FirstCash Adds Paula Garrett to the Board of Directors
December 28 2020 - 6:00AM
FirstCash, Inc. (the “Company”) (Nasdaq: FCFS), the leading
international operator of over 2,750 retail pawn stores in the U.S.
and Latin America, today announced the appointment of Paula K.
Garrett to the Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2021.
Ms. Garrett serves as the vice president of
finance, operations and information system technology for the Latin
America region of Mary Kay, Inc., a position she has held since
2005. In this role, she leads the financial, operational,
technology and other market development functions for all of Mary
Kay’s Latin America markets, which include Mexico, Brazil,
Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia & Peru. Mary Kay is a
multibillion-dollar direct selling beauty company with millions of
independent sales force members in nearly 40 markets worldwide.
From 1999 to 2004, Ms. Garrett previously held roles at Mary Kay as
region controller, Latin America and internal audit project
manager. Ms. Garrett’s employment experience also includes service
as internal audit manager of Oryx Energy Company from 1998 to 1999
and experience in a progression of accounting and internal audit
positions from 1984 to 1998.
Mr. Rick Wessel, chief executive officer,
stated, “We are pleased to add another experienced and successful
executive to our board. Ms. Garrett is a respected business leader
with a strong track record of leadership roles in large and growing
companies. Combined with deep operational expertise in many areas,
she brings exceptional functional experience to our board,
especially in Latin America. We are excited and confident she will
assist in the further development of our global growth
strategy.”
Ms. Garrett will be an “independent” director
under applicable Nasdaq rules and the Company’s Corporate
Governance Guidelines and will serve on the Audit Committee of the
Board of Directors.
About FirstCash
FirstCash is the leading international operator
of pawn stores with over 2,750 retail pawn locations and
approximately 17,000 employees in 24 U.S. states, the District of
Columbia and four countries in Latin America including Mexico,
Guatemala, El Salvador and Colombia. FirstCash focuses on serving
cash and credit constrained consumers through its retail pawn
locations, which buy and sell a wide variety of jewelry,
electronics, tools, appliances, sporting goods, musical instruments
and other merchandise, and make small consumer pawn loans secured
by pledged personal property.
FirstCash is a component company in both the
Standard & Poor’s MidCap 400 Index® and the
Russell 2000 Index®. FirstCash’s common stock
(ticker symbol “FCFS”) is traded on the Nasdaq,
the creator of the world’s first electronic stock market. For
additional information regarding FirstCash and the services it
provides, visit FirstCash’s website located at
http://www.firstcash.com.
For further information, please contact:Gar
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Doug Orr, Executive Vice President and Chief
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(817) 258-2650 |
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investorrelations@firstcash.com |
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investors.firstcash.com |
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