Edward P. Decker
Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer
Executive
19 reports
The Home Depot, Inc. ·HD
Retailing · Fortune #23 · Functional structure · 463K employees · Atlanta, GA
Sourced from The Home Depot, Inc. DEF 14A · filed 2026-04-07 ↗ View on SEC
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What to model
Start with the public baseline, then use the scenario views and source-backed changes to ask what happens when leadership, span, or team ownership shifts.
Departed role on September 12, 2025.
Source · See change logThe people
7 executives identified as Named Executive Officers in the most recent SEC proxy. Bar length scales with tenure.
Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer
Executive
19 reports
Senior Executive Vice President
U.S. Stores & Operations
3 reports
Executive Vice President, Merchandising
Merchandising
3 reports
Executive Vice President, Customer Experience and President, Online
Digital & CX
3 reports
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Finance
2 reports
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Legal
2 reports
Senior Executive Vice President (Human Capital Oversight)
Human Resources
0 reports
The businesses
4 divisions report into the group CEO. Tile size scales with estimated headcount.
350K employees
Senior Executive Vice President (Ann-Marie Campbell)
Operates and staffs Home Depot’s retail stores across the U.S.
5K employees
EVP Merchandising (William D. Bastek)
Owns product assortment, pricing, and vendor relationships.
8K employees
EVP Customer Experience (Jordan Broggi)
Runs e-commerce platforms, digital products, and omnichannel experience.
3K employees
EVP & CFO (Richard V. McPhail)
Manages financial planning, reporting, treasury, and controls.
The thesis
Store operations and merchandising dominate The Home Depot’s structure, with the CEO’s most influential direct reports running U.S.
stores and core product categories. The org is clearly functional, with no separate divisional presidents for regions or banners; instead, power is concentrated in centralized merchandising, operations, and digital teams.
This structure reflects Home Depot’s scale economics: merchandising and supply chain decisions are standardized globally, while store execution is driven through a single U.S. operations leader. Digital and online commerce remain embedded within customer experience rather than standing as an independent P&L, reinforcing the primacy of stores.
The absence of a COO and the CEO’s relatively wide span indicate confidence in mature processes and long-tenured internal leaders, but also place heavy coordination demands on the CEO.
The comparison
Compared with Lowe’s and other large-format retailers, Home Depot remains more centralized and functionally led, with fewer autonomous business-unit heads. Lowe’s, for example, has experimented more with operational COO-style roles, while Walmart and Target rely on stronger divisional P&L owners. Home Depot’s model …
Current signals
The most significant recent change was the 2025 departure of the CIO, leaving technology reporting embedded under customer and operations leaders.
Year-over-year executive structure based on SEC proxy and annual filings.
Leadership stabilized after CIO and operations departures.
Included CIO and U.S. Stores EVP roles later vacated.
The 2025 transition simplified the C-suite, removing the CIO and operations EVP roles and tightening CEO span.
Edward P. Decker has served as Chair, President, and CEO since 2022.
The Home Depot uses a primarily functional organizational structure with centralized merchandising and operations.
The CEO has six direct reports, mainly functional executives.
In 2025, the company saw the departures of its CIO and its EVP of U.S. Stores and Operations.
No. Home Depot does not have a Chief Operating Officer; store operations report directly to the CEO.
Reference
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Creately. (2026). The Home Depot, Inc. organizational structure. Creately. Retrieved , from https://creately.com/org-chart/fortune-500/home-depot/"The Home Depot, Inc. Organizational Structure." Creately, April 1, 2026, https://creately.com/org-chart/fortune-500/home-depot/. Accessed .Creately. "The Home Depot, Inc. Organizational Structure." Last modified April 1, 2026. https://creately.com/org-chart/fortune-500/home-depot/.The Home Depot, Inc.. DEF 14A. Filed 2026-04-07. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/354950/000035495026000090/hd-20260406.htmPermanent URL: https://creately.com/org-chart/fortune-500/home-depot/ · last updated 2026-04-01