2003 JCT Awards Dinner Honoree

VICTORIA CANTRELL
SVP/CIO
Giorgio Armani, USA

Victoria Cantrell, as the SVP/CIO of Giorgio Armani in the United States, has the primary responsibility to ensure that the overall business is supported by the best and most appropriate technology and services, and to partner with executives and management in defining and evaluating the best ways to improve the business and operations.

Prior to joining Giorgio Armani in early 2003, Ms. Cantrell was the VP of IT for Gucci Group America. While there, Gucci saw extreme growth via a series of acquisitions which required the IT organization to assimilate and integrate disparate systems and personnel on an international basis.

Ms. Cantrell is a respected industry leader and has been an active member of the National Retail Federation CIO Council for the past five years. She is a member of the Policy board of the Center for Technology in Supply Chains and Merchandising for Brooklyn Polytechnic University. Executive Technology listed her as one of the most prominent women IT executives, and in 2003, Retail Information Systems News named her one of Retail's IT Pacesetters. See Ms. Cantrell's acceptance
speech here