David Bergen Levi

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David Bergen Served As The Senior Vice
President/Global CIO At Duty Free Shoppers
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After graduating from the University of Nevada,
Las Vegas, NV, David Bergen started working as a
System Engineer and Project Manager with
Electronic Data Systems. He working at the firm,
he completed a software engineering training
program and helped in the development of
worldwide supply and logistic systems for
American President Lines.
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He served Electronic Data Systems for three years
and later joined The Gap, Inc., San Francisco as
a Programmer Analyst, System Analyst and then
Project Manager. While serving The Gap, Inc. he
envisioned and implemented high transaction IBM
POS systems worldwide and introduced retail
solutions including sale audit, price management
and inventory management systems.
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In 1984, he left the company to join Esprit De
Corp, Inc., San Francisco as the Director,
Application Development and assisted in creating
wholesale manufacturing and retail management
solutions that encompassed business process and
components.
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After working with Esprit De Corp. Inc. for 4
years, David Bergen returned to The Gap, Inc. as
its Vice President, Global Application
Development and led a team to develop
applications across the value chain, including
purchase order, merchandising, supply chain,
logistics and operations. From 1998 to 2000,
David Bergen worked with Duty Free Shoppers as
the Senior Vice President/Global CIO.
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He led over 250 employees and managed a 100M IT
budget in 9 countries. Furthermore, he led a
business simplification effort and also undertook
the responsibility of launching and establishing
the Sephora USA and Sephora.com e-commerce and
business models.
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While serving Duty Free Shoppers, David
streamlined the corporate business model, supply
chain, merchandising and logistics and also
updated the IT organization by re-developing
internal leadership and IT processes. In addition
to this, David Bergen has also worked as the
Senior Vice President/Global CIO of a leading
clothing retailer, Levi Strauss in San Francisco,
CA.
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At the firm, he led the IT and business functions
across 25 sites throughout the world, under the
budget of over 200M. Presently, he is working as
the Managing Director at Alvarez and Marsal,
Business and IT Management Consulting, where, he
leads the firms West Coast CIO and IT
Transformation Practice.
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Thank You