Stitch Fix Appoints Chief Technology Officer

Stitch Fix, Inc. has appointed Sachin Dhawan as the company’s chief technology officer, reporting to CEO Elizabeth Spaulding. 

"I'm thrilled to be joining Stitch Fix to help realize the vision of becoming the most personalized and differentiated shopping experience, and to grow and develop its world-class technology and talent," said Dhawan. 

"I've spent my career deeply invested in leveraging technology, data science and machine learning to personalize customer experiences, so I can't wait to scale and build on the cutting-edge systems and infrastructure that have made Stitch Fix a disruptor in retail," he added.

Dhawan was previously the senior vice president of infrastructure and operations at Visa, where he built and scaled Visa's global technology infrastructure. Prior to that, Dhawan was CTO at payments disruptor Blackhawk Network, and spent more than 16 years at PayPal and Microsoft, where he focused on building and growing PayPal's global consumer products and Microsoft's personalization and ads technology.

"I'm so excited Sachin is joining Stitch Fix to lead our technology teams, playing a critical role in this next chapter of innovation and transformation within our business," said Elizabeth Spaulding, CEO of Stitch Fix. 

"Our advanced technology and data science have enabled us to innovate our unique client experiences at scale, and we are thrilled to have Sachin bring his depth of knowledge and expertise to Stitch Fix,” said Spaulding, who added that Dhawan’s roots in data science and personalization, and his experience growing and scaling infrastructure across global teams, will help unlock Stitch Fix’s potential for new opportunities ahead.