Ms. Ainoa recently retired from Walmart, where she served as CTO for Sam’s Club and guided its transformation into a leading-edge retailer through modern technologies and key partnerships. She joined Walmart in 2020 as SVP of Core Retail Services and Emerging Technology and was promoted to EVP for New Businesses & Emerging Technology in 2023, focusing on transformative technology, including generative AI and digital.
Previously, Ms. Ainoa was COO of D2L, a SaaS organization focused on transformational learning. She also held senior roles at Intuit and Yahoo!, where she led global service engineering teams. Her early career included technical leadership roles at Broderbund Software, Genealogy.com, Healtheon/WebMD, Informix Software, and Impac Medical Systems. Ms. Ainoa also served as an independent director of Move, Inc., which was acquired by NewsCorp in 2014.
Ms. Ainoa brings extensive experience in software product development, engineering, emerging technologies, M&A integrations, and P&L management. Her industry experience spans retail, healthcare, consumer goods, and software services. She holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University.