Ravi Bagal
Vice President, Retail Markets
Edgenet

Ravi Bagal is Vice President, Retail Markets for Edgenet, a global provider of data, media and software solutions. Edgenet's Big Hammer Data division acquires and manages product content from thousands of manufacturers for leading retailers such as The Home Depot and Lowe's. The Edgenet / Unisys Partnership was recently featured in the worldwide release of Microsoft's Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 products.

Ravi is a thought leader in the area of retail technology, providing strategic vision for multinational companies across North America, Asia and Europe. He is a noted industry authority who has been featured in forums such as the National Retail Federation Annual Conference and various industry publications. He has worked with the two largest home goods retailers in the world, half of the supermarkets in the Fortune 500, the largest off-price apparel retailer in the US, the third largest hypermarket chain in Japan and the best known outdoor apparel catalog in America. In addition he has engaged with some forty mid-sized retailers.