Blue Apron Expands Leadership Team with Key Executive Hires
04 September 2019 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Meredith Deutsch Appointed General Counsel and
Corporate Secretary; Julie Betancur Appointed Chief Human Resources
Officer
Blue Apron Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: APRN) today announced the
expansion of its leadership team with the appointment of Meredith
Deutsch as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary and Julie
Betancur as Chief Human Resources Officer. Deutsch and Betancur
will report directly to Chief Executive Officer Linda Findley
Kozlowski with effective start dates of September 9 and September
10, respectively.
“We are thrilled to be bringing on two incredibly talented,
seasoned executives who will be instrumental to our organization as
we execute on our recently announced strategy to return the company
to year-over-year quarterly growth in 2020,” Kozlowski said. “Both
Meredith and Julie bring unique perspectives and extensive
expertise in their respective fields, and I’m confident that they
will make an immediate positive impact on our teams, ultimately
helping us deliver increased value to our customers and
shareholders.”
As General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Deutsch will oversee
all of the company’s legal and regulatory affairs. Deutsch joins
Blue Apron with more than 18 years of experience as both a public
company General Counsel and a senior corporate lawyer at large
international law firms. Deutsch spent three years as Executive
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at Morgans Hotel
Group Co., a global hospitality company, and she previously served
as a consultant and Acting General Counsel to KIT digital, Inc.
Deutsch spent the first 12 years of her law career in the capital
markets practice at Jones Day. Most recently, she was Special
Counsel in the corporate department of Fried, Frank, Harris,
Shriver and Jacobson, LLP.
As Chief Human Resources Officer, Betancur will oversee Blue
Apron’s human resources function, playing a strategic role in
attracting, developing and retaining a high-performing and diverse
workforce and aligning the organization to its growth strategy.
Betancur brings more than 20 years of experience in human resources
from top tier management consulting companies such as Accenture and
G100 Companies as well as technology companies including Redcats
USA and Jump Ramp Games, where she most recently served as Senior
Vice President of Human Resources.
Deutsch earned her Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School, cum
laude, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the
University of Pennsylvania.
Betancur received a Bachelor of Arts and graduated magna cum
laude in Psychology from Cornell University.
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Apron has based these forward-looking statements largely on its
current expectations and projections about future events and
financial trends that it believes may affect its business,
financial condition and results of operations. These
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press
release and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and
assumptions including, without limitation, risks related to its
announced management and organizational changes; the continued
service and availability of key personnel; the company’s
anticipated growth strategies, including its decision to prioritize
its core direct-to-consumer business and certain customer segments
within the direct-to-consumer business; the company’s ability to
achieve year-over-year quarterly customer and revenue growth in
2020; the company’s ability to execute on its strategic growth plan
and to deliver increased value to its customers and shareholders;
its ability to cost-effectively attract new customers, retain
existing customers and increase the number of customers it serves;
other anticipated trends and challenges in its business; and other
risks more fully described in the company’s Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2019 filed with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on August 6, 2019, and
in other filings that the company may make with the SEC in the
future. The company assumes no obligation to update any
forward-looking statements contained in this press release as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise.
About Blue Apron
Blue Apron’s mission is to make incredible home cooking
accessible to everyone. Launched in 2012, Blue Apron is reimagining
the way that food is produced, distributed, and consumed, and as a
result, building a better food system that benefits consumers, food
producers, and the planet. The Company has developed an integrated
ecosystem that enables the Company to work in a direct, coordinated
manner with farmers and artisans to deliver high-quality products
to customers nationwide at compelling values.
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