Paul Walsh is Dell’s Chief Information Officer. In this role he is responsible for fostering an agile and innovative global IT enterprise that delivers a seamless experience for employees, partners and customers including a superior digital experience.  He has been with Dell Since April 2013. A leader in the technology space with more than 20 years of experience across a variety of roles in some of the most respected tech brands in the industry,  he previously served as Vice President, Dell Commerce Services where he lead the development and management of the overall Dell Commerce Platform and Dell.com digital experience. Before joining Dell, Paul worked for Sears Holding Corporation and Amazon.com.

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As SVP and GM, Elissa Margolis oversees all day-to-day operations for over 200 locations across North America, as well as Disneystore.com.  Prior to this role, Elissa led Marketing and the Ecommerce division for Disney Store.  Prior to joining The Walt Disney Company, Elissa spent nearly 20 years in the retail industry providing data-driven, consumer retail marketing strategies while working with Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing and for retailers such as Tweeter Home Entertainment and Charming Shoppes.

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Jodi Kahn is the Chief Consumer Officer for FreshDirect, where she is responsible for all consumer revenue, mobile/website e-commerce experience, driving new marketing platforms and enhancing the company’s insights and database platforms.

Previously, Kahn served as President of iVillage, the largest online content community for women at NBCUniversal, where she reengineered the business, introduced new revenue/licensing models and transformed the organization’s DNA. Her team developed a powerful insight tool that allowed iVillage to tap into the passions and challenges of everyday women, and ignited the popular “Community Challenges” program to galvanize women around health, education, and finance issues. These initiatives captured national recognition including a deep partnership with the First Lady and the White House. Under Kahn’s leadership, iVillage became a stage for influencers and brands to engage with women around important life issues.

Prior to iVillage, Kahn was President, Global Digital Media for Readers Digest Association (RDA), Inc., where she oversaw allrecipes.com, executed a strategy for digital expansion, and developed a global licensing business.

Prior to that, Kahn spent 16 years at Time Inc., where she held a number of senior level positions in consumer marketing and business management.

She is a board member of Water.org, Edible Media, Shining Hope for Communities, Sing for Hope, and the Paley Center Women’s Advisory Council.

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Soren Mills is the CMO of Newegg North America, responsible for overseeing marketing operations and strategy. Prior to joining Newegg, Mills was the EVP/general manager of Musician’s Friend, the online division of Guitar Center. He has also held several senior management positions at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Mills holds an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Dave Atchison is the Senior Vice President of Marketing at zulily, a retailer for moms. Dave was part of the founding teamat zulily as its first marketing employee and has helped to grow the company to3.2 million active customers and over $600 million in revenue in just fourshort years.  Prior to zulily, Dave was Director of Marketing andAnalytics at RedEnvelope, a Provide Commerce brand. Before RedEnvelope, he wasDirector of Marketing at ProFlowers, another Provide Commerce brand.Previously, he founded a startup in the digital media space and worked as astrategic consultant for several Fortune 1000 companies.

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Jason Feldman is the President, Direct to Consumer for Hanesbrands.  Jason oversees leadership for 270 retail outlet stores in the US operating under the Hanesbrands, Leggs Hanes Bali Playtex, Maidenform, Champion and Inner Self banners, 4 eCommerce sites including, Hanes.com, ChampionUSA.com, OneHanesPlace.com and JustMySize.com, and leads the company's B2B wholesale platform serving over 15,000 small business customers.  Before joining Hanesbrands in November, 2013, Jason was President of The Body Shop (a division of L’Oreal) for the US and Mexico markets based in Raleigh, NC for four years. A longtime retailer, merchandiser and marketer, Jason held leadership roles with The Home Depot in Atlanta, GA for fourteen years including merchandising, operations and new concept development responsibilities for retail and digital businesses.  Prior to his retail experience, Jason was a management consultant and also worked for the American Foreign Service Association at the US Department of State. 

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•    Undergraduate and MBA with specialization in Marketing from top university in India.
•    Joined Citibank immediately after, working in various capacities in Operations and Quality & Training for 4 years.
•    Quit Citibank to join Nomorerack with the initial founding team in mid 2010. Initially started at Nomorerack in Operations and eventually moved over to Marketing.
•    Handle all marketing (online and TV) for NoMoreRack, which was recently named top ecommerce digital marketer by Internet Retailer.

Erik is an apparel and cosmetics industry executive with 14 years' experience building and growing everything from startups to iconic brands in the fashion and beauty industries. He is a renowned expert in ecommerce and digital strategy with big-picture vision and deep hands-on experience at pure-plays and multichannel retailers alike, whether privately-held, VC-funded, PE-owned, or publicly traded, and whether thriving, re-branding, in turnaround or hypergrowth.

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Mark Coffey joined the Rue La La team in 2010 as SVP, overseeing the company's revenue, partnership, and brand development team. A native of Ireland, Coffey served for 10 years as group sales director for the largest independent media group in that country. In 2004, Coffey joined Clear Channel Communications in New England as director of sales. Coffey was later promoted to the role of director of sales for the San Francisco Bay Area, the fourth largest radio market in the U.S., where he oversaw the sales effort for 10 radio stations. In 2009, Coffey served as head of sales at NECN, the largest regional news network in America.

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David has over 15 years of technology leadership experience at prominent eCommerce and Online Media brands, including executive positions at Nasty Gal, Stella & Dot, Evite (IAC), The Knot (XO Group), and WeddingChannel.com.  From developing and hosting the Macy's online bridal business of hundreds of thousands of SKUs, to rebuilding the leading online events service into the cloud, to helping two Inc 500 innovators sustain rapid growth, David has delivered a variety of scalable online solutions in fashion apparel, social communities, events & gifting.

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Mitch Spolan serves as the Executive Vice President of Marketing Services at Chegg.  In his role, Mitch leads multiple divisions that work directly with college and university admissions offices, Fortune 500 companies and their agencies, and students favorite local merchants around college campuses. Mitch has more than 17 years of interactive media experience and leadership in roles at LivingSocial and Yahoo!. Most recently, Mitch served as the EVP, Global Retail at LivingSocial, where he led the National Sales organization, and developed and launched LivingSocial Stampede™, LivingSocial Amplifier™, and LivingSocial Coupons to effectively connect consumers directly with clients. Prior to LivingSocial, Mitch spent over 12 years at Yahoo!, and served as Vice President of North American Field Sales where he was responsible for all Fortune 500 advertising revenue for North America.  Mitch began his career as an Architect after graduating from the University of Florida with both a Bachelors degree in Design (1993) and a Masters in Architecture specializing in Architectural Acoustics (1995). 

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Peter is co-founder and Executive Vice President of eBags.com, the leading online retailer of luggage, handbags, backpacks, and business cases. eBags.com, which launched March 1999 and features over 50,000 products from 550 brands, has sold 21 million bags and features over 2.9 million customer reviews. Peter is responsible for marketing, site merchandising, creative, public relations, and investor relations. Peter received the TGA Award in 2009 for outstanding achievement within the travel goods industry and was named 2003 Colorado Marketer of the Year by the American Marketing Association. He is chairman of Shop.org, the leading online retail trade association. He received his MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon.


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David Gudai is the co-founder and CEO of Ideally, Inc., a San Francisco-based startup focused on the next generation of social commerce experience.  For the past seven years, David has led the marketing initiatives at Storkie (www.storkie.com) – an innovative online source for custom-printed invitations and cards. His expertise comes from the application of analytical disciplines (from game theory to stochastic modeling) to digital marketing channels.

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Brandon has been working in ecommerce all of his career. He has worked with and helped grow some of the largest online retailers in the country. He has implemented and consulted in the web analytics arena and is considered one of the best in that field. He has done both the tactical work as well as define strategic direction, which helps him understand the needs of the business from the ground up. He currently heads up Ice.com as their CEO.

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Jason Roussos oversees all marketing and merchandising operations at Living Direct. With over 12 years of experience in e-commerce and business development, Jason Roussos has been leveraging the digital medium to grow businesses rapidly throughout his career

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Beth has over 10 years of progressive Marketing Management experience at globally-known brands BCBGMaxAzria, Lucky Brand Jeans and Coach.  At BCBGMaxAzria, Beth leads the eCommerce marketing efforts across all three of the company's brands, driving revenue, fueling new customer growth, and maximizing the lifetime value of all customers.  While at Lucky Brand Jeans she was responsible for the digital marketing strategy, direct mail and email programs, and the omnichannel customer database to drive traffic and sales across the eCommerce, retail and outlet channels.  Prior to Lucky Brand, Beth led Coach's clienteling initiatives, in-store engagement strategies, and loyalty programs for full price and outlet stores.  She has a MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU and a B.A from Middlebury College.

Catherine Davis manages omni-channel marketing initiatives across Neiman Marcus, Cusp and Horchow.  In her prior position at Neiman Marcus, Catherine spent 2 years as VP of Marketing for Last Call by Neiman Marcus where she drove the rapid growth of the division through programs to drive traffic to both retail stores and the website. Prior to joining Neiman Marcus, Catherine was the Direct Marketing Director at the Container Store where she was responsible for customer contact strategies and all online marketing. Earlier in her career, Catherine was a Director of Brand Marketing at Neiman Marcus where she was responsible for customer segmentation and all marketing for Neiman Marcus online and Neiman Marcus by Mail, BergdorfGoodman.com and Cusp.com. Catherine also has served as the Director of Marketing at Harold's Stores where she was responsible for all marketing to support stores and the catalog business.

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Chris Vitale brings 15 years of eCommerce and retail experience to Pep Boys. He previously held the role of Director of I.T., eCommerce at Pep before moving into the Vice President of Digital Operations and eCommerce role. He has overseen the execution of projects in support of all online and eComm initiatives for pepboys.com and the company intranet.  In recent years Pep has successfully implemented Pick-up in Store, Ship to Home, Mobile, a redesign of the online appointment flow, integrated with Marketplaces, refined the system architecture and infrastructure while driving significant double-digit, year over year growth.  In his current role, his teams are responsible for the overall strategy, operations, performance and revenue of digital operations for www.pepboys.com.

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Amanda Kendrick is the Director of eCommerce at Pep Boys. She previously served as the Director of Online Merchandising and Business Development. At Pep Boys, Amanda has overseen the rise in natural search results through optimization of all on-site content including video, service and authoritative content for the pepboys.com. In her new role, Amanda oversees all of eCommerce operations including customer service, logistics, functional enhancements, market place expansion and non-product content. She has more than eight years in the eCommerce industry working at David's Bridal and Boathouse Sports.

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Jamil Ghani serves as Vice President, Enterprise Strategy, for Target Corporation.  He is responsible for defining and accelerating the strategic direction for the company, with a particular focus on Target's transformation to deliver the Expect More, Pay Less brand promise seamlessly across all channels for today's omnichannel guest.  He leads teams responsible for business strategy, strategic planning and execution, innovation, program management, and organizational change management. 

Jamil originally joined Target in 2011 as a member of the Target.com leadership team in the role of Director, Strategy & New Business Development.  In 2012, Jamil was promoted to lead the omnichannel transformation across the enterprise as Senior Director, Multichannel Strategy.  Previously, Jamil served as Director, Global Marketing, Strategy & Planning for The Walt Disney Company’s $14B portfolio of travel and leisure businesses.  His responsibilities included long-range strategy, marketing, new business development, and partnership and alliance development for Disney’s businesses worldwide.  He gained leadership experience in international markets such as China and France and with large-scale technology and guest experience transformations.  Earlier in his career, Jamil led several consumer businesses as a brand manager for General Mills.  He began his career as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, where he advised Fortune 100 clients on strategic and operational matters.
 
Jamil holds a BA magna cum laude from Harvard College in economics and computer science and an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was selected as a Baker Scholar.  He serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Science Museum of Minnesota.  Jamil also serves as an Advisory Board member for the Trust for the National Mall in Washington, D.C.   Finally, he serves as an Advisory Board member for an early-stage data science and marketing analytics start-up.  Jamil lives with his wife in Minneapolis.

Leslie is currently VP of Marketing at Club W, a global winery making ridiculously delicious wine at a fantastic price and shipping it directly to your doorstep. Prior to joining Club W in 2013, she gained consumer product experience at Christian Dior and Ralph Lauren in roles ranging from Financial Planning and Analysis to Merchandising and in-store immersion.  Leslie began her career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Banc of America Securities.

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Jennifer DiMotta has more than 17 years of experience leading retailers to double-digit e-commerce growth through strategic planning, budgeting and goals, and vision and people development. Currently, as vice president of e-commerce for the Sports Authority, one of the largest sporting good retailers in the United States, Jennifer heads up the e-commerce division, developing the e-commerce strategic road map, the e-commerce and omnichannel organization, and all e-commerce profitability management. Through her leadership, strategy and vision, Jennifer’s team achieved record revenue in 2013. Prior to Sports Authority, Jennifer was the senior director of global e-commerce at Office Depot, where she led a team of online merchandisers, online search and navigation specialists, and the company’s content management team. During her tenure at Office Depot, Jennifer developed, managed and executed all aspects of the e-commerce strategy for OfficeDepot.com, and was responsible for developing cohesive, high-impact brand marketing, merchandising and commerce development plans. Prior to Office Depot, Jennifer held high-ranking positions at ReStockIt.com and Hayneedle.

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Harvey Bierman has served as vice president of e-commerce technology & operations for Croc Inc. since April 2013. In this role, he is responsible for leading all aspects of Crocs’ global e-commerce technology, user experience, and innovation as well as Crocs’ e-commerce buying, planning, merchandising and site operations for its US and CA businesses.  Prior to Crocs, Harvey was vice president of digital technology for Finish Line.  Between 2004 and 2012, Harvey served in many roles at Demandware driving product management, enterprise sales, customer optimization and account management services. His career in e-commerce started at Global Sports Interactive in 2000, the precursor to GSI Commerce (now eBay Enterprise). Prior to that, he held several leadership roles in retail operations, merchandising, buying and marketing for BLADES Board & Skate, Timberland, & Ski Barn, among others.

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Jude Reter is the VP of Product & Engineering within Express' eCommerce group. He leads a multi-disciplinary team of Product, UX, Design and Engineering colleagues who are redefining personal experiences online, in store, and across all digital touch points with Express customers. He brings both customer and mobile first product design experience to Express with agency and large retail experiences at Digitas, Razorfish and Sears. His team is at the center of Omni channel experience definition.

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Molly Baab is VP of Product Management with Rue La La, a leader in the digital private sale space. As VP of Product, Molly oversees the development of Rue La La’s mobile and web platforms as well as internal content and merchandising management tools.

Prior to joining Rue La La, Molly was the Director of eCommerce product management at Smarter Travel Media, a TripAdvisor company. While with Smarter Travel Media, Molly led the development of SniqueAway, a flash-sale site in the travel space. Additionally, she launched Tingo, a hotel-booking website that monitors rates to ensure travelers pay the lowest possible room rate.

Before Smarter Travel Media, Molly was with Peterson’s, an educational publishing house, where she built products for high school and college students to help budget for and identify educational opportunities.

Molly holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Master of Arts in Political Science from Rutgers University.

Jarrad Berman is an e-commerce and marketing executive with 10+ years’ experience growing both start-ups and established brands. Currently he is the Director of Digital Marketing at INTERMIX.

Established in 1993, INTERMIX is a multi-brand women's specialty retailer that offers a curated mix of emerging and established designers uniquely styled within its intimate boutiques and e-commerce property. Berman oversees digital marketing and acquisition, loyalty, CRM and analytics for intermixonline.com and 40+ stores across the U.S. and Canada.

