Nordstrom appoints Kumar Srinivasan as Chief Technology Officer

Nordstrom has named Kumar Srinivasan as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The company said that 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," said Dan Little, Chief Information Officer, Nordstrom, adding, "Kumar's extensive experience in strategy, product development and delivering technology solutions that support a great user experience, as well as his passion for the customer, will be invaluable."

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.