Job title: Executive Vice President, Information Technology & Chief Information Officer Date started current role: January 2017
Location: Quincy, MA
Paul Scorza is Executive Vice President, Information Technology & Chief Information Officer for Retail Business Services, the services company of Ahold Delhaize USA. Scorza oversees the full scope of the IT function, including software development, support, hardware purchase and support, networks, datacentres and innovation. Prior to joining Retail Business Services, Scorza was Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer for Ahold USA, a position he held since 2013.
What was your first job? I’m a career techie. I started out as a programmer at IBM. I spent 32 years there before joining what was then Ahold USA. I thought, ‘how much IT can there be in a supermarket?’ But it was the best thing I’ve ever done. Retail is so exciting; the things you do and make have a direct impact on customers.
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At Patrice Peris Voice Studios in Westboro, I m a big advocate that when things happen you have to adjust, said Peris - singer, songwriter, performer, educator and founder and owner of the studio since 2014.
Taking online lessons and learning new approaches to music and singing has been an ongoing undertaking for Peris herself.
She practices what she preaches. Or rather, she s getting in sync, so to speak, with her students.
When the pandemic hit in March, the voice studio was quite well positioned in that it had already been online. I wasn t new to do doing online lessons, Peris said of some offerings to students that were available. That gave her some confidence that she could deal with what was about to happen.