Who are Home Depot's decision-makers?

Ted Decker has been Chair, President & CEO since February 2022 after a long career at Home Depot primarily in merchandising. His total compensation in fiscal 2025 was approximately $16.2 million. He is an Atlanta-based executive who came up through the buying side of the business and has overseen the company's largest-ever acquisition (SRS Distribution, $18.25B) and the subsequent GMS deal ($5.5B).

Richard McPhail (CFO since 2020) is the architect of the debt strategy behind both acquisitions. His capital markets work has been central to executing the Pro distribution pivot without equity dilution, using Home Depot's investment-grade credit profile to raise tens of billions in corporate debt. Ann-Marie Campbell (Senior EVP) is one of the most powerful and longest-tenured leaders in the company, having previously run all U.S. Stores and shaped the Pro growth strategy.

The tech leadership split in 2025–2026 is strategically significant. Angie Brown, a 27-year Home Depot veteran promoted to CIO in May 2025, owns the reliability and execution of the technology estate — infrastructure, cybersecurity, software development for 2,359 stores and 790+ distribution branches. Franziska 'Fran' Bell, joining from Ford Motor Company as CTO in April 2026, brings an AI-first mandate: she leads technology strategy, product management, data, and AI including the Google Cloud relationship and the Magic Apron agentic AI platform.

Home Depot operates a centralized strategic sourcing function at its Atlanta Store Support Center (2455 Paces Ferry Road NW). For large enterprise technology contracts, the decision chain typically involves the relevant business-unit EVP (Fran Bell for technology strategy and AI, Angie Brown for infrastructure/cybersecurity, Jordan Broggi for e-commerce and digital experience, Michael Rowe for Pro-facing tools and SRS/GMS), centralized procurement, and legal/finance sign-off.

Billy Bastek (EVP Merchandising) owns all supplier relationships for products Home Depot sells in its stores. He controls vendor selection, terms, and category strategy for the entire retail assortment. For HR and workforce technology, Stephanie Smith (EVP Human Resources) works through HR procurement; Workday is the incumbent HCM vendor. For specialty trade distribution technology targeting SRS or GMS, the relevant procurement team is at SRS Distribution's headquarters in McKinney, Texas — not Atlanta.

For first-time enterprise vendors, the standard entry is through the relevant EVP's functional team and the centralized sourcing process. Home Depot does not have a public vendor portal in the same way some retailers do; relationships built through trade shows, referrals from existing Home Depot vendors, or through the Pro commercial team tend to advance faster. Budget owners are clearly delineated by function, and multi-stakeholder coalition-building (e.g., IT plus Finance plus the business unit) is required for significant contracts.

Home Depot runs a functional organizational structure: EVPs own distinct domains (Merchandising, Supply Chain, Pro, Human Resources, Finance, Technology, CIO, Legal/Corporate Secretary, Customer Experience/Online) and report directly to the CEO. This flat-ish structure enables executive decision-making speed but means enterprise sales require navigating multiple EVP owners to build the coalition needed for approval.

The 2024–2025 acquisitions of SRS Distribution and GMS have introduced a meaningful organizational complexity: both subsidiaries operate semi-autonomously, more like portfolio companies than traditional retail divisions. SRS Distribution's own leadership team sits in McKinney, Texas, with procurement, technology, and field sales operating on a separate cadence from the Atlanta corporate org. This decentralization is new for Home Depot and signals a potential long-term shift toward a holding-company model for professional distribution businesses.

The split of CTO (strategy, AI, product, data) and CIO (execution, infrastructure, cybersecurity) roles in 2025–2026 mirrors a broader enterprise trend in Fortune 50 companies as AI strategy becomes board-level. For technology vendors, this means understanding which executive owns the relevant decision: AI and data vendors pitch to Bell; infrastructure, security, and store systems vendors engage through Brown. E-commerce and digital experience runs through Jordan Broggi as President – Online.