Des Hague in January 2014 while CEO of Stamford, Conn.-based Centerplate, months before a video of Hague kicking a dog would cost him his job. In the year since Stamford-based Centerplate's former CEO resigned after a video went viral of him kicking a dog in an elevator, Des Hague says that he and his family received death threats and that his son was accosted as a result of the incident, but that he is working to rebuild his life.