Giri Durbhakula is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Charlotte Russe Holdings, a 500+store mall-based specialty retailer of fashionable, value-priced apparel and accessories targeting young women in their teens through early thirty's.

Giri has over twenty years of technology experience, having worked in senior and executive level positions at companies such as IBM, Ernst & Young LLP, Gateway and Intuit previously. He has industry experience across many verticals including Retail, High-Technology, CPG, Finance and several others. His experience spans from across Applications, Infrastructure and Service areas of the technology spectrum. He also has international work experience in Europe, Asia and Central America.

He has written many articles and has also spoken at many different forums in his career on topics such as Analytics & Business Intelligence, Maximizing IT and Business Stakeholder Alignment, and Customer Centricity. He has an undergraduate degree in Engineering and a graduate degree in Management from Washington University in St. Louis, as well as Executive Business Management courses from Stanford University.