Wayfair taps International Paper circularity strategist to lead ESG

Devin Giles, a seven-year veteran of the sustainability team at International Paper, has stepped in as head of sustainability and ESG at home furnishings retailer Wayfair. 

Giles replaces Anna Vinogradova, who left her Wayfair position after four years for a role at another company, as yet undisclosed. Giles started in May and worked alongside her predecessor during a brief transition period. 

The switch was revealed in LinkedIn posts by Vinogradova and Giles, and confirmed by a Wayfair spokesperson. 

“This role brings together the work I love the most: driving sustainability through collaboration and innovation to make it part of how business gets done,” Giles said.

Wayfair, which had revenue of $11.9 billion in 2024, committed in 2021 to a 63 percent reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2035 (based on a 2020 baseline). In Wayfair’s 2023 corporate responsibility update published in June 2024, the retailer reported a slight increase in that footprint. It does not have a publicly stated goal for cutting Scope 3 emissions from suppliers, which accounted for close to 99 percent of its footprint in 2023.

“This will require continued collaboration with our suppliers, logistics partners and stakeholders to deliver strategies that reduce emissions beyond our own operations,” Vinogradova said in a 2023 interview.

Other high-profile Wayfair sustainability initiatives include its target of zero waste by 2030 (the figure was 42 percent as of 2023) and the Shop Sustainably program, which the retailer uses to identify more than 33,000 certified sustainable products.

At International Paper, Giles recently managed the company’s renewables strategy — centered on using renewable or recycled sources for product development, and on developing circular manufacturing processes. She joined the company as a graduate intern in May 2017.

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