GameStop Corp. GME,
announced Wednesday that he has hired Matt Francis for the newly created role as head of technology, starting Feb. 15. Francis was recently the engineering leader of Amazon.com Inc.’s AMZN.
Business in the Amazon Web Services cloud. Shares of video game and consumer electronics retailer, which has recently been the son of the poster of the seemingly short release driven by users of the Reddit Wall Street betting forum, bounced 25.0% in premarket trading . Shares had fallen 72.3% in the past two days, but had still shot up to 677.9% over the past three days through Tuesday, while the S&P 500 SPX,
has increased by 13.6%. GameStop also announced that Kelli Durkin, most recently at Chewy Inc. CHWY,
was hired to be senior vice president of customer service. The company also hired Josh Krueger as vice president of compliance; Previously, Kruger had held compliance roles at Amazon.com Inc. AMZN,
and Walmart Inc. WMT,