DICK'S Sporting Goods Appoints Navdeep Gupta as Chief Financial Officer, Effective October 1, 2021
August 19, 2021 at 08:00 am EDT
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DICK'S Sporting Goods announced that Navdeep Gupta has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, effective October 1, 2021. Gupta will be responsible for the company's finance, investor relations, accounting, business development and procurement functions. The CFO transition is part of the company's long-term succession plan. Gupta, who has been with DICK'S since November 2017 as Senior Vice President, Finance & Chief Accounting Officer, succeeds Lee Belitsky, who has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, since October 2016. Belitsky will remain with DICK'S as Executive Vice President and continue to oversee several key areas -- supply chain, real estate, construction and GameChanger. Prior to joining DICK'S, Gupta spent 11 years at Advance Auto Parts, Inc. in various leadership roles, most recently serving as Senior Vice President of Finance. Earlier in his career, Gupta held a variety of management roles at Sprint Nextel, and he served as a Lieutenant in the Indian Navy.
DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc. is a full-line omni-channel sporting goods retailer. The Company serves athletes and outdoor enthusiasts in more than 850 DICKâS Sporting Goods, Golf Galaxy, Public Lands, Moosejaw, Going Going Gone! and Warehouse Sale stores, online, and through the DICKâS mobile app. The Company also owns and operates DICK'S House of Sport and Golf Galaxy Performance Center, as well as GameChanger, a youth sports mobile app for scheduling, communications, live scorekeeping and video streaming. It carries a wide variety of national brands, including but not limited to adidas, Asics, Brooks, Callaway Golf, Carhartt, Columbia, Easton, Hoka, Jordan, New Balance and Nike. The Company's vertical brands include brands that it owns across hardlines and softlines and are available exclusively in its stores and online such as Alpine Design, CALIA, DSG, ETHOS, Fitness Gear, MAXFLI, Nishiki, Quest, Top-Flite, and Walter Hagen, as well as brands that it licenses from third parties.