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Marvin Ellison

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Marvin Ellison

Full Name: Marvin R. Ellison

Born: January 01, 1966, Haywood County, Tennessee, United States of America

Occupation: Businessperson

Job: Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Works for: Lowe's Companies, Inc.

Primary Industry: Retail

Nationality: American

Marvin R. Ellison presently holds the positions of Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Lowe’s Companies, Inc., a distinguished FORTUNE® 50 home improvement corporation, a role he has assumed since July 2018. Lowe’s Companies, Inc., boasts an extensive network of over 1,700 stores and a workforce of approximately 300,000 associates nationwide.

Work Experience

With over 30 years of leadership and operational experience in the retail industry, Mr. Ellison has demonstrated expertise in managing expansive networks of stores, employees, and global logistics systems.

Previously, he served as the CEO of J. C. Penney, a position he held since August 2015, and assumed the role of Chairman effective August 1, 2016. His tenure as the company's president began in 2014, contributing to nearly three decades of experience in the retail sector.

Before his time at J. C. Penney, Mr. Ellison spent 12 years at Home Depot. As the executive vice president of U.S. stores from August 2008, he held the senior-most operations leadership role for Home Depot's extensive network of approximately 2,000 stores. Earlier, he served as president of the Northern Division, overseeing the sales and operations of more than 700 stores in 21 states and leading a team of over 150,000 associates. His responsibilities also included a role as senior vice president of global logistics, managing domestic distribution, transportation, store and appliance delivery, import distribution, and international logistics across the United States, Canada, Mexico, China, and more than 35 other countries.

Before joining Home Depot, Mr. Ellison spent 15 years at Target in various operational roles, including Corporate Director of Asset Protection.

Board and Advisor Roles

Mr. Ellison holds or has held positions on the board of directors of Lowe's, FedEx Corporation, the Retail Industry Leaders Association, and the National Retail Federation. Additionally, he serves as a member of the board of trustees for the University of Memphis.

Accolades

Marvin R. Ellison's achievements have earned him recognition, including being named to Fortune’s World’s Greatest Leaders in 2016 and receiving the 2016 Corporate Executive of the Year award from Black Enterprise.

Philanthropy

Mr. Ellison is actively engaged in philanthropic efforts including inner-city school renovations, as well as mentoring programs aimed at developing inner-city youth. 

Education

Mr. Ellison earned a business administration degree in marketing from the University of Memphis and holds a Master of Business Administration from Emory University.

*We have certainty about Mr. Ellison's birth year, but his exact birth date remains uncertain.

Work Experience

  • Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lowe's Companies, Inc.

  • Chairman and CEO, JCPenney

  • Executive Vice President Stores, The Home Depot

  • Corporate Director of Asset Protection, Target

    Mr. Ellison spent 15 years with Target in a variety of operational roles, including Corporate Director of Asset Protection.

Board Memberships And Advisory Roles

  • Board Member, Lowes,

  • Board Member, FedEx Corporation,

  • Board Member (2014 - 2018), J. C. Penney Company, Inc., 1

  • Board Member (2011 - 2014), H&R Block, Inc., 1

  • Board Member, The Retail Industry Leaders Association,

  • Board Member, National Retail Federation,

  • Member of the board of trustees, University of Memphis, 1

Education

  • MBA, Business Administration, Emory University - Goizueta Business School,

  • B.A, Business Marketing, The University of Memphis,

Related Links

  • LinkedIn

  • X: @MarvinREllison

  • From Haywood County to Wall Street: My journey - When I was 6 years old, I could walk out my front door, look north, south, east and west and not see anything that looked like success. Growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a sharecropper’s son from Brownsville, Tennessee, I had little expectation of becoming the first black chairman and CEO of two Fortune 500 Companies, but that’s where my journey began. I was the middle child of seven. My father picked cotton for a living, and my mother was a maid at a truck-stop motel. It’s fair to say we were poor; it’s truer still to say we lived in poverty. So did a lot of people around Brownsville. We lived about a dozen miles outside of town and didn’t even have indoor plumbing when I was small. But my parents did what was needed to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. My father, Ivory, is a proud man; he never took a dime of public assistance and often worked two and three jobs to make ends meet. My mother, could stretch a dollar like nobody’s business.

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