The neighbors complained about the smell. Their first dates saw Donna dipping Jake's boards in polyurethane and hanging them to dry. She traveled from New York to the house in Manchester, Vermont where Jake was making the prototypes of snowboards. When she met Jake he said, "My name is Jake and I make snowboards." She didn't think that had any sort of future, but she thought he was cute. Donna was a college student at Barnard College when she met Jake at a bar called the Mill in Londonderry, Vermont on New Year's Eve in 1981.ĭonna was from New York City and thought she was really sophisticated in the way that teenagers do. He was convinced he could turn a largely unknown hobby at the time into a mainstream sport.
She is the owner, chairwoman, and former CEO of the snowboard company Burton, which she and her late husband Jake Burton Carpenter. ĭonna Carpenter – you may not know her name but chances are you're aware of what she does. Four years later, in 1971, Jake's mother Katherine died of Leukemia leaving Jake, his father and two sisters.īurton met his future wife Donna Lynn Gaston at a 1981 New Year's Eve party at the Mill Tavern in Londonderry, Vermont. On FebruJake's brother, Corporal George Carpenter died serving in Vietnam. Carpenter also had two other sons, George and Taylor. ( July 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭarpenter resided in Stowe, Vermont, with his wife, Donna and his son, Timi. Please help improve this section if you can. The specific problem is: written in a biographical style. This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Carpenter saw value in having women in positions of authority and leadership within the privately held company. Ĭarpenter's wife, Donna, served as CEO until 2020. "Burton Snowboards" have several trademarked and copyrighted features that were filed under his name. Burton has been one of the world's largest snowboard and snowboarding-equipment manufacturers since the late 1980s. Burton is credited with developing the economic ecosystem around snowboarding as a lifestyle, sport, and culture, in addition to founding a premier board manufacturer. In 1979, Carpenter won the Open Division and a $300 prize at the National Snurfing Contest in Muskegon, Michigan. In his interview with NPR's "How I Built This" when initially selling his snowboards, he said, “I remember once going out with 38 snowboards, visiting dealers in New York State, and came back with 40 because one guy gave me two back he had bought.” By the late-1970s, he was among a small cadre of manufacturers who had begun selling snowboards with design features such as a bentwood laminate core and a rigid binding which held the board firmly to the wearer's boot. Working from a barn in Londonderry, Vermont, he improved on the Snurfer, a snowboard precursor which featured a rope to allow the rider some basic control over the board.
He felt the call to return to the slopes.
After several years away from college, he resumed his studies at New York University, graduating with a degree in economics.Īfter college, Carpenter briefly worked for a small investment banking firm in Manhattan before growing tired of the 12-hour work days. An avid skier, Carpenter hoped to join the university's ski team who were the reigning NCAA champions at the time however, his competitive skiing career ended after an automobile accident. After graduating from The Marvelwood School, at that time in Cornwall, Connecticut, he enrolled at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Carpenter's high school education began in Brooks School North Andover, Massachusetts.
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