David Meniane
Chief Financial Officer
CarParts.com
Since March 2019, David Meniane has served as CarParts.com’s chief operating officer and chief financial officer. Under his leadership, the company has undergone a comprehensive operational turnaround with record financial growth. He has become a recognized leader in e-commerce, having led the transformation of CarParts.com at the organizational, logistical and financial levels.
Throughout 2020 and 2021, CarParts.com showed exceptional, double-digit, profitable growth with $53 million of gross profit in Q2 alone and a market cap that has grown 26.6 times to $900 million. In total, Meniane hired more than 800 people in 2020 and 2021, and the firm now has over 1,000 employees globally, despite the country’s high unemployment rates.
With over a decade of experience in consumer packaged goods and retail execution, Meniane has strategically navigated the many setbacks the pandemic posed and spun them to be valuable opportunities that have since raised CarParts.com to be a leader in the auto e-commerce space.
In order to transfer savings to consumers and overhaul the company’s revenue stream, Meniane facilitated the firm’s strong relationships with manufacturers and suppliers, which has reduced supply chain costs, increased inventory efficiency and improved warehouse operations. He built an inventory forecasting team and process from scratch for 75,000 SKUs and six warehouse locations and invested heavily in the company’s data science team. The company has improved inventory turns by 40% in 18 months and opened two distribution centers in 12 months, located in Las Vegas, NV and Grand Prairie, TX. CarParts.com is currently expanding its Texas distribution center and is in the process of opening its sixth distribution center in Jacksonville, FL, which will bring the company’s total footprint to over 1.2 million square feet.
Meniane also initiated a first-of-its-kind earnings “ask-me-anything,” where he and CEO Lev Peker went live with thousands of Clubhouse members who asked questions on everything from finances and company projections to competition.
Seth Brodie
Chief Financial Officer
Anonymous Content
After graduating from NYU Stern with degrees in finance and marketing, Seth Brodie worked in investment banking as an analyst in leveraged finance at Oppenheimer & Co. and as an analyst in M&A at Lazard. After four years of banking, he transitioned to be the vice president for finance and strategic planning at DreamWorks Studios, where he played a key role in shaping studio strategy, projecting film and TV slates and managing the company’s cash position and capital sources to finance operations and projects. Brodie then transitioned to Legendary Entertainment, where he was SVP of finance and strategy charged with thinking strategically about creating value and how the company goes about producing and distributing content.
In 2021, Brodie transitioned from Legendary to become the CFO of Anonymous Content, a visionary and disruptive media company that produces multi-platform premium content and boasts an exceptional client roster.
Jenny Chan
EVP and CFO
YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles
Jenny Chan is executive vice president and chief financial officer of the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles. She is responsible for enabling the LA Y to carry out its mission to strengthen communities through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility in a financially sustainable manner. Chan was promoted to her current role in 2018 and has been with the LA Y since 2012, when she made a career transition to nonprofit after more than a decade of finance and operations experience in investment banking, asset management, hospitality and fashion retail in order to utilize her finance and leadership skills toward a greater cause.
In her current role, Chan acts as a strategic partner and leader in the organization’s strategic planning process and is responsible for overseeing all finance, accounting and reporting activities for the LA Y’s $100-million operating budget while ensuring alignment with the organization’s longterm mission and goals.
Judson Charles Leibee
CFO & Secretary
Step Up on Second Street, Inc.
Judson Leibee brings over 20 years of experience in corporate governance with an emphasis on financial and accounting management, both as a professional (CPA, real estate broker and attorney) and as an executive (CFO, interim CEO and president) of various companies. He has spoken on and published articles relating to construction and real estate development matters from a financial, operational and legal perspective. Currently, he serves as the chief financial officer for Step Up on Second Street, Inc., a California nonprofit focused on permanent supportive housing for the most atrisk population.
Over the last two years, Leibee has been an integral team member in structuring public and private partnerships to utilize HomeKey funding to convert motels to permanent supportive housing for those who are suffering from chronic homelessness. He has successfully navigated the financial challenges to enable the organization 25% year-over-year (YOY) growth over the last five years.