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Edwin Grogan Marietta, Georgia 30066

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CIO CTO CISO Digital Transformation

25+ years of leadership as a global technology and delivery executive with a focus on innovation, digital transformation, change leadership, strategic planning, and driving customer experience Established reputation for leading complex organizational, security, data, and technology challenges for global operations across multiple industries. Excel at overhauling major technology programs, driving digital transformation, aligning with business imperatives, and managing functions that drive business value and cost efficiency. Brings a broad range of technical skills, architecture disciplines, cyber security knowledge and digital transformation capabilities as a talented team leader and motivational manager. Outstanding relationship builder, partnership development leader, with global experience and a cross-functional collaborator. Highlights of Expertise

• Global Technology and Visionary Leadership

• IT Strategic Planning and Change Agent

• Digital and Technology Transformation

• Cloud Platform Services, SAP, Google, Azure

• Budget management and People Leadership

• Customer focused and driving new offerings

• Business and IT tracking and roadmaps

• M&A/Due Diligence/Integrations

• Portfolio Management and Execution

• Multi-Brand Business Alignment / Strategy

• Enterprise Architecture and Governance

• ERP, CRM, & Major Platform Development

Career Experience

Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), Atlanta, USA / Stockholm, Sweden Recently transitioned as part of the Technology Leadership Team from Head of Core Platforms and Engineering, to Head of H&M Technology Portfolio. In this role, I will lead a team of program and delivery managers, plus virtual team of architects, strategic business functions and technology leadership centers. Reporting directly to the Chief Digital and Information Officer, and interfacing to H&M internal and external executive committees and governance boards. Responsible for developing the technology desired state (2028+), annual target roadmaps, transformation milestones, annual investment need and overseeing the entire technology project portfolio across H&M. Ensures strategic alignment, initiative prioritization, efficient delivery, and successful execution of all technology initiatives by prioritizing projects, managing budgets, collaborating with cross-functional teams and business value streams, and reporting progress to executive stakeholders. Building alignment with business partners considering global considerations and diverse regional needs and priorities with the H&M Brand Plan, which will drive for H&M, new Customer Experiences, Products and Brand Targets. Senior Vice President, Head of Technology Portfolio (08/2024 to Present)

• Develop the program structure and shared alignment with the multiple cross-functional program teams, across vision, strategy, business goals, investment, timing, and requirements, and secure dependencies' commitment, outcomes and measurable deliverables.

• Manages demand lifecycle by partnering with the business functional areas to identify strategic initiatives, top level goals, executive committee commitments and align with the business objectives.

• Deliver new or upgraded technology capabilities and product(s) by leading cross-functional technology teams and enterprise architects by prioritizing, planning, executing, and managing technology projects according to timelines, value, risk, budgets and agile methodologies and processes.

• Lead executive committee meetings with executive level stakeholders to help make key decisions, remove obstacles, key risk management and address/ resolve key program issues.

• Provide ongoing visibility to program status and investment needs, such as key decisions, dependencies, tracking, issues, risks, metrics, etc. to all stakeholders. Edwin Grogan Page 2

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Senior Vice President, Head of Core Platforms and Engineering (12/2021 to 08/2024) Responsible for all global core technology platforms and engineering with employee base of 700+ resources. Responsible for API integration platforms, infrastructure and platform engineering, developer experience and CI/CD delivery, enterprise applications (including online transaction platforms and all Point-of-Sale capabilities), technology sustainability and ESG reporting. In addition, responsible for all SAP platform engineering, architecture, supply chain, development, and support.

• Led the team who created a multi-cloud strategy with Azure and Google including new contract agreements totaling over $100M a year spend, enabling all data to be homed out of Google and consolidating 10 different data platforms to Google and Big Query driving more accurate and timely data, significant cost reduction and faster decision making by the business.

• Designed, gained agreement across multiple business and technology senior stakeholders, and established a new technology governance structure and operating model for tech and data, risk, cyber security, finance, architecture standards, plus investment approval and tracking.

