Where's Rhoda? Elusive Lululemon Director Missing From Educurious Website

Rhoda Pitcher had been listed as an advisory board member for Educurious. But now her name is no longer on its website.
By Anders Keitz ,

One week after Real Moneyuncoveredlululemon athletica (LULU) - Get Report Director Rhoda Pitcher's mysterious past, another piece of the puzzle has suddenly disappeared.

As of last week, Pitcher was listed as an advisory board member for educurious, a nonprofit organization based in Seattle. But now her name is no longer featured on its website with the other board members. Pitcher was among seven advisory board members and was listed as a "Senior Executive Consultant."

Multiple calls to Rhoda Pitcher and educurious on Friday and over the past two weeks have gone unanswered. Real Money also called lululemon's public relations representative, as well as a representative of lululemon founder and former CEO Dennis "Chip" Wilson, but our requests for comment were not immediately returned.

According to its Linkedin profile, educurious was founded in 2011 and is "dedicated to creating the high school curriculum that American students need now for success in college, careers and life." Among the Seattle-based nonprofit's benefactors is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It also works with the University of Washington College of Education and the Institute for Math and Science education, according its LinkedIn page.

Calls to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were not immediately returned.

Pitcher currently sits on the board of lululemon and is the company's longest-serving director, having been a director since 2005. She was brought on by the athleisure company's founder Wilson as one of his designees. More than 10 years later, she remains on the board and is the chair of the nominating and governance committees and is a member of the compensation committee.

But recently, Wilson has been speaking out against lululemon, telling TheStreet's Jim Cramer on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" in June that it was the long-standing board members who were responsible for the company being run poorly, not naming but implying Pitcher, Michael Casey and Martha Morfitt, who were all appointed prior to 2008.

Real Money launched an investigation into Pitcher when gaps were discovered in her bio on the lululemon website, as well as questionable credentials.

This article was first published on Real Money at 1:51 p.m. ET on July 1.

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