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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT
The following table and information sets forth the names of our executive officers, their current positions and
offices with the Company, the date they first became executive officers of the Company, their current ages, and their
principal employment during the past five years.
Name Position
Date€First
Became an
Executive
Officer Age
Edward S. Lampert Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer 2013 53
Jeffrey A. Balagna Executive Vice President 2013 55
Robert A. Schriesheim Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer 2011 55
Girish Lakshman
President, Fulfillment - Supply Chain and Sourcing
2015 51
Kristin M. Coleman Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary 2014 47
Joelle Maher
President and Chief Member Officer, Sears
2015 49
Leena Munjal Senior Vice President, Customer Experience and Integrated Retail 2013 39
Alasdair James President and Chief Member Officer, Kmart 2014 45
Robert A. Riecker Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer 2012 51
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Mr.€Lampert has served as Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors since 2004 and as our Chief
Executive Officer since February 2013. He also is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ESL
Investments,€Inc., which he founded in April€1988.
Mr. Balagna joined the Company as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer in May 2013 and
currently serves as Executive Vice President of the Company. Prior to joining the Company, he served as the Senior
Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Eli Lilly and Company, a pharmaceutical company, since February
2012. He previously served in senior positions for Carlson Companies, including President and Chief Executive
Officer for Carlson Marketing Worldwide, a marketing, travel and hospitality company, which was acquired by
Groupe Aeroplan, Inc. in 2009, from 2008 to September 2011, Chief Executive Officer of Carlson’s T.G.I. Friday’s
and Pickup Stix casual restaurant businesses in 2008, and Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and
Customer Technology Officer for Carlson Companies from 2005 to 2008. He previously served in senior positions
for Medtronic, Inc., General Electric Company, and Ford Motor Company.
Mr.€Schriesheim joined the Company as Executive Vice President in August 2011 and became Executive Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer that same month. Prior to joining the Company, he served as the Chief
Financial Officer of Hewitt Associates, Inc., a global human resources consulting and outsourcing company, from
January 2010 to October 2010. From October 2006 to January 2010, he served as Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer of Lawson Software, Inc., an ERP software provider. From August 2002 to October 2006, he
was affiliated with ARCH Development Partners, LLC, a seed stage venture capital fund. Before joining ARCH, Mr.
Schriesheim held executive positions at Global TeleSystems, SBC Equity Partners, Ameritech, AC Nielsen and
Brooke Group Ltd. Mr. Schriesheim serves as: a director of Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (since May 2006) and
chairman of its audit committee; a director of Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (since August 2015) and chairman of its audit
committee; and a director of NII Holdings, Inc. (since August 2015) and chairman of its audit committee. Mr.
Schriesheim also served as a director of Dobson Communications Corp. from 2004 to 2007, a director of Lawson
Software from 2006 to 2011, a director and Co-Chairman of MSC Software Corporation from 2007 to 2009 and a
director of Georgia Gulf Corporation from 2009 to 2010.
Mr. Lakshman joined the Company as President, Fulfillment - Supply Chain and Sourcing in September 2015.
Prior to joining the Company, he served in a variety of roles with Amazon.com, Inc. since July 1999, most recently
as Vice President of Worldwide Transportation Strategy, Technology and Customer Returns. Mr. Lakshman serves as
a director of Grubhub, Inc.
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