Home Depot expands board
Retail giant The Home Depot has appointed Paula Santilli, CEO of PepsiCo Latin America, and Caryn Seidman-Becker, chair and CEO of CLEAR, to its board of directors, effective March 1, 2022.
“I’m pleased to welcome Paula and Caryn to our board of directors,” said Craig Menear, chairman and CEO of The Home Depot. “Their extensive leadership experience and expertise in retail, technology and international operations will be instrumental to The Home Depot as we work to provide the best interconnected retail experience to customers across North America.”
Santilli will serve on the Home Depot board’s finance committee and the nominating and corporate governance committee.
Santilli previously served in various leadership positions at PepsiCo Mexico Foods, including president, chief operating officer, and vice president and general manager, said the company.
Prior to joining PepsiCo Mexico Foods, she held a variety of leadership positions with PepsiCo in Mexico and in the Latin America southern cone region comprising Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
Santilli joined PepsiCo in 2001, following PepsiCo’s acquisition of the Quaker Oats Company.
Seidman-Becker will serve on the nominating and corporate governance committee and the leadership development and compensation committee for the Home Depot’s board.
Seidman-Becker is the co-founder, chair and CEO of CLEAR, a secure identity platform operating in travel, health care, sports and entertainment.
Prior to CLEAR, she founded and was the managing partner of Arience Capital, a more than $1 billion value-oriented asset management firm, said the company, focused on investing in companies across a broad spectrum of industries, including consumer, technology, aerospace and defense.
Following the appointment of Santilli and Seidman-Becker, Home Depot will have 14 directors.
The Home Depot is the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer. At the end of the fourth quarter, the company operated a total of 2,317 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico.