The Men's Warehouse, a specialty retailer, has appointed Allen Questrom to its board of directors, effective as of July 30.

Questrom has more than 40 years of executive management experience in the retail industry. He has been a senior advisor for private equity firm Lee Equity Partners since 2006. He served as chairman and chief executive officer at J.C. Penney Company from 2000 to 2004. Prior to that, he served as chairman of the board, president and CEO at Barney's New York.

Previously, Questrom served as chairman and CEO at Federated Department Stores (now Macy's) from 1990 to 1997. Additionally, he served in this capacity at Neiman Marcus from 1988 to 1990.

The addition of Questrom increases the board's size to nine directors, seven of whom are independent.