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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · BJ's Wholesale Club (BJ)

BJ's Wholesale Names Scott Schmadeke Chief Operations Officer After Desroches Exit

Neutral Impact 3 of 5 leadership Written later

BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings said Jeff Desroches resigned as Executive Vice President, Chief Operations Officer on November 5, 2024. The company named Scott Schmadeke to succeed him as Executive Vice President, Chief Operations Officer, and Krystyna Kostka as Chief Supply Chain Officer. The change puts operations leadership under a long-serving internal executive, but the filing gives no financial figures or reasons for the departure.

Key points

  • Jeff Desroches resigned as Executive VP and Chief Operations Officer effective November 5, 2024
  • Scott Schmadeke, formerly SVP Field and Fresh Operations and a BJ's employee since 2018, named Executive VP and Chief Operations Officer, effective immediately
  • Krystyna Kostka, previously SVP Operations and with BJ's since 2014, named Chief Supply Chain Officer and will report to Schmadeke
  • Schmadeke reports to Chairman and CEO Bob Eddy

The filing

CompanyBJ's Wholesale Club (BJ)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECNov 12, 2024, 8:00 AM ET
Accession number0001104659-24-116403

Items reported: 5.02 Director / Officer Change7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 1:12 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on November 12, 2024.

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