Framingham, Mass., USA - January 31, 2014, Framingham, Mass., USA - Staples, Inc., an office supply chain store, announced that Joe Doody has been named vice chairman, and Shira Goodman has been named president, North American commercial, effective February 2, 2014.
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Mr. Doody is President of Staples North American Commercial responsible for Staples Advantage, which serves medium-sized to Fortune 1000 businesses, and Quill.com, which serves small to medium sized businesses. In addition, he is head of the company's supply chain and customer service operations in North America. He is also the Chairman of Staples China.
Before joining Staples in 1998, he was President of Danka's Office Imaging Business in North America. From 1974 to 1997 he worked at Eastman Kodak in various roles of growing responsibility, the last being General Manager and Vice President, North America, Office Imaging. He is a member of the Simon School's Executive Advisory Committee and serves on the board of Casella Waste Systems.
Mr. Doody graduated from the State University of New York at Brockport with a degree in economics. He received his MBA from the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester.
Ms. Goodman is Executive Vice President of Staples Global Growth group. Ms. Goodman joined Staples in 1992 and has served in a number of leadership roles across the company. She was most recently Executive Vice President of Human Resources, leading Staples’ global HR strategies and programs.
Previously, she was Executive Vice President of Marketing, responsible for Staples’ marketing, advertising, public relations and charitable giving programs and led the company’s global business integration efforts following Staples’ acquisition of Corporate Express in 2008.
She has also held senior executive positions in the company’s delivery business units, which serve business customers of all sizes. Ms. Goodman came to Staples from Bain and Company where she was a Manager. She sits on the Board of Directors of CarMax, Inc. ■