• Responsible for planning, engineering, and delivery of technology transformation portfolio for major core technology areas including full migration of 800+ applications to the cloud (Azure and Google), new SD-WAN network to 5000 locations across 9 multi-Brands in 80 countries (store, warehouse, and offices) API integration for over 1000 interfaces, SAP for supply chain transformation, framework, KPI and OKR metrics including criteria and toolsets for CI/CD pipeline delivery.

• Created a new technology organizational blueprint, enabling 25% reduction in employees and consultants by simplifying the structure enabling faster delivery at a lower cost, increased direct accountability across all leaders, integrating business value chains into all Brands and Supply Chain with a phased implementation creating a Product Orientated structure and delivery landscape.

• Partnering with the Store leadership across multi-brand businesses re-aligned and prioritized technology investments, enabling a new Omni-Channel digital roadmap and projects relating to Point of Sale, Customer Care applications on mobile devices, end-to-end RFID Strategy, in-store service centers and store worker collaboration and personal productivity applications Boston Consulting Group, Atlanta, USA / Stockholm, Sweden Specially recruited for H&M to assess the value and utilization across multiple large-scale global service providers delivering cloud, network, and security services at an enterprise level. Delivered a detailed technology baseline report that outlined a 3–5-year technology transformation roadmap, investments, and milestones plan. Principal Technology Transformation Leader (08/2020 to 12/2021)

• Conducted a current risk assessment of key service provider contracts reviewing the current digital transformation approach across the multiple platforms and major cloud provider services including the digital workplace, enterprise cybersecurity and cross-business infrastructure platform technologies. In addition, develop an overarching framework, roadmap and strategies for security, infrastructure, identity, network, cloud, and operations plus direction supporting responsible AI.

• Manage all aspects of technology strategy creation for selected service providers, architecture review, risk assessment, enterprise security gaps and impact assessment consolidating and aligning roadmap plans and budget needs as input to the company strategy technology plan.

• Managed an external “Red Team” security penetration exercise covering all H&M websites and external accesses across H&M. Results documented and presented to the H&M Board of Directors resulting in general action plan overhauling all cyber security services and team structure. Edwin Grogan Page 3

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Randstad USA, Atlanta/Cincinnati USA

Specially recruited to oversee solution architecture for the Proctor and Gamble Employee Digital Workplace and Voice Service.

Senior Technology Advisor Head Solutions Architect (09/2019 to 07/2020) Manage all aspects of strategic planning and implementation for enterprise transformation, including cross- functional collaboration, development of RFIs, road mapping, and team leadership.

• Successfully delivered a business case driving the transformation of legacy voice communications, digital workplace, and end user security improvements to a new cloud platform, realizing a digital transformation, and capturing over $15M a year in run rate saving from $50M in current spend. The Coca-Cola Company (KO), Atlanta, USA

Promoted to a dual position in charge of major global technology platforms, Cloud Migration and PMOs and Head of Enterprise Security Services for a global leader in beverage manufacturing and sales. Head of Major Program Delivery, PMO Security Strategy/Architecture (05/2017 to 09/2019) Oversaw all aspects of major transformation programs with management of global program delivery and reporting to the Global CISO for security strategy and architecture management. Directed operations and security strategies across multiple franchise bottlers. Responsible for technology program governance, security, and risk reviews, integrating multiple platforms, and oversaw budgets and resource allocation.

• Transformed the security ecosystem and rationalized over 50 individual products, developing a best integrated security platform architecture, executing a $30M program over 24 months to elevate Coca- Cola into the top 25 percentile in digital resilience across CPG industry landscape.

• Specially selected as a leader of the Coca-Cola Datalake program, transforming a significantly delayed application development program, building a new architecture based on Microsoft Cosmos datalake and Informatica, driving cost reduction/resource allocation for on time and under budget delivery.

• Hand-picked to lead a cloud migration on a tight timeline, delivering a new security platform for cloud in preparation for the sale of the data center, migrating over 800 applications in 18 months to cloud- enabled providers with minimal interruption.

• Adopted Agile methodology as part of PMO project delivery and managed security governance function for gate reviews for all IT programs across a $200M+ IT investment portfolio.

