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Belk CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Lisa Harper is the Belk's CEO. Belk has 25,000 employees, of which 13 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Belk executive team is 38% female and 62% male.
  • 68% of the management team is White.
  • 10% of Belk management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 10% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Name & TitleBio
Lisa Harper

CEO / President

William Belk

Founder

Nir Patel

Chief Merchandising Officer

Nir Patel's LinkedIn

Patel joined Belk in 2016 as EVP, GMM, Men's and eCommerce where he also expanded his responsibilities to include Home, Kids, and Visual Merchandising before he was promoted to Chief Merchandising Officer in 2018. Patel was then named President in 2020 as he assumed the additional responsibilities for Marketing and eCommerce. Prior to his years at Belk, Patel was an SVP with Kohl's, a VP at Land's End, and worked for Abercrombie & Fitch, Target, and Gap Inc.

Chris Kolber

EVP, Chief Merchandising Officer

Chris Kolber's LinkedIn

Chris Kolber is a 30-year veteran of the healthcare industry with expertise in the medical products and specialty and generic pharmaceutical sectors. Prior to joining Linden in 2011, Mr. Kolber served as President of Global Devices for Hospira, Inc., a 2004 spin out from Abbott Laboratories. In that role he was responsible for the long-term growth, global business strategy and management of Hospira’s medical device business. At Hospira’s inception he served as Vice President, Business Development, where he developed external alliance, acquisition and licensing opportunities to broaden Hospira’s portfolio. Mr. Kolber also spent 25 years at Abbott Laboratories in various commercial, general management and corporate development roles including division Vice President of Licensing and New Business Development, Global Medical Products. He joined Abbott in the Hospital Products Division where he was instrumental in building the Drug and Drug Delivery Systems Business. Mr. Kolber holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tri-State University and a MA degree from Central Michigan University.

Don Hendricks

EVP Chief Operating Officer

Don Hendricks's LinkedIn

Don Hendricks is an EVP Chief Operating Officer at Belk, Inc. and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has worked as CIO at Gymboree and Chief Operating Officer at Hottopic and Torrid. Don studied at Loyola University Chicago.

Jacob Hawkins

Senior Vice President Ecommerce

Jacob Hawkins is a Chief Marketing Officer at Belk, Inc..

Leslie Riggs

Chief Human Resources Officer

Leslie Riggs is a Chief Human Resources Officer at Belk, Inc..

Ronald E Ron Garrow

Exec VP/Chief People Officer

Ronald E Ron Garrow's LinkedIn

Ron Garrow serves as executive vice president and chief human resource officer for PPD. In this role, he provides leadership for the company’s global human resources function, with a focus on talent management and development, cultural transformation, and employee engagement and retention.

Garrow joined PPD in 2018 from Belk, a $3.7 billion retail organization, where most recently he served as chief human resource officer, supporting 22,000 employees. Prior to joining Belk in 2016, he spent six years with Mastercard and served as its chief human resource officer starting in 2013, leading 350 HR professionals serving Mastercard’s associates in 68 offices and 210 countries.

Before joining Mastercard, Garrow served as the chief learning officer for Bank of America, leading a team of 1,100 professionals across the globe responsible for training 280,000 employees. He earned the bank’s first recognition by Training magazine on its annual Top 125 list of companies excelling in employee training and development, a recognition that PPD also has received the past seven years.

Prior to that, Garrow served as the HR executive for Bank of America’s chief financial officer group, where he was responsible for all HR activities for more than 5,200 professionals. Garrow joined Bank of America after 19 years at Wachovia, where he held various positions of increasing responsibility, his last role being chief learning officer, responsible for leadership and executive development, training and diversity.

Garrow graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he majored in business administration. He earned an MBA from Pfeiffer University and completed a certificate in organizational development from UNC Charlotte.

Will Langley

Chief Financial Officer

Will Langley's LinkedIn

Will Langley is a Chief Financial Officer at Belk, Inc. and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has worked as Group Vice President of Treasury and Finance at Belk, Inc.; Strategic Sourcing Manager at Belk, Inc.; and Treasurer at Belk, Inc.. Will studied at Appalachian State University between 2000 and 2005.

Erskine Bowles

Board Member

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Belk leadership demographics

Belk gender distribution in management team

  • The Belk executive team is 38% female and 62% male.
  • Belk is 70% female and 30% male company-wide.
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Male
62%
Company-wide: 30%
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Female
38%
Company-wide: 70%

Belk executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among Belk executive officers is White.
  • 68% of the management team is White.
  • 10% of Belk's management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 10% of the management team is Black or African American.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 61% of employees are White.
  • 20% of employees are Black or African American.
  • 10% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
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What employees say about the executives at Belk

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A zippia user wrote a review on May 2023
Pros of working at Belk

I didn't like working there

Cons of working at Belk

The management! I was informed that I wouldn't get paid because my background check hadn't came back,

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A zippia user wrote a review on Jan 2021
Pros of working at Belk

The early hours . I don't have to work with the public.

Cons of working at Belk

The low pay . The lack of information from management about situation occurring in store

Belk benefits

The early hours the fact store is closed and you can get things done with the public in the store

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A zippia user wrote a review on Dec 2019
Pros of working at Belk

Pay

Cons of working at Belk

Poor management

Belk benefits

Favorite perks is getting double discount at work and vacation time

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A zippia user wrote a review on Mar 2019
Pros of working at Belk

I worked with a great team of people and there was something new everyday.

Cons of working at Belk

Since the sale of the company, the culture has changed tremendously and it is not a place I would currently recommend.

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