Prior to INTERMIX, Berman was Director, eCustomer Acquisition at Rodale Inc.  Berman also held senior positions at leading e-commerce companies, OpenSky.com and ideeli (now ideel and part of Groupon), before moving to publishing. Further, Berman is also an investor and advisor to multiple start-up companies including Bombas, Panna, Little Pim and BrightLot. 

Traci Milholen is a Customer Marketing professional with 15 years experience working with several retail brands including Express, Hot Topic, Torrid and JustFab. She has proven success in growing customer bases, driving sales, and bringing valuable customer insights to retail organizations. Traci is currently the SVP of Marketing for JustFab, the world’s largest provider of subscription-based ecommerce specializing in shoes and handbags.

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Nizzi Karai Renaud is helping Zazzle's marketplace and maker community to reach new heights. From hardcore video gamers to crafty DIY enthusiasts and most recently fashion lovers and style aficionados, Nizzi has engaged passionate communities in a variety of forms throughout her career. She had held leadership roles driving ecommerce results at Refinery29, Atari and Etsy.com as well as executive roles agency-side across diverse sectors including politics, tech and the nonprofit world.  

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From brand management to effective content and email marketing to augmented reality mobile apps to website optimization, Stephanie Pertuit’s diverse project and team management experience makes her a speaker who has truly ‘walked the walk’ in crafting positive and profitable customer experiences. As the Vice President of Customer Experience at Blinds.com, Stephanie Pertuit is responsible for understanding and optimizing the experience for Blinds.com’s customers to ensure that customers are engaged, fulfilled and in many cases, wowed, when they interact with the Blinds.com brand.

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As VP of Marketing at The Honest Company, David oversees all online and offline marketing, including brand building, customer acquisition, customer retention, and business development. Prior to joining The Honest Company, David served as Head of Acquisition Marketing at HauteLook, which was acquired by Nordstrom in 2011 for $270 million. He has also served in several senior roles at eBay, Yahoo, and MySpace

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Jennifer Heim is the Marketing Retention Manager at Silver Star Brands (home of Miles Kimball, Walter Drake, Easy Comforts, As We Change and Exposures).  With more than 10 years of direct-to-consumer experience, her focus on revenue-driving strategies has effectively increased customer retention across all channels, including email, catalog and direct mail, as well as business intelligence.  While at Silver Star Brands, Jennifer has lead marketing efforts on launching private credit, increasing average order size, and further developing behavior-based triggered emails.  Prior to Silver Star Brands Jennifer was at American Girl focusing on catalog marketing and forecasting.

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Jamie Keaney is currently the SEO Manager at DICK’S Sporting Goods, a Fortune 500 retailer. At DICK’S, he leads a team of eight in optimization of the DICK’S Sporting Goods and Golf Galaxy Websites, evangelizes SEO throughout the organization and contributes to optimization of the local, social and mobile channels. Prior to working at DICK’S, he worked at IMPAQT/Merkle managing SEM and SEO channel and then driving strategy for Fortune 500 customers in the retail, banking and telecommunication industries.

Shilo Jones is Vice President of E-commerce at Pro Golf in Seattle, WA. Shilo is a resourceful entrepreneurial executive with a passion for data-driven business performance. Shilo has more than 18 years of experience developing values-driven, loyal teams and executing on strategic initiatives in e-commerce, digital marketing and development. He was President of Evo an IR 500 board sports lifestyle retailer from 2002 to 2010. From 1995 to 2001 Shilo was President and Founder of Fuze Technologies a custom Web application development firm.

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Charlie Cole has run the gauntlet in the digital space. He helped IPO a digital real estate company in 2004, went on to grow an online advertising agency to over $200 million in online revenue and took an established fashion brand’s e-commerce initiative to unprecedented levels of success. He was later recruited by a TPG Capital-owned company to create a direct-to-consumer channel, something they had never done in 75 years of business. This leadership team ultimately drove the company to the highest multiple ever paid for a company in the vitamin, mineral and supplement space. Launched in late 2013 in partnership with creative director Vanessa Trania, The Line seeks to provide consumers with the quintessential items of everyday life, encompassing the home, fashion and beauty space.

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Scott has been solving complex technical problems from a young age, having built his first startup when he was 16. Since then, he has bootstrapped four profitable startups, specializing in enterprise information architecture, cloud database technology, and software as a service (SaaS). Scott co-founded Combatant Gentlemen to disrupt the traditional approaches to enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, and the e-commerce customer experience. His mission at Combatant Gentlemen is to create an enjoyable boutique experience in the online realm through the seamless integration of technology and design, while also building a scalable infrastructure that is custom-tailored for the vertical commerce environment.

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As head of Zappos Mobile, Aki leads the design, development and execution of all mobile technology products.  Aki has been part of Zappos since its infancy, having played a large role from developing the fulfillment center software to many of the website projects and innovative features.  Prior to Zappos, Aki worked at LinkExchange and Microsoft and lived in many parts of the world.

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Jeff McRitchie is responsible for all aspects of marketing at MyBinding.com, a niche office products retailer based in Hillsboro, Ore. After helping to launch the MyBinding site in 2003, Jeff contributed to the company’s growth from a small direct sales organization into a national brand.  Jeff regularly speaks on topics related to SEO, content marketing and online retailing.  During 2014, Jeff helped MyBinding to successfully replatform their site to Magento Enterprise leading to additional growth in both traffic and revenue.

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Eric is Senior Director of Marketing & Strategy at GameStop.  He is responsible for brand marketing, customer experience insights, and new business marketing endeavors.  He was part of the team that launched GameStop’s successful loyalty program, PowerUp Rewards, and he currently oversees marketing integration for GameStop’s growing portfolio of technology brands.  Prior to joining GameStop Eric held strategic account roles at The Marketing Arm, an award-winning Omnicom-owned Promotions Agency, as well as product marketing roles at Blockbuster Inc., and Rhino Video Games.

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Nicole Haase is the Senior Director of Merchandising at Modcloth, a San Francisco-based online retailer known for its innovative shopping experience, unique apparel and decor, and wide range of styles from independent designers.  Her diverse range of experience spans from over 12 years of merchandising holding positions at  Gap Inc. Williams-Sonoma, Inc, and most recently
Hot Topic.

In her role, Nicole is responsible for the merchandising efforts for both apparel and non-apparel lines as well as our growing ModCloth private label assortment. She has a proven record of driving business results and she's brought that same A-game to ModCloth, one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2013.  

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Tari Huddleston leads the Ecommerce and Digital Strategy for VF Corporation, Jeanswear Coalition for two of America’s leading brands, Lee and Wrangler.  In her role she partners closely with marketing units to formulate and execute plans to profitably accelerate owned and partner ecommerce revenues as well as implement measures to elevate ecommerce and digital growth platforms and capabilities. With over 20 years’ experience with many famous and well-loved brands from The Home Depot to Hallmark to M&M’s Chocolate Candies, she has led and developed direct to consumer business from start-up, survival, turnaround and growth.  With a strong knowledge of both customer focused businesses and online developments, Tari has been responsible for launching dozens of websites, new catalogs and establishing complete direct to consumer infrastructures from the ground up.

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Shana Kelly started her career working solely with email marketing for a prominent online men’s apparel retailer. Her role quickly expanded to CRM management, including social media and catalog efforts along with the email program. In 2014, she was acknowledged by receiving the MarketingSherpa e-commerce “delivery & automate” award for targeting site browsers with relevant email messages. In early 2015, Shana joined Black Lapel, a content driven online retailer specializing in quality custom suits and men’s apparel. She holds the role of Black Lapel’s digital marketing manager with a strong focus on email marketing. Shana’s goals to retain and acquire customers by delivering engaging marketing messages is driven by her passion for the overall customer experience.

