Lewis "Lew" Frankfort is the chairman and former CEO of

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Early life and career

Frankfort was born in

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Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City, United States. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools ...

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Columbia Business School Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University, a Private university, private research university in New York City. Established in 1916, Columbia Business School is one of six Ivy League business schools and one of ...

. Frankfort joined Coach in 1979 as the Vice President of New Business Development. In this capacity, he spearheaded the development of Coach stores and its introduction into international markets. When Coach was acquired in 1985 by

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, Frankfort was appointed president of Coach. In 1995, he was appointed chairman and CEO. In 2014, Lewis Frankfort was succeeded by Victor Luis as CEO of Coach.Bot generated title -->
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Columbia Business School alumni Hunter College alumni Living people Businesspeople from the Bronx American chief executives of fashion industry companies Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-CEO-stub