As Executive Director of The Home Depot Foundation, Shannon Gerber leads The Home Depot’s philanthropic strategy, volunteer efforts and employee assistance program.

Shannon joined The Home Depot in 2002 and, prior to joining The Home Depot Foundation, she spent 13 years with The Home Depot in corporate communications. Most recently, she served as the senior director of events management, where she led large-scale events for the company, as well as The Home Depot Foundation’s fundraising events. In this role, Shannon’s team led the fundraising strategy and helped raise millions of dollars to further the Foundation’s work.

Previously, Shannon worked with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in positions of increasing responsibility in events management.

Shannon has served on the advisory board of Make-A-Wish Georgia and is an active volunteer through Team Depot, Atlanta Community Food Bank, Safehouse Outreach, Atlanta Furniture Bank and other organizations. Shannon has a bachelor of science in business management from University of Phoenix.

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Jose Barra is senior vice president of merchandising, décor, at The Home Depot. He oversees the company’s strategy to provide customers with innovative and exclusive products across flooring, paint, kitchen, bath, appliances, décor, storage and organization. 

Jose joined The Home Depot in 2017 and previously served as senior vice president of merchandising services, where he led a team of more than 26,000 associates and was responsible for the company’s in-store environment, field merchandising and merchandising execution team efforts.

Jose brings more than 25 years of industry experience to the company. Before joining The Home Depot, he served as executive vice president of Optum Inc., a diversified health and well-being company. Prior to that, he served as executive vice president of merchandising, essentials and hardlines at Target. Earlier in his career, Jose also held positions with McKinsey & Company Inc. and served as a managing director with a business incubator in Ecuador.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago-Booth School of Business.

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Molly Battin is senior vice president and chief marketing officer at The Home Depot. In this role, she is responsible for The Home Depot’s branding, marketing strategy, personalization efforts and the company’s retail media network, Retail Media+.

Molly joined The Home Depot in 2022 and prior to joining the company has held executive leadership roles across prolific brands like, Coca-Cola, Warner Media and Delta Air Lines. During her time at Delta, she led global corporate brand strategy and brand management across the company. Her oversight included the global company’s cross-functional marketing strategy and channels.

Molly is a Fellow of the Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) Betsy Magness Leadership Institute and was named the 2018 WICT Southeast Woman of the Year. She’s currently on the advisory board for Imagine It! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta, a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2018, and a member of the Agape advisory board.

Outside of work, Molly is a proud wife and mother of three children, an avid runner and a triathlete. Molly earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and an MBA from Northwestern University.
 

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Marc Becker is vice president of merchandising for The Home Depot. He is responsible for the company’s millwork department, which includes molding, windows, interior doors, exterior doors, patio doors, garage doors and related products.

Marc joined the company in 1999 as a credit analyst. He has held positions of increasing responsibility including assistant store manager, inventory merchant, manager supply chain, merchant, senior merchant, divisional merchandise manager for outdoor power and most recently field merchandising vice president for the Western Division. Marc has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Georgia Southern University.

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Marc Brown is senior vice president of supply chain for The Home Depot. Previously, he was senior vice president of retail operations, a position he held since 2017, where he focused on equipping associates and stores to best serve our customers.

Marc joined the company in 1998 and has deep experience in equipping our associates and stores to serve customers. He began his career as a human resources manager and relied on that commitment to associates as he moved into a number of positions throughout the company, including store manager, field install manager, district manager, director of core retail, regional pro sales manager, divisional pro/tool rental director, senior director of pro sales and regional vice president.

Prior to joining the company, Marc spent eight years in retail with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and Blockbuster Video, both in field and corporate support positions.

Marc has a bachelor’s degree in administrative management from the University of Arkansas.

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Pete Capel is president of the Northern Division for The Home Depot. He is responsible for the sales and operations of 801 stores in 24 Midwest and Northeastern states, with a team of more than 110,000 associates.

Most recently, Pete served as vice president of Field Merchandising for the last seven years for the Northern, Southern and Western divisions. In this role, Pete also led Home Depot’s emergency response teams for natural disasters. 

Pete joined the company in 1990 as a sales associate in South Florida and has held roles of increasing responsibility, including assistant store manager, store manager, district manager, regional install manager, regional merchandise manager, divisional sales merchant, field merchandising vice president for the Northern Division and vice president of in-store environment.