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As the Director of Product Management and Mobile GM at Travelocity, Blake leads the business strategy and execution for Travelocity's mobile channel.  This includes mobile apps, mobile responsive web, and all mobile marketing efforts (including handling the Roaming Gnome's cell phone bill, which is large).

 

Blake has been innovating in mobile commerce for over 10 years, including his time at start ups, like Handango where he was a product owner pioneering mobile application sales. During this time Blake launched a number of app stores for clients like: Sony Ericsson, Research in Motion, and Nokia.

 

Prior to his role at Travelocity, Blake was responsible for mobile product strategy and delivery at GameStop, where he focused on m-commerce and extending mobile experiences into GameStop's very successful retail locations for their millions of passionate gaming customers.

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Richard Cohene is an accomplished consumer marketer with over 10 years’ experience in both e-commerce and brick and mortar retail, specializing in fashion and consumer goods. At Beyond the Rack he has been responsible for the Marketing department (and growing its database from 50K to 11 million members. His creative mind has allowed him to manage SEM campaigns, social media platforms, affiliate networks, retargeting campaigns, Mobile web/APP and general UX, as well as manage various large partnerships with leading companies such as, Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, Rogers Canada, Hearst Digital Media, Major Networks and ELLE. Prior to BTR, Richard was the owner of Tichco which managed platinum eBay power seller accounts and ran pop-up shops in Montreal. He is a frequent speaker at international marketing and social media forums and has been praised for his expertise and marketing strategies in these fields.

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Ian joins Silver Star Brands (formerly Miles Kimball) after 2.5 years with PartySuppliesDelivered. Ian helped launch and grow to profitability a new party supplies business unit within USMattress.com. Previous to that he had a short stint at a cataloger. Ian spent the previous 10 year transitioning CenturyNovelty from a struggling bricks-and-mortar into a profitable and growing etailer (also of the party supplies variety).

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Lisa Archambault is a leading interactive marketing and media professional based in Las Vegas, spanning over 15 years of digital experience with well-known brands in hospitality, entertainment and technology. Lisa began her digital career at Genealogy.com in the San Francisco bay area, where she was responsible for content development and performance marketing. Upon moving to Las Vegas in early 2002, she oversaw the display channel for Vegas.com . Currently she oversees the demand generation channels for Zappos.com , as well as their 6pm.com and ZapposCouture.com  sites. Lisa and her team are responsible for all digital marketing and advertising efforts across web and mobile devices, as well as broadcast and addressable TV. She and team cover the entire purchase funnel – from brand awareness, through mid-funnel prospecting, to lower funnel retargeting.

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Howard Blumenthal is currently Director of Platform Solutions for eBusiness at Advance Auto Parts. Howard joined Advance in April, 2009 as a founding member of the eBusiness team and within 6 months launched Advance's first B2C site and Customer Care center. Advance's first B2B site followed two months later. Today, the Platform Solutions team continues to drive the Omnichannel Roadmap for the organization, including the integration of mobile and social strategies into all areas of the organization. Prior to joining Advance, Howard held senior marketing and development roles at Shop.com, Pfaltzgraff Dinnerware, The Franklin Mint and the Danbury Mint.

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Currently driving digital marketing strategy at Lenovo with a key focus on optimizing and improving execution of digital media buying globally.Experienced all round digital executive, over 7 years experience including the set up of the e-commerce marketing capabilities and more recently digital brand marketing activites. Experience spans from branding to e-comm ; digital media buy platforms (RTB), SEO, SEM, Affiliate marketing, TV buying digitally (Google TV ads) , display advertising and measurement systems.Experienced conference speaker and panellist, spanning imedia, OMMA, CMO. Most recent assignment was at LA RTB conference in July as Keynote Speaker.Longer term experience ranges from corporate business intelligence, dealer management, UK direct marketing manager, international product concept feasibiliiy study for UK Country manager, Brand Management for ThinkPad in Paris for Europe, Global Launch Marketing for ThinkPad, and Global Interactive Marketing for Lenovo (e comm marketing)

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Sarah began at TOMS as the Director of Global Social and Mobile Marketing and now manages the digital marketing team, including social, search, affiliates, and display. Prior to TOMS Sarah worked at advertising agencies including Ogilvy & Mather and BLITZ, helping brands launch strategic cross-channel marketing campaigns with a focus on consumer engagement. Digital and social innovation is key at TOMS, which attributes much of its early and continued success to its community of 6MM loyal social followers.

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Nicholas manages the SEM team for Walmart Labs. This consists of a team of developers who write an internal tool and a group of portfolio analysts to run the campaigns. His specialty is building in-house search platforms by creating an unique blend of in-house technology to solve specific business problems. Previous to Walmart Nicholas was a director of Product for Marin software, and ran all of online acquisition at CafePress

Matthew Chwat has spent over a decade designing & building interactive experiences with an intense focus on ecommerce. As Director of User Experience at ThinkGeek.com (#185 on IR500), a specialty online retailer focused on serving the global geek community, Matt is responsible for hands-on leadership of a team devoted to data-driven design with a relentless focus on the customer.  In addition to driving the UX & UI team, he also built, and continues to lead, the company’s cross-departmental optimization testing team.

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Jeff Hawley is Director of the Customer Experience Group for the Yamaha Corporation of America. In his role he leads overarching marketing and customer experience initiatives online, in print and within social media to Yamaha dealers, partners and customers. Jeff is a certified and credentialed Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). He is an active member of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA), International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), NAMM Technology Committee and the Salesforce.com Social Advisory Board.

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As Lenovo’s North American Web Optimization Lead, Jeff Palumbo strategizes innovative methods of optimization and personalization for Lenovo’s website. Since joining Lenovo in 2011, Jeff has successfully led multiple, high-visibility, strategic projects, which have raised customer satisfaction, plugged internal gaps and generated new revenue streams.  Prior to joining Lenovo, Jeff graduated with an MBA in Innovation Management from Syracuse University and was the Marketing Manager at Themis Media’s gaming lifestyle site, The Escapist

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At Beachbody, Bendee is responsible for lifecycle and directmarketing programs to its consumer database of fitness and supplement brandswhich include P90X®, INSANITY® and Shakeology®.  She has championed bestpractices in the email channel, particularly around segmentation,personalization, testing and mobile/responsive design since joiningBeachbody.   Previously she held digital and product marketingleadership roles at United Online (Juno/NetZero, Classmates, FTD) andMyCorporation.com, and brand management roles at Diamond/Emerald Nuts, Intuit(QuickBooks) and Kraft Nabisco/Mondalez (Chips Ahoy!).  Bendee has an MBAfrom the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern) and BA in Communicationsfrom UCLA, and spends as much of her time as possible traveling outside of LA.

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Kacy Cole is a creative and award-winning marketing executive with a proven track record in strategic leadership and executional excellence.  Cole is experienced in developing and growing businesses through product management, integrated marketing and customer engagement. She is currently Director of E-commerce & Digital Marketing at butter LONDON, a cosmetic brand that brings high-fashion colour without compromise products to the beauty enthusiast. 

Cole is both a strategic thinker and hands-on implementer intent on achieving results. She has a deep understanding of how to apply integrated marketing practices to meet financial, customer and brand objectives. She is genuinely enthusiastic about dialoging with customers, not just communicating to them. To that end, her marketing campaigns have won several awards including Web Design 1st Place from Graphic Design USA, Catalogue Design 1st Place from STEP Inside Design and Book Design 1st Place from HOW International Design.

Cole holds an MBA from Thunderbird (The American Graduate School of International Management) and BA from The American University of Paris.

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My Name is Scott Perry, I have a serious passion for Ecommerce and business in general. Being a business owner for most of my adult life, I am driven by success. My motto is "efficiency equals profitability". My businesses have sold hundreds of millions over the years.

