GameStop’s Short-Lived CFO to Leave With $30 Million Package

  • The value of his exit pay is partly thanks to January rally
  • Activist investor has spurred shake-up at the game retailer
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Jim Bell, the GameStop Corp. finance chief who is being pushed out after less than two years on the job, won’t be leaving empty-handed.

The executive will get $15.8 million when he departs, which is set for next month, and he could earn millions more from equity in coming years if activist investor Ryan Cohen can pull off a turnaround of the video-game retailer.