Jeffrey "Jeff" Hakman

Jeffrey "Jeff" Hakman is an ex-world surfing champion and multi millionaire founder of clothing giant Quiksilver. Hakman started surfing in 1956 at age eight in Palos Verdes, California and at the age of ten moved to Hawaii with his parents. He surfed Waimea Bay at fourteen years old and at seventeen won the prestigious surfing title, Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship. Hakman graduated from Punahou School in 1967. From twenty-one ... more

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Quiksilver, Inc. (NYSE: ZQK), based in Huntington Beach, California, is one of the world's largest manufacturers of surfwear and other boardsport-related equipment. Its logo, designed by the company founder Alan Green in Torquay, Victoria, Australia in the early 1970s, inspired by Hokusai's woodcut...
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