MINNEAPOLIS-Jim Muehlbauer, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Best Buy, will exit his post at the end of the current fiscal year, in February 2013.
Muehlbauer joined Best Buy in 2002. In 2006 he became senior vice president and chief financial officer of Best Buy U.S., and in the following year was promoted to interim enterprise chief financial officer. He was named to his current post in 2008.
Best Buy has begun a search for his successor. Muehlbauer’s future plans were not announced in the statement regarding his departure.