19 Years and running....I have been involved in Internet / e-commerce since the infancy of the Internet. My business has been mostly centered around furniture, but I have also been a part of other Internet based businesses and industries. I have great experience managing multiple brands and websites.

My latest adventure is with Industry leader Jerome's Furniture, one of the fastest growing furniture companies in the United States. In my role as Director of Ecommerce and digital, I will be applying my experience to create a great Omnichannel experience for our customers, in addition to directing the overall strategic vision for Jerome’s in regards to leveraging what the Internet has to offer the overall business.

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Hafez has led and grown marketing teams at startups in the e-commerce, B2B, and non-profit sectors. He is an accomplished speaker and author on digital marketing topics ranging from customer acquisition, inbound marketing, SEO, display advertising, PPC/SEM, community management, content strategy, reputation management, growth hacking, and media relations. Before joining Combatant Gentlemen, Hafez served as the Senior Director of Marketing at ReTargeter, an online advertising startup based in San Francisco.

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Jeff is responsible for leading REI’s cross-divisional strategies, including mobile, payments and business development. He is accountable for strategy, program management and alignment to support and execute digital strategies. Jeff is customer focused and passionate about delivering best-in-class customer experiences across digital screens to delight customers and position REI as the leading outdoor specialty retailer. Prior to REI, Jeff was a Product Manager at Sears Holdings. As part of the original Sears mobile team, he led mobile web and app initiatives across Sears, Kmart and MyGofer.

Jeff is currently an advisory board member and instructor for the University of Washington Mobile Strategy & Marketing certificate program. He is also a frequent industry speaker on topics including mobile, payments and digital strategy.

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Cindy Go is a Senior Manager at Staples, responsible for testing and implementing various personalization approaches in marketing vehicles.  She has been with Staples more for than seven years, previously working on Retail Marketing, Corporate Integration, and most recently, Staples.com.  Prior to Staples, Cindy worked for McKinsey and Company as a consultant in its Southeast Asian office with focus on the retail practice . She has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Ateneo de Manila University.

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Ashley Torres is the consulting CMO at Azalea, the ultimate boutique for San Francisco’s fashion savvy set. She recently joined the team to grow the brand's digital presence, most importantly, Azalea's newly launched e-commerce site. As head of marketing, she's creating brand and performance strategies to bring Azalea to a domestic and international audience.

Prior to joining Azalea, Torres spent a a year and a half leading Social and Digital Strategy at REVOLVE. She started her online marketing career at HauteLook, a Nordstrom-owned private sale site where she spent four years building the Social Media team. In her spare time, she manages her blog, Pursuit of Shoes. 

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Courtney started working at Zappos.com in December of 2009. In her third year the Site Merchandising team was created and she was able to start doing so much more to respond to a vast and growing business. Through out her different positions with the Zappos.com organization she had many great mentors and learned an immense amount of knowledge about ecommerce. Shortly after leading Zappos.com she started working for the up and coming “need to know” brand NastyGal.com as the Site Merchandising manager. Some of her core responsibilities for maintaining the website are uploading new arrivals,managing the marketing messaging and calendar, visual merchandising our catalog, and creating curated shopping experiences and landing pages for all marketing campaigns, and communicating the big Merchandise messages out to all cross functional teams and ensuring we market the trends the way we envisioned.

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Tamera Ferro is a senior digital and content strategist currently leading Content & Engagement Strategy at Seventh Generation. Seventh Generation drives brand equity and sales through targeted lifestyle content campaigns across the social web, with a focus on progressive moms.  Tamera is a senior marketing and communications strategist with 18 years experience in digital marketing, social marketing, influencer marketing, content marketing, and online consumer behavior.

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Marcia directs the email marketing channel for Calendars.com, an Internet Retailer Top 500 site and the largest online calendar retailer. Marcia has 15 years of marketing experience, including 11 years in B2C marketing and six years managing email and loyalty programs. Prior to moving into the e-commerce arena with Calendars.com, she directed marketing efforts for several restaurant concepts and also has experience in media planning and advertising sales.

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Jencey Keeton is Global Marketing Manager, Social Media for Fossil Group Inc., a brand that prides itself in more than 30 years of American vintage inspiration and has more than 400 global retail locations, 4,000 wholesale locations and 13,000 employees worldwide. She previously worked within Fossil’s Center of Excellence team, shaping the social media strategy for owned and licensed brands like Michele, Skagen, Michael Kors, Diesel and Watch Station. At Fossil, Jencey has overseen the successful global growth of the brand’s social footprint, engagement and paid, owned and earned social initiatives.

With almost 10 years of digital marketing strategy, creative and analytics experience, Jencey brings a wealth of knowledge in the use of digital and social media in the retail, agency and live entertainment industries. She hinges her strategy on data-driven results while still maintaining the ability to create emotional connections and brand advocates through consumer engagement.

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Brad has been in mobile marketing for over 10 years.  He joined Cabela’s in April of 2014 and he currently leads a team that focuses on mobile web, app, SMS and push notification.  Most recently, he was the Mobile lead for Sports Authority where he formulated a long-term strategy and implemented successful launches of a new mobile site, tablet site and a national messaging program.

As the Former VP of Marketing, his responsibilities included all aspects of the company's marketing efforts, online and offline. Erick holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Marketing with a minor in Marketing Enriched Communications from Southern Oregon University. His personal e-commerce strengths include SEO, Analytics and Email Marketing. Erick currently sits on several boards including the Aberdeen E-Commerce Research Advisory Board and Webtrends Customer Advisory Board.

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Nitin is a Sr. Manager of the Product Management team. He joined The Home Depot in May of 2012 as a Product Manager.

Nitin leads a team who manages the customer experience for Checkout and My Account for homedepot.com. Nitin and his team are focused on etching out initiatives and improvements to improve the KPI’s associated with the customer experience for these areas.

In 2010, Nitin earned an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. After his MBA, he spent 2 years working for the e commerce business at Sears. He completed his undergraduate degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Mumbai. Prior to joining business school, Nitin spent 2 years in developing software for Infosys Technologies in Pune, India.

Originally from Bombay, India – the home of Bollywood, he is passionate about watching movies and reading every piece of information about it on the internet. He loves to travel and has Australia on his list next.

Shawn Coombs is Director of Product Management at The Home Depot. Shawn has over 17 years of progressive senior internet and multi-channel product experience, including product management leadership roles at Amazon.com, Dell.com, HP.com, and Gifts.com. Currently at HomeDepot.com, he drives product vision and product innovation with a team of 45+ experienced product leaders, data scientists, data statisticians, developers, and analysts focused on personalizing customer mobile and desktop experiences within internal search, product and content recommendations, browse and discovery. Shawn holds an MBA from the University of Southern California, a JD from York University (Osgoode Hall Law) and an Honors BA in Business Admin with minors in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Western Ontario.

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Mark Deruyter has a over 16 years experience in online advertising.  Managing teams responsible for SEM, Display, Email Marketing, Datafeed, Attribution modeling and emerging channels, such as mobile and social. Mark has held Senior Marketing roles for companies in leading ecommerce categories, including; Under Armour, Guitar Center, Hewlett-Packard, Onlineshoes.com and Microsoft.

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Greg Johnson is the Operating Partner and VP of User Experience and Design for Digital Fuel Capital. As a User Experience professional with 14 years’ experience in HCI and 10 years’ experience in E-Commerce, he has been directly responsible for the interactive design for a number of IR500 retailers. He has strong technical and design backgrounds and is a mentor and member for several associations, and a recognized leader in his field as an Invited Expert for the W3C.

