- General
- May 28, 2019
- 4 minutes read
Walmart Hires A CTO
Suresh Kumar image: Walmart Walmart has appointed hired former Google, Amazon, and Microsoft executive Suresh Kumar as its Chief Technology…
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Walmart has appointed hired former Google, Amazon, and Microsoft executive Suresh Kumar as its Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer, reporting directly to CEO Doug McMillon. This appointment comes at a time Walmart is pushing towards transforming its e-commerce and digital business.
Prior to this appointment, Kumar previously spent more than two decades at Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM. He was most recently at Google where he served as vice president and general manager of display, video, app ads and analytics. Prior to Google, he held the role of corporate vice president of Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure and operations.
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Prior to Microsoft, he spent 15 years at Walmart competitor Amazon in various roles, including as head of the company’s retail supply chain and inventory management systems and as vice president of technology for retail systems and operations. He was also a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Walmart recently released its Q1 results, showing 37% year-on-year growth in U.S. e-commerce. The retail giant has been rapidly expanding its e-commerce business since its $3.3 billion acquisition of Jet.com in 2016, leveraging the expertise of its founder and now CEO of Walmart eCommerce U.S. Marc Lore, who was formerly an executive at Amazon, as a weapon against Amazon in the battle for market share.
