Myron Edward "Mike" Ullman III (born November 26, 1946) is the former chairman and CEO of
J. C. Penney
Penney OpCo LLC, doing business as JCPenney and often abbreviated JCP, is a midscale American department store chain operating 667 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. Departments inside JCPenney stores include Mens, Womens, Boys, Girl ...
.
Ullman served as Penney's CEO twice: first from December 2004 through October 2011, when he was succeeded by
Ron Johnson
Ronald Harold Johnson (born April 8, 1955) is an American accountant, businessman, and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Wisconsin, a seat he has held since 2011. A Republican, Johnson was first elected to the U.S. Se ...
, and then again after Johnson's departure, from April 2013 through July 2015 when Ullman stepped down.
On June 26, 2018, Ullman succeeded
Howard Schultz as Chairman of
Starbucks Corporation.
He has six siblings and his parents were residents of Canfield, Ohio.
He is married to Cathy Emmons Ullman and has six children with her.
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American retail chief executives
Living people
White House Fellows
JCPenney
1947 births
Directors of Starbucks
Businesspeople in coffee
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