Revelyst Announces Chief Supply Chain Officer

ANOKA, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2024--

Revelyst, a collective of world-class maker brands that design and manufacture performance gear and precision technologies and a segment of Vista Outdoor Inc. (NYSE: VSTO), today announced the appointment of Joe Beck as Chief Supply Chain Officer, effective April 22. In the third quarter, Revelyst launched GEAR Up, the company’s plan to simplify its business model, deliver increased efficiency and profitability, and reinvest in its highest potential brands to accelerate growth and transformation. The appointment of a seasoned, transformational supply chain, sourcing and logistics leader is key to helping Revelyst and its brands begin this new chapter.

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Beck most recently served as Vice President of Global Supply Chain for embecta (NASDAQ: EMBC), a medical technology company where he oversaw global supply chain and distribution operations, including the overhaul of their global network design, planning, logistics, and trade technology and change management leadership. Beck was part of embecta’s leadership team executing the separation from Becton Dickinson and Co. (NYSE: BDX). During the transition, he helped establish the company’s supply chain infrastructure while ensuring continuity of supply and mitigating customer disruptions. His ability to design and deploy global supply chain operations for a standalone business — including hiring talent, building effective teams and developing processes, analytics and technology — made him an ideal candidate to be Revelyst’s first Chief Supply Chain Officer.

“Bringing a change agent like Joe to Revelyst’s leadership team is critical for our goal of becoming the industry’s No. 1 house of brands,” said Eric Nyman, CEO of Revelyst. “He has a unique talent for transforming a company’s supply chain by consolidating facilities and building new capabilities, which have a direct impact on the bottom line. Joe will help revolutionize Revelyst at the enterprise, platform and brand level, and we welcome his innovative thinking as we continue to build our culture of empowerment and excellence.”

Before embecta, Beck worked for Medtronic and UPS, two global Fortune 500 companies where he streamlined and optimized supply chain operations, which he will replicate and enhance in this new role. Beck is the latest executive to join Revelyst’s growing management team, including Nyman, CFO Andy Keegan, General Counsel Jung Choi and CHRO Joyce Butler. The addition of Beck will provide Revelyst with the supply chain and sourcing savvy needed in an increasingly competitive and complex global economy.

“This is the opportunity of a lifetime because it combines my outdoor passions with my love of helping companies become more efficient and effective moving products and information across the global supply chain,” said Beck. “I look forward to building a world-class team whose sole focus is optimizing the way Revelyst does business, building scale across our portfolio and developing innovative strategies that give our company and our brands a significant competitive advantage to accelerate growth.”

About Revelyst

Revelyst, a segment of Vista Outdoor Inc. (NYSE: VSTO), is a collective of world-class maker brands that design and manufacture performance gear and precision technologies. Our category-defining brands leverage meticulous craftsmanship and cross-collaboration to pursue new innovations that redefine what is humanly possible in the outdoors. Portfolio brands include Foresight Sports, Bushnell Golf, Fox, Bell, Giro, CamelBak, Bushnell, Simms Fishing and more. For more information, visit our website at www.revelyst.com.

Joe Beck, Chief Supply Chain Officer for Revelyst (Photo: Business Wire)

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge on Friday rejected an effort by GOP lawmakers to use the term “unborn human being” to refer to a fetus in the pamphlet that Arizona voters will use to weigh a ballot measure that would expand abortion access in the state.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Whitten said the wording the legislative council suggested is “packed with emotion and partisan meaning” and asked for what he called more “neutral” language. The measure aims to expand abortion access from 15 weeks to 24 weeks – the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb.

It would allow exemptions to save the woman’s life or to protect her physical or mental health. It would also prevent the state from adopting or enforcing laws that would forbid access to the procedure.

Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma, who is a co-chair of the legislative council, said the group will appeal the court’s decision to the state Supreme Court.

“The ruling is just plain wrong and clearly partisan,” said Toma, a Republican.

Aaron Thacker, communications director for Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, noted that the final decision on the ballot itself remains in the air.

“There’s still a lot of scenarios at play," he said. "Even after the secretary certifies the signatures, the courts have to decide if counties can put it on the ballot or not."

Arizona for Abortion Access, the organization leading the ballot measure campaign, sued the council earlier this month over the suggested language and advocated for the term “fetus,” which the council rejected.

Attorney General Kris Mayes wrote in a motion to submit an amicus brief that “fetus" and “pregnancy” are both neutral terms that the council could adopt.

“It’s incredibly important to us that Arizona voters get to learn more about and weigh our measure in objective and accurate terminology,” said Dawn Penich, communications director for the abortion access group.

Democrats have centered abortion rights in their campaigns in this year’s elections. Organizers in five other states have also proposed similar measures that would codify abortion access in their state constitutions: Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and South Dakota.

Arizona organizers submitted more than double the amount of signatures needed for the measure to appear on the ballot.

FILE - Arizona abortion-rights supporters deliver over 800,000 petition signatures to the capitol to get abortion rights on the November general election ballot July 3, 2024, in Phoenix. A judge on Friday, July 26, rejected an effort by GOP lawmakers to use the term “unborn human being” to refer to a fetus in the pamphlet that Arizona voters will use to decide on a ballot measure that would expand abortion access in the state. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)