Art Peck
{{Short description|American businessman}}
{{For|the RAF officer|Arthur Peck (aviator)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1955}}{{cite web |last1=Maheshwari |first1=Sapna |title=Meet Gap's New CEO: The "Digital Guy" Preparing For More Clicks Than Footsteps |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sapna/meet-gaps-new-ceo-the-digital-guy-preparing-for-more-clicks |website=BuzzFeed News |language=en |date=November 18, 2014 |quote=And the pitchman is Art Peck, the 59-year-old digital chief of the company, who will take over as its CEO in two-and-a-half months and get working on the enormous task of reshaping Gap for the 21st century.}}{{cite web |last1=O'Connor |first1=Clare |title=Meet Art Peck, Gap Inc's New CEO, The Man Modernizing Retail's Old-Timer |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/10/09/meet-art-peck-gap-incs-new-ceo-the-man-modernizing-retails-old-timer/#44554a0663da |website=Forbes |language=en |date=October 9, 2014 |quote=The 58-year-old Harvard MBA and Boston Consulting Group alum has been responsible for some of Gap Inc's most exciting moves in the last few years.}}
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| education = Occidental College
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| title = Former CEO, Gap Inc.
| term = 2015-2019
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Arthur Peck (born 1955) is an American businessman, and was the CEO of Gap Inc., the American multinational clothing retailer from 2015 to 2019.
Early life
Peck was born in 1955. He earned a degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1977,{{cite web |title=Occidental College: Inside Oxy's Campaign Semester, and new jobs for a trio of high-flying alumni |url=https://www.oxy.edu/newsmakers |access-date=2018-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225131547/https://www.oxy.edu/newsmakers |archive-date=2018-12-25 |url-status=dead }} followed by an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1979.{{Cite news|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3042251/10-things-you-should-know-about-gaps-new-ceo|title=10 Things You Should Know About Gap's New CEO|date=2015-03-23|work=Fast Company|access-date=2017-07-18|language=en-US}}
Career
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Peck joined Gap Inc. in 2005 after former CEO, Paul Pressler, hired him on as vice president of strategy and operations. In the mid-2000s, Peck was instrumental in steering Gap Inc.'s strategy, locally and internationally. He pitched the idea of franchising the retailer's foreign locations allowing local third parties to operate many of the businesses operations. He also helped launch Gap's Product Red campaign in 2006, a campaign that also partnered with other retailers such as Converse, Apple, and Nike.
He became CEO of Gap Inc. in February 2015.{{Cite news|url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/news-analysis/gap-ceo-murphy-succeeded-art-peck|title=Gap CEO Murphy to Be Succeeded by Art Peck|date=2014-10-09|work=The Business of Fashion|access-date=2017-07-18|language=en-GB}}
Peck stepped down as CEO of Gap Inc. in November 2019 with a bonus estimated at $8 million.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Art-Peck-steps-down-as-Gap-Inc-CEO-stock-falls-14818213.php|title=Art Peck steps down as Gap Inc. CEO, stock falls|date=2019-11-07|website=SFChronicle.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-07}}