Industry veteran Ann Arnold (pictured) has joined the board of directors for Day’s Jewelers, the eight-store retailer based in Maine.
The company became 100% employee owned in November, when then-owners Kathy and Jeff Corey sold the company under an employee stock ownership plan.
Jeff and Kathy Corey will continue to serve on Day’s board of directors, with Arnold as the third member. Their son, Joe, is the company’s president.
Arnold is a longtime jewelry industry leader as well as a certified public accountant. She started her jewelry career in her family’s jewelry manufacturing business, Lieberfarb.
She currently serves as chief strategy officer at Buyer’s Intelligence Group, which helps jewelers more efficiently manage inventory and communication through data analysis.
Arnold has previously served as president of the Women’s Jewelry Association (WJA). She is currently the chair of the Jewelers Board of Trade and an executive board member of the Manufacturing Jewelers and Suppliers of America (MJSA).
In 2019, she founded the Mark Schonwetter Holocaust Education Foundation in honor of her father, a Holocaust survivor, which raises funds for grants to schools nationwide in support of Holocaust education.
(Photo courtesy of Day’s Jewelers)
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