2024 Grocery Industry Icons & Innovators

Seth Marks is an evolving and seasoned merchant leader in the extreme value retail industry, specializing in building a culture of customer and partner centricity fueled by recurring deal flow. With a whopping 30 years of experience (what, what, he's too young to have 30 years of experience!), Seth has consistently demonstrated his ability to drive positive change.

Throughout his career, Seth has held key positions such as Turnaround CEO, CMO, and SVP of Merchandising for various retail and wholesale companies during times of growth, restructuring, and change.

One of Seth's professional passions is building authentic, ambitious, and intellectually curious teams that understand consumer and vendor behavior, enabling Seth and his team to effectively navigate the off-price market, pounce on opportunities, and transform "meh" vendor relationships into explosive growing partnerships.

Seth is obsessed with coaching, guiding, inspiring, and empowering his teams to reach their professional potential, change results, and have fun doing it.

Seth's life motto is "the biggest room in the world is room for improvement." Seth is a "Be Here Now" leader who recognizes there is always room to learn, improve, and have fun doing it.