Bradley M. Bloom has served as a member of the board of directors of Bare Escentuals since June 2004. Mr. Bloom is a Managing Director of Berkshire Partners LLC, which he co-founded in 1986. He has been a director of several of Berkshire Partners LLC's consumer and retailing companies including Carter's, Inc., a public company, and the private companies Acosta, Inc., Gordon Brothers Group, Sterling, Inc., America's Best Contacts and Eyeglasses, L.P., and Miami Cruiseline Services Holdings I.B.V. Before founding Berkshire Partners LLC, Mr. Bloom worked at Thomas H. Lee Company, a private financial services firm, for seven years and spent two years with the First National Bank of Boston. He earned an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. |