All posts tagged: Boardriders

Jean Kress, Boardriders Sustainability Director EMEA

Jean Kress is a genuine creative spirit, who has been infusing his talent and inspiration as a designer into the European surfing industry for the past 30 years. Before settling in the Landes in 1994, Jean worked for the most prestigious haute-couture names in Paris: Chanel, Lanvin, Guy Laroche or even Dior. His immersion in the 80’s and 90’s in Paris, the fashion capital of the world, nurtured his passion and gave him limitless creativity.

JUAN GONZALEZ – VEGA, MOSKOVA

Beyond an impressive career, Juan Gonzalez-Vega’s life is above all about destiny. The destiny of a Spaniard, who arrived in France at a young age, who got into surfing as a teenager, whose ambition and talent first led him to become a trader on Wall Street for the biggest agencies in New York in the late 90’s.