-year period. During his tenure with the company, Timberland
grew by tenfold to over $1.6b in sales. During this period, 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.