Rachel Brand Joins Walmart as Executive Vice President, Global Governance and Corporate Secretary
February 09 2018 - 7:10PM
Business Wire
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) announced Rachel Brand will join the company
as Executive Vice President, Global Governance and Corporate
Secretary. Brand will report to President and CEO Doug McMillon.
She will be responsible for the organization’s Legal, Global Ethics
and Compliance and Global Investigation, Security, Aviation and
Travel departments, along with her role as corporate secretary.
“We are fortunate to have a leader of Rachel Brand’s stature
join the company,” McMillon said. “We have strengthened our
governance capabilities and Rachel will help us continue on that
journey. Her strong character, capabilities and experience will
enable her to contribute broadly as we shape the future of Walmart
and strive to serve our customers even more effectively.”
Brand is replacing Jeff Gearhart, who retired at the end of
January. Brand brings deep academic and professional experience to
her role, coming to the company from the U.S. Department of
Justice, where she served as Associate Attorney General, the
department’s third-ranking position. Brand, the first woman to
serve as Associate Attorney General, was confirmed by the U.S.
Senate and sworn into office May 22, 2017. As Associate Attorney
General, Brand oversaw thousands of attorneys and professionals
across the department’s civil law divisions, including Antitrust,
Tax and Environment and Natural Resources.
After graduating from Harvard Law School, where she served as
deputy editor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public
Policy, Brand clerked on the Massachusetts Supreme Court and then
the U.S. Supreme Court, where she clerked for Justice Anthony
Kennedy. Brand previously served as Assistant Attorney General for
the Office of Legal Policy in the George W.
Bush administration and was appointed by President Barack
Obama to serve on the Privacy and Civil Liberties
Oversight Board.
Outside of government, she served as an Associate Professor of
law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, an
adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School and a
private-practice lawyer in Washington, D.C. Brand earned a B.A.
from the University of Minnesota-Morris. She will be joining
Walmart April 2 and will relocate to Bentonville with her husband
and two boys.
About Walmart
Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) helps people around
the world save money and live better - anytime and anywhere - in
retail stores, online, and through their mobile devices. Each
week, over 260 million customers and members visit our more than
11,600 stores under nearly 60 banners in 28 countries and eCommerce
websites. With fiscal year 2017 revenue of $485.9 billion,
Walmart employs approximately 2.3 million associates
worldwide. Walmart continues to be a leader in sustainability,
corporate philanthropy and employment opportunity. Additional
information about Walmart can be found by visiting
http://corporate.walmart.com, on Facebook at
http://facebook.com/walmart and on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/walmart.
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