Devin Giles, a seven-year veteran of the sustainability crew at Worldwide Paper, has stepped in as head of sustainability and ESG at dwelling furnishings retailer Wayfair.
Giles replaces Anna Vinogradova, who left her Wayfair place after 4 years for a task at one other firm, as but undisclosed. Giles began in Could and labored alongside her predecessor throughout a short transition interval.
The change was revealed in LinkedIn posts by Vinogradova and Giles, and confirmed by a Wayfair spokesperson.
“This position brings collectively the work I like essentially the most: driving sustainability by collaboration and innovation to make it a part of how enterprise will get achieved,” Giles stated.
Wayfair, which had income of $11.9 billion in 2024, dedicated in 2021 to a 63 p.c discount in Scope 1 and a pair of emissions by 2035 (based mostly on a 2020 baseline). In Wayfair’s 2023 company duty replace printed in June 2024, the retailer reported a slight improve in that footprint. It doesn’t have a publicly said objective for reducing Scope 3 emissions from suppliers, which accounted for near 99 p.c of its footprint in 2023.
“This may require continued collaboration with our suppliers, logistics companions and stakeholders to ship methods that scale back emissions past our personal operations,” Vinogradova stated in a 2023 interview.
Different high-profile Wayfair sustainability initiatives embrace its goal of zero waste by 2030 (the determine was 42 p.c as of 2023) and the Store Sustainably program, which the retailer makes use of to establish greater than 33,000 licensed sustainable merchandise.
At Worldwide Paper, Giles just lately managed the corporate’s renewables technique — centered on utilizing renewable or recycled sources for product improvement, and on growing round manufacturing processes. She joined the corporate as a graduate intern in Could 2017.
