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Lee Delaney
Updated: April 13, 2021
BJ’s CEO and president, Lee Delaney, dies
BJ’s Wholesale Club president and CEO Lee Delaney, who was 48 last summer, died on Thursday, the Westborough-based company announced Friday morning.
He is presumed to have died of natural causes. In an obituary, his family said he was out for a run in his hometown of Wellesley when he suffered a medical emergency.
Bob Eddy, executive vice president, chief administrative and financial Officer, was named interim CEO by the company’s board, effective immediately.
Delaney joined BJ's in 2016 as executive vice president and chief growth officer. He became CEO in February 2020. Before BJ's, he was a partner at Bain & Co. in Boston, where he headed the firm’s consumer products practice.
Delaney, who grew up in Braintree, earned bachelor's degrees in computer science and mathematics from UMass, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
“We are shocked and profoundly saddened by the passing of Lee Delaney. Lee was a brilliant and humble leader who cared deeply for his colleagues, his family and his community,” said Christopher Baldwin, who was also newly appointed executive chairman of the board of directors, in a statement on behalf of the board.
“We will honor his legacy and remember the extraordinary impact he had on so many,” Baldwin said.
Eddy, the company’s interim leader, joined the company in 2007. He was most recently named chief administrative officer in 2018.
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