Full Stack Leader - SXSW Limited Series - Yuval Elshtein - CTO - Space NK

Yuval is a results-oriented CTO with a passion for transforming big, ambitious goals into reality through innovative technology. As the current CTO at SpaceNK, he is leading the charge in fueling technological innovation within the luxury beauty retail space.

At Holland & Barrett, Yuval oversaw the complete transformation of their ecommerce technology and business operations, building a team of top-tier engineers and developing a state-of-the-art ecommerce platform that achieved double and triple-digit KPI improvements.

During his time at Sainsbury's Argos, he successfully coordinated over 60 teams to deliver a fundamentally new business and program and managed the launch of digitally-ordered in-store product care. Leveraging machine-learning and data-driven analytics, and enabled microservice-enabled functionality through to customer-facing digital innovation.

In addition, he managed Sainsbury's clothing platform, achieving a phenomenal increase in delivery throughput and significant year-over-year sales growth.

Yuval prides himself on realizing profitable, sustainable, and rapid strategic change using tech-leveraged principles focusing on corporations becoming customer-focused vs technology restricted.