Exhibit 99.1
FRONTDOOR NAMES JESSICA ROSS AS NEW CFO
Salesforce executive brings deep public and private company experience in consumer business,
retail, healthcare and tech industries
MEMPHIS, Tenn.— (Dec. 5, 2022) – Frontdoor, Inc. (NASDAQ: FTDR), the nation’s leading provider of home service plans, announced today that it has appointed Jessica P. Ross as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, replacing Brian Turcotte, who will step down on December 30, 2022. To ensure a smooth leadership transition, Turcotte will remain with the company through March 31, 2023 as an advisor to the CEO.
| | | | | | |
“We thank Brian for his dedicated service over the past 10 years with Frontdoor and our former parent, ServiceMaster. We are thrilled to have Jessica joining the Frontdoor team at a pivotal moment in our transformation,” said Bill Cobb, Frontdoor chairman and CEO. “She is a supremely talented and qualified finance and business executive who brings over 20 years of cross-functional experience and a passion for creating business opportunities.” “I am incredibly inspired by Frontdoor’s vision for the future of home services,” Ross said. “I look forward to leveraging my financial, strategic and operational experience to fuel the company through its next stage of growth as we transform the business, grow our share of the home services category and increase value for our shareholders.” | | | | Jessica Ross | | |
Ross brings over two decades of cross-industry finance and digital transformation experience scaling companies across multiple stages of growth. She joins Frontdoor from Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) where she currently serves as Executive Vice President, Enterprise Strategy and Operational Excellence, and prior to that as Executive Vice President, Finance Chief Transformation Officer. During her tenure, she has played a central role in modernizing and scaling the global finance organization and in developing and delivering on Salesforce’s plan for efficient growth at scale.
Prior to Salesforce, Ross served at Stitch Fix (NASDAQ: SFIX), an online personal clothing and styling service, as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, where she played a critical role in their 2017 IPO and in their post-IPO transition to a public company.
Her professional experience also includes 12 years of public accounting experience at Arthur Andersen and Deloitte, and executive finance leadership roles at Kaiser Permanente and the Gymboree Corporation.
Ross maintains an active CPA license from the state of California. Her formal education includes an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS in Business Administration from U.C. Berkeley’s Walter A. Haas School of Business.
-END-