Innovative, results-driven, senior merchandising executive with extensive experience in e-commerce start-ups, retail turn-arounds, and creating national brand awareness in women’s active, casual and contemporary sportswear, dresses and intimate apparel. Senior management experience in e-commerce, digitally native brands and vertically integrated specialty stores. University of Michigan, MBA with honors in Finance. • Brand Vision: A visionary leader able to create, communicate and lead transformational teams • Turn-Around Specialist: lead successful specialty and outlet store turn-arounds • Leadership: Proven leader who has enhanced value through successful management of cross-functional relationships, and executing strategic initiatives. • Brand Growth Strategies: Strategic thinker with significant success capitalizing on consumer insights, market research, competitive environments and fashion trends. • High Performing Teams: Strong track record of building high performing merchant teams. • Exceptional Analytical Skills: Exceptional creative and analytical problem solving skills, financial acumen and negotiating skills. Founder/CEO, KiraGrace, 2013- current VP, Merchandising: Brand, Retail Merchandising and Product Development, Carters, 2010 - 2012 VP/GMM, Marketing, Design and Merchandising, Lucy 2008-2010 VP, Retail Merchandising, Coldwater Creek 2005-2008 VP, Merchandising, Gap North America, 2003-2004 VP, Merchandising, Victoria's Secret Stores 2001-2003 VP, Merchandising (and prior positions), Lord & Taylor 1990-2001

I, Kiran Bollampally, has 14 years of experience in retail space includes leading and managing various ecommerce and digital solutions. I have great expertise in both On-prem and cloud solutions. Being a zero-downtime deployment expert, I worked on many challenging projects. Lead various automation initiatives and helped setup enterprise monitoring. Site Reliability has been my day in and day out for the last few years and I possess all the skills to ensure every single customer has a seamless shopping experience. Technologies and Tools: HCL Commerce V6/V7/V8/V9, DevOps processes, Azure Kubernetes, Site Reliability and analytics tools like Quantum Metrics, Akamai, Tealeaf, Tealium, Adobe Analytics, Splunk Rigor and Dynatrace.

Venture investor and strategic & operational finance partner to the CEO, having the ability to translate the CEO’s vision into financially savvy operating plans that increase enterprise value in a high growth venture backed technology company. Track record of scaling high growth software companies as CFO/COO, combined with a decade of venture investing experience as a general partner in a venture capital firm. Unique skill set that spans strategy, finance, product, engineering, go-to-market, sales, customer success, and inorganic growth strategies. Effective in partnering with commercial teams on contract negotiations and in creating incentive compensation plans to reward behaviors that create sustainable growth and happy customers. Raised $150 million in equity and debt financing, ran full diligence processes, executed on acquisitions, collaborated with investment bankers, managed external stakeholders and assisted the CEO in constructing productive board relations. Board experience includes serving on over a dozen venture backed startup boards across audit, compensation, executive recruiting and strategic transaction committees.

As a Business Development professional at Ardoq, I help organizations and businesses implement and execute change across their projects, strategies, processes, applications, infrastructure, and capabilities. I leverage my experience in sales techniques to deliver solutions for the new world of Ecosystem Architecture. We use the best technologies in the market, such as AI, NOP, and graphs, to create visionary and data-driven products that address the pain points of our customers. We also partner with other stakeholders to drive growth, retention, and satisfaction for Ardoq.