As the Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President of IT for GUESS?, Inc., Michael Relich sets the strategic direction for technology and supports the applications that power its retail and wholesale businesses. He has corporate responsibility for its information technology organization globally, in addition to Strategic Planning. GUESS?, Inc. is a specialty retailer that owns and operates over 500 stores in the United States and Canada, and that designs, markets, distributes and licenses a lifestyle collection of contemporary apparel, accessories and related consumer products. Additionally 900 Guess franchise and direct owned stores are operated outside of North America in 69 countries. The Company also distributes its products through better department and specialty stores around the world. Prior to joining GUESS?, Mr. Relich was Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of MIS and E-Commerce for The Wet Seal, a specialty retailer with 621Wet Seal, Arden B. and Zutopia stores. He was instrumental in setting and implementing strategic systems initiatives to support Wet Seal’s growth. Prior to joining Wet Seal, Mr. Relich was Senior Vice President, Engineering of Freeborders, Inc., where he was responsible for the management of two software labs developing collaborative, Java-based e-commerce applications. He has more than 25 years of retail systems experience.