• Specially selected to perform a risk assessment of technology, processes and security for Costa Coffee acquired by Coca-Cola in January 2019. Defined risk remediation plan to maintain SOX compliance. Head of Technology Strategy and Transformation (07/2016 to 05/2017) Spearheaded global infrastructure change programs, strategic roadmap design, architecture leadership, and cloud migration leadership. Oversaw a $100M budget and capital plan, led engineering and planning of migration programs, conducted in-depth assessments (SAP, Oracle, applications) and new technologies).

• Effectively engineered a strategic plan to execute migration and consolidation of various email environments (100,000+ users) into a Microsoft Office 365 consolidated platform within six months.

• Collaborated with CEO of Coca-Cola Bottling Africa throughout the merger of six independent Coca-Cola bottlers in South Africa as strategic advisor developing the technology integration plan. Sagepath Inc., Atlanta, USA

Championed a complex Consumer Product Group bottler merger divestment and franchising strategy as a leader recruited by the Coca-Cola Global CIO and CTO, in addition appointed security architect at Sagepath. Senior IT Consultant Security Architect (07/2015 to 06/2016) Managed development of business case and technical design to re-platform SAP to a cloud service, including architecture and network engineering requirements for the cloud, strategic planning and implementation, major milestone, complete cost analysis including budget planning and definition of IT requirements. Edwin Grogan Page 4

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• Collaborated with the CTO to develop major milestones and budgets for re-franchising of Corporate IT and all bottlers in the Bottler Investment Group across 10 countries, over 600 locations, and with 150k personnel.

• Developed the technology re-integration plan for Coca-Cola North America being divested out of Coca- Cola Refreshments, including application separation and move to the cloud, email migration to Coca- Cola, SAP separation, and a new supporting infrastructure and desktop image for all users.

• Drove the development and deployment of security architecture and product selection for the rebuild of BIC online e-commerce transaction web site.

Las Vegas Sands Corp (LVS), Las Vegas, USA / Singapore Excelled in a dual role in charge of global IT infrastructure and security programs and Interim CIO for an American hotel, casino, hospitality, restaurants, and entertainment operator based in Singapore. Vice President, Global Infrastructure and Operations (01/2014 to 05/2015) Interim CIO at Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Casino, Singapore (06/2014 to 05/2015) Managed global technology and operations transformations, strategic planning, and program implementation in collaboration with the Global CIO and executive teams. Developed plans to deploy new cloud platforms and migrations, improve security systems, and transform customer experiences.

• Developed and implemented a $40M technology and business remediation plan to overhaul and accelerate cloud adoption, security services and fast-tracked new technology architecture

• Led the recovery across all Las Vegas Sands properties effectuating a business transformation in the wake of a massive cyber-attack targeting Las Vegas Sands.

• Specially appointed as the Las Vegas Sands Global E-Commerce Technology Leader, developing a new e-commerce platform in Hong Kong and the United States on AWS/Akamai/Adobe Cloud services.

• Specially appointed as the Interim CIO of the Marina Bay Hotel and Casino in Singapore, managing all IT functions for 12 months as an executive team member in charge of data center strategies and business transformation initiatives/deployments including the new Micros Opera reservation platform.

• Created strategy to stabilize the casino surveillance network for over 10k multi-cast cameras, reducing regulatory incidents and casino disruptions.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

VP, Corporate and Technology Services/SN Director Service Operations) § SITA, Atlanta USA General Manager (Infrastructure and Channel Delivery) § ING Bank, Amsterdam, Netherlands Chief Technology Officer and Head of Client Engagement § Ramprate Sourcing Advisors, New York, USA Managing Partner § New London Associates, New York USA Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Infrastructure, Chase Financial Services (Across all retail business units) § JP Morgan Chase, New York, USA Director, Corporate IT and Companywide Technology Services § Time Warner, Inc., New York, USA Vice President, Global Network Engineering and Operations § Turner Broadcasting Systems, Atlanta, USA Senior and Regional Manager Positions § DHL Systems, Inc., California USA and London, UK Education & Credentials

Action Technical College, UK

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE EQUIVALENT in ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (US INS)

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