GameStop Corp , the company whose stock became a sensation with day traders this year, said on Friday that Jenna Owens agreed to leave, just seven months after joining the video game retailer as its chief operating officer.
, as he laid the groundwork to transform the moribund brick-and-mortar retailer into an e-commerce powerhouse.
GameStop also used separation agreements when it parted ways with its chief financial officer Jim Bell and chief executive officer George Sherman earlier this year. They were replaced by Furlong as CEO and Mike Recupero as CFO. The company declined to comment beyond the filing. Owens could not immediately be reached for comment.
Since becoming chairman in June, Cohen has pushed aggressively to improve customers' experience but has not offered a detailed plan about how GameStop will achieve its digital transformation.The Grapevine, Texas-based company's business of selling video games for consoles faces competition from streaming services such as those of Apple IncCohen recruited a number of executives from Amazon, including Furlong and Elliott Wilkie who joined as chief growth officer in March.
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