Kathee Tesija has a Bachelor's Degree in Fashion Merchandising from the University of Wisconsin, USA. She has extensive retailing experience in the US market, particularly in merchandising and supply chain management. In her executive career, she led the merchandising and supply chain functions at Target Corporation in the US from 2008, and was the chief merchandising and supply chain officer and executive vice president when she left the company in 2015. Ms Tesija then became a strategic advisor to Target Corporation until 2016 where she had various senior leadership positions at Target Corporation within merchandising since joining the business in 1986. Ms Tesija, a US resident, is also an independent director of the US telecommunications company, Verizon Communications and a senior advisor and consultant for Simpactful, a retail consulting agency in the US.