Barnes & Noble Education Appoints Emily C. Chiu to Board of Directors
June 20 2018 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (NYSE: BNED), a
leading provider of educational products and services solutions for
higher education and K-12, today announced the appointment of Emily
C. Chiu to its Board of Directors, effective June 19, 2018. With
Ms. Chiu’s appointment, the Barnes & Noble Education Board will
expand to seven directors, six of whom will be independent.
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Ms. Chiu has more than a decade of leadership experience with
significant technology and education expertise. She currently
serves as a Principal at Square, Inc., a provider of commerce tools
that help businesses start, run, and grow from payments to
point-of-sale to financing. Ms. Chiu currently oversees Square’s
corporate development strategy and M&A activity across its SMB
(Seller), direct-to-consumer (Cash App), and developer platform
businesses. She also serves on the Board of Governors of the Center
for Creative Leadership, a provider of executive education focused
on leadership development.
“We are pleased to welcome Emily to the Barnes & Noble
Education Board,” said Michael P. Huseby, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, Barnes & Noble Education. “Emily’s strong
executive management and leadership experience in both education
and technology make her a strong addition to our Board. She also
brings significant expertise in overseeing nimble startup
organizations with a focus on digital. We are confident that we
will benefit from her fresh insights and contributions as we
continue to build our holistic ecosystem of content, products and
services and deliver value for our shareholders.”
“I am excited to join the Board of Barnes & Noble Education
and eager to leverage my broad experience in education and
technology to help further the Company’s inspiring mission and
continued transformation,” said Ms. Chiu. “With its strong legacy
of serving colleges, universities and students, and full-suite of
innovative solutions, Barnes & Noble Education is in an
excellent position to succeed as a leading partner to institutions,
students and faculty. I’ve seen first-hand the transformative
impact that a quality education can have, and I look forward to
working closely with the Board and management team to drive
continued growth, value creation, and positive student
outcomes.”
About Emily C. Chiu
Ms. Chiu currently serves as Principal at Square, Inc. and is
responsible for Square’s corporate development strategy and M&A
activity across its SMB (Seller), direct-to-consumer (Cash App),
and developer platform businesses. From July 2015 to July 2017, Ms.
Chiu was a Partner and Head of Corporate Development at 500
Startups, LLC, a global startup accelerator and venture capital
firm. In this role, Ms. Chiu oversaw venture capital investments in
the education technology space and founded 500 Startups’ M&A
advisory practice. Previously, Ms. Chiu was a founding team member
and Vice President at UniversityNow, Inc., an education technology
startup whose mission is to make higher education affordable and
accessible to all students through its personalized learning
platform and accredited universities. Prior to that, she served as
the Head of Operations at TEDx San Francisco, was a private equity
investor at GI Partners, a global investment firm, and served in
various positions across the technology and healthcare investment
banking groups at Goldman Sachs. Ms. Chiu is a graduate of The
Wharton School of Business and the College of Arts & Sciences
at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Wharton Research
Scholar and member of The Huntsman Program in International Studies
and Business.
ABOUT BARNES & NOBLE EDUCATION, INC.
Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (NYSE: BNED) is a
leading provider of higher education and K-12 educational products
and solutions. Through its Barnes & Noble College and MBS
Textbook Exchange segments, Barnes & Noble Education operates
1,444 physical and virtual bookstores across the U.S., serving more
than 6 million students and faculty. Through its Digital Student
Solutions segment, the Company offers a suite of digital software,
content and services including direct-to-student study tools,
serving approximately 100,000 subscribers in more than 15 different
countries and receiving more than 20 million unique monthly
visitors to its sites. The Company also operates one of the largest
textbook wholesale distribution channels in the United States. For
more information please visit www.bned.com.
BNED companies include: Barnes & Noble College Booksellers,
LLC, MBS Textbook Exchange, LLC, BNED LoudCloud, LLC, Student
Brands, LLC, and Promoversity, LLC. General information on Barnes
& Noble Education may be obtained by visiting the Company's
corporate website: www.bned.com.
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