Sarah Friar - Walmart Independent Director

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Director

Ms. Sarah Friar is an Independent Director of the company. Ms. Friar has served from December 2018 to present CEO of Nextdoor Inc., the worlds largest private social network for neighborhoods July 2012 to November 2018 CFO of Square, Inc., a provider of commerce solutions, including managed payments and pointofsale systems for businesses and mobile financial offerings for consumers April 2011 to July 2012 Senior Vice President of Finance Strategy at Salesforce.com, Inc. 2002 to 2012 Various positions at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. including as a Managing Director in the Equity Research Division and other various positions where she focused on corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions Prior to 2002 McKinsey Company. Ms. Friar has served as a director of Slack Technologies, Inc., a business communications platform, since March 2017. She also previously served on the board of directors of New Relic, Inc., a software analytics company, from December 2013 until April 2018, and Model N, Inc. from September 2012 until May 2015. She also has served as the vicechair of the board of Spark Program Inc., a nonprofit focused on changing the lives of atrisk middle schoolers through mentorship. Ms. Friar is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Finance Leaders Fellowship Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network since 2018.
Age 46
Tenure 6 years
Professional MarksMBA
Friar graduated from the University of Oxford with a Master of Engineering in Metallurgy, Economics, and Management and also from Stanford Graduate School of Business with an M.B.A.
Walmart (WMT) is traded on Hanover Exchange in Germany and employs 44 people.

Walmart Leadership Team

Elected by the shareholders, the Walmart's board of directors comprises two types of representatives: Walmart inside directors who are chosen from within the company, and outside directors, selected externally and held independent of Walmart. The board's role is to monitor Walmart's management team and ensure that shareholders' interests are well served. Walmart's inside directors are responsible for reviewing and approving budgets prepared by upper management to implement core corporate initiatives and projects. On the other hand, Walmart's outside directors are responsible for providing unbiased perspectives on the board's policies.
Steuart Walton, Director
Sarah Friar, Independent Director
Carla Harris, Independent Director
Randall Stephenson, Director
Thomas Horton, Lead Independent Director
C McMillon, President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Steven Reinemund, Independent Director
Suresh Kumar, Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Timothy Flynn, Independent Director
Rachel Brand, Executive Vice President, Global Governance, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary
John Furner, Executive Vice President, President and Chief Executive Officer - Walmart U.S. division
Cesar Conde, Independent Director
Kathryn McLay, Executive Vice President, President and Chief Executive Officer - Sam's Club
Marc Lore, Executive Vice President, President and Chief Executive Officer - U.S. eCommerce
S Walton, Director
Donna Morris, Executive Vice President - Global People and Chief People Officer
M Biggs, Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
Daniel Bartlett, Executive Vice President - Corporate and Government Affairs
David Chojnowski, Senior Vice President Controller
Greg Penner, Independent Vice Chairman of the Board
Marissa Mayer, Independent Director
Judith McKenna, Executive Vice President, President and Chief Executive Officer - Walmart International

Walmart Stock Performance Indicators

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