Jones Apparel adds new board members

NEW YORK Jones Apparel Group announced that Robert Mettler and Margaret Georgiadis have been elected to the Jones Apparel Group board of directors.

Mettler retired from Macy's Inc. at the end of last month, where he had been serving the past year as president for special projects, reporting to Macy's CEO. Prior to taking on that assignment, he was president and COO and then chairman and CEO of Macy's West from 2000 to 2008.

Georgiadis was most recently EVP card products and chief marketing officer, and a member of the executive committee of Discover Financial Services. Prior to joining Discover in 2004, she was a Partner at McKinsey & Company in the London and Chicago offices, where she was a co-leader of the marketing and retail practices, and co-founded and led the customer acquisition and management and retail marketing practices.