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.
Ryan Merkel is now corporate asset protection coordinator at Five Below.
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
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.
Lauren Denman is now loss prevention lead at OSL Retail Services.
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.
Lewis Jones is now senior manager of global security at Lowe’s Companies.
Ben Fredbloom was promoted to a District Asset Protection Manager at Lowe’s Companies.
David Crowther was promoted to senior manager – national investigations center at Target.
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.
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).
Sonia Hernández is now an area profit protection manager at Bed Bath & Beyond.
Ruby Secrist was promoted to technical program manager at Amazon.
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.
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.
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.