PetMed Express, Inc. announced the appointment of Justin Mennen to the Company?s Board of Directors, effective June 3, 2024. Mr. Mennen will hold this position until the 2024 annual meeting of the Company?s stockholders or until his successor is elected and qualified, subject to his earlier resignation or removal. Mr. Mennen has been appointed to serve on the Board?s Audit Committee and Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee.

Mr. Mennen, age 43, served as an executive officer of Rite Aid Corporation from January 2019 to July 2023, holding the positions of executive vice-president and chief digital and technology officer from March 2022 to July 2023, executive vice-president and chief information officer from September 2019 to March 2022, and senior vice-president and chief information officer from January 2019 until September 2019. Rite Aid was one of the nation?s leading drugstore chains with fiscal 2022 annual revenues of $24+ billion, and Mr. Mennen was responsible for all aspects of the company?s technology and information operations, digital and e-commerce business, and was focused on strengthening and modernizing to enable growth, drive efficiencies and to enhance the experiences of Rite Aid's customers and associates. Mr. Mennen left Rite Aid in July 2023.

In October 2023, Rite Aid filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. Prior to joining Rite Aid, from September 2016 until December 2018, Mr. Mennen was the chief digital officer and chief information officer of CompuCom Systems, Inc, an industry leader in digital workplace services, overseeing the information technology and systems, and leading CompuCom?s digital business unit. Before CompuCom, Mr. Mennen led technology organizations across several industries, including as the vice president of enterprise architecture and technology innovation for Estée Lauder Companies from September 2014 until Aug.

2016. He also held multiple leadership roles at Dell Technologies from November 2009 to August 2014, ultimately serving as the regional chief information officer for Asia Pacific and Japan, based in Malaysia. Mr. Mennen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Kansas.

Since 2018, Mr. Mennen sits on the University of Kansas Business School advisory board for Business Analytics and Information Systems, and since 2018 is a Governing Body co-chair for the Global CIO Executive Summit of Evanta, which brings together C-level executives from the world's leading organizations to connect, share and learn from each other.