Stitch Fix adds Zendesk’s founder and CEO to board of directors

Online personal styling service Stitch Fix has announced that Mikkel Svane, founder and CEO of Zendesk, the Danish company that builds software for customer service, is the newest member in its board of directors.

“Mikkel’s vision for Zendesk has redefined expectations of what great customer service at scale can be, and made it both more human and more effective in the process”, said Katrina Lake, CEO of Stitch Fix, in a statement. “I’m excited and humbled to be part of their next phase of growth and hope to bring my experience building a fast-growing, customer-Focused company to the board”, added Svane.

Founded in 2007 in Copenhagen, Zendesk provides customer service software to more than 125,000 organizations from 160 countries.The company is listed in the New York Stock Exchange.