Newspeopleretailers Kirkland’s Announces Passing of Former CEO by Katie Lee November 29, 2016 Nashville, Tenn. — Kirkland’s board member and former long-time CEO, Robert E. Alderson, passed away in November 2016. Alderson had been a director of Kirkland’s since 1986 and served as the company’s CEO two separate times between 2001 and 2015. Continue Reading November 29, 2016 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail