Antwane Owens

HEAD OF COMMERCIAL FINANCE, TECHNOLOGY, PRODUCT, AND CUSTOMER CARE, CHEWY, INC.

Antwane Owens, is currently the Head of Commercial Finance and the Finance Executive overseeing Technology, Product, and Customer Care at Chewy, Inc. He serves as the Strategic Finance Executive for five of the eight C-suite Executives, reporting to the Chewy CFO and leads the management and oversight of executing their Merchandising org; encompassing the company’s revenue and gross margin forecasts, annual revenue planning and quarterly reforecasting processes, inventory management in partnership with the Ops/Supply Chain leadership. In addition to the 20-person Commercial finance team he leads, he also leads a newly created 15+ person finance business partnering org built from scratch, which oversees 80% of non-fulfillment G&A, representing >6K headcount. He is the Finance Executive responsible for scaling the business partner finance org and ensuring operational oversight for teams charged with building and expanding Chewy’s Customer Service, Tech and Product market advantages through efficient capital deployment.

Prior to his role at Chewy, he was the CFO for Amazon’s $25B+ Core US Fashion Business which includes: apparel, shoes, jewelry, watches, luggage, and print-on-demand categories. He was responsible for driving strategic business decisions leveraging financial insights, leading cross functional collaboration with partner teams (including: operations, vendor management, forecasting, marketing, and search), identifying and implementing free cash flow improvement opportunities and providing controllership across Amazon’s Fashion businesses. His immediate previous role at Amazon was as the Operations CFO for the Middle East and North Africa for Amazon based in Dubai, UAE, leading fulfillment operations across multiple countries in MENA (UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey), executing our topology strategy (including: acquisition analysis, integration, and expansion projects) and new business initiatives for the Souq.ae acquisition.

His previous experience includes vast domestic and international leadership roles with startup to multibillion dollar companies across diverse industries, including Retail, Tech, Financial Services, Professional Services, Transportation, and Hospitality.

He is also an Executive Committee Member and Committee Chair on the University of Tulsa’s Board of Trustees, a National Association of Corporate Directors (“NACD”) Board Leadership Fellow, a Certified Public Accountant, holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and has a BSBA in Accounting and Finance from the University of Tulsa.

Darrell Owens

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, LIFESTYLE PLATFORM, SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL

Darrell Owens is Senior Vice President and CEO of the Lifestyle Platform at Synchrony (NYSE: SYF), one of the nation’s premier consumer financial services companies. Darrell has ~30 years of deep industry experience in consumer finance. In 2021 Darrell was promoted to Senior Vice President and Head of the Lifestyle platform. In this role, he is responsible for leading the strategic direction of a $5B platform, which has a diverse set of merchants that spans multiple specialty, music, luxury and outdoor retailers. Darrell has brought a digital mindset to the platform, creating a consistent consumer experience across all credit channels or location with a strong desire to meet the needs of a diverse consumer base. His leadership drove significant platform loan receivables growth, making it the fastest growing platform within Synchrony.

Darrell is known for his strong consumer and commercial finance expertise and the deep relationships he fosters with partners.

Darrell joined Synchrony/GE in 2010, after 6 years of service at Citigroup where he managed key client relationships representing $2B in annual credit volume. Darrell’s career began as an AVP of National Sales at Household Retail (now HSBC). Thereafter, Darrell spent a year as the Manager of Customer Service at TCI Illinois and two years as Director of Strategic Accounts at Avondale Federal Savings. In 1998, he was appointed Senior Client Manager at Conseco Finance where he signed two key client relationships resulting in $300MM in annual volume.

Darrell held multiple leadership roles of increasing responsibility, including managing key relationships such as TJ Maxx, Home Goods, Marshall’s, Sierra, Home Sense, British Petroleum, Ashley Furniture and La-Z-Boy. He had leadership responsibility for providing financing solutions including private label credit cards and Dual Cards™ for these portfolios. Under Darrell’s leadership, TJ Maxx experienced double-digit growth in both receivables and net credit sales.

In addition to Darrell’s corporate Diversity and Inclusion efforts, he’s a leader in paying it forward. Darrell and his wife, Deidre, have a vested interest in ensuring that students of color demonstrating financial need have access to resources to ensure their success. In 2020, Darrell and Deidre started a diversity scholarship in their names, helping close the education gap by providing greater opportunities for students of color at Augustana College.

Darrell earned his bachelor’s degree from Augustana College with a major in Business Administration and Marketing concentration.