Seattle — Nordstrom, Inc. has hired Kumar Srinivasan as chief technology officer (CTO). Srinivasan’s agile development practices, cloud expertise and experience developing highly innovative customer-focused outcomes will play an important role in shaping the technology agenda across Nordstrom.
In this new role, Srinivasan will focus on identifying opportunities to reduce complexity while optimizing engineering and software productivity and effectiveness across four Nordstrom Technology teams that support the company’s Service & Experience, Loyalty & Marketing, Engineering and Supply Chain initiatives.
“We’re bringing Kumar to Nordstrom at an important time as we are positioning our Technology organization to better support our long term growth plans,” says Dan Little, chief information officer, Nordstrom, Inc.
Srinivasan brings more than 18 years of technology and product management experience to Nordstrom. He was previously co-founder and CEO of Evocalize; chief product & technology officer for Bazaarvoice; and vice president, general manager at Amazon, where he led Amazon Payments Merchant Solutions.
Nordstrom, Inc. is a leading fashion specialty retailer based in the U.S. Founded in 1901 as a shoe store in Seattle, today Nordstrom operates 326 stores in 39 states, including 121 full-line stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico; 197 Nordstrom Rack stores; two Jeffrey boutiques; and one clearance store.
SOURCE: Nordstrom, Inc.