A proud veteran, Pete served for seven years in the United States Marine Corps before joining The Home Depot.

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Chris Duffy is vice president of in-store environment. He is responsible for visual, off-shelf & promotional / event merchandising, space planning & optimization, reset planning, merchandising capital projects, digital store environment and strategic store investment.

Since joining Home Depot in 2000 as a sales associate, Chris has held several positions of increasing responsibility including store manager, district manager, director of operations process, vice president of workforce operations & strategy, building services and energy management, vice president of interconnected retail for homedepot.com and, most recently, vice president of in store environment.

Chris has a bachelor’s degree from Fairfield University and received his master's degree from Duke University.

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John Ellington is the director of finance and grants administration for The Home Depot Foundation.  He is responsible for establishing and managing the collaborative strategies to implement the Foundation’s focus – working to improve the homes and lives of U.S. military veterans and their families.

John joined The Home Depot in 2005 in the Assurance and Advisory Management Program, a two-year program designed to develop the future leaders of the company.  Since that time, John has held roles of increasing responsibility across the company’s corporate finance landscape in the functional areas of financial planning & analysis, store operations, merchandising services and online merchandising.

Prior to joining The Home Depot, John spent four years at Ernst & Young in a variety of roles within their Atlanta office.

A native of the Acadiana region of southern Louisiana, John graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Accounting and minor in economics from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, GA.  He proudly serves in The Foundation in honor of his late father, a veteran of the Vietnam War.

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Daniel Grider is vice president of information technology at The Home Depot. He is responsible for the IT infrastructure, engineering and operations, and accountable for the company’s strategic technology footprint that supports more than 400,000 associates and 2,200 stores. This includes virtualization, network engineering, database, storage, platform, open systems, mainframe, software deployment, data centers and operational command centers.

Daniel joined The Home Depot in 2009 and has more than 22 years of retail information technology experience. He has held various roles of influence throughout his career, with emphasis on development, operational excellence and infrastructure effectiveness. Most recently, Daniel implemented strategic plans to significantly improve self-service infrastructure, overall operational controls, including root cause analysis, response time, productivity and system availability.

Prior to joining The Home Depot, Daniel was senior director for eBay’s global operations team, and spent several years with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. leading the IT security and business continuity divisions. In addition, Daniel worked nine years as a certified law enforcement officer in the state of Arkansas.

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Crystal Hanlon is senior vice president and culture officer at The Home Depot. Crystal is responsible for driving the company’s culture development and strategy and oversees The Home Depot Foundation, The Homer Fund, events and internal communications teams.

Crystal began her career at the company in 1985 as a cashier in Texas while attending the University of Houston. During the last 30-plus years, she has held numerous positions and built a reputation for leading with The Home Depot’s culture and values at the forefront. Crystal served as customer services manager, assistant store manager, store manager, district manager, senior director of operations, merchandising vice president of décor, regional vice president of the Midwest and regional vice president of the Gulf Region. Most recently, Crystal served as president of the Northern Division, a position she held for eight years.

Crystal studied business management at the University of Houston.

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Stacy Ingram serves as associate general counsel and deputy corporate secretary for The Home Depot, which she joined in April 2009. She is responsible for a broad range of securities, compliance, corporate governance and corporate finance matters.

Prior to joining The Home Depot, Ms. Ingram was a partner in the Atlanta office of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, where she represented clients in a full array of securities, corporate governance and corporate finance matters. She currently serves as a member of the board of directors of the Society for Corporate Governance and chair of its Policy Advisory Committee, and has served as president of the Society’s Southeastern Chapter. Ms. Ingram also serves on the board of The Home Depot Foundation and The Homer Fund.

Ms. Ingram received her law degree from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Erin Izen is the senior director of workforce programs at The Home Depot.  She is responsible for the company’s workforce development strategies, including upskilling and pairing skilled trades graduates, many of whom are former servicemembers, with meaningful employment with our pros.  This role is also responsible for a national military relations program, ensuring The Home Depot is an employer of choice for current and former military servicemembers and spouses, as well as Home Depot’s global contingent labor program office.  Prior to this position, she spent 17 years at the company in varied strategic planning, execution, and operational roles in the business, such as strategic business development, store operations, and THD rental.

Before joining The Home Depot, Erin worked at Radiant Systems in Alpharetta, Georgia. She holds a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology and is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Erin is active in her church and several nonprofits that support the armed forces, veterans, and homelessness. She is married to LtCol Jim Izen, USMC (retired) and mother to four (the oldest is also a Marine Corps veteran).

