Sporting goods and custom apparel platform OrderMyGear LLC hired Matt Kaplan as the head of enterprise sales, a new position at the company. Kaplan previously was director of sales for team sports at Under Armour Inc., No. 33 in the Internet Retailer 2018 Top 1000.
“Matt will help connect our growing network of team dealers to large opportunities that were difficult to access and scale prior to OrderMyGear,” says Kent McKeaigg, CEO of OrderMyGear. “He will work with brands and national leagues to bridge the opportunity gap in this fragmented landscape.”
OrderMyGear in April announced it had raised $35 million from Susquehanna Growth Equity. The Dallas-based company is using the funds to develop a technology that can help distributors and sales representatives identify more groups who might be interested in its service, develop communications to convey the “limited time” message and encourage more purchases and to help salespeople and distributors in the process of closing down an online store and delivering products.
The platform handled nearly $190 million in sales in 2017, OrderMyGear says.
In other e-commerce personnel news:
- Pet retailer PetSmart Inc., No. 50, named J.K. Symancyk as its CEO. Symancyk most recently served as the CEO of Academy Sports + Outdoors, a private sporting goods retailer. He’s tasked with turning around declining sales at the retailer’s 1,600 store locations while making the retailer’s fast-growing e-commerce site, Chewy.com, into a profitable business. In its most recent quarter, sales at PetSmart’s Chewy.com division jumped 18% to $650 million. For its latest fiscal year ended in March, PetSmart’s same-store sales were down 4.5%.
- Best Buy Co. Inc. (No. 8) hired Brian Tilzer as its chief digital and technology officer. He replaceS Bala Subramanian, who left the retailer to become chief digital officer at wireless communications company AT&T Inc. Since 2013, Tilzer had been senior vice president, chief digital officer at CVS Caremark Corp. (No 114). Prior to that role, he worked at Staples (No. 5), most recently as senior vice president, global e-commerce.
- Women’s luxury footwear brand Tamara Mellon raised $24 million in Series B round of funding, bringing the total amount raised to $37 million. The direct-to-consumer retailer says it grew 300% in the first half of 2017 versus the first half of 2018. The funds will go to expanding product assortment and hiring new employees.
- TV and web merchant Evine Live Inc. hired Anne Martin-Vachon as president, beginning Aug. 1. Prior to Evine, Martin-Vachon worked as president of TSC-Today’s Shopping Choice, where Evine says she reorganized the company, simplified processes, grew sales and reduced inventories by 30%. “Evine has now entered the third year of its three-year turn around,” said CEO Bob Rosenblatt. “Anne is the perfect fit to continue to grow our sales and merchandising organization and deliver on our strategy to grow both sales and profit this year.”