The 24 Karat Club of New York and the Diamond Council of America have announced new board chairs.
The 24 Karat Club, known for its annual banquet, has elected Jeffrey Cohen (pictured), president of Citizen Watch America, chair for a three-year term. He succeeds Robert Kempler, who led the group through the COVID pandemic, during which its annual banquet was canceled for only the third time in 115-plus years. This year’s banquet will be held March 9 at Cipriani South Street in lower Manhattan.
The Diamond Council of America (DCA), an educational group, has appointed Jenn Hammond its new board chair, to serve for two years. Hammond is divisional vice president of store operations for Signet-owned Kay Jewelers and started working at Signet in 2004. For DCA, Joseph Corey, president of Day’s Jewelers in Scarborough, Maine, was elected to a two-year term as a director.
The 24 Karat Club also elected Nathalie Diamantis, president and CEO of Pomellato Americas, as president, and Steven Lagos, founder of Lagos, as vice president. They will serve one-year terms. Jeffrey Bergman, vice president of accounting and finance at Gold Star Jewellery, and John Kennedy, president of Jewelers’ Security Alliance, were reelected treasurer and secretary, respectively.
New members elected to the 24 Karat Club’s board are Eric Zuckerman, CEO and owner, Pac Team Group; Stacie Orloff, North American wholesale vice president for Georg Jensen; and Glenn Markman, founder, Fire Polish Diamonds. They join the following sitting directors: Ann Arnold, chief strategy officer, Buyers Intelligence Group; Sarin Bachmann, group vice president, RX Jewelry Group; Edward DeCristofaro, president of LDC; Yogesh Madhvani, CEO, SimplexDiam; and Charles Stanley, former CEO of Forevermark USA.
(Top photo courtesy of the 24 Karat Club of New York)
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