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Heather Kennedy is the vice president of government relations and external communications at The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer. Heather has served in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility at the company for over 20 years. She is responsible for international government relations, federal lobbying and political activity in the Washington, D.C. office as well as state and local government relations across all 50 states. She oversees strategy for external communications including proactive brand PR, executive communications, and issues management. Heather serves on the company’s Incidence Response Team, Privacy and Data Governance Committee, the steering committee of Home Depot’s Civil Rights, Equality, Economic Inclusion and Diversity Task Force (CREEiD), and serves at the chair of The Home Depot Political Action Committee. 

Prior to The Home Depot, Heather was a legislative director at public affairs firms in Florida and Georgia, working in state legislatures. Heather graduated summa cum laude from Florida State University with a BA in Business Management and holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Georgetown University.  She is a graduate of the Women in Power program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as well as the Public Affairs Council’s Public Affairs Institute. 

Heather serves on the board of directors of The Home Depot Foundation, chairs the Georgia Retail Association and sits on the Public Policy Steering Committee of the Retail Industry Leaders Association. She serves on the board of directors for the Public Affairs Council, chairs the Governance Committee for the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute, sits on Ford’s Theatre Corporate Advisory Board and is a member of the DC Economic Club.  

Heather lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband Jacob and two daughters and enjoys traveling and playing golf. She puts her passion for golf to work as a board member of the First Tee of Greater Washington, DC and as a co-chair of the Ambassador program for the National Links Trust.
 

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Heidi Thompson is vice president overseeing The Home Depot’s merchandising execution team. She currently leads over 27,000 associates who ensure products are stocked and properly merchandised in stores. 

Heidi’s passions for associate growth and development, merchandising innovation and compassionate service have inspired a 360-degree approach to removing friction for customers, supplier partners and associates. 

Heidi joined the company in 2004 as an assistant manager and has since held positions of increasing responsibility, including co-store manager, store manager, district manager, vice president of learning, and most recently, regional vice president. She has worked in multiple geographic markets for the company, including The Home Depot Mexico.

Prior to joining The Home Depot, she was a consultant with The Credo Group.

Heidi graduated from Harvard University.

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Charles Wilson is vice president of operations and responsible for the retail customer and associate experience, including labor operations, customer care, specialty and front end.

Prior to this role, Charles Wilson was a regional vice president for The Home Depot responsible for the operations of 110 stores in Florida, Alabama, southern Georgia and southern South Carolina.

Charles joined the company in 2003 as an assistant store manager. He has held progressively responsible roles, including store manager, district operations manager, director of strategic development and district manager.

Charles holds a Master of Business Administration in strategy and finance from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Hampton University.

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Chuyu Xi is vice president of merchandising for The Home Depot. Chuyu is responsible for the company’s flooring department which includes carpet, rugs, wood floor, laminate floor, vinyl floor, tile and tile set materials. Chuyu joined the company in 2006 as a director in our installation services business. He has held positions of increasing responsibility, including senior director and vice president of services operations overseeing maintenance of a national network of service providers, customer issue resolution and the regulatory compliance function. Chuyu also led Home Depot’s renovation services business, providing B2B turnkey installation solution to large institutional clients.

Prior to joining the Home Depot in 2006, Chuyu spent 10 years of his career with General Electric, primarily in its power systems & energy division. During his tenure with GE, Chuyu held various operational leadership roles in global sourcing, supply chain risk management, quality and customer service. Chuyu is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Chuyu graduated from the University of Maine at Fort Kent, and later obtained his MBA and master's in industrial & management engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

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Sherry Yaskin is vice president of human resources, U.S. stores and operations, for The Home Depot. She is responsible for all human resources functions for the Company's 2,192 stores in the United States, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Sherry joined The Home Depot in 2004 as director of learning and has held positions of increasing responsibility, including director of talent management and organizational effectiveness, senior director of human resources for both the western and northern divisions, senior director of human resources for U.S. operations and the pro business and, most recently, vice president of talent management and organizational effectiveness.

Prior to joining the company, Sherry was a district manager with Circuit City. She also spent more than 14 years with Gap, Inc., where she held a variety of leadership positions.

Sherry holds a bachelor's in speech communication from the University of Florida.

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