Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has confirmed Rom Kosla as CIO.
Kosla comes to HPE from Retail Business Services, the services company of Ahold Delhaize USA, where he was the grocery retailer’s Executive Vice President, IT and CIO.
As CIO, Kosla led the IT transformation across the Ahold Delhaize USA companies, improving the technical and engineering capabilities within the IT organization.
Prior to Retail Business Services, Kosla was the Senior Vice President and CIO of Corporate and Enterprise Solutions at PepsiCo and served in a number of roles at Deloitte and Nestle.
“I’m excited to join HPE at this pivotal moment for its business,” said Kosla. “HPE is committed to elevating the experience customers, partners and team members have working and doing business with the company – I’m looking forward to working with a superb team of professionals to do just that.”
HPE Executive Vice President and Chief Operating and Legal Officer John Schultz said: “The performance and agility of our IT team is critical to ensuring our customers and partners have great experiences doing business with us and that our team members are able to innovate at the speed of business.
“I am confident that the breadth of Rom’s experience in the digital front-end and complex distribution and supply chain spaces, makes him the perfect person to build upon that work.”
