Jeffrey Pedersen

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Biography

Mr. Jeffrey Pedersen serves as Chief Financial Officer at Saks. He served as a Partner at Stripes. He serves as Chief Financial Officer at Stella & Chewy's. He focuses on supporting and adding value to our portfolio companies in several ways including building finance leadership and teams, improving operational results and strategy, establishing supply chain operations, putting in place proper systems and controls, assisting with key lender efforts, and setting up and ensuring quality of financial reporting and administration. He also plays a key role in our evaluation of new investment opportunities. Prior to joining Stripes, he was Chief Financial Officer of Handy, a leading NYC-based company that provides an online marketplace for household services. During his time at Handy, the business experienced rapid growth and scale with him leading a capital raise of more than $65 million from top-tier investors. Prior to Handy, he spent six years at Amazon, nine years at Dell, and seven years at IBM in a variety of senior operating and finance roles that included Worldwide Supply Chain, Operational Effectiveness, Financial Planning & Analysis, Controllership, and much more. In his most recent role at Amazon, he was the Head of Hardlines Finance, an area where he grew from $11 billion in annual sales to $40 billion in three years. In addition, he steered Amazon's savings project to improve annual free cash flow by more than $1 billion, which helped drive the company to profitability.