Ahold Delhaize USA's Retail Business Services Chief Information Officer Rom Kosla to Depart
HOUSTON, TX - A Chief transition has occurred in our industry as Retail Business Services, a company under the Ahold Delhaize USA umbrella, saw Rom Kosla leave his position with grocery tech. The former Executive Vice President, IT, and Chief Information Officer will be taking up his new CIO post with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
News of his replacement has not yet been released by the company.
As noted in a release, Kosla led the IT transformation across the Ahold Delhaize USA companies, improving the technical and engineering capabilities within the IT organization while evolving the organization to deliver value faster for the company. This work included enabling enterprise-wide technologies to support U.S.-based associates and migrating key digital capabilities to the cloud to enable e-commerce customer expansion as part of Ahold Delhaize USA’s omnichannel growth ambition.
Prior to his tenure at Retail Business Services, Kosla was the Senior Vice President and CIO of Corporate and Enterprise Solutions at PepsiCo, and has served in a number of roles at Deloitte and Nestle.
He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cleveland State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana – Champaign.
We wish all the best for Rom Kosla as he continues to put security first, and keep reading us here at AndNowUKnow as we await news of who will step into Kosla’s role.