Tesco names former Airbus exec as CTO

Tesco has appointed Guus Dekkers as chief technology officer.

Dekkers joins the supermarket giant from Airbus and he succeeds Edmond Mesrobian who is retiring.

The role of CTO at Tesco has developed greatly as the supermarket firm translates rapidly evolving technological and digital capabilities into its retail operations.

Dave Lewis, Tesco Group CEO, writes:

“Guus brings extremely strong expertise in driving large scale IT transformations, which will help us build on the progress we’ve been making to transform our business over the last three years.”

Guus Dekkers

Guus Dekkers said that he hopes his experience in large scale IT transformations and advanced information technologies will support Tesco in “translating rapidly evolving technological and digital capabilities into innovative solutions.”

Retiring former CTO Mesrobian said the company has the opportunity to “step-change its organisational capability, to re-imagine careers in technology, to adopt agile product development, to deliver API and data platforms powering our retail service model.”

Dekkers also previously worked for Volkswagen, Johnson Controls Automotive Group, Siemens and Continental AG.