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Best Buy appoints Richelle Parham to board

By TechTaffy Desk

Richelle Parham has been appointed to the Best Buy board, said the electronics retail company in a statement.

Ms. Parham is a general partner at Camden Partners Holdings, a Baltimore-based private equity firm. Prior to that, she served as vice president and chief marketing officer of eBay. Ms. Parham has also held senior leadership roles at Visa, Rapp Worldwide, Digitas and Citibank.

Ms. Parham, 50, earned a bachelor of science business administration degree in marketing and a bachelor of science degree in design and merchandising from Drexel University, where she now serves on the board of trustees.

[Image courtesy: Best Buy]

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