Jeanniey Walden

Jeanniey Walden was appointed interim senior vice president of marketing at Rite Aid in March 2023. She is a proven marketing executive who excels in building brands and driving significant business growth.

Walden’s decades of experience span Fortune 500 companies and startups across a variety of industries including retail, health and wellness consulting services, advertising agencies and emerging technologies, such as FinTech. Before joining Rite Aid, she held marketing leadership roles including Executive Director and Senior Partner for WorldWide Email Marketing for OgilvyOne Worldwide and Grey Direct; Global Chief Marketing Officer for Mercer; and Chief Innovation and Marketing Officer for DailyPay. Other notable roles include leading marketing for NOOK at Barnes and Noble and JCPenney.

Her uniquely hybrid approach to marketing fuses traditional and digital methods with innovative and cutting-edge techniques to deliver results.

Recently, Walden was named Top Marketer of the Year by the International Association of Top Professionals and is a frequent speaker on the topic of work-life integration. She also is the host of a weekly podcast and network TV show called “Liftoff with Jeanniey Walden.”

Walden earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and a Master of Arts in teaching from the University of Pittsburgh.