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| | Quiksilver promotes Natas Kaupas to VP of Marketing |
 | | Natas, an accomplished artist and authentic skateboarding legend, was one of the world’s first professional street skaters in the 1980’s and was hugely influential in the spontaneous development of the high performance form of boardriding that turned ordinary curbs, rails, fire hydrants and dumpsters into canvases for creative expression. |
| | In the early 1990’s, Natas began to channel his creative and innovative boardriding into art direction and graphic design for such companies as Santa Monica Airlines, Element, Vita, Etnies and his own board company, Designarium. |
| | Natas will be based at Quiksilver headquarters in Huntington Beach, CA, but will continue to be a strong presence for the brand in Europe, Australasia and the Americas. |
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