Best Buy makes executive appointment

Grapevine, Texas GameStop Corp. announced Shawn D. Freeman has joined the company as senior VP and GM of digital business, a newly created position within the company. Most recently, he was president of Chicago-based Ticketsnow.com and senior VP resale for Ticketmaster North America, where he was responsible for all of Ticketmaster’s resale operations in North America.

At GameStop, Freeman is responsible for overseeing and cultivating the company’s digital business strategy. He will work with GameStop’s recently formed Digital Ventures group to maximize the company’s online retail and digital aggregation business. Key to this strategy will be employing a multichannel approach that embraces GameStop’s more than 6,200 stores across the globe as well as the company’s commerce-enabled Web site GameStop.com.