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Ahold Delhaize USA’s Paul Scorza to retire from Retail Business Services

Search for new RBS chief information officer now under way

Russell Redman

September 15, 2020

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Paul Scorza, who also holds the title of executive VP of information technology, has served as CIO of RBS since January 2017.Retail Business Services

Paul Scorza, chief information officer at Retail Business Services (RBS), the services arm of Ahold Delhaize USA, plans to retire at the end of the year.

Quincy, Mass.-based RBS said Tuesday that a search for a new CIO has begun. Plans call for Scorza to stay with the company as an adviser to help with the transition to his successor.

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Scorza (left), who also holds the title of executive vice president of information technology, has served as CIO of RBS since January 2017. In that role, he oversees the IT function — including software development, support, hardware purchase and support, networks, data centers, and telephone operations — for services subsidiary of Ahold Delhaize USA, which operates over 2,000 supermarkets along the East Coast under the Stop & Shop, Food Lion, Giant/Martin’s, Giant Food and Hannaford banners, as well as online grocery unit Peapod.

Overall, Scorza has been with the company for more than seven years. Prior to RBS, he served as executive VP and CIO for Royal Ahold’s Ahold USA subsidiary, which he joined in April 2013. Ahold merged with Delhaize Group in mid-2015 to form Ahold Delhaize, based in Zaandam, the Netherlands.

“Paul has been an excellent leader in the information and technology space for our organization, and we’re extremely appreciative of his many successes,” RBS President Roger Wheeler said in a statement. “Under his leadership, Paul helped ensure the successful merger of Ahold and Delhaize and stood up the IT organization supporting all of the U.S. brands under Retail Business Services. He has also pioneered new technologies to better serve customers from Scan & Go frictionless checkout to piloting a new frictionless store. We thank Paul for his dedicated service and wish him all the best during retirement.”

Related:Frictionless retail can help Ahold Delhaize USA go where it hasn’t gone before

Before coming to Ahold USA, Scorza spent 32 years at IBM, most recently as vice president at IBM Global Technology Services. His other roles at the IT giant included vice president and transformation executive for finance, global financing, technical support and application portfolio management, as well as vice president for the Americas and application solutions delivery leader. He started his technology career as an information systems programmer.

Along with IT, RBS provides Ahold Delhaize USA brands with services and support in merchandising, marketing, private label, store operations, pharmacy, sourcing, financial, communications, supply chain and other areas.

About the Author

Russell Redman

Senior Editor
Supermarket News

Russell Redman has served as senior editor at Supermarket News since April 2018, his second tour with the publication. In his current role, he handles daily news coverage for the SN website and contributes news and features for the print magazine, as well as participates in special projects, podcasts and webinars and attends industry events. Russ joined SN from Racher Press Inc.’s Chain Drug Review and Mass Market Retailers magazines, where he served as desk/online editor for more than nine years, covering the food/drug/mass retail sector. 

Russell Redman’s more than 30 years of experience in journalism span a range of editorial manager, editor, reporter/writer and digital roles at a variety of publications and websites covering a breadth of industries, including retailing, pharmacy/health care, IT, digital home, financial technology, financial services, real estate/commercial property, pro audio/video and film. He started his career in 1989 as a local news reporter and editor, covering community news and politics in Long Island, N.Y. His background also includes an earlier stint at Supermarket News as center store editor and then financial editor in the mid-1990s. Russ holds a B.A. in journalism (minor in political science) from Hofstra University, where he also earned a certificate in digital/social media marketing in November 2016.

Russell Redman’s experience:

Supermarket News - Informa
Senior Editor 
April 2018 - present

Chain Drug Review/Mass Market Retailers - Racher Press
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Sept. 2008 - March 2018

CRN magazine - CMP Media
Managing Editor
May 2000 - June 2007

Bank Systems & Technology - Miller Freeman
Executive Editor/Managing Editor
Dec. 1996 - May 2000

Supermarket News - Fairchild Publications
Financial Editor/Associate Editor
April 1995 - Dec. 1996 

Shopping Centers Today Magazine - ICSC 
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Dec. 1992 - April 1995

Testa Communications
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American Banker/Bond Buyer
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This Week newspaper - Chanry Communications
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