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Nordstrom Financial Chief Bramman Steps Down; Insider Appointed Interim CFO

Retail TouchPoints

“As a result of Anne’s guidance through the pandemic, Nordstrom has the financial strength and flexibility to successfully manage through a changing environment,” said Erik Nordstrom, CEO of Nordstrom in a statement. Maher has more than 25 years of finance and accounting experience and joined Nordstrom in 2009 as controller.

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Torrid CFO/COO Resigns; No Permanent Replacement(s) Announced

Retail TouchPoints

Paula Dempsey, SVP of Finance and Investor Relations, will take on the role of interim CFO until a permanent successor is named. She has extensive retail experience, most recently as SVP of Corporate Finance for Mattress Firm , which was purchased by Tempur Sealy earlier this month.

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Inditex Appoints Founders’ Daughter as Chair, Names New CEO

Retail TouchPoints

Marta Ortega Pérez has been named Chairwoman of Inditex Group — parent company of Zara , Pull&Bear and Massimo Dutti — and Óscar García Maceiras will replace Carlos Crespo as CEO, completing a “generational handover process” at the fashion conglomerate that began in 2011. She will assume her new role as Chairwoman on April 1, 2022.

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DICK’S Promotes New CEO as Retailer Reports Strong Q3 Results

Retail TouchPoints

Hobart brings more than 25 years of finance, consumer and retail experience to the role. She joined DICK’s in 2011 as Chief Marketing Officer and was named President in 2017. We have the best management team in the company’s history, and the investments we have made in our people, our stores, and our communities are paying off.

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Reflecting on Marc Andreessen’s ‘Software is Eating the World’

Cisco Retail

Ten years ago today, August 20, 2011, Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of Netscape and an influential investor, published a pivotal story in the Wall Street Journal: Why Software is Eating the World (also reprinted on his venture capital firm’s Web site). It was a stake in the ground and a rallying cry. We’ve been creating it ever since.

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Retail appointments of the week

Inside Retail

He launched AmazonFresh in 2007 and has served on the e-commerce company’s senior leadership team since 2011. “I Felton brings nearly 18 years of experience at Amazon, including 12 years in retail and operations finance leadership roles. Dan Murphy’s boss to head M&S Food.

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Who could replace Sharon White as the next John Lewis Partnership chair?

Retail Gazette

Price stepped down as deputy chairman and managing director of Waitrose in 2016 after 33 years at the business. Prior to Tesco, Davies was the boss of CEO of Halfords from 2012 to 2015 and worked at Pets at Home first as its finance director in 2001 and later its chief executive from 2004 to 2012.