Kerry W. Cooper

Kerry Cooper is an experienced consumer and retail executive and board member with a successful history of building and growing businesses, teams and developing great cultures. Most recently, Kerry was President and COO of Rothy’s, leading marketing, merchandising and operations at the wildly popular San Francisco-based shoe company. Kerry was recognized in 2020 by the National Retail Foundation as one of the 5 People Shaping Retail in 2020. Prior to joining Rothy’s, Kerry was CEO of Choose Energy, a Kleiner Perkins-backed energy marketplace. Kerry loves consumer businesses and understanding what is important to the customer and how to build customer-focused businesses. Prior to Choose Energy, Kerry served as COO and CMO of e-tailer ModCloth.com, where she scaled marketing, merchandising, supply chain, customer care, and fulfillment efforts across the US. Before ModCloth, Kerry led marketing and strategy for Walmart.com as CMO and VP of Global Ecommerce. Prior, she served as SVP of Retail and Planning for the Dockers brand at Levi’s.

Kerry is currently on the board of directors at PG&E, Upstart, Gradient, Fernish, Fictiv as well as an executive-in-residence at Acrew Capital. Previously she has served on the boards of BevMo! (2017 - 2020), Choose Energy (2013 - 2016), Weddington Way (2015 - 2017, sold to GAP 2017) and Wirecutter (NY Times) Advisory Board (2017 - 2019). She holds an MBA from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.