Eric Singleton

Eric Singleton is a technologist, entrepreneur, and agent of change. He has a lifetime of business and technology leadership and experience in a variety of industries. He offers a unique blend of executive acumen, global information architecture, and compelling business insight.

Eric is presently Chief Information Officer for Chico's Inc. and former Chief Information Officer for Tommy Hilfiger Corporation where he held worldwide responsibility for the company’s Information Technology division. Before joining Tommy Hilfiger and Chico's and making the move into retail, he was with Raytheon Company where he created and led their worldwide E-Commerce business. Eric was also Vice President and Chief Information Officer for divisions of Honeywell Aerospace and Honeywell Automotive (formerly AlliedSignal), and Chief Information Officer for Columbia Energy. After Tommy Hilfiger was sold to Apax Partners in 2006, Eric launched his own firm where his client list has included Microsoft, AOL, Airstream, Zales, Robert Marc, Intermix, and many others.

He has led multiple global information technology and supply-chain transformations for some of the world’s largest corporations and has an extensive background in this area. Eric holds a variety of software copyrights in expert systems, artificial intelligence, scalable architectures, and has been the author of many articles that have been published in ComputerWorld, The N.Y. Times and The Wall Street Journal among others.

Eric is currently driving innovation for Chico’s FAS and created the “Digital Retail Theatre” concept of hyper-integration, iOT, and human behavioral trends as they pertain to maximizing the customer experience