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More upheaval at Gap as Old Navy president leaves 
Garmentos | by skapner | Fri, Oct 3
Fri, Oct 3
Former CEO Paul Pressler was let go in January 2007, just three months after he hired Robertson, who had previously served as a managing director of Myer, an Australian department store chain. Marka Hansen was moved from her post atop Banana Republic to run the Gap division, and one of her d...
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