Starbucks people

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Directors of Starbucks

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Jerry Baldwin

Gerald "Jerry" Baldwin is an American businessman, who along with Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegl founded Starbucks in Seattle in 1971.

Jerry Baldwin learned the coffee trade from Alfred Peet, whose store Peet's Coffee & Tea was the inspiration for Starbucks. Starbucks purchased roasted coffee beans from Peet's during its first year of operation. In 1984 Peet's was put up for sale; Baldwin led a group of investors that purchased the company. In 1987 he sold his interests in Starbucks. Baldwin was Chairman of Peet's until 2001 when Peet's became a publicly traded company; he now holds the title of Director.

Baldwin has also served as director and founding chairman of Technical Standards Committee of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, president of Association Scientifique International du Cafe (ASIC), and chairman of Coffee Quality Institute. He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Specialty Coffee Association of America. He is a director of TechnoServe, a non-profit NGO working in Latin America and Africa.

In 2000, he established J. Baldwin Wines, a Zinfandel grower and producer in Sonoma Valley, California.

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Gordon Bowker

Gordon Bowker is an American entrepreneur. He began as a writer and went on to co-found Starbucks along with Jerry Baldwin and Zev Siegl. He was later a co-owner of Peet's Coffee & Tea and Redhook Ale Brewery. He attended the University of San Francisco.

He is credited with coming up with the name Starbucks, and changing the primary color of the logo from brown to green in 1987, a nod to his alma mater.

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Rosalind Brewer

Rosalind G. Brewer is an American businesswoman who is the former President and CEO of Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. On Jan. 6, 2017, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced that she will retire from the role effective Feb. 1, 2017 and will be replaced by John Furner. She is the first woman and the first African-American to fill the role of CEO at one of Wal-Mart Stores' divisions. As of 2016, she is listed as the 57th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.

Brewer, a Detroit native, attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit. She completed her undergraduate education at Spelman College, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. She is a graduate of the Director’s College at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business/Stanford Law School, and she also attended an advanced management program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Brewer had a 22-year career at Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Starting out as a scientist, she eventually advanced to president of the Global Nonwovens Sector in 2004.

Brewer’s career with Walmart began in 2006 with her position as regional vice president over operations in Georgia. From there, she became the division president of Walmart’s Southeast market, then president of Walmart East. In 2012, Brewer was named President and CEO of Sam’s Club, becoming the first African American to lead a Walmart division. She has focused on health and wellness by doubling the amount of organic products offered at Sam's Clubs.

Brewer serves on the board of directors for Lockheed Martin Corporation, and is chair of the board of trustees for Spelman. On February 1, 2017 Brewer was nominated for the Starbucks Board of Directors. Brewer formerly served as a director of Molson Coors Brewing Co.

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Geoff Cottrill

Geoff Cottrill (born July 4, 1963) is a marketer in the United States. He is the president of MullenLowe Lintas Group in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to joining MullenLowe, he was Chief Marketing Officer and General Manager of Converse, a subsidiary of Nike, Inc.

Prior to Converse, Cottrill held the position of Vice President at Starbucks Entertainment Hear Music in Seattle, Washington.

Prior to Starbucks, he spent nine years as head of The Coca-Cola Company's entertainment marketing team. Before joining Coca-Cola, he spent nearly 11 years at Procter & Gamble in various sales and marketing roles.

Cottrill graduated from Florida State University in 1985 with a degree in Economics, and a minor in British Studies / International Affairs.

He has was previously on the Board of Directors for Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants as well as the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

In 2014 he was appointed vice-chair of MusiCares, a philanthropic organization associated with the Grammy Awards.

He was named one of Brandweek's "Marketers of the Year" in 2010.

He has two daughters. One of which, Claire Cottrill, is a musical artist who also goes by Clairo.

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Christine M. Day

Christine M. Day (born 1962) is a Canadian retail executive. From 2008 through December 2013, she was the CEO of the Canadian clothing company Lululemon Athletica. Prior to taking up her post at Lululemon she had worked for Starbucks for twenty years, eventually becoming the head of its Asia-Pacific division. She has been the CEO of the Vancouver-based food company Luvo since January 2014.

Day was born in Northern Ireland. When her father's career as a professional soccer player was ended by a knee injury, the family emigrated to Canada and settled in British Columbia where he worked as an engineer. She received her undergraduate degree in Administrative Business Management from Central Washington University in 1984 and began her career working for a financial services firm specializing in private equity placements. One of its clients was Howard Schultz who owned the Il Giornale coffee outlet and was looking to expand the company by purchasing Starbucks. Day began working as the office manager for Schultz's then fledgling company in 1986 and remained with Starbucks for the next 20 years, gradually rising through its ranks. In 2002 she graduated from Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program and by 2003 had become the head of Starbuck's Asia-Pacific division.

She left Starbucks in 2006 and took a year's sabbatical before joining Lululemon Athletica as executive vice-president of its retail operations in January 2008. Six months later, she became the company's CEO and joined its Board of directors. During her time at Lululemon, Day was credited with driving its expansion to an international company, with Lululemon's stock rising by over 400% during her tenure. In 2011, she became the first woman to be named "CEO of the Year" by the Toronto Globe and Mail and was named "Marketer of the Year" by the Canadian Marketing Association. Day announced that she would be resigning as CEO of the company in June 2013, but would stay on for the next six months until her replacement was found. In January 2014 Laurent Potdevin was named the new CEO of Lululemon.

