Shima Adyorough, Senior Operations Business Analyst, The Home Depot

Panelist - Reverse Logistics Association Conference & Expo

Panel - "Returns Prevention at the Retail Level" - Las Vegas 2008

Shima is the in-house subject matter expert on reverse logistics and back-end operations senior business analyst at Home Depot's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia (www.homedepot.com). Prior to joining Home Depot, he had helped establish asset recovery and reverse logistics programs at Best Buy in 1994 and was there until in 1998 when he left to found Strategic Source Solutions, a strategic inventory management, disposition, and reverse logistics consulting firm for retailers and OEMs.

Shima has held several senior management positions in sales and marketing in the financial services and supply chain management industries. He is so passionate about reverse logistics that he left a successful investment career with Edward D. Jones & Co. in a thriving and vibrant affluent community of Buckhead in Atlanta Georgia in 2006 to help establish the program at Home Depot.

His Wall Street career began in 1990 with F. N. Wolf & Company and in 1993 was recruited by Gruntal & Co., the 3rd oldest member of the New York Stock Exchange to lead the selling group for international public debt. He took a break from the Street and accepted the challenge to establish asset recovery & reverse logistics programs at Best Buy.

Shima holds a MBA from the Southeastern University Graduate School of Management in Washington, DC, a BS in Agriculture from the University of Missouri and completed graduate studies for a MA in Macroeconomics at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. He has attended numerous seminars and executive management courses in financial management, strategic selling, clients' satisfaction, and technology change. Shima currently holds the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) series 7 and 63 securities licenses. Shima is an avid golfer.