Bio

Philip Glebow is Chief Architect and VP of Data, AI, and MarTech at Catalyst Brands — the operating company behind JCPenney, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers, Lucky Brand, and Nautica — where he leads enterprise AI adoption, data platform modernization, and marketing technology across the portfolio. Prior to Catalyst, he led enterprise architecture at Gap, Inc., and before retail spent more than a decade as a software architect in financial services at BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors. He began his career as a consultant at KPMG Consulting (later BearingPoint), delivering custom software for clients in telecommunications and entertainment. Mr. Glebow holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and an M.S. in Bioinformatics from The Johns Hopkins University.

25+

Years' Experience

4+

Industries

4

Cloud Platforms

AI & GenAI Leadership

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Team & Org Leadership

Data & Analytics

Marketing Technology

Kubernetes & DevOps

Software Engineering

  • Jun 2022 to present  

    Catalyst Brands

    Chief Architect | VP Data, AI, MarTech
    San Francisco, CA & Plano, TX

  • Oct 2014 to Jul 2022    

    Gap, Inc.

    Vice President, Architecture
    San Francisco, CA

  • May 2009 to Oct 2014

    Blackrock

    Vice President, iShares Product Technology
    San Francisco, CA

  • Feb 2009 to May 2009

    Grinshot

    VP Engineering
    San Francisco, CA

  • Aug 2001 to Feb 2009

    Barclays Global Investors

    Architect, Design & Development Manager
    San Francisco, CA & London, UK

  • Aug 1999 to Aug 2001

    KPMG Consulting

    Senior Consultant
    San Francisco, CA

  • Jan 2014                

    M.S., Bioinformatics

    The Johns Hopkins University
    Baltimore, MD

  • Jun 1999                

    B.S., Computer Engineering

    California Polytechnic State University
    San Luis Obispo, CA

  • Jan 2026                

    The AI-empowered Organization

    NRF 2026
    New York, NY

  • Nov 2016                

    Keynote - Gap's Cloud Journey

    FutureStack '16
    San Francisco, CA

  • Aug 2016                

    Tech Talk - Gap's Cloud Platform

    Spring One
    Las Vegas, NV

  • May 2016                

    Keynote - Cloud Optimization: Gurobi & Cloud Foundry

    Cloud Foundry Summit
    Santa Clara, CA

  • April 2016                

    Tech Talk - Integrating Gurobi for Optimization at Scale

    Gurobi User Conference
    Orlando, FL