Select Comfort Names New CIO

May 21, 2006  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Bedding on May 2006 Ernie Park has been named senior vice president and chief information officer effective May 30 for specialty bedding retailer Select Comfort.

Park joins Select Comfort from Maytag Corp. where he was corporate senior vice president and chief information officer. At Maytag, he led the transformation and realignment of the IT function, implementing LeanSigma and other strategic initiatives to leverage best practices, increase efficiencies and standardize technologies and tools to turn IT into a highly responsive business function at Maytag.

Prior to Maytag, Park was vice president and chief information officer of Global Business Services for Honeywell International, where he had primary responsibility for the company’s global shared service information technology business, supporting computing, network and corporate application services. He also has held various IT leadership positions at Avnet, including corporate vice president of technology services.

“Information systems are an important foundation for building a great company,” said Bill McLaughlin, chairman and chief executive officer of Select Comfort. “Though we’ve made important progress with our systems over the past years, a personal priority this year was to identify and attract a leader with large-scale systems experience, who has developed strong teams and partnerships, and delivered solutions to support growth, innovation and customer relationships around the world. We are excited to have Ernie join our team.”

Park succeeds Mike Thyken, former chief information officer, who was recently appointed vice president of process development. In this capacity, Thyken provides process design and expansion support for the company’s international and new channel development team.