Board of Directors

Chris Baldwin currently serves as the Chairman of our Board and has been a Director since 2018. Mr. Baldwin also currently serves as a Managing Partner of CVC Advisors (U.S.) Inc. and Executive Chairman of PDC Brands. Mr. Baldwin joined BJ’s in September 2015 as President and Chief Operating Officer and director and subsequently was promoted to Chief Executive Officer in February 2016 and was named Chairman of the Board in 2018, both positions he held until February 2020. Mr. Baldwin was Executive Chairman of the Board from February 2020 to August 2020 and was Chairman of the Board from August 2020 until April 2021 when he became Executive Chairman of the Board. Prior to joining BJ’s, he was Chief Executive Officer of Hess Retail Corporation, a global independent energy company and spin-off of Hess Corporation, from 2010 to March 2015. Before joining Hess Retail Corporation, he held executive roles at Kraft Foods Group, Inc. (now The Kraft Heinz Company), a food and beverage company, from 2007 to 2010, and The Hershey Company, a global confectionary manufacturer, from 2004 to 2007. Earlier in his career, Mr. Baldwin also held various roles at Nabisco, a manufacturer of cookies and snacks, and The Procter & Gamble Company, a multinational consumer goods corporation. Mr. Baldwin graduated from Siena College in Loudonville, New York with a bachelor’s degree in Economics.

Darryl Brown has been a Director of the Company since 2021. Mr. Brown is an accomplished senior executive with more than thirty years of experience in consumer-packaged goods and financial services. Currently, he serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Shadowbrook Investments, LLC, a family-run private equity firm located in southwest Florida. Previously, he served as President, Global Corporate Payments, Americas at American Express Company from 2012 to December 2016 and as Executive Vice President/GM Global Corporate Payments from 2010 to 2012. Prior to joining American Express Company, he held a number of leadership positions at Kraft Foods, where he led the company’s North American retail sales and logistics organization. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Lake Forest Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Lincoln University. Mr. Brown currently serves on the board of Atradius Trade Credit Insurance, an insurance company. He previously served as an advisor and board member of Datanomers, an analytics company, from 2015 to January 2021.

Bob Eddy serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of BJ’s Wholesale Club and has been a Director of the Company since 2021. Mr. Eddy joined the Company in 2007 as Senior Vice President, Finance and was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2011 and served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer from 2018 to April 2021 when he became President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining BJ’s, Mr. Eddy served retail and consumer products companies as a member of the audit and business advisory practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, in Boston and San Francisco. Mr. Eddy is a graduate of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Mr. Eddy currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the National Retail Federation. From 2013 to 2017, Mr. Eddy chaired the Financial Executives Council of the National Retail Federation. He is also a member of the College Advisory Board for Babson College.

Michelle Gloeckler has been a director of the Company since 2019. Ms. Gloeckler is a former retail executive with more than thirty years of experience in retail, consumer-packaged goods, merchandising, sourcing, manufacturing and strategy. She was the executive vice president, Chief Merchant for Academy Sports & Outdoors, a sporting goods retailer, from August 2016 to January 2019. Ms. Gloeckler served as Executive Vice President, Consumables, Health and Wellness at Walmart Inc., a NYSE-listed general merchandise retailer, from February 2009 to August 2016, where she led their health and wellness unit and US manufacturing initiative. Prior to that, Ms. Gloeckler held leadership roles at The Hershey Company, a global confectionary manufacturer. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication and Psychology from the University of Michigan. Ms. Gloeckler has been a director of Duckhorn Portfolio, Inc., an NYSE-listed luxury wine company, since May 2021, of Holley Inc., a NYSE-listed designer, marketer and manufacturer of high-performance automotive aftermarket products, since July 2021, and Pairwise Plants LLC, an agriculture technology company, since December 2021. She served on the board of Benson Hill, an agricultural technology company from February 2019 to February 2021. She also currently serves as a member of The University of Michigan Dean’s Advisory Council.

Maile Naylor (nee Clark) has been a Director of the Company since 2019. Ms. Naylor spent twenty-five years working in the investment management industry analyzing and evaluating global consumer discretionary companies. She previously worked as an Investment Officer at MFS Investment Management, a global asset management company, from September 2005 until her retirement from the investment management industry in April 2018. Prior to that, Ms. Naylor also held positions at Scudder Kemper Investments and Wellington Management, each investment management firms. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Boston University and is a CFA charter holder. Ms. Naylor currently serves on the board of Laird Superfood, Inc. and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Boston Ballet and a member of the President’s Council of the Boston Children’s Museum.

Ken Parent has been a Director of the Company since 2011. Mr. Parent currently serves as Special Advisor to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pilot Flying J, the largest travel center operator in North America. From 2014 to December 31, 2020, Mr. Parent served as President of Pilot Flying J. In this role, he oversaw all company functions, including human resources, technology, finance, real estate and construction. Mr. Parent also lead strategic initiatives on behalf of Pilot Flying J. Prior to becoming President, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of Pilot Flying J from 2013 to 2014. Prior to that, Mr. Parent served as Pilot Flying J’s Senior Vice President of Operations, Marketing and Human Resources from 2001 to 2013 where he managed store and restaurant operations, marketing, sales, transportation and supply and distribution. Mr. Parent holds a Master of Business Administration and a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from San Diego State University.

Chris Peterson has been a director of the Company since 2018. Mr. Peterson is currently the President and Chief Financial Officer of Newell Brands, Inc., a consumer and commercial products producer. Prior to this role, he was Chief Financial Officer and President, Business Operations from August 2018 to May 2022. He served as Chief Operating Officer, Operations at Revlon, Inc., a beauty products retail company, where he led the global Supply Chain, Finance and IT functions from April 2017 to July 2018. From 2012 to May 2016, Mr. Peterson was at Ralph Lauren, an apparel manufacturing company, where he was recruited as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and later served as President, Global Brands. Prior to his time at Ralph Lauren, he spent 20 years at The Procter & Gamble Company, an NYSE-listed multinational consumer packaged goods corporation, in various roles of increasing responsibility, the latest of which was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Global Household Care. Mr. Peterson has a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.

Robert Steele has been a director of the Company since 2016 and, in May 2019, was appointed to serve as lead director. Mr. Steele currently serves on an advisory board for CVC, a private equity and investment advisory firm. From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Steele served as Vice Chairman of Global Health and Well-Being at The Procter & Gamble Company, a multinational consumer goods corporation, retiring in 2011. Mr. Steele spent 35 years with The Procter & Gamble Company, where he served as Group President of Global Household Care, Group President of North America, VP North America home care and in a range of brand management and sales positions. Mr. Steele holds a Master of Business Administration from Cleveland State University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the College of Wooster. Mr. Steele formerly served on the board of Kellogg Company from 2007 to 2012; the board of Beam Co. from 2012 to 2014; the board of Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. from 2013 to 2016; and as trustee of The St. Joseph Home for Handicapped Children from 1995 to 2012. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Newell Brands, Inc. and Berry Global Group, Inc. and previously served on the board of directors of LSI Industries, Inc. from July 2016 to June 2019.