The Home Depot Announces the Nomination of Asha Sharma for Election to its Board of Directors at 2025 Annual Meeting
Sharma leads product development and computational design for the artificial intelligence platform which includes models, tools and services for Microsoft's enterprise, developer and data science customers. Prior to joining Microsoft, she held various leadership roles at Instacart, Facebook (now known as Meta), and home service software provider Porch Group, bringing a blend of leadership experience in technology, data protection and cybersecurity, e-commerce, supply chain, finance, operations and marketing.
'We are continuing to enhance our capabilities to provide our customers with an interconnected, frictionless shopping experience that enables them to seamlessly blend the digital and physical worlds,' said Ted Decker, chair, president and CEO of The Home Depot. 'As we continue to evolve the interconnected experience for our associates and customers, including through the use of generative AI tools, Asha's extensive technology and operational experience will be a tremendous asset.'
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The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer. At the end of the fourth quarter, the company operated a total of 2,347 retail stores and over 780 branches across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico. The Company employs over 470,000 associates. The Home Depot's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index.
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Meanwhile, Brazil's modified distributed-generation decree removes capacity caps for community solar under leasing-style contracts, accelerating rural electrification while maintaining consumer price shields. The upshot is a fertile canvas for service innovation that transcends national idiosyncrasies. Emerging Markets Leapfrog With Pay-Per-Use Clean Energy Solutions Through Incentives Energy as a service market leaders are increasingly turning toward emerging economies, where pay-per-use models circumvent capital scarcity and grid limitations. In Sub-Saharan Africa, Husk Power Systems operates 200 solar-hybrid minigrids under a usage-based fee that averages 0.65 kilowatt-hour equivalent per school, providing reliable electricity to nearly 140,000 households. Customers top up mobile wallets similar to airtime, while Husk owns, operates, and maintains assets, recouping costs through diversified income streams including appliance financing. 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In April 2024, BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Fund and EDF signed a joint platform targeting industrial-decarbonization projects, pooling US$ 3.2 billion in equity with concessional debt from the European Investment Bank. The alliance aims to commission 480 distributed-energy systems across five continents by 2027, leveraging EDF's project pipeline and BlackRock's asset-management expertise. Simultaneously, Mitsubishi Corporation launched a venture with Google Cloud to embed AI optimization into service contracts, ensuring assets self-tune to weather and price signals without human override. Capital abundance is triggering consolidation within the energy as a service market as well, with 12 notable mergers announced since January 2023. 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