Charles M. Weston
Group Vice President and CIO, Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.

Mr. Weston is currently the CIO for Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. In that role, he is responsible for all of the company’s Information Technology Operations and Initiatives for the Winn-Dixie Retail stores, the Distribution Centers, and the Corporate Offices. Mr. Weston is also a member of Winn-Dixie’s Executive Team.

Mr. Weston joined Winn-Dixie in October of 2004 as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and was named CIO in April of 2005. Mr. Weston has more than 23 years of IT management experience in both government and industry. Before joining Winn-Dixie, he was an IT Director at Home Depot from 2000 until September 2004 where he had several roles including Director of Integration, Director of Merchandising Systems, Director of Architecture, and led several key M&A activities.

Prior to that, Mr. Weston was with the American Retail Group (ARG) where he was both CTO and CIO from 1992 until May 2000. Due to considerable breadth of experience on both the application development and the infrastructure sides of the house involving three different categories of retailer (softlines, hardlines, and grocery), Mr. Weston can provide expertise within the many facets of Information Technology within Retail Mr. Weston holds a BS in Information Systems and MS in Urban Planning from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a BA in History from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia.