TrueBlue, Inc. announced that President and Chief Operating Officer Taryn Owen has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer succeeding Steven C. Cooper, effective September 12, 2023. Mr. Cooper will continue to serve as the Company?s Chief Executive Officer and will serve on the Company?s Board of Directors until September 12, 2023, at which time he will retire from the Board. Mr. Cooper will remain employed with the Company in an advisory role until December 31, 2023.

Ms. Owen, age 45, has served as the Company?s President and Chief Operating Officer since September 2022, after serving as Executive Vice President of the Company and President of PeopleReady and PeopleScout from October 2021 until September 2022. Prior to that, Ms. Owen served as Executive Vice President of the Company and President of PeopleReady from December 2019 to October 2021, after having served as Executive Vice President of the Company and President of PeopleScout from November 2014 to December 2019. Prior to these roles, she served as Senior Vice President since June 2014 and as President of PeopleScout since August 2013.

Prior to that, she was Senior Vice President of Global Operations for PeopleScout since December 2011, after joining PeopleScout in 2010 as Vice President of Client Delivery. Prior to joining PeopleScout, Ms. Owen was an Operations Director at Randstad SourceRight Solutions where she led global recruitment process outsourcing engagements. Ms. Owen has more than 20 years of talent acquisition experience.