Client Speaker

Amit Bhalla

Vice President, Global Technology and Strategy, Innovation & Partnerships, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

Amit joined The Estée Lauder Companies in early 2018 and is responsible for driving Global Technology Functions across R&D (Value Chain), Finance, M&A, BPO Services, HR Communications & Legal across all ELC brands. In addition, he also has a mandate to drive Technology Strategy, Innovation & Partnerships. In his role Amit is responsible for planning, budgeting, strategizing and implementing some of the most complex transformation programs within ELC. He is a change agent, who is always looking for opportunities to maximize business value. As part of his Innovation mandate, Amit is constantly on the lookout on how new technologies and the startup ecosystem can solve business problems and help ELC leap frog competition.

Amit has 24+ years of Technology and Business experience across Retail & CPG companies. Prior to joining Estee Lauder, Amit was at Amazon, as a Senior Leader leading their global retail/marketplace and where he led the global retail/marketplace soft-lines businesses with a multi-billion category P&L. Prior to that he was with Target, Best Buy where he led technology / innovation capabilities and business development/partnerships across both business and IT functions

Amit is a thought leader and has extensive experience in setting and providing vision and leadership towards strategic goals, impacting business growth for companies like Amazon, Target & Best Buy.