MOORESVILLE, N.C., Sept. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Lowe's
Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) today announced that James K. Han has joined Lowe's as senior vice
president of business development. He reports to Chief Development
Officer Richard D. Maltsbarger.
In this new role, Han is responsible for accelerating the
company's business development strategy focused on identifying and
implementing growth opportunities through new and emerging
businesses, exponential innovation and corporate ventures.
"James brings a breadth of experience to Lowe's with
demonstrated success critical to our growth and development
strategy," said Maltsbarger. "He is an innovative, purpose-driven
leader, well-practiced in leveraging development methods that bring
commercially successful advances to large industry-leading
companies. We are confident that James' dynamic leadership approach
will help propel our efforts to enhance and revolutionize the
customer experience while growing our business."
With more than 20 years of experience, Han has provided
leadership in the areas of product management, business
development, marketing, strategy and operations, driving large
scale transformation in growing both core and emerging "disruptive"
businesses.
He joins Lowe's most recently from Tyco International where he
served as vice president of global marketing, product management
and business development for the company's retail solutions
business. In this role, he successfully designed, implemented and
executed new solutions to position the business for sustainable
growth, resulting in major innovation awards from leading
industry analysts, media and associations.
Han has also held leadership positions at Federal Signal
Corporation, Rockwell Automation, FMC Corporation and Pitney Bowes.
He has served as a member of the Advisory Board for Singularity
University to apply exponential technologies that address
humanity's grand challenges.
Han earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from
Tufts University and an MBA from the
University of Pennsylvania's Wharton
School of Business.
About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a
FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving more than
17 million customers a week in the United
States, Canada and
Mexico. With fiscal year 2015 sales of $59.1 billion, Lowe's and its related businesses
operate or service more than 2,355 home improvement and hardware
stores and employ over 285,000 employees. Founded in 1946 and based
in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's
supports the communities it serves through programs that focus on
K-12 public education and community improvement projects. For more
information, visit Lowes.com.
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