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Mary Dillon (businesswoman)

Mary Dillon (born 1961/62) is an American businesswoman, the CEO of Ulta Beauty since July 2013.

Dillon has a bachelor's degree in Marketing and Asian Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Dillon is a non-executive director of Starbucks.

She was global chief marketing officer and executive vice president of McDonald's from 2005 to 2010.

Dillon was CEO and president of U.S. Cellular from 2010 to 2013.

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Howard Schultz

Howard Schultz

Howard Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of Starbucks and a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics. He was a member of the Board of Directors at Square, Inc. In 1998, Schultz co-founded Maveron, an investment group, with Dan Levitan. In 2016, Forbes magazine ranked Schultz as the 595th richest person in the United States, with a net worth of $2.9 Billion as of Sept 2016.

On December 1, 2016, Schultz announced his resignation as CEO of Starbucks, effective April 2017. He will become executive chairman, with Kevin Johnson to become CEO.

Schultz was born to a Jewish family on July 19, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of ex-United States Army trooper and then truck driver Fred Schultz, and his wife Elaine. With his younger sister, Ronnie, and brother, Michael, he grew up in the Canarsie Bayview Houses of the New York City Housing Authority. As Schultz's family was poor, he saw an escape in sports such as baseball, football, and basketball, as well as the Boys and Girls Club. He went to Canarsie High School, from which he graduated in 1971. In high school, Schultz excelled at sports and was awarded an athletic scholarship to Northern Michigan University – the first person in his family to go to college. A member of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Schultz received his bachelor's degree in Communications in 1975.

After graduating, Schultz worked as a salesperson for Xerox Corporation and was quickly promoted to a full sales representative. In 1979 he became a general manager for Swedish drip coffee maker manufacturer, Hammarplast, where he became responsible for their U.S. operations with a staff of twenty. In 1981, Schultz visited a client of Hammarplast, a fledgling coffee-bean shop called Starbucks Coffee Company in Seattle, curious as to why it ordered so many plastic cone filters. He was impressed with the company's knowledge of coffee and kept in contact over the next year, expressing interest in working with them. A year later, he joined Starbucks as the Director of Marketing. On a buying trip to Milan, Italy, for Starbucks, Schultz noted that coffee bars existed on practically every street. He learned that they not only served excellent espresso, they also served as meeting places or public squares; the 200,000 cafés in the country were an important element of Italian culture and society.

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Zev Siegl

Zev Siegl (born April 25, 1955 in Alameda, California) is an American entrepreneur.

Zev Siegl was born on April 25, 1955 in Alameda, California.

In 1971 he, and teacher Jerry Baldwin, and writer Gordon Bowker established Starbucks Coffee Company and opened the original store, at 2000 Western Avenue, in Seattle in the U.S. state of Washington.

Siegl, a former history teacher, was the only paid employee in the early days of the company. In 1980, after ten years as Vice President, he exited Starbucks, which by then had expanded to six Seattle-area stores and a substantial wholesale business.

Zev Siegl is also a founder of Quatermaine Coffee Roasters in Washington, DC, Peerless Pie in Seattle and, more recently, BuckleUp which is now renamed Socialbeesstrategy.com.

From 2004 until mid-2012 he served as the Lead Advisor of the Small Business Development Center [SBDC] for Southwest King County (Seattle). During those eight years he advised more than 500 entrepreneurs and owners of small business enterprises.

Siegl continues to be active in the world of small business as an independent consultant with a focus on funding strategies.

Siegl lives in Seattle, Washington.

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Peter Thum

Peter Alan Thum is an American entrepreneur and businessperson. He pioneered the concept of directly connecting consumption and a related cause. He has founded several companies and not for profit organizations. Thum is best known for creating the brand Ethos Water and leading the company as its president through its acquisition by Starbucks.

Thum graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 1990 with a degree in Government. After graduating college, Thum to move to Berlin, Germany to live and work and experience the country’s re-integration after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Thum learned German and worked at Siemens, the technology company, and then worked for five years for the Ernest and Julio Gallo Winery, helping to build their import business in Germany. Thum went on to earn an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and then worked for McKinsey & Company, the global management-consulting firm, in the London office.

In 2001, while working on a consulting project in South Africa for McKinsey & Company, Thum met people who lived in the townships and countryside who did not have access to safe water and adequate sanitation. These experiences inspired him to come up with the idea for Ethos Water. Thum led Ethos as president through its acquisition by Starbucks in 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he managed Ethos and other businesses as a vice president of Starbucks and guided its philanthropy as a Director of the Starbucks Foundation.

In 2008, Thum founded the not-for -profit organization Giving Water. Its mission is to fund programs providing water, adequate sanitation and hygiene education for children in need. Since then Giving Water has funded programs for over 6,000 school children in Kenya.

While traveling to visit programs funded by Ethos Water and the Starbucks Foundation in Africa in 2008, Thum met boys and young men armed with assault rifles. Thum was inspired by this to turn the AK47, the world’s most-sold and well known assault rifle into something positive. With this aim, Thum co-founded is CEO of Fonderie 47, a brand that turns assault rifles into jewelry, watches and accessories in 2009. The company's mission is to reduce the number and impact of assault rifles and other small arms around the world. The company has collaborated with designers to create jewelry pieces, mechanical watches, and accessories which when purchased fund the destruction of assault rifles in Africa. To date, Fonderie 47 has funded the destruction of over 50,000 assault rifles in African conflict regions including the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi.

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