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Macy’s appoints Yasir Anwar chief technology officer

By TechTaffy Desk

Macy’s has appointed Yasir Anwar to the role of executive vice president and chief technology officer. He will report to R.B. Harrison, chief omnichannel and operations officer.

In this new role, Mr. Anwar will be responsible for the teams that build the end-to-end e-commerce experience, enterprise-shared services, infrastructure, field services and functional IT support.

Yasir Anwar joined macys.com as vice president, engineering in May 2012. He was promoted to group vice president, engineering in April 2014 and senior vice president, digital technology in April 2016. Anwar was appointed chief technology officer in February 2017.

[Image courtesy: Macy’s]

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