Best Buy Co., Inc. Promotes Executive; New Sr. Vice President and CTO Named.Business Editors MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2001 Best Buy Co., Inc., (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BBY BBY Best Buy (stock symbol) BBY Before Battle of Yavin (Star Wars) BBY BeBeyond (Chinese online community) ) the nation's largest consumer electronics retailer, today announced the promotion of a new senior vice president and chief technology officer (CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. ). Clark Becker has been promoted to Senior Vice President and CTO at Best Buy. In his new position, Becker will be responsible for advisory and consulting services, market and customer-facing technologies, training and education services, customer relationship management and business intelligence systems delivery to each of the Company's business units. "Clark has contributed enormously to the success of Best Buy in various areas; as the lead technology executive on our Process to Profits initiative, the executive sponsor of our Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 program, and as an early visionary of data warehousing and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ," said Best Buy Executive Vice President - CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. Marc D. Gordon. "He leads by example and is a role model for his team in regards to living the Company's vision and values." Becker joined Best Buy in 1994 as director of distributed systems most recently serving as systems and programming vice president. Prior to joining Best Buy, Becker served in systems development roles for: Dayton Hudson Stores Division (now Target Corp.), systems analyst work for Cable Value Network and manager of technical architecture for Fingerhut. A graduate of the University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher. http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. and Carlson School of Business, Becker holds a BS in Business and an MBA in Business/MIS. About Best Buy Co., Inc. Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) is the nation's number one specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and appliances. The Enterprise operates retail stores and commercial web sites under the names: Best Buy (BestBuy.com), Magnolia Hi-Fi, Media Play (MediaPlay.com), On Cue (OnCue.com), Sam Goody (SamGoody.com), and Suncoast (Suncoast.com). The Company reaches consumers through more than 1,800 retail stores nationwide, in Puerto Rico and in the U.S. Virgin Islands. |
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