During her 33-year career with Nordstrom, Teri has demonstrated unparalleled understanding of Nordstrom's customer needs and has an excellent grasp on the complexities of our industry. Merchandising is in her DNA and she consistently inspires other by her ability to reimagine the future. She firmly believes that one must move with speed and leverage data-driven strategic insights to meet customers in this rapidly changing retail landscape.

Teri Bariquit was named chief merchandising officer in 2019. She and her team support all development and operational aspects of Nordstrom Merchandising Group, including planning, inventory deployment, merchandising solutions and strategic capabilities across all channels. Prior to this role, she served as Executive Vice President, Merchandise Planning and Solutions (2012-2019).

Under Teri’s leadership, Nordstrom has improved merchandising performance and has achieved industry-leading results for sales, inventory turn and other key buying and inventory management metrics. She has spent a significant part of her career supporting the evolution and continuous improvement of the merchandising organization, including technology implementations, organizational design and best practices. Teri and her team strive to continuously evolve merchandising capabilities to enable growth and deliver top tier results.

Teri joined Nordstrom in 1986 and worked in the selling and buying offices and went on to hold various management roles within the company. In 2004, she took on the role of vice president of Full-Price Nordstrom stores, Merchandising Support. Teri graduated Magna Cum Laude from Central Washington University with a B.S.in Accounting and Finance.

Teri Bariquit

Chief Merchandising Officer, Nordstrom

Virginia “Gina” C. Drosos is the Chief Executive Officer and has been on Signet’s Board of Directors since 2012. Gina previously served as President & CEO of Assurex Health, where she delivered significant revenue growth and executed the strategic sale of the Company to Myriad Genetics for up to $410 million.

A forward-thinking mindset is what defines Gina. Under her leadership, Signet, the parent brand of Jared, Kay Jewelers, Zales and others, is breaking the age-old jewelry industry model by empowering people with new and innovative technology. She is pioneering 'Digital first retailing' in jewelry segment. For the first time ever, customers can book “virtual” appointments, ask “Live Experts” for advice, join live events and engage across their personal social media channels to find that must-have piece of jewelry. Gina had carefully crafted the '‘Path to Brilliance’ strategy and led her team to focus on reaching new customers with new technology. The company’s strategy is gaining traction. During COVID-19, Signet's e-commerce sales soared.

Prior to Assurex Health, Gina spent 25 years at The Procter & Gamble Company where she held positions of increasing responsibility with strong proven results and became a thought leader in Beauty and mass brand retailing. She most recently served P&G as Group President, Global Beauty Care, an over $6 billion business unit with a portfolio of more than 20 brands, each with its own marketing strategy, over 6,000 employees and 22 manufacturing sites. In this role, she had responsibility for overseeing the business unit operations, strategy and long term business development, successfully transformed the unit’s digital marketing efforts including the first digital-only brand campaign for P&G’s Secret brand, and innovated large brands, such as CoverGirl, Old Spice and Olay. Olay grew from a less than $200 million to $2.5 billion iconic mega beauty brand under Gina’s leadership.

Virginia “Gina” C. Drosos

Chief Executive Officer, Signet Jewelry