Kmart Leadership

John North is a COO at Kmart.

Julian Day was elected chairman and chief executive officer of RadioShack Corporation on July 6, 2006 by the company's board of directors. Day has successfully served in senior leadership positions at several large publicly traded companies and has earned a reputation for successfully turning around companies that have experienced slow growth. Day's retailing experience includes leadership positions at Kmart Holding Corporation (formerly the parent company of Kmart Corporation), where he was elected as president and chief operating officer in March 2002 and was promoted to chief executive officer in 2003. Day successfully took the company out of bankruptcy and led the company to substantially exceed its profit plans. Under his leadership, the company's value increased from $1.5 billion to $9 billion. Prior to joining Kmart, he spent two years at Sears, first as chief financial officer and then as chief operating officer. As COO, he was a member of the Office of the Chief Executive and oversaw finance, logistics/supply chain, store operations, information technology and the company's business-to-business partnerships. Before joining Sears, Day served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Safeway, Inc., where he was responsible for financial, technology and real estate operations. While at Safeway, he strengthened the balance sheet and improved the company's credit rating, increased return on capital expenditures while tripling annual spending levels, and re-engineered the real estate development and construction process. Day holds undergraduate and master's degrees from Oxford University and an MBA from the London Business School.