Chelsea is Managing Director of Pivot > where she leverages her vast CEO and Board experience to manage turnarounds, transformations and restructurings for both public and private companies across diverse industries. She has significant experience with M&A transactions and franchise models and is a governance expert. She is very comfortable managing through crisis and distress, and she has lead companies through digital and other transformations, as well as full-blown restructurings. She is qualified to sit on public company audit committees.
Prior to joining Pivot >, Chelsea was the CEO and a board member of American Apparel, which she successfully sold to Gildan Activewear Inc. Subsequently, she was the first ever female CEO of True Religion, where she also sat on the board of directors (chairing the Audit Committee). Ms. Grayson was most recently the CEO and a board member of Spark Networks, a leading owner and operator of premium online dating sites and mobile applications (including Jdate, Elite Singles, Silver Singles and Christian Mingle), where she was Vice Chair of the board, chaired the Special Committee and was a member of the Audit Committee.
Chelsea is a current board member of Xponential Fitness, Bedrock Manufacturing Co. (Shinola and Filson brands), Sunrider International, and Beyond Meat. She has also served on the board of directors of several other companies including Morphe Cosmetics, Sugarfina Inc., and Delta Dental. Chelsea’s leadership positions also include being an Executive in Residence at Wunderkind, a Board Leadership and Corporate Governance Fellow with the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). Chelsea is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Chelsea earned her J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (Order of the Coif) and her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.