IndiaRetailing brings you a series on India’s key retail tech icons. Featuring Annie Mathew, CIO at Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable Pvt. Ltd this week
New Delhi: Today’s CIO must know how to leverage technology to create value for the business. No longer are CIOs department heads of a support function, they are in the driver’s seat and need to be more than just subject-matter experts. According to International Data Group (IDG)’s “State of the CIO Study 2022,” 58 percent of workers outside of IT describe their company’s CIO as a “strategic advisor who proactively identifies business opportunities and makes recommendations.”
In this special feature, India Retailing showcases the torchbearers of retail technology. This week, the spotlight is on….
Annie Mathew
Annie Mathew is the CIO of Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd. Over a career spanning 25 years, she has experience in diverse domains through having workedin organizations like NOCIL – a Shell-Mafatlal company(India), Bharat Shell (India), Datacom Systems (NZ),Fonterra(NZ) and Xenacom(NZ). She has primarily worked on technology enablement fromwithin the business environment and has also been part of technology companies. Significant achievements include SAP implementation, creation of central IT organization, consolidation of incident and service management into a single window in Mother Dairy, secondary sales systems with SFA, Point of Sales at retail outlets, etc.
Roles & Responsibilities
– Defining and executing IT strategies
– Delivered technology requirements across all SBUs
Education
– Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Executive Education – Design Thinking for Nurturing Innovation
2016 – 2016
– National Centre for Software Technology, Mumbai
PGDST, Information Technology
1991 – 1992
– Lakshminarayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur
B. Tech, Chemical engineering
1983 – 1987
– Senior Secondary School, Bhilai
XII, Bio – Maths
1979 – 1983
Skills
– Enterprise Resource Planning
– IT strategy
– Management
– SAP
– Business intelligence
– ITIL
Career History & Experience
– Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd
CIO
July 2005 – Present
– Xenacom Limited
Senior Business Analyst
Jan 2003 – June 2004
– Fonterra
Business Analyst
June 2002 – Aug2002
– Datacom
Senior Consultant
Dec 1999 – Oct 2001
– Bharat Shell Ltd
Manager – Systems
1997 – 1999
– NOCIL
Project Leader – Systems
1988 – 1997
This article first appeared in the November 2022 edition of Images Retail.
