M Atkins Biography and Net Worth

M. Shan Atkins, ICD.D, NACD.DC serves as a member of the Board where she also acts as a member of the Audit Committee. Ms. Atkins is a business executive and independent board director with extensive experience in retail strategy and operations, consumer goods, wholesale distribution, cybersecurity oversight, accounting and finance, and private investment in both the U.S. and Canada having served on the boards of eleven public and large private companies since beginning her board service in 1999 while an executive in the retail industry. Ms. Atkins is a former partner in the consumer and retail practice of international consultancy Bain & Company where she developed and executed strategic plans for major retail organizations. She also served as a C-suite executive at a Fortune 15 public retailer, where she led a multi-billion-dollar business unit. Ms. Atkins has received numerous accolades in her directorship career, including being recognized in 2025 as one of the top 250 Directors in America by Wall Street Journal. She presently serves on the boards of two U.S. public companies –Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) and SpartanNash (NASD: SPTN), where she chairs the audit committee at both companies and serves on the Governance and Nominating Committee at Darden and the Compensation Committee at SpartanNash. During the past five years, Ms. Atkins also served on the following public company boards of directors: Aurora Cannabis, Inc., a Canadian cannabis company, from 2019 to 2023; SunOpta, Inc., a North American manufacturer of natural and organic food products, from 2014 to 2019; LSC Communications, Inc., a leading provider of long and short-run printing services to the book, catalog and magazine publishing industries, from 2016 to 2021. Ms. Atkins has been an observer on the Board of Canopy Growth since April 1, 2025.