Select Comfort Names 2 Directors

March 16, 2016  by in Executive Changes, Industry   

The appointments of Vicki O’Meara and Barbara Matas are effective April 25.

O’Meara is the CEO of Analytics Pros, a digital analytics company. Previously, O’Meara was president of Pitney Bowes Service Solutions and the global leader of government affairs. She also spent 10 years at Ryder Systems in a variety of positions, including head of Ryder’s U.S. Supply Chain Solutions business. Her career began as an attorney and U.S. Army Captain, and she has served in several senior federal government positions. O’Meara previously served as a director of two public companies,  Health Management Associates and Laidlaw.

“Vicki brings a wide range of relevant functional and global experience from her successful career,” said Shelly Ibach, Select Comfort’s president and CEO.

Matas is the former managing director and chairman of leveraged finance of Citigroup Global Markets where she served from 2013 to 2016, and co-head from 2006 to 2013. Matas joined Citicorp in 1985 and held various leadership positions in leveraged finance and high yield capital markets at Citicorp, Salomon Brothers and Citigroup until 2006. She began her career as an auditor at Touche Ross.

“I am excited to benefit from Barbara’s financial and strategic expertise in capital markets and risk management,” Ibach said. “We are thrilled to welcome Vicki and Barbara to Select Comfort’s board of directors and look forward to their contributions as we continue to differentiate Sleep Number as the innovation and technology leader in sleep.”

In addition to these appointments, the company announced that David Kollat will retire from the board when his current term expires at the 2016 annual meeting, after serving more than 20 years as a Select Comfort director. Kollat will serve in a non-voting advisory role to the board for an additional 12 months, as director emeritus.

"We are continuously searching for outstanding individuals with proven track records to strengthen our board’s breadth of talent and depth of knowledge. We are looking forward to Vicki and Barbara joining our board,” said Jean-Michel Valette, Select Comfort’s chairman. “I am confident that they will each make important contributions to delivering superior shareholder returns.

“David’s service has been exemplary and we are fortunate to benefit from his wisdom another year,” Valette said.