Deckers Brands announced the appointment of Nelson Chan to the company's board of directors. Mr. Chan has a strong background in operational, financial and analytical management at fast growing organizations and brings valuable corporate governance and strategic insights to the company's board. The company also announced that Maureen Conners will step down from the Deckers board at year-end to pursue other activities.

Nelson Chan is chairman of the board of directors of Outerwall, the public company that is behind the well-known Redbox movie and video game rental kiosks and popular Coinstar coin-counting kiosks. He is also Lead Independent Director of Synaptics. He serves as a member of the board of directors of Affymetrix.

Mr. Chan is also chairman of the board of director of several select privately held companies. Mr. Chan served as chief executive officer of Magellan from 2006 to 2008.