Rackspace Technology® announced the appointment of Mark Gross to its Board of Directors. Gross is an experienced and dynamic leader with over 25 years of broad-based experience, financial expertise, and deep insight into leading business transformations. Gross succeeds Thomas Cole, who unexpectedly passed away over the recent holiday season.

Gross is an experienced board member and currently serves as a board member and governance committee chair at Diebold-Nixdorf, a global provider of banking and retail technology systems. He is also executive chairman of Southeastern Grocers, an $8 billion-plus annual revenue grocery retailer, co-chairman of $7 billion-plus grocery retailer Northeast Grocery Inc., and a board member and audit committee chair at Acosta, a leading full-service sales and marketing agency. He previously served as president, chief executive officer and director of Supervalu, a grocery wholesaler. Prior to Supervalu, Gross led Surry Investment Advisors, a firm he founded.

Mr. Gross also served in various leadership roles at C&S Wholesale Grocers, including co-president, chief financial officer, and general counsel, as well as a member of the board. In addition, Gross spent seven years as an attorney with the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he worked on complex restructuring deals, finance transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Gross earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College.