Walmart Management Shake-Up Continues With Mark Ibbotson Departure
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Walmart Inc.’s U.S. management reshuffle claimed another victim as store-operations expert Mark Ibbotson is headed elsewhere.
Ibbotson, a Briton who joined Walmart’s U.K. subsidiary Asda in 2004, was in charge of the retailer’s central operations and realty teams in the U.S. He moved to Walmart’s U.S. unit in 2015 and since then has led several key initiatives, including employee-training academies, the rollout of online grocery sales and the deployment of in-store robots. His departure comes just days after Walmart’s new U.S. CEO John Furner named Dacona Smith as his second-in-command, sidelining Ibbotson.