Ross M. Jones has served as chairman of the board of directors of Bare Escentuals since July 2004 and has served as a member of the board of directors of Bare Escentuals since June 2004. Mr. Jones is a Managing Director of Berkshire Partners LLC, a private equity investment partnership which he joined in 1993. He worked at Bain & Co., a management consulting partnership and in the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley & Co. before joining Berkshire Partners LLC in 1993. Mr. Jones became a Managing Director of Berkshire Partners LLC in 2000 and has been a director of several of Berkshire Partners LLC's consumer, retailing, manufacturing, and business services companies including Carter's, Inc., a public company, and the private companies, Waterworks, Inc., AVW-TelAv Inc., Sterling Collision Centers, Inc., and Thomas Built Buses, Inc., a division of the public company Daimler Chrysler, AG. Mr. Jones earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. |