J. Crew names CEO

Apparel cataloger/retailer J. Crew Group has named Ken Pilot CEO. Pilot, who begins with J. Crew on Sept. 9, replaces Mark Sarvary, who left the company in May.

Pilot joins New York-based J. Crew from Gap, where he was most recently president of Gap International, overseeing more than 650 stores in five countries. Although J. Crew began as a catalog, it now has more than 145 stores.