Padmaja Bommareddy

Padmaja Bommareddy is a transformation and growth leader who spent 25 years scaling brands from high growth start-ups and private equity backed companies to multi-billion-dollar multinationals, including Walmart, Zalando, Burberry and L Catterton. Her work has spanned more than 60 global markets, with time lived in New York, London, Berlin and Sydney. As SVP Corporate Development at Zalando, Europe's leading ecommerce platform for apparel, footwear and accessories, she reported into the Co-CEO and Co-Founder and led four departments: Group B2C and B2B Strategy, M&A, Sustainability and D&I, managing a 50 person team. She spearheaded Zalando's most significant strategic pivot in five years, an integrated B2C and B2B transformation that unlocked a 46% share price appreciation within 30 days and culminated in the €1.1 billion public acquisition of About You, where she served on the Supervisory Board and Audit Committee. At Walmart, she co-created the omnichannel roadmap for the $30 billion apparel business. A Harvard MBA with foundations in leveraged finance and M&A from Morgan Stanley and Greenhill, Padmaja is known for simplifying complexity and communicating with empathy, bringing a global perspective shaped by working across four continents. She holds board roles at Taskrabbit and Highsnobiety.