Island Pacific appoints Jay Fisher as CTO

Irvine,CA-based Island Pacific, a division of 3Q Holdings, has appointed Jay Fisher to the position of Chief Technology Officer.

Since 1982 Jay Fisher has architected state-of-the-art multichannel software solutions and provided guidance to leading retailers including The Home Depot, Disney, Lenscrafters, JCPenney, Pacific Sunwear, Brookstone, Crate and Barrel, Godiva Chocolatier, Kmart, Whirlpool, West Marine, Dollar General, Figgins Holdings and Meijer.

Previously serving as Chief Technology Officer of VCommerce and Pinnacle Rock Associates and as the founder and CEO of MarketPlace Systems Corporation, Jay has over 25 years of executive-level retail IT experience operating not only in North America but globally in Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Mexico, Puerto Rico, UK, Netherlands and Spain.

Jay has special knowledge of the multichannel retail landscape from planning, purchasing, and inventory management to allocation, replenishment, warehousing, order management and distribution. Jay also has vast experience in a range of pivotal technologies including SaaS, WebSphere Commerce Suite, SOA, J2EE, .NET, Workflow and UCCnet integration and has successfully led several large-scale software reengineering projects.

Davy Rosen, Island Pacific’s CEO, commented, “As Island Pacific continues to develop and deploy high-value and innovative software solutions that enable retailers to manage the entire scope of their operations, we are delighted to welcome Jay to our executive team. Jay has that rare combination of application architecture leadership and technological savvy that makes him so eminently suited to driving the modernization strategy of Island Pacific’s integrated merchandising, ecommerce and store solutions.”