Mike Guhl

I’m a seasoned IT executive, leader and strategist. I’m an expert in building strong teams, business communications, application design and implementation. I've managed teams of up to 700 people (400 internal, 300 contractor), and budgets of ~$150MM.

I “grew up” in retail stores. In my role as Vice President of Store, Credit and Multi-Channel Systems at Home Depot – I was responsible for a very large team that transformed Store Operations. We were the first major retailer to be fully EMV capable for debit and credit, end to end encrypted, and fully tokenized. We created a ground breaking mobile device platform that provided applications, phone, walkie-talkie and POS capabilities to associates, saving the company $70M in hardware and labor costs.

We built a multichannel order management system supporting 1980 retail stores and HomeDepot.com. This enabled multi-channel shopping capabilities for customers (Buy Online Pick Up in Store, Buy Online Ship to Store, Buy Online Delivery from Store) that account for Billions in annual sales.

After Home Depot, I was a Managing Director at Slalom Consulting, where I was responsible for growing customers from sales cycle through delivery and invoicing.

Most recently, I was the Chief Information Officer for HD Supply. I'm incredibly proud of all of the work we accomplished - migrating our business to Google Cloud, divesting White Cap and integrating with Interline, creating a data driven enterprise.

In 2024, I joined PulteGroup as CIO, leading the IT Teams for the Homebuilding and Mortgage teams.

I keep saying “we” – because it is a pet peeve of mine when leaders say “I”. There is very little anyone can do on their own. It takes a team of people pulling in the same direction – that is my specialty. I don’t care who gets the credit – I just want my team to win.