Stephen Quinn has been Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Wal-Mart Stores USA since January 2007. He is responsible for all aspects of Wal-Mart’s marketing effort including customer research, marketing and business strategy, private brands and customer communications. He joined Wal-Mart in 2005 as Senior Vice President of Marketing. Prior to joining Wal-Mart, Quinn was Chief Marketing Officer of Frito-Lay North America,...
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Stephen Quinn has been Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Wal-Mart Stores USA since January 2007. He is responsible for all aspects of Wal-Mart’s marketing effort including customer research, marketing and business strategy, private brands and customer communications. He joined Wal-Mart in 2005 as Senior Vice President of Marketing.
Prior to joining Wal-Mart, Quinn was Chief Marketing Officer of Frito-Lay North America, a $10 billion division of PepsiCo. During 13 years at PepsiCo, he served in a number of marketing roles including innovation, brand management, advertising, market research and customer marketing. He was the General Manager of Convenience Foods and separately the head of Marketing for Frito-Lay Canada. Before joining PepsiCo, Quinn worked in marketing, sales and finance roles for Quaker Oats, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble and Nortel. He has managed several leading brands including Children’s Tylenol, Tylenol Cold Medication, Johnson’s Baby Products, Quaker Oats, Rice-A-Roni, Quaker Chewy, Aunt Jemima, Lay’s, Tostitos, Doritos, Great Value and Wal-Mart.
Quinn earned an MBA from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and a BA in Economics from Queens University, Canada. He is on the Board of Directors of The Association Of National Advertisers (ANA) and Give Kids The World. He lives in Bentonville, Arkansas with his wife, Linda Quinn. Together they have three children between the ages of 17 and 25.
