On the GEF stage
Jim Keyes
Former Chairman & CEO, Blockbuster Inc.
From United States
Jim Keyes led 7-Eleven as president and CEO from 2000 to 2005, a period of record sales and 36 consecutive quarters of same-store sales growth across some 30,000 stores worldwide. He then served as chairman and CEO of Blockbuster from 2007 to 2011, steering it into digital video with the acquisition of Movielink and through its restructuring and sale to Dish Network. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.
