William J. Lynch Jr.

William J. Lynch
Born (1970-05-22) May 22, 1970
Alma mater Columbia Business School
Occupation President of Peloton

William J. Lynch (born May 22, 1970) is the current President of Peloton Interactive and former CEO of Barnes & Noble.

Business career

William J. Lynch is the President of Peloton Interactive, the New York City based technology Company revolutionizing the fitness industry. Lynch joined Peloton in January of 2017[1], and in that time the Company has experienced explosive growth being recently named #20 on CNBC's Top 50 Disruptor List[2]

From March 2010 to July of 2013, Lynch served as Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble, Inc., and was appointed to the B&N Board of Directors in the fall of 2011. Prior to his promotion by the Board to CEO, Lynch was President of Barnes & Noble.com, where he was responsible for leading the creation of all of the Nook products and software beginning with the original Nook eReader (code named Bravo). Lynch launched a Nook development office in Silicon Valley that grew to over 150 engineers. That Team was responsible for bringing to market the first ever Android color tablet to sell over 2 million units, Nook Color, introduced in November 2010. It was positioned as a color eReader, and established the small color tablet category that has grown to become the largest market segment of color tablets. Over a 4 year period from 2010-2014 the Nook product line sold over 10 Million units, making it one of the most popular tablet lines ever launched[3].

Lynch joined Barnes & Noble from HSNi, where he was Executive Vice President of Marketing and General Manager of HSN.com. From 2004 to 2008, he was Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Gifts.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of IAC. He also served as VP for HSN, running the growing HSN.com e-commerce site. From 2000-2004, Lynch was Vice President and General Manager, eCommerce, for Palm Inc., where he oversaw Palm’s Web properties, including: Palm.com, the Palm Online Store, the Palm Software Connection and the Palm.Net wireless ISP. His earlier career included brand management positions at Seagram Universal and Guinness.

Education

Lynch graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in economics. He received his MBA from the Columbia Business School.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Olick, Diana (2017-02-09). "Peloton hires former Barnes & Noble CEO to take home-cycling platform global". CNBC. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  2. ↑ "CNBC 2018 Top 50 Disruptors". doi:10.2139/ssrn.302602. ISSN 1556-5068.
  3. ↑ "Nook Tablet". Wikipedia. 2018-02-21.
  4. ↑ "Barnes & Noble Booksellers". Barnesandnobleinc.com. 2010-03-18. Retrieved 2010-12-26.


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