The Wall Street Journal: Home Depot’s Chief Information Officer on the Role of Tech After Pandemic Sales Boost
Fahim Siddiqui, the chief information officer of Home Depot, was in the trenches during thehome-improvement retailer’s pandemic boom times. Amid lockdowns and social distancing, customers flocked to its stores—which were deemed essential services in many locations—and spent big to spruce up their homes.
Siddiqui was named Home Depot’s CIO in April 2022 after joining as senior vice president of information technology in 2018. Technology has kept the retailer’s operations afloat, he said, underscoring the criticality of early bets on cloud-computing, artificial intelligence, and mobile applications.