Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. Appoints Maureen Paradine as Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer
September 27, 2021 at 08:30 am EDT
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Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. announced that Maureen Paradine has been named Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer, effective September 27, 2021. Ms. Paradine will report directly to Michael C. Miller, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Affairs, and Chief Legal Officer, BNED. As Chief Human Resources Officer, Ms. Paradine will be responsible for the talent, recruiting, diversity and inclusion, compensation, benefits, employee relations and all aspects of human resources for the Company. Ms. Paradine brings 30 years of human resources experience and more than 20 years experience in the retail industry to her new role at BNED. She has a proven track record as a leader, building out foundational processes and establishing strategic HR functions and partnerships around compensation, retention and rewards, employee engagement, performance management and succession planning, and implemented technologies and dashboards to provide clearer, more consistent data to the leadership team and board of directors.
Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. is a contract operator of physical and virtual bookstores for college and university campuses and K-12 institutions across the United States. The Company is also a textbook wholesaler, inventory management hardware and software provider, and a provider of digital education solutions. The Company's segments include Retail and Wholesale. The Retail Segment operates 1,366 college, university, and K-12 school bookstores, comprised of 774 physical bookstores and 592 virtual bookstores. The Wholesale Segment centrally sources, sells, and distributes new and used textbooks to approximately 3,000 physical bookstores, including its Retail segment's 774 physical bookstores and sources, and distributes new and used textbooks to its 592 virtual bookstores. Additionally, the Wholesale Segment sells hardware and a software suite of applications that provides inventory management and point-of-sale solutions to approximately 340 college bookstores.
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