Barnes & Noble Appoints Joe Gorman as Executive Vice President, Operations
March 19 2019 - 08:30AM
Business Wire
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s
largest retail bookseller, today announced the appointment of Joe
Gorman as Executive Vice President, Operations. Mr. Gorman joins
the Company from General Nutrition Centers (GNC) where he also
served as Executive Vice President, Operations. He will report to
Leonard Riggio, Executive Chairman of Barnes & Noble.
“Joe is a seasoned executive and given his wealth of retail
experience we believe he is the perfect fit for our business,” said
Mr. Riggio.
Mr. Gorman is a leading retail executive with more than 25 years
of strategic, operational and entrepreneurial experience. In
addition to his position at GNC, Mr. Gorman also held leadership
positions at GameStop and Home Depot. At GameStop, Mr. Gorman
created and grew a business unit dedicated to new strategic growth,
leveraging the company’s core strengths in tangential businesses.
At Home Depot, Mr. Gorman led the operational direction and
execution plan for West Coast Division stores and employees.
At Barnes & Noble, Mr. Gorman will be responsible for
uniting the Stores, Café and Real Estate teams, as well as
providing sales, logistical and operational leadership to these
teams to drive performance, growth and profitability.
Mr. Gorman’s expertise in retailing and operations has earned
him many awards and notable accomplishments, including being named
a High Potential Leader and Six Sigma Champion at GameStop and a
Six Sigma Champion at Home Depot. Additionally, he is a guest
lecturer for the University of Hawai’i’s Executive MBA program, a
position he has held for nearly 15 years. He starts his new
position effective today, March 19.
About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is the world’s largest
retail bookseller, and a leading retailer of content, digital media
and educational products. The Company operates 627 Barnes &
Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the Web’s premier
e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com). The Nook Digital business
offers a lineup of popular NOOK® tablets and eReaders and an
expansive collection of digital reading and entertainment content
through the NOOK Store®. The NOOK Store features more than 4.5
million digital books in the US (www.nook.com), plus periodicals
and comics, and offers the ability to enjoy content across a wide
array of popular devices through Free NOOK Reading Apps™ available
for Android™, iOS® and Windows®.
General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained
by visiting the Company's corporate website at
www.barnesandnobleinc.com.
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Mary Ellen KeatingSenior Vice PresidentCorporate
CommunicationsBarnes & Noble, Inc.(212)
633-3323mkeating@bn.comorAlex OrtolaniDirectorCorporate
CommunicationsBarnes & Noble, Inc.(212)
633-3379aortolani@bn.com
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