Timothy Kasbe is Chief Operating Officer of Gloria Jeans Company, largest vertically integrated fast-fashion apparel retailer in the Russian Federation. Gloria Jeans Company, based in Rostov On Don, has experienced break-neck growth in the past five years with 48 factories and 692 stores across 11 time zones of the Russia Federation and Ukraine.

Prior to Gloria Jeans Company, Timothy served as the Chief Information Officer at Sears Holdings, in Chicago, IL and was responsible for technology driven transformation of the retailer from bricks and mortar to online properties for ecommerce, social, loyalty program called Shop Your Way rewards for all Sears’s businesses.

Before Sears, Timothy was CIO for Reliance Industries Limited in Mumbai, the largest Indian company across oil & gas, pharma, retail, polyester and other businesses. Prior to Reliance, Timothy had a long career in IBM and served in many roles there in software, retail and services sectors.

Timothy was named Retail Information Systems’ Most Influential People in 2012, CIO Magazine’s CIO of the Year 2009, and Most Innovative in 2007 by CIO Asia Pacific for startup of Reliance Retail Ltd.

Retail, Business, Leadership