OfficeMax and Office Depot hire CEO search consultant

Naperville, Ill. – OfficeMax Incorporated and Office Depot Inc. have hired global talent management consulting firm Korn/Ferry International to assist the search for a new CEO for the combined company that will result from the proposed OfficeMax-Office Depot merger.



The search will include both incumbent CEOs Neil Austrian of Office Depot and Ravi Saligram of OfficeMax, as well as external candidates.



Both incumbents will remain in their current positions through the search process, which the companies expect to conclude near or at the anticipated close of the merger in December 2013.