Name: Ted Jackson

Title: Vice President of IT and Chief Information Officer

Company: Sport Chalet, Inc.
La Cañada, CA 91011

Background: Over the past 36+ years Ted has worked directly for a variety of retailers from startups to large international companies as well as software and consulting companies including:

-- Safeway Stores
-- Fred Meyer Stores
-- Junior's Tools (a startup specialty store)
-- Sport Chalet, Inc.
-- KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP
-- Walker Interactive Systems

Advisory Roles: Participates on the advisory boards of several software companies and is currently a member of the RIS News Editorial Advisory Board.

Since joining Sport Chalet, Inc in 1999, Ted has led the implementation of a number of best-of-breed systems that have supported the growth of the company. In 2008 the company completed a very successful implementation of SAP which serves as the core application providing data for other systems including routing of orders for cross-channel fulfillment and messaging between applications internal and external systems.