Neil Ashe

The head of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT -0.37% 's e-commerce efforts predicted that the retailer would be able to match the service offerings of competitor Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -1.57% within two years.

In a private interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wal-Mart global e-commerce CEO Neil Ashe said that the company was continuing to build out new warehouses across the country used to distribute online orders.