Charles Hunsinger

CIO
Harry and David

Charles Hunsinger is a 25-year technology veteran with extensive experience creating innovative IT solutions for wholesale, retail, and B2B/B2C e-commerce companies. His career stops have included Accenture, Corporate Express/Staples, and Musician's Friend (Guitar Center), and he is currently the CIO for Harry and David, the omni-channel specialty retailer that is the first choice for your personal gifting needs.

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Main Conference Day 2

Thursday, January 8th, 2015

11:25 Keynote: Moving from the Past to the Future: Modernizing the Legacy of your Business

Charles has spent a lot of time in the ‘modernization’ of legacy platforms in his current and prior CIO roles over the past few years. Many front-end or back-end systems are approaching the 10, 15 and even 20 year mark and making those replacements can be difficult. The systems that many companies put in place at or around the start of their growth in the late 90s/early 2000s are starting to ‘age out’ or become constraints upon businesses as new models of doing business evolve and the pace of change becomes that much more rapid. Charles reviews how to bring a legacy platform up-to-date in this keynote session.