Annette Danek-Akey

Chief Supply Chain Officer

Ms. Danek-Akey is the Chief Supply Chain Officer at Barnes & Noble

Ms. Danek-Akey joined Barnes & Noble in September 2024. She oversees all operations for the Barnes & Noble Distribution Centers.

Prior to joining the company Ms. Danek-Akey was Chief Supply Chain Officer at Penguin Random House where she had a long career culminating in the oversight of both the U.S. and U.K. distribution operations of the publisher. She joined Bantam Doubleday Dell in 1996 as an industrial engineer working through the merger first with Random House, and then with Penguin.

Ms. Danek-Akey is honored in the Supply Chain Xchange Outstanding Women in Supply Chain Award 2024; is a member of the Board of Governors of the Material Handling Industry; is also on the advisory council for the Warehouse and Education Research Council; was an adjunct professor at Towson University from 2020-2022, and has an EMBA with concentration in Global Supply Chain from The Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee.

Ms. Danek-Akey received in 2024 the Supply Chain Xchange Outstanding Women in Supply Chain Award.