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New chief merchants for Bed Bath & Beyond, Overstock

Beyond Inc. has added 5 new industry experts to its leadership team and promoted 3 others.

Tomas Kauer - Moderator

Midvale, Utah – Beyond Inc. has added 5 new industry experts to its leadership team and promoted 3 others.

The group now includes:

Stacey Shively, joining as Chief Merchandising Officer, Bed Bath & Beyond
Deb Bollom, appointed to Chief Merchandising Officer, Overstock
Chris Peake, joining as Director of Merchandising, Zulily
Steph Whitacre, appointed to SVP GM, Zulily
Angela Minor, joining as Chief Marketing Officer, Bed Bath & Beyond
Jennifer Evans, appointed to SVP Marketing, Beyond, Inc.
Alexis Callahan, joining as VP of Investor Relations and Public Relations
Guncha Mehta, joining as Chief Digital and Information Officer

The Merchandising Line-Up

Shively joins the company from The Container Store, where she was Chief Merchandising Officer. Prior to that, she was at legacy Bed Bath & Beyond and held merchant leadership roles at JCPenney, Fingerhut/Bluestem Brands and Dollar Tree, and began her career at Target.

Bollom has been promoted from her previous role as Chief Merchandising Officer for Bed Bath & Beyond. She also has 25+ years of prior merchandising experience running multi-billion-dollar businesses for Target.

Whitacre has been promoted from her previous role as VP, Merchandising. Prior to joining Beyond, she held leadership merchandising positions at Saks Off Fifth, Bloomingdale’s, Burberry, and started her career at Bergdorf Goodman.

Peake brings almost three years of experience from legacy Zulily, where he was most recently Merchandise Director. Before that, he spent 16 years at Zappos, and began his career in merchandising and operations at Lombardi Sports.

The Marketing, Digital and Investor Appointees

Minor brings extensive strategy and retail marketing experience, holding leadership positions at Michael’s, Pier 1, Sears, Kmart and most recently, as Chief Marketing Officer for specialty retailer, Conn’s HomePlus. She started her career in consulting with McKinsey & Company.

Evans has been promoted from her previous role as VP, Integrated Marketing. Her new role includes overseeing Overstock and Zulily marketing as well as content and brand partnerships for Beyond, Inc. She spent nine years at legacy Bed Bath & Beyond after holding sales and marketing leadership positions at Time Warner and The Walt Disney Company.

Callahan is rejoining Beyond Inc., having spearheaded development of the IR program at Overstock in 2020, and since implemented strategic investor relations programs at Tupperware Brands and Esperion Therapeutics. She spent the previous 15+ years in roles in investor relations and investment banking.

Minor brings extensive strategy and retail marketing experience from previous leadership positions at Michael’s, Pier 1, Sears, Kmart and most recently, as Chief Marketing Officer for specialty retailer Conn’s HomePlus. She started her career in consulting with McKinsey & Company.

Evans has been promoted from her previous role as VP, Integrated Marketing. Her new role includes overseeing Overstock and Zulily marketing as well as content and brand partnerships for Beyond Inc. She spent nine years at legacy Bed Bath & Beyond after holding sales and marketing leadership positions at Time Warner and The Walt Disney Company.

Callahan is rejoining Beyond Inc., having spearheaded development of the IR program at Overstock in 2020. Since then, she has implemented strategic investor relations programs at Tupperware Brands and Esperion Therapeutics. She spent the previous 15+ years in roles in investor relations and investment banking.

“The most important part of building a long-term, profitable, growing business is putting the right players on the field,” said Marcus Lemonis, executive chairman, Beyond Inc. “We’ve assembled a world-class team with the proper incentives and alignment that will execute the very clear go-to-market strategy around our three anchor brands.”