Ann-Marie Campbell (born 1965) is a Jamaican-American business executive. Since January 2016, she has been the executive vice president of U.S. stores for
The Home Depot
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. She began working at Home Depot as a part-time cashier during college, and rose through the ranks to her current position. She has received numerous honors, including being named to ''
Fortune
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* Fortuna or Fortune, the Roman goddess of luck
* Luck
* Wealth
* Fortune, a prediction made in fortune-telling
* Fortune, in a fortune cookie
Arts and entertainment Film and television
* ''The Fortune'' (1931 film) ...
'' 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020 list of 50 Most Powerful Women in Business.
Early life and education
Born in
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley Inter ...
,
she is the youngest of four children and the only girl.
Her father died in a car accident at age 26, when Ann-Marie was one and a half.
[ Her grandmother, herself a divorced mother of 10, helped her mother raise her.][ Her grandmother owned a furniture and appliance store, where Ann-Marie worked during the summer and school breaks.][ During the school year, she boarded at Holy Childhood High School,][ a Catholic ]school
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for girls.
After graduating high school in 1981, she and her mother and brothers immigrated to the United States, settling in Miami.[ She earned an M.B.A. at the ]J. Mack Robinson College of Business
The J. Mack Robinson College of Business is the business school of Georgia State University in Atlanta. Based in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business Administration Building, it is one of Georgia State's six colleges.
History
Robinson College ...
at Georgia State University
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(GSU) in 2005, after completing a bachelor's degree in philosophy
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.[
]
Career
On April 1, 1985,[ Campbell took a part-time job as a cashier at a Home Depot branch in ]North Miami Beach, Florida
North Miami Beach (commonly referred to as NMB) is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. Originally named "Fulford-by-the-Sea" in 1926 after Captain William H. Fulford of the U.S. Coast Guard, the city was renamed "North Miami Be ...
, to help pay her way through college.[ One day in 1989,] vice president Lynn Martineau came to the branch for a "store walk" with the employees, and when he asked a question, Campbell volunteered the answer. Impressed by her assertiveness, Martin became her mentor, encouraging her to pursue promotions in other store operations such as merchandising, sales and marketing.
Campbell's advancement in the company included positions as department manager,[ store manager, district manager, regional vice president, vice president of operations, vice president of merchandising and special orders, vice president of retail marketing and sales, and vice president of vendor services before being named president of the southern division in 2009.][ In the latter position, she was in charge of 690 stores and 100,000 employees in 15 states, Puerto Rico, and St. Thomas.] In January 2016 she was promoted to executive vice president of U.S. stores, with responsibility for 2,000 stores and most of the company's nearly 400,000 employees.
After Hurricane Andrew
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devastated southern Florida in 1992, destroying a Home Depot branch in south Miami, Campbell managed the store in the parking lot "with bricks, building materials and mobile cash registers".[
]
Other activities
In 2014 she established the Ann-Marie Campbell Scholarship for undergraduates at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at GSU.
In August 2014 she joined the Board of Directors of Potbelly Corporation,[ and in June 2015 she was appointed an Independent Director at ]Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller. It is a Fortune 1000 company and the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States. As of July 7, 2020, the company operates 614 retail stores across all 50 U. ...
.[ She serves on the advisory boards of the nonprofit ]Catalyst
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and J. Mack Robinson College of Business at GSU.[ She will be a board member of the Metropolitan Atlanta chapter of the ]American Red Cross
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in the 2016 calendar year.
Honors
In 2010 Campbell was named one of the 75 Most Powerful Women in Business by ''Black Enterprise
''Black Enterprise'' is a black-owned multimedia company. Since the 1970s, its flagship product ''Black Enterprise'' magazine has covered African-American businesses with a readership of 3.7 million. The company was founded in 1970 by Earl G ...
''.
In 2012 she was named one of Atlanta's 100 Top Black Women of Influence by the Atlanta Business League.
In 2014 she was ranked #38 on ''Fortune
Fortune may refer to:
General
* Fortuna or Fortune, the Roman goddess of luck
* Luck
* Wealth
* Fortune, a prediction made in fortune-telling
* Fortune, in a fortune cookie
Arts and entertainment Film and television
* ''The Fortune'' (1931 film) ...
'' list of 50 Most Powerful Women in Business.[
]
Personal
In 1988 she married Christopher Campbell, a chef who is originally from Oracabessa
Oracabessa is a small town in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica
east of Ocho Rios. Its population was 4,108 in 2009.
Lit in the afternoons by an apricot light that may have inspired its Spanish name, ''Oracabeza'', or "Golden Head", Oracabessa's comme ...
, St Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...
.[ They have two sons.][
]
References
External links
"CBE Executive in Residence: Ann-Marie Campbell" (video)
October 2, 2014
"The Top in America"
''Ebony
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'', March 2001
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1965 births
Living people
People from Kingston, Jamaica
The Home Depot people