Samantha Lee joined bebe Inc. in April 2012 and is Senior Director of eCommerce & Customer Experience, responsible for driving product strategies, user experience, site merchandising and management across all digital properties and platform. She brings 15 years of experience in strategic & digital marketing and ecommerce to her role.  Prior to bebe, Samantha was Director of eCommerce and Online Marketing at Sanrio, Inc. – the Hello Kitty Company. As the P&L leader and GM of Sanrio.com, she revamped their merchandising strategy, built their digital marketing channels, and enhanced the ecommerce experience, leading to net profitability and double-digit YoY comp. She also co-founded Archelan, a fine art and design studio and held marketing management positions at E*TRADE Group, Inc. and Charles Schwab & Company, Inc. Samantha holds a dual B.A. Degree in Economics and Chinese Language & Literature from UC Berkeley.

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Trevor Legwinski is the Vice President of Marketing & eCommerce for Bambeco, a premier retailer of sustainable home furnishings and décor.  Mr. Legwinski has served in this role since November 2013 and is responsible for eCommerce and  marketing, including building and leading a digital marketing team focused on acquisition, loyalty and retention. From March 2012 through November 2013, Mr. Legwinski served as Director of Marketing and eCommerce at Cycle Gear, a specialty apparel retailer. Previously, Mr. Legwinski served as the Director of Marketing at Extole from July 2011 to March 2012. Prior to that, he had served as the Director of eCommerce at Hallmark Cards from June 2010 to July 2011. Earlier, Mr. Legwinski had worked with Strands Labs from 2006 to 2010. He has been involved in managing all aspects of the direct business along with digital marketing for Cycle Gear's retail locations. Mr. Legwinski has over nine years of digital marketing and eCommerce experience. He has expertise in digital marketing (SEO, SEM, Affiliates, Social, Retargeting, CSE's, Local and Mobile) along with management experience in merchandising, creative and call center/fulfillment processes. Mr. Legwinski is knowledgeable of the latest eCommerce technologies including eCommerce platforms (Hybris, Demandware, Fry, Magento, GSI Commerce, ShopVisible, Responsys, CheetahMail, ExactTarget, SLI, Strands Recommender, Omniture SiteCatalyst 15/Discover/Genesis/Test&Target, Adobe Scene7, Akamai and BuySafe.) Additionally, he has experience in managing the product vision and marketing of technologies for retailers including social referral marketing and recommendation personalization engines. 

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Roy Steves has a background as a programmer, and uses those technical talents to lead an automation-focused marketing team at PoolSupplyWorld. During his tenure, PoolSupplyWorld has developed successful in-house PPC, social, email, affiliate, and CSE programs--which combined, earned hundreds of thousands of new customers, and more than doubled revenue.

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Edward is Principal - Digital Analytics at Nordstrom, an American upscale fashion retailer. Previously, he was Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics for North America at Travelocity. Edward has more than 25 years of marketing, finance, and analytics experience, with Macy’s, Citicorp, Bank of America, Mervyn’s, NBC Internet, Safeway, West Marine, Eddie Bauer, and Microsoft. Edward also was an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at the University of San Francisco, and a lecturer at U.C. Berkeley Extension. When away from work, Edward enjoys playing Gypsy jazz and swing jazz on his 1947 Gibson L-7 arch top guitar

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Craig leads Invodo’s overall market strategy by bringing a seasoned general management perspective to guide the company’s rapid growth. Craig was most recently the Senior Vice President and General Manager at Match.com, where he was responsible for all aspects of the business including building strategic partnerships, marketing, and product innovation. Prior to Match.com, Craig held multiple senior roles at Yahoo!, including launching the business in Australia and New Zealand as managing director. Craig has also served as head of marketing and communications at Overture Services (formerly GoTo.com), in marketing and new ventures at General Mills, at Procter & Gamble, and at Exxon Company U.S.A. He also serves on the Board of Governors for the College of Merchandising at the University of North Texas and the board of directors of the UT Lacrosse Alumni Association. Craig holds a BBA with honors and a MBA with distinction from the University of Texas at Austin.

Matt Conlin is Co-Founder and President of Fluent, Inc., the industry’s leading customer acquisition technology platform and advertising network. Responsible for the company’s sales and business development strategy, Conlin has played a central role in leading Fluent to become one of the fastest growing companies in the United States (#432 on 2014’s Inc. 500 list) and the 15th fastest growing company in New York City (Crain’s Fast 50, 2014).
An industry veteran and expert in performance and digital marketing, Conlin works closely with the world’s largest B2C brands and direct marketers to develop large scale and profitable cost-per-action (CPA) advertising programs that move the needle for their businesses. His proven track record of building strategic partnerships, identifying category growth areas, and delivering results, have made him one of the industry’s foremost thought leaders.

Prior to founding Fluent, Conlin launched the US division of Clash Media, where he grew and developed a team of more than 30 employees across 2 offices and generated a multi-million dollar revenue stream for the company. Before Clash, he held senior sales roles at Coreg Media and Innovation Ads. Conlin graduated with a BS in Marketing from the Peter J. Tobin College of Business at Saint John’s University.

A seasoned entrepreneur with 15 + years of mobile experience. TJ is currently the co-founder and CEO of Koupon Media, the first one-time use mobile offer platform for brands. Koupon Media is now an industry leader in mobile offer distribution and technology. Previously, TJ was the Co-Founder and President of Mango Mobile which raised $1.5 Million in 2005, then later acquired by Omnicom Group in February 2007. Mango was the fastest growing mobile marketing company in 2006 and 2007. Mango merged with GMR Marketing in 2009 and continues to be a leader in the mobile space. Prior to launching Mango Mobile, T.J. helped establish the business development unit for Samsung Telecommunications America, a multi-billion dollar division of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Gary is Vice President at YourAmigo, the world leader in Artificial Intelligence organic search marketing services.  Operating in 31 countries, YourAmigo's Big Data service and Artificial Intelligence technology supplements their client’s SEO teams and agencies by finding thousands of new ultra long tail search phrases every day which deliver new customers who are very early in their buying cycle.    With customers including Sony, Dell, Avon, Advance Auto Parts, to name a few, YourAmigo operates on websites in many different spoken languages, with over 80 million client web pages currently under management.   YourAmigo’s scalable Big Data service provides an overall incremental revenue increase for clients between 5% to 25% above the client's current total online revenue.  Please welcome Gary.

Allon is a serial entrepreneur in the content distribution and media sectors. Prior to TVPage, Allon was Co-founder & CEO of Opticomm, a Broadcast Video Systems Company (sold to Emcore, NASDAQ: EMKR). Customers at Opticomm included NBC, Sony, Viacom and ESPN. Prior to Opticomm, Allon was VP at Hotbar, an Internet Media Start-up that reached over 20M users in <2 years and was successfully sold thereafter. Before Hotbar, Allon was a VC Attorney at Goldfarb, Seligman & Co., focusing on the Israeli high-tech sector. Allon has a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Corporations from the NYU School of Law and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the Sussex University School of Law in Brighton, England. Allon holds a registered US patent for the system configuration of video networks.

Frank Dalton is the Senior User Experience Strategist for Zeon Solutions. He is an accomplished user experience architect and creative leader with over 12 years of experience in delivering award winning digital experiences for clients. Frank has either lead or played a pivotal role in user experience and visual design projects with the American Red Cross, Anheuser Busch, Manpower, Miller Brewing Company, Panera Bread, Sears and other large Fortune 500 companies. Frank has been honored and recognized for his user experience expertise and collaborative team leader style from The One Show, Effie, Communication Arts, AdWeek, Milwaukee 99 Show, Webby and Sites of the Day. 

Frank’s background has been forged in humanizing interactive experience and user centered design approaches. His areas of expertise include: User Experience Architecture, Creative Direction, Social Media Design & Analysis,Integrated Strategy Development, Rich Internet Applications Prototyping, Project Coordination and Facilitator of Requirements Gathering.

