BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR RE-ELECTION

We thank all the leading retail CEOs who have volunteered to serve the industry on RILA’s Board of Directors for a term beginning January 2022 and ending December 2023.  The following slate of directors is offered for election:

Brian Cornell

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Target Corporation

Cornell is board chairman and CEO of Target Corp. He is responsible for Target’s global business, including the company’s more than 1,800 U.S. stores, digital properties and 323,000 team members.
Cornell joined Target in August 2014 after more than 30 years in escalating leadership positions at leading retail and global consumer product companies, including three CEO roles and more than two decades doing business in North America, Asia, Europe and Latin America. His past experience includes time as both a vendor partner and a competitor to Target, and he brings insights from those roles to the company today.

Cornell currently serves as chairman of the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) and he is a member of the board of directors for Yum! Brands. He previously served as a director for other global brands, including The Home Depot and Polaris Industries.

Cornell is also a board member for Catalyst and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He earned a bachelor’s degree from UCLA in 1981 and attended its Anderson School of Management.

Chip Bergh

President & Chief Executive Officer
Levi Strauss & Co.

Levi Strauss & Co. is one of the world's largest brand-name apparel companies and a global leader in jeanswear. The company designs and markets jeans, casual wear and related accessories for men, women and children under the Levi's®, Dockers®, Signature by Levi Strauss & Co.™ and Denizen® brands. Our products are sold in more than 110 countries worldwide through a combination of chain retailers, department stores, online sites and a global footprint of approximately 3,000 retail stores and shop-in-shops.

Prior to joining Levi Strauss & Co. in September 2011, Chip had a 28-year career at Procter & Gamble (P&G). Chip “grew up” in brand management and served in a number of leadership positions with increasing levels of complexity and scope. His last assignment before joining LS&Co. was group president for global male grooming. He was the first P&G employee assigned to the Gillette business following P&G’s $57 billion acquisition of Gillette in 2005. He led the integration and then ran the Gillette Blades & Razors business along with all of P&G’s male grooming brands (Gillette, Old Spice and The Art of Shaving). Prior to that, Chip led all of P&G’s business in India, Southeast Asia and Australasia.

Chip has led many iconic brands during his career including the creation and launch of Swiffer (P&G’s most successful new brand in the last three decades), the turnaround and growth of Old Spice, in addition to Gillette, Folgers coffee and Jif Peanut Butter. He has lived and worked in the United States, Asia and Europe and has run large global businesses and brands.

In July 2017, Chip was named non-executive chairman of the board of HP Inc. (HPQ), the market-leading printing and personal systems company. He has served as lead independent director of the HP board since March 2017 and as a board member since the company’s separation in 2015. Chip has also previously served on the board of directors for VF Corporation and the Economic Development Board of Singapore.

In April 2019, Chip was named one of the World’s Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine, coming in at No. 16, and has been widely recognized for his position on values-driven leadership.

Marvin Ellison

​President & Chief Executive Officer
Lowe's Companies, Inc.

Marvin Ellison has served as president and chief executive officer of Lowe’s Companies, Inc. since July 2018, when he also joined Lowe’s board of directors.
 
Ellison has more than 30 years of leadership and operational experience in the retail industry, including expertise in managing a large network of stores and employees as well as global logistics networks. He most recently served as chairman and CEO of J.C. Penney Co., where he implemented a turnaround strategy that improved the
company’s balance sheet, increased store productivity, optimized operations and grew key categories.
 
He has extensive experience in the home improvement industry, having spent 12 years in senior-level operations roles with The Home Depot Inc., where he served as executive vice president of U.S. stores from 2008 to 2014. At The Home Depot, Ellison oversaw U.S. sales, operations, install services and pro strategic initiatives, dramatically improving customer service and efficiency across the organization to serve both do-it-yourself and pro customers. Prior to joining The Home Depot, Ellison spent 15 years at Target Corp. in a variety of operational and leadership roles.
 
Ellison earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Memphis and an MBA from Emory University. He serves on the boards of FedEx Corp., the Retail Industry Leaders Association and the National Retail Federation. Ellison also serves as a member of the board of trustees for the University of Memphis. He was named to Fortune’s “World’s Greatest Leaders in 2016” and was recognized as the “2016 Corporate Executive of the Year” by Black Enterprise.
 

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Ted Decker

Chair, President & Chief Executive Officer
The Home Depot, Inc. 

Ted Decker is chair, president and CEO of The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer with more than 2,300 stores and 500,000 associates. He is also a member of the company’s board of directors. Under Ted’s leadership, The Home Depot is creating a seamless interconnected shopping experience for Pro and DIY customers, while championing the company’s unique culture.

From 2020 to 2022, Ted served as president and chief operating officer and was responsible for global store operations, global supply chain, outside sales and service, real estate, as well as merchandising, marketing and online strategy. While he was in this role, the company enhanced capabilities to blend the online and in-store worlds and better serve customers however they choose to shop.

Previously, Ted served as chief merchant and executive vice president of merchandising for more than six years, where he was responsible for store and online merchandising departments, merchandising strategy, marketing and vendor management and in-store environment.

Ted joined The Home Depot in 2000 as director of business valuation. Over the past 22 years, he has held several strategic positions across the company including senior director of business valuation, vice president, senior vice president of strategic business development and senior vice president of retail finance. His experience across the business enables him to blend the art and science of retail.

Before joining the company, Ted worked in business development, strategic planning and finance at Kimberly-Clark Corp. and Scott Paper Co. Prior to that, he held various corporate finance, lending and credit positions at PNC Bank. He has extensive international experience, having lived and worked in England and Australia.

Ted currently sits on the Atlanta Committee for Progress board. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English from The College of William and Mary and a master’s degree in business administration from Carnegie Mellon University.

Jeff Owen

Chief Executive Officer
Dollar General Corporation