Ron is a globally experienced organizational transformation specialist sought out by boards to help them navigate some of the harshest operating environments within the consumer products and retail sectors. His leadership has rapidly transformed underperforming businesses and operating groups to create measurable results in harsh environments. Ron has held C-level roles as CEO of Barnes & Noble, Sears Canada, and Brookstone, as well as senior leadership positions at Sony, Toys R Us, Sears Holdings and Best Buy. Philosophically, he embraces inclusive leadership, management empowerment, and capability creation, while recognizing that coming to grips with significant transformation always requires facing uncomfortable realities on the part of management teams and the boards of organizations. Ron has MBAs from Columbia Business School and London Business School. He is the co-founder, along with his wife, of the Ferguson Noonan Foundation, a 501(c)3 charity focused on educating underprivileged children and is a member of National Board of Directors of the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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FounderThe Upland GroupNew York, Ny, Us -
PartnerValize 2020 - PresentNew York, Ny, UsValize helps organizations build lasting transformation capability as the basis for long-term shared prosperity. -
PrincipalThe Upland Group 2016 - PresentThe Upland Group specializes in transformational strategies, and the required leadership and process improvement to implement and achieve transformation goals.
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Co-Founder, DirectorFerguson Noonan Foundation 2010 - PresentThe Ferguson Noonan Foundation was created to help children and young adults achieve their life goals through education. We assist people in need that have a desire to excel through education and self improvement. We require that the children and young adults that we work with contribute to their growth and the betterment of their community by using their talents to give back.
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Director, National Board AdvisorNational Ms Society 2005 - 2022Denver, Colorado, UsThe Society's mission is: People affected by MS can live their best lives as we stop MS in its tracks, restore what has been lost and end MS forever. -
Vice-Chairman, Member National Board Of DirectorsNational Ms Society 2005 - 2012Denver, Colorado, UsThe National MS Society is a collective of passionate individuals who want to do something about MS now—to move together toward a world free of multiple sclerosis. MS stops people from moving. We exist to make sure it doesn't.
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CeoArt Van Furniture 2018 - 2019Warren, Mi, Us -
CeoBarnes & Noble, Inc. Sep 2015 - Aug 2016New York, UsBarnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) is a Fortune 500 company, the nation’s largest retail bookseller and the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products. Barnes & Noble provides customers easy and convenient access to books, magazines, newspapers and other content across its multi-channel distribution platform. To address dynamic changes in the bookselling industry, Barnes & Noble has been transforming its business from a store-based model to a multi-channel model centered on its retail stores, Internet and digital commerce. The Company offers readers the option of store visits, eCommerce, and digital delivery of books to devices of their choosing, including the award-winning NOOK® tablets and eReaders. -
Board MemberRetail Industry Leaders Association (Rila) 2013 - Jan 2015Washington, District Of Columbia, UsMember of the Board of Directors. -
President And President And CeoSears Holdings And Sears Canada 2012 - 2015Executive Vice President, Chief Merchandising Officer and President, Sears and Kmart FormatsMember of the executive leadership team focused on the transformation of Sears and Kmart into the world's greatest integrated retailers.President and CEOSears Canada is a multi-channel retailer with a network that includes 174 corporate stores, 207 Hometown stores, over 1,300 catalogue and online merchandise pick-up locations, 96 Sears Travel offices and a nationwide repair and service network. The Company also publishes Canada's most extensive general merchandise catalogue and offers shopping online at www.sears.ca, one of Canada's most popular web sites.
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President And CeoBrookstone 2009 - 2012Merrimack, Nh, UsBrookstone is a product development company that operates an eCommerce site (www.brookstone.com) and 300 retail stores located in Malls and Airports in the U.S. -
President, North AmericaToys"R"Us 2006 - 2009Parsippany, New Jersey, UsToys R Us, Inc. is the world's leading dedicated toy and baby products retailer with more than 1,500 freestanding destination toy and baby specialty stores worldwide. The company currently sells merchandise through nearly 600 Toys R Us stores and more than 260 Babies R Us stores in the United States, more than 690 international stores in 33 countries, which includes licensed and franchise stores, and through its Internet site at www.Toysrus.com. Toys R Us, Inc. operated as a public company from 1978 until July 2005. At that time, an investment group consisting of affiliates of Bain Capital Partners LLC, Kohlberg Kravis, Roberts & Co. (KKR), and Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE: VNO) completed an acquisition of Toys R Us, Inc. for $6.6 billion. The acquisition encompassed all worldwide operations of Toys R& Us, Inc., including the Toys R Us and Babies R Us businesses. With the completion of this transaction, each of the investors owns an equal stake in Toys R Us, Inc. -
EvpBest Buy 2003 - 2006Richfield, Minnesota, UsEVP and General Merchandise Manager, member of the Management Committee. -
President, Consumer Sales CompanySony Electronics 1986 - 2003San Diego - Us | Tokyo - Jp, UsResponsible for distribution and channel management for Sony Electronics in the US, Member of the Management Committee of Sony Electronics Inc.
Ron Boire Education Details
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Columbia Business SchoolBusiness Administration And Finance -
London Business SchoolInternational Business
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Ron Boire works for The Upland Group
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Ron Boire's current role is Founder.
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Ron Boire attended Columbia Business School, London Business School.
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