Suman Guha
Chief Digital Officer Tata(Croma), 2x CPTO led product & technology for conglomerate Retail, Fellow (UK), Jury Member CIO100, ET AI Top 50
TATA CLIQ•Mumbai
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Led product & technology for country’s two largest Retailers, Fellow (UK), Jury Member CIO100. Currently as Chief Digital Officer(CDO) scaling Tata Croma. Prior to this as CPTO for Tata Fashion arm and Reliance Retail delivered digital transformation and major launches, acquisitions, delivered at scale and developed high performance tech teams. With 21 years of building, scaling at internet scale and delivering business impact globally.Suman has led, built, architect, product, engineering, data, infra and security teams for enterprises which move markets both for Reliance and Tata’s. This also involves mergers & acquisitions (SHEIN, Kiko Milano, Sephora, several others during my time at Reliance and Splunk at Cisco) and heading integrated technology organization at Tata Digital (Tata’s digital product portfolio company).He brings global exposure on both sides of the market — seller at Cisco, Red Hat and Teradata; buyer at Tesco, Reliance and Tata. He builds, transforms, scales product & engineering for global businesses which serves millions of users across channels. He brings rare experience of leading cross functional organizations, building high performance teams across product and technology functions which outlast the leader. He is recognized as Fellow in Computer Science by BCS UK, Jury CIO 100 2026, CIO India 2024, ETAI 2025. Disclaimer: What I write, like, comment, post(repost), doesn’t represent my employer or my employer’s choice. It is my voice and my opinion in the matter and should be seen that way.
Career Timeline
- TATA CLIQCurrentAug 2024–Present· 2 yrs 1 mo
- Chief Product and Technology OfficerCurrentAug 2024–Present
- CromaCurrentAug 2024–Present· 2 yrs 1 mo
- Chief Digital OfficerCurrentAug 2024–Present
- Venture CapitalCurrentMar 2021–Present· 5 yrs 6 mos
- Private InvestorCurrentMar 2021–Present
- Aug 2024–Mar 2026· 1 yr 7 mos
- Chief Technology Officer, Tata CLiQ, Head of Technology SynergyAug 2024–Present
- CPTO at Tata CLiQ (Dual role)Aug 2024–Mar 2026
- Dec 2021–Aug 2024· 2 yrs 8 mos
- Chief Product and Technology Officer, Reliance Fashion, Sports, Tira BeautyDec 2021–Aug 2024
- CPTO, Reliance Fashion, Sports, Tira BeautyDec 2021–Aug 2024
- Aug 2020–Dec 2021· 1 yr 4 mos
- Global Head of AI ProductsAug 2020–Dec 2021
- Head of Platform EngineeringAug 2020–Dec 2021
- 2019–Aug 2020· 1 yr 7 mos
- Product Head - Core Commerce Platforms2019–Aug 2020
- Product Leader - Price, Promo, Loyalty (UK, Europe, International)2019–Aug 2020
- Sep 2017–Dec 2018· 1 yr 3 mos
- PM Leader Cloud Platform IntelliCloud - SaaSSep 2017–Dec 2018
- Leader, IntelliCloud - as a ServiceSep 2017–Dec 2018
- Jun 2013–Sep 2017· 4 yrs 3 mos
- Manager, EngineeringJun 2013–May 2014
- PrincipalJun 2013–Sep 2017
- Feb 2011–May 2013· 2 yrs 3 mos
- Leader, EngineeringFeb 2011–Aug 2012
- Site Head, Director of EngineeringFeb 2011–May 2013
- Jul 2008–Feb 2011· 2 yrs 7 mos
- Leader, EngineeringApr 2010–Feb 2011
- Software Development EngineerJul 2008–Mar 2010
- Aug 2004–Sep 2007· 3 yrs 1 mo
- Engineer, Full StackAug 2004–Sep 2007
Education
Executive
Product Marketing
The Wharton SchoolMaster's degree
Information Technology
University of GlasgowMicro Masters
Data Science
UC San DiegoExecutive Program
Business Administration and Management, General
Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBS (H)
Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani