Bio

Eileen Rizzo is a Retail Executive with 25-years' experience in retail business process and systems development. Most recently Eileen served as CIO, SVP of IT at Ashley Stewart, Inc. where she migrated the organization to Azure, implemented a new POS and upgraded the e-commerce and order management systems. She has directed strategic initiatives for omnichannel merchandising and marketing processes including merchandise and assortment planning, allocation and replenishment, pricing optimization and size analytics. She is a results driven professional with a proven track record in project management, information systems development, business transformation, training, implementation and support.

At Macy's. Eileen led the development, implementation and support of Omnichannel process and systems in both merchandising and marketing. In addition, she led an assortment planning process and system design initiative to drive localized sales and margin. Prior to joining Macy's, Eileen served four years as a Director at JC Penney, where she directed similar initiatives.

Eileen also has extensive experience in retail consulting. She worked at Accenture, a premier consulting and business integration firm, where she assisted clients developing business processes and information technology solutions to support the designed processes.

Specialties: Retail, Omnichannel, Digital Transformation, Business Process Improvement, Merchandise Management Systems, Marketing Resource Management, CDP, Assortment Planning, Price Optimization, Allocation and Replenishment, Order Entry Systems, OMS, Business and Systems Training