As Epsilon’s online expert, Eric Stein is responsible for identifying and developing new solutions in the online marketing space to better serve Epsilon’s global client roster. Eric joined Epsilon from Google, where he led two key integration projects on the DoubleClick business as well as the Local Markets team.  He focuses on leveraging Epsilon’s existing assets to build new solutions for clients as well as looking externally to augment those capabilities.  He is an investor in Yodle, Zozi, Five Star Cards, Bump and Triggit and serves on the Advisory Board of Whitepages.com and Thumbtack.com.  Connect with Eric on Linkedin or Twitter.

During her 14 year tenure at Epsilon, Stacey Hawes has driven the company’s Data division to unprecedented levels of growth and customer satisfaction. In her leadership role, Stacey is responsible for account management, new business development, product strategy and sales operations as well as driving strategic initiatives. Stacey was a  “Who’s Who” in B2B Marketing in 2005 and 2006 and served on NEMOA’s Board of Director’s for 5 years before becoming an officer. Most recently she was honored by Folio as a Top Woman in Media in the category of Industry Leadership. Stacey is an active leader the direct marketing industry.

Josh co-founded TellApart with over 10 years of marketing technology and start-up experience. Prior to TellApart, Josh served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Greylock Partners, advising the firm in the areas of consumer internet products and their monetization.  For over five years preceding, he was a lead Product Manager at Google and oversaw many of its advertising offerings, including AdWords, Audio Ads and Google’s display ads efforts. He earned his Bachelor’s degree with distinction in Economics at Stanford University, where he was a Mayfield Fellow.

Rahmon is CEO of YourAmigo, the world leader in artificial intelligence organic search marketing services, which he co-founded in 1999. Operating in 31 countries, YourAmigo's performance-based service creates a deep, new sales channel for medium to large websites. With customers including Sony, Dell, Avon, Reebok, to name a few, YourAmigo operates on websites in many different spoken languages, with over 80 million client web pages currently under management. YourAmigo's award-winning technology service, Spider Linker™ analyzes large website's content to identify gaps where website pages are NOT getting business and creates unique, new pages to fill those gaps, which typically provides a massive uplift in revenue of between 3%-25% over and above client's current total online revenue. 

Evan Schwartz is the CEO and founder of ActionX, the leader in mobile app and cross-screen retargeting. Prior to founding ActionX, Evan was the CEO and co-founder of Thumbplay where he acquired more than 5 million mobile customers for the mobile entertainment service and sold the business to Clear Channel in 2011. Evan was SVP of Online for Columbia House and part of the start-up team at the pioneering ecommerce site CDnow. Evan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

Jeff is a trust strategist and advocate in Symantec’s Trust Services and Website Security Solutions group, and he’s passionate about inspiring and projecting trust on the internet. Jeff’s experience in product management within the IT security and mobile space spans 12 years, largely at Symantec and Hewlett-Packard.  Equally a veteran at technology marketing and running customer contact organizations, Jeff offers a unique and engaging perspective for maximizing the value – and rewards – of trust and security.

Manish Chowdhary is the Founder and CEO of GoECart. GoECart is leading the ecommerce revolution with innovative software as a service (SaaS) solutions that enable retailers to Sell more™ products and services on the world wide web.
 
Manish provides business and technology leadership to GoECart and its clients. He has guided GoECart to become one of the most admired ecommerce platform providers in the world. Manish is a recognized expert in his field and a sought after public speaker on topics ranging from  ecommerce and online marketing to business leadership and entrepreneurship.
 
He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Bridgeport. He also holds multiple business process patents in collaborative commerce. 
 
Manish is often quoted, interviewed and featured in leading publications including the New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, Internet Retailer, Website Magazine, India New England, Hartford and Stamford Business Journals, Housatonic Community College, WGCH, WebMaster Radio, and many others.

Keith Duncan joined RetailMeNot in 2012 and now serves as Vice President, In-Store & Mobile. He is responsible for introducing key partners to new cross channel marketing opportunities with a huge influence on mobile that will help Retailers connect digital touch points with In-Store foot traffic and sales. Keith is an accomplished sales and business development leader with 16 years of experience driving  product development and strategy. Before joining RetailMeNot, Keith was the senior vice president for Epic Media Group, where he led the global sales team and played a critical role in new business development, network distribution,  revenue generation and profitability. Prior to Epic, he held senior positions at Yahoo! and HotJobs.com. Keith has a bachelor of science in biology from the University of Delaware.

Graeme Grant is the VP of Predictive Intelligence at Demandware. He was formerly the President and COO of CQuotient, a predictive intelligence company acquired by Demandware in October 2014. Graeme is a start-up and high tech veteran focused on bringing great ideas to market and developing high-growth businesses from them. His particular area of expertise is in the retail sector where he has worked on both sides of the table.
 
As a founding member at CQuotient, Graeme helped to develop the company into a leading predictive intelligence platform, focusing on retail where the dominant use case is dynamically tailoring and personalizing the content of an email or website to each individual consumer’s tastes. Prior to joining CQuotient, Graeme spent four years at Allurent – a company that uses interactive rich media to power superior online shopping experiences. Over his tenure, his responsibilities grew from Vice President of Sales and Marketing to COO, to eventually CEO.
 
Prior to that, Graeme spent five years with ProfitLogic, a highly successful venture-backed company that developed analytic software applications for retailers. Graeme was an early employee with ProfitLogic and played a variety of key roles including Director of Product Management, Executive Customer Lead and VP of Professional Services. ProfitLogic was acquired by Oracle, where Graeme became Vice President of Services for Oracle Retail in the Americas region.
 
Graeme has also served as the Director of Digital Convergence at Borders, where he helped define the integrated store and Web strategy and built numerous capabilities to execute that strategy. He also spent several years with Monitor Company, a top-tier strategy consulting firm, advising Fortune 500 companies on their most critical strategic decisions.
 
Graeme received an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School  (Baker Scholar and Ford Scholar), and a BA from Brown University (magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa).

Fayez, pronounced like "fries", but without the "r". One syllable. See, it’s not that hard. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bluecore, an organization empowering eCommerce marketers to automate and personalize customer experiences at massive scale. Previously, I was Head of Product at BigDoor where I was responsible for conceiving, executing and iterating on gamified loyalty and rewards programs to increase user retention across the websites of major global brands like NFL, Dell, Adobe and Starbucks to name a few. I also co-founded Gameday Tycoon, a simple fantasy sports game that runs on Facebook. And if we go way back I also co-created Sponty - a service that allowed people to discover music events in town. It was cool before SXSW was too cool.

In a previous life, I was into microprocessor design and simulation. I developed and integrated the first combined Graphics and Processor Memory Controller simulator at AMD to predict and analyze the performance impact of AMD's Fusion CPUs. My first rookie Master's publication when I was a student at Georgia Tech was awarded the Best Paper by the prestigious IBM's TJ Watson Research, and a subsequent publication was adopted by AMD in one of their CPUs even before I finished graduate school. In addition, I also worked on developing graphical frameworks for Simulink and MATLAB at The Mathworks in Boston.

Matt is a technologist through and through. Before joining Smartling, Matt led sales at The FeedRoom, prior to its acquisition by KIT Digital. He has also helped grow the business of several other digital media start-ups, including Virage and Cinebase. He began his career in field sales at Apple, selling into large enterprise accounts in New York. Matt earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University. 

John brings more than 10 years of experience in executive management and SaaS to OrderDynamics. Prior to OrderDynamics, John was featured regularly as the Chief Strategy Officer, IBM Smarter Commerce at leading industry events and in key publications. Prior to his time at IBM, John spent 11 years at Coremetrics where through various roles, he helped turn Coremetrics into a leading website analytics tool.

Denis hails from South Africa, where he received his Masters degree in Marketing from the University of Johannesburg. He has been running online marketing campaigns for various clients all over the world since 2004. He moved to Raleigh in early 2006 and joined ROI revolution shortly thereafter. In his time at ROI Denis has overseen tens of millions of Dollars in PPC adspend, specifically for retailers, and he understands where and how to look in order to improve results accordingly.

