Rich Pedott

Rich Pedott

Rich Pedott is a partner at Columbus Consulting and has 34 years of experience in the retail industry, including leading the MP&A function during the Great Recession of 2008. He has held senior level positions including Chief Supply Chain Officer and SVP of Planning and Allocation for leading specialty retailers. Most recently Rich was the Chief Executive over the Retail, Wholesale, and Direct-to-Consumer business for The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Making Chapter 11 Work

Retail has been facing critical challenges for years: the shifting of power to the customer, the accelerated growth of digital, a surplus of square footage, and balance sheets weakened by years of private equity transactions that didn’t deliver. The industry was already poised for a Darwinian weeding out before the outbreak of COVID-19, but now…