As CTO, Ravi Balwada is responsible for all aspects of business technology at Guitar Center, supporting our enterprise, retail and digital platforms. He has over 20 years of experience setting technology vision, building strategy and digital products in retail, eCommerce & cloud businesses. Balwada served as Vice President for Digital Transformation & Innovation Labs at Best Buy, where he helped set strategic direction for the services and omni-channel-related initiatives for the company. Balwada has served as General Manager for Cloud at BMC Software and led Cloud engineering & operations at Oracle and Sum Total Systems, where he helped develop industry-leading technology to enable cloud-based enterprise applications. Before Oracle, Balwada was vice president at The Carlyle Group's technology Venture fund, where he focused on investments in Greater China, India and Korea. Prior to that, Balwada led eCommerce technology operations at Amazon, during its steepest growth period. Balwada brings a passionate focus to customer centricity and digital innovation in Multi-Channel Retail. Less   View all posts

Alan Boehme is the Chief Technology Officer of H&M Group, where he is responsible for strengthening the company’s innovation and digitalization efforts and enhancing the shopping experience for customers to H&M Group’s global family of brands. Alan is an experienced digital transformation leader with nearly 30 years of experience innovating enterprise architecture, IT strategy, and cloud technologies. Prior to H&M Group, Alan served as the Global CTO, VP of IT Services & VP IT Innovation at Procter & Gamble, and previously held numerous senior leadership positions in information and innovation at Coca Cola, including his role as Global CTO. Earlier in his career, Alan served as VP & Head of IT Strategy & Architecture at ING and as chief information officer for several companies in the software and energy sectors, including Juniper Networks, Sage Software and GE Power-Systems. In these roles, Alan has transformed global businesses through IT and technology, improving customer services and business processes. Alan serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Cloud Security Alliance. In addition, he is a corporate advisor to several enterprise cloud and artificial intelligence companies, including Nutanix, Velo Cloud, Latent Ai, and Vectra Ai. Alan holds a Bachelor of Arts from California State University, Long Beach Less   View all posts