BEST BUY INC (BBY)
Sector: Consumer Discretionary
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Sector: Consumer Discretionary
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Director information for BBY
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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| BBY | Retired Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | 64 | ["More than 25 years of Chief Executive Officer experience","Expertise in data and analytics, technology, and customer engagement","Leading The Weather Company","Experience at Nielsen, The Weather Company and Digitas Inc.","Executive roles over his career","25 years of public company board experience"] | [] | 2026 |
Companies shown below are based on exact name match for the selected Director
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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| AKAM | [] | ["Audit", "Nominating and Corporate Governance"] | 2010 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Retired Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Independent Director. Director Since: September 2013. Age: 64. Education: GM Institute (Kettering University), Harvard University. Committees: None. Other Public Boards: None.
Mr. Kenny brings more than 25 years of Chief Executive Officer experience to the Board. He uses his expertise in data and analytics, technology, and customer engagement to help Best Buy with its transformation and growth efforts, especially around capturing online share and using data responsibly to serve customers. His experience leading The Weather Company offers Best Buy strong environmental leadership and climate change expertise.
CEO / Executive Leadership
Mr. Kenny was most recently Executive Chairman at Nielsen, a private global measurement and data analytics company. He also previously served as CEO of Nielsen, The Weather Company and Digitas Inc. In addition, Mr. Kenny has held a variety of other executive roles over his career. He has 25 years of public company board experience having served on the boards of Yahoo, Akamai, Digitas and Nielsen.
Technology
As Senior Vice President of IBM Watson, Mr. Kenny led the company's growth initiatives around cloud and artificial intelligence services. His online leadership dates to 1997, when he founded Digitas. Mr. Kenny currently serves as an advisor to venture-backed AI companies.
Customer Engagement
As the former executive chairman of Nielsen, Mr. Kenny has a deep knowledge of consumer insights. As chairman and CEO of The Weather Company, acquired by IBM in 2016, he helped turn the organization into a media heavyweight that produced television programming, developed apps, published content and used analytics to connect businesses to consumers through weather and climate-related content.
Experience Qualifications
Executive Chairman, Nielsen (2023-2026)
CEO, Nielsen (December 2018-2023)
Board director, Nielsen (December 2018- present)
Senior Vice President, IBM Watson (January 2016-2018) and IBM Cloud (November 2016-2018)
Chairman and CEO, The Weather Company (2012-2015)
President of Akamai (2011-2012)
Managing Partner, VivaKi (2006-2010)
Founder and CEO, Digitas, Inc. (1997-2006)