Plexus Worldwide News

Plexus Promotes Stuart MacMillan to Chief Executive and Growth Officer

Press Release | 8/25/2026

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- August 25, 2026

Plexus Worldwide appointed Stuart MacMillan as chief executive and growth officer, saying he will lead the company into Vision 30, a strategic plan aimed at establishing Plexus as a leader in gut-health education and innovation.

MacMillan previously served as chief global development officer and has more than three decades of leadership experience in retail and direct selling. Co-founders Tarl Robinson and Alec Clark will serve on a newly formed Plexus Executive Board providing strategic counsel on operations, customer experience and product development.

The company said MacMillan will focus on global expansion and digital transformation, including a new ecommerce platform, automations and analytics for Brand Ambassadors.

Plexus Names Gene Tipps President of Global Operations

Npros.com | 10/20/2021

Plexus Worldwide appointed Gene Tipps president of global operations. He had been chief operating officer at the Scottsdale headquarters since joining in 2018.

In that earlier role he worked with teams that launched more than 30 products, widened distribution, strengthened supply chain work in existing markets, and supported entries in Australia, Mexico, and Canada. The company credited him with expanding warehouse operations while those markets were opening.

The new title keeps him over global operations rather than creating a separate outside hire. Plexus did not announce a successor to the chief operating officer title.

Plexus Names Jennifer Orlando Chief Sales Officer

Press Release | 8/17/2021

Plexus Worldwide hired Jennifer Orlando as chief sales officer. She will set global sales strategy, lead sales efforts, and set revenue initiatives for current countries and new markets. She will be based at headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona, and support ambassadors in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Australia.

Travis Garza, president of sales and marketing, said Orlando would help growth in those markets and support about 500,000 ambassadors. Before Plexus she was chief sales officer at Arbonne, where the company said she led a global strategy tied to double-digit growth. She has also worked at Ever Skincare, Benefit Cosmetics, and Estee Lauder, with more than 20 years in sales, marketing, and leadership.

Orlando said the role is meant to help ambassadors raise their goals as the company adds products. The appointment puts a chief sales officer over the global field organization.

Plexus Worldwide Promotes Jack Spitzer to Chief Financial Officer

Npros.com | 10/14/2020

Plexus Worldwide promoted Jack Spitzer to chief financial officer. He has been senior vice president of finance at the company since August 2018 and has more than 25 years in finance, including financial transformation, team building, and risk management.

Christopher Pair, president of operations and international, said Spitzer matches company beliefs around trust, honesty, reliability, and responsibility, and that his plan for the finance department has already shown his value.

Before Plexus, Spitzer was vice president of finance at another direct selling company, where he led global treasury and international and domestic merchant services, among other teams. He also spent 15 years at Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide as assistant treasurer and head of global treasury operations, merchant services, and corporate receivables, with other roles in finance, information technology, and Six Sigma.

Spitzer said he is honored to join the C-suite after a couple of years at Plexus and that he will keep bringing ideas aimed at the company financial goals while the leadership team focuses on products and service.

Plexus Worldwide Names Travis Garza President of Sales and Marketing

Npros.com | 9/22/2020

Plexus Worldwide named Travis Garza president of sales and marketing, putting him over sales, marketing, and customer service as the company looks for long-term growth.

Founder and chief executive Tarl Robinson said Garza has spent 20 years in sales and marketing and has helped businesses hit new revenue highs, including two that reached nearly 1 billion dollars in annual revenue. Robinson said Garza is a user of Plexus products and will be asked to build teams, relationships, markets, and field leaders.

Garza most recently was president and chief executive of Kyani International, where he directed work tied to sales growth and operations in more than 60 countries.

Founder and president Alec Clark said Garza builds collaborative teams and that the company expects him to help move the organization forward. Garza said he is joining because of the culture, values, and what he called a deep sense of integrity, and that he will work with Robinson, Clark, and the rest of the company.

Plexus Worldwide Named to Inc Magazine Top 5000

Press Release | 9/4/2014

According to Tarl Robinson CEO, the company had just 2,000 ambassadors in 2010. Today, the Arizona based company boasts a fleet of 175,000. "We have a philosophy of treating people first-class," says Tarl Robinson CEO, who bought the company in 2008. "The last time your average 45-year-old had a round of applause for them was when they walked across a high school or college stage to receive their diploma. Recognition is key." The company puts its ambassador's interest above everything else. The scope of Plexus is to offer its ambassadors with life changing products and a unique and rewarding business opportunity. The company's core beliefs are be trustworthy, be honest, be reliable and responsible. "We decided to do multilevel marketing as it could and should be done, not the way it has been done," states Alfred Pettersen, International President.

In addition to this latest success, Plexus Worldwide has enjoyed some other major milestones as well. In 2013, Morgan Stanley presented them with the Smart 25 Award for being one of the Top 25 fastest growing privately owned companies in America. Plexus hit a new high of $30 million in a single month in March of this year. Featured in the July issue of Success at Home magazine. Plexus also touts being ranked 76 out of the Top 100 Companies by Direct Selling News. The debt-free company projected is to be a billion-dollar company in 2015.

Inc. Magazine's Top 5000 rankings are based on a three-year growth rate and are open to privately-held, independent, for-profit companies with a minimum of $100,000 in revenue in 2010 and a minimum of $2 million in 2013.