Pederson is focused on strategic initiatives to improve decision making and business outcomes in inventory management and guest product availability. The work efforts span the full spectrum of data and analytics, including engineering, business intelligence and predictive analytics. He has spent 20 years at Target across a variety of leadership roles in financial planning and analysis, enterprise data and analytics, and food and beverage.
Murali Sundararajan
Sundararajan provides the strategic vision and direction for all global technology efforts across stores, e-commerce, infrastructure, security, and enterprise operations at Victoria’s Secret. He has been with the company for over a decade, and previously spent time at Lowe’s as its director of tech, architecture, and integration.
An Accomplished Retailer Lineup
Pederson and Sundararajan join an impressive agenda slated for May’s event, adding to the ranks of top-tier retailers such as:
- Tractor Supply Company: Glenn Allison, VP, IT Applications Development and Al Lettera, SVP, IT
- Lowe’s: Chandhu Nair, SVP, Data, Analytics and Computational Intelligence & Marketing Technology
- Sephora: Manbir Paul, VP of Engineering, Data Insights & MarTech
- SpartanNash: Binu Varghese, VP, IT Applications & Data
- Dollar General: Paul Bucalo, Senior Director of Digital Marketing Engineering
- Best Buy: Ashok Viswanathan, Director of Supply Chain Analytics
- Amazon: Ashish Bharara, Supply Chain Director
Plus! Analytics Unite 2024 also presents an outstanding list of consumer goods speakers to keep our conversations holistic and collaborative, providing an all-encompassing approach to analytics implementations and success across both industries.