MINNEAPOLIS, April 13, 2015 – Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) announced today that Board Chairman Hatim Tyabji is retiring from the Board effective June 9, 2015. Tyabji has been a Board member since 1998 and chairman of the Best Buy Board of Directors since 2012.
Best Buy President and CEO, Hubert Joly, will succeed Tyabji and take on the additional role of Board chairman. Russell P. Fradin, President and CEO of SunGard and a Best Buy Board member since April 2013, will serve as Lead Independent Director.