Academy Sports and Outdoors Inc. announced the appointment of Chris Turner to its Board of Directors and Audit Committee. With this change, Academy’s Board now comprises ten directors.
“Chris has an impressive background of business leadership and deep knowledge in consumer brands and elevating the customer experience that will be very valuable to Academy and our Board,” said Ken C. Hicks, Academy chairman, president and CEO. “As a Texan and Academy Sports + Outdoors customer, he’ll bring a unique passion to his role as a director.”
Turner has over 20 years of strategy, finance, mergers & acquisitions, and operations experience at consumer-oriented and strategic consulting companies. Turner has served as the CFO of Yum! Brands since August 2019 where he has had global responsibility for finance, corporate strategy, supply chain, and information technology. Before joining Yum! Brands, he served as senior vice president and general manager at PepsiCo’s retail and e-commerce businesses with Walmart in the U.S., worldwide and across PepsiCo’s brands.
Prior to leading PepsiCo’s Walmart business, he served in various positions including senior vice president of Transformation for PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America business and senior vice president of strategy for Frito-Lay. Before PepsiCo, he spent more than 13 years at McKinsey & Company as a partner in its Dallas office serving clients in the retail, restaurant, consumer packaged goods, airline, high-tech, and media industries.
