October brings with it a canvas of change with the autumn landscape painting a vibrant display as the new season takes hold. But with new leadership making a mark both domestically and internationally over the past month, October has also provided similar changes across the retail loss prevention landscape with more than 80 loss prevention partners and industry leaders finding themselves “On the Move” and taking another step along their professional career path.
All of us throughout the loss prevention community are proud of the accomplishments of those that have worked hard and earned a new place along the loss prevention career path. Whatever our professional goals and aspirations might be and whatever skills and experiences have helped forge our loss prevention careers, we have to find and seize the opportunities to learn, grow, and progress.
Please join us in congratulating the following individuals on their recent career moves and promotions.
October 2018
Deborah Hufford, MBA is now a district loss prevention manager at Burlington Stores.
Michael Potvin is now a regional loss prevention manager at AutoZone.
Brandon Cummings, CFI was promoted to director of corporate asset protection at Dollar General.
Deborah Beene is now loss prevention operations manager at Tuesday Morning.
Ryan Merkel is now corporate asset protection coordinator at Five Below.
Afornia Hawthorne has been named associate director for the False Alarm Reduction Association’s (FARA) Mid-Atlantic Chapter.
Elizabeth Bolton was promoted to regional loss prevention manager at Burlington Stores.
Brad King was named vice president of loss prevention at RTW Retailwinds.
Mark Thorndycraft is now senior profit protection manager at Merlin Entertainments plc (UK).
April Burke Doyle is now a regional loss prevention manager at Designer Brands.
Bryan Hajek, CFE, CFI was promoted to corporate director of north American loss prevention – PCG, CBG, & GSC at Sherwin-Williams.
David Arena is now a regional loss prevention manager at Spencer’s.
Rubin Press was named vice president of global sales at CONTROLTEK USA.
Mark Hibbs was promoted to director of investigations, global security, and training at JC Penney.
Christopher McGee, CPP, CISSP, PSP was promoted to senior director of LP technology at Ross Stores
Kristine Post is now a market asset protection manager at Walmart.
Jen Paladino is now a district loss prevention manager at TJX Canada/Winners Merchants.
Adam Krzyzanowski is now an area asset protection manager at JCPenney.
Dereck Middleton promoted to vice president, global business development at 7PSolutions.
Ben Thomas was promoted to senior area loss prevention manager at HEB.
Harry Freed was promoted to director of operations-asset protection at JC Penney.
Dale Sucherman is now a zone asset protection director at Family Dollar.
Timothy Rout, LPC is now a regional loss prevention manager at Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana.
Julia Ringham is now a regional loss prevention manager at TJX Europe (UK).
Jake Harris, CFI was promoted to senior leader of investigations at Rite Aid.
Jeremy Ramey was promoted to manager of innovation and operations integration at 7-Eleven.
Lauren Denman is now loss prevention lead at OSL Retail Services.
Liam Greensmith APCIP is now profit protection analyst at Compass Group (UK).
Alice Haynes Tech IOSH is now national investigations manager at Compass Group (UK).
Jonn Essig is now an area loss prevention manager at Harbor Freight Tools.
Damon Burger is now a district loss prevention manager at the TJX Companies.
Victoria Wilkes was promoted to head of security at Primark (Ireland).
Lewis Jones is now senior manager of global security at Lowe’s Companies.
Jennifer Byford was promoted to organized retail crime manager at Lowe’s Companies.
Ben Fredbloom was promoted to a District Asset Protection Manager at Lowe’s Companies.
Alisha Crosier is now an asset protection area manager at Sam’s Club.
Sherry Wagoner is now a regional asset protection manager at Murphy USA.
Anthony Ortega was promoted to senior area loss prevention manager at Ross Stores.
Geoffrey Styles was promoted to senior area loss prevention manager at Ross Stores.
Michael Wolfson is now senior manager corporate security at Gucci.
Benjamin Lockhart-CFE,CFI is now national accounts – retail sales at ADT.
David Crowther was promoted to senior manager – national investigations center at Target.
Russell Barnett was promoted to senior loss prevention manager at Hermes (UK).
Marty Andrews, CFI was promoted to vice president of loss prevention at VF Corporation.
Efran Ali was promoted to associate loss prevention director at Ross Stores.
Jennifer Sleeter, LPC, CFE, CFI is now a market manager at Circle K.
Michelle Hahn-Scipio is now a regional asset protection manager at Mobilelink.
Julie Lawson was promoted to global account executive at ThinkLP.
Christian Huenke was promoted to head of investigations and threat management, Amazon Studios at Amazon.
Andrew Newton was promoted to European investigations specialist at TJX Europe.
Ron Nyberg is now national account manager at ADT.
Michael Jones was promoted to European investigations manager at TJX Europe.
Mason Keller was promoted to vice president of asset protection at Schnuck Markets.
Chris Frey is now senior director of safety, security and loss prevention at Peloton Interactive.
Kevin Engelhardt has been appointed as chief operating officer at Securitas Electronic Security.
Vic DeBlassi is now an area security manager at BASF.
Joe Bingeman, LPC was promoted to regional loss prevention manager at Amazon.
Kimberly Schmit is now a field loss prevention manager at Staples.
Ivana Kaiserová was promoted to logistics regional loss prevention manager (reverse logistics) at Amazon.
Raymond Lastner was recently promoted to organized retail crime manager at Best Buy.
Phil Marshall PgDip APCIP MSyl was promoted to director of loss prevention and security at Amazon (UK, Middle East, & Turkey).
Sidney Scarborough, CFI was promoted to senior area loss prevention manager at Ross Stores.
Yazmine Ramos is now a regional loss prevention manager at Rainbow Apparel.
Sonia Hernández is now an area profit protection manager at Bed Bath & Beyond.
James McLemore, CFI was promoted to loss prevention field director at Bealls.
Ruby Secrist was promoted to technical program manager at Amazon.
Tonia Rees Willett is now a regional asset protection manager at Dollar Tree Stores.
Jessica Bello was promoted to project manager at Nordstrom.
Monica Serna is now an area loss prevention manager at Ulta Beauty.
Arkadiusz Mosakowski is now a district loss prevention manager at Burlington Stores.
Jami Lacoste, CPI was promoted to senior area loss prevention manager at Ross Stores.
Robert Harkort, CFI is now a cluster manager, security and loss prevention at Amazon (Germany).
Krystal Buchanan was promoted to global investigations and saftey loss prevention manager at The TJX Companies.
Brian Lair was recently promoted to vice president of asset protection at Brookshire Brothers.
Aaron Dobson was promoted to area manager at Amazon Logistics.
Robert May was promoted to market asset protection manager at Walmart.
Jesse Berry was promoted to director, safety and security at Walmart.
Mark Miller was promoted to regional loss prevention manager III at Amazon.
Rodd Wilson, CFI is now a district loss prevention and safety manager at Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM).
Josue Velasquez was promoted to area loss prevention manager at Nordstrom.
Harriet Richardson was promoted to category loss expert at Sainsbury’s (UK).
Paul Menzer, CFI was promoted to director, asset protection – supply chain at Advance Auto Parts.
Marcelo Lopez was recently named national loss prevention manager at Holt Renfrew.
To review the September 2019 LP People on the Move click here.
Many of the loss prevention / asset protection career moves and promotions are reported to us by our career advisor partners. We are grateful for their collective efforts and diligence in delivering this information. If you would like to provide information pertaining to a recent promotion or career move that is not listed below, please email submissions to peopleonthemove (at) lpportal (dot) com.