With over two decades experience in technology and business process management, Chris has helped hundreds of companies globally develop and deploy solutions that improve visibility and increase profitability throughout all levels of the organization. He specializes in business intelligence, analytics, and data visualization, helping executives make sense of their data to drive better business outcomes. Chris is now leveraging his extensive business and technical background as Chief Advocate at Domo.

Chris Chang is the Director Of Client Services at Elite SEM overseeing client services & strategy for both Elite SEM clientele and new business. Chris has 7+ years of experience with his core expertise in SEM & mobile app promotions. He joined Elite SEM in 2008 after getting his start at AKQA and has had the privilege of overseeing the SEM campaigns for a diverse number of clients including Jack Threads, Pandora, Ideel, and many more.

Born and raised in California, Chris received his Bachelor of Science in Marketing at Santa Clara University and has been a guest speaker at his alma mater for the past 3 years. He is also certified in Google AdWords, Bing Ads, Kenshoo, Marin Software and DoubleClick Search.

Jason Campbell, Senior Vice President at SearchDex™,  has over 22 years of experience spearheading client success and satisfaction. Since joining SearchDex™ in 2006, Jason has played a significant role in the growth of  SearchDex technology and service offering, and he currently oversees client relations and SEO programs across a variety of verticals.  With his team of SEO and technology experts, he continues to develop successful SEO campaigns through his profound strategic methodology and his in-depth creative consultative approach using a variety of scalable SearchDex technologies. He has been working with retailers and eCommerce sites across numerous Fortune 500 and Internet Retailer 500 companies including Toys”R”Us, Dicks Sporting Goods, Belk Department stores, all Gap Inc. brands, both domestic and international, as well as many other online retail and travel sites. His success is supported by his team of SEO experts, developers, and content writers.

Serial entrepreneur Andre Golsorkhi is the founder and CEO of Sidecar. Previously, Andre was the CEO and Founder of Snipi, Inc. a patented system for people to save their interests while browsing anywhere online. Snipi was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and established partnerships with the world’s leading retail and entertainment brands.

Prior to Snipi, Andre was the President, CEO and Founder of Omeda Design + Technology, which offered design and web application services. From its origins in 2003, Omeda’s client roster grew to include Fortune 500 and similarly substantial entities such as IMAX Corporation, Boyd Gaming, and other private and public organizations.
While he was still in college, Andre recognized the growing interest in portable physician scheduling and billing solutions and, developed MediLync—a proprietary handheld patient scheduling and billing solution housed in PDAs. At the time, MediLync became one of the most widely used mobile solutions among small physician practices. The MediLync technology was acquired in 2004.

Steve has nearly a decade’s worth of ecommerce, marketing, and business development experience. He has worked in retail in many capacities, having spent time managing ecommerce and leading operations for a $50mm+ luxury watch and jewelry retailer, and working side-by-side with the executive teams to execute on key initiatives and acquisitions.

More recently, Tutelman has held roles at venture backed businesses LifeShield and WineAccess, where he helped lead strategic partnerships and paid acquisition marketing respectively. At Sidecar, Tutelman has helped to lead a restructuring of the sales team and process, which has led in part to Sidecar’s accelerated growth.

As leader of the Clarabridge marketing team, Susan defines the brand, leads the charge for educational, useful content, and enables both Clarabridge and our partners to promote and deliver on the promise of customer centricity.

During her 25 year career, Susan has gained in-depth software experience spanning diverse roles including content marketing, product marketing, lead generation, event management, product management, engineering, quality assurance, implementation consulting, training, and sales support with organizations like newBrandAnalytics, webMethods, Software AG, Deloitte Consulting, and Checkfree. From this experience, Susan developed a maniacal focus on customer success and a passion for outside in thinking.

Doug is the Global Product Marketing Director for CoreMedia and has over 18 years of experience as a digital media strategist and marketing specialist. He began his career as a Senior Analyst with The Content Group, a San Francisco-based consulting and professional services firm that was one of the first companies to focus exclusively on the field of digital media management. Doug has also worked as Head of Strategy for BBC Technology’s North American digital media team and led product marketing efforts for Hewlett-Packard’s Digital Media Platform. As an independent consultant, he has worked for a range of Fortune 100 companies including Visa, Microsoft, and Cisco. Doug holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

Diana Primeau is Director of Member Services, Audience Development at CNET, the No. 1 source for researching tech and consumer electronics and the world's largest and most-trusted tech media source for news, reviews and downloads with more than 100 million unique users. Primeau brings decades of experience to CNET, where she leads a cross-functional team that drives site engagement, increases subscription conversions, maximizes social and traditional email registration and pristinely manages email lists comprised of millions of unique visitors. Prior to her 10 years at CNET, she was Vice President of Cross Product Initiatives at Macromedia.

Aaron serves as Rocket Fuel's VP of Direct Response and Commerce Solutions.

He has more than 15 years of experience developing advanced online advertising and ad tech solutions for large clients, including a variety of sales and product leadership roles with Rocket Fuel, Google, Akamai and SmartBrief.

At Rocket Fuel, Aaron's primary focus is to help large retailers and e-commerce clients to fully realize the value of their online advertising investments and drive clear performance improvements through consultative discussions focused on the real world application of attribution, incremental lift, and a variety of 1st/3rd party data integration options.

Chris joined the BlueHornet account management team in 2007 and leverages his 11 years of sales and marketing experience to create service models and marketing strategies to support our clients’ email marketing success.  He leads all of our client-facing service teams including Account Management, Training and Education, Deliverability Management, Strategy and Professional Services. 

David is responsible for all marketing functions at Instart Logic. He has 25 years of tech industry marketing experience, most recently serving as Chief Marketing Officer at Ubiquiti Networks, a high-growth, publicly-traded leader in wireless networking systems. Prior to Ubiquiti, David served as Vice President of Marketing for video and emerging technologies at Cisco. In that role he was responsible for marketing Cisco's video portfolio to enterprises, service providers and growing emerging technology businesses across multiple market segments, including Cisco TelePresence. Prior to Cisco, he was the senior marketing officer for three publicly-traded companies — Evolve Software, LBMS, Inc. and WebEx — and a senior executive at Sybase, FaceTime Communications and Marrakech. David has a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Northwestern University

In just one year, Keith grew a Nielsen-backed mobile startup, eDealya, into a successful acquisition target for Human Demand, and in turn, contributed to Human Demand’s recent acquisition by IgnitionOne. As VP of Strategic Partnerships, Keith is responsible for overseeing IgnitionOne’s various data initiatives - AppAudience℠, MobileAssist℠, User Profile Store, as well as outside data & inventory partners - which power more than $30 billion in revenue each year for leading brands, including General Motors, CenturyLink, Bridgestone, La Quinta and Fiat, as well as advertising agencies such as 360i, GroupM and iProspect.

Monal Patel is the SVP & CBO of Unbxd Inc, a leading provider of personalization, site search and analytics solution for eCommerce companies.

As an accomplished senior technology executive, Monal has 12+ years of experience developing & executing comprehensive IT strategies and bringing competitive value to businesses. Monal has a proven track record of new product development from concept to market, growing revenues, increasing operational productivity and reducing costs. Monal has helped Fortune 500 clients engage customers and grow revenues by leveraging latest technologies in the field of Big Data and Machine Learning.

At Unbxd, Monal helps eCommerce companies solve their problems and create growth by providing new and better approaches to decision making. Monal holds a Masters degree in Engineering from University of Southern California.

Chip’s experience as an executive in marketing and business development for B2B software and services companies includes developing and delivering solutions for e-commerce, internet advertising, marketing automation and SaaS. He was previously the VP of Marketing & Business Development at Blue Martini Software (NASDAQ: BLUE), CEO of Encover, Inc. (acquired by Synnex), and CEO at RTIME (acquired by SONY). Chip has a BA in Economics from Stanford.

Jason Weaver is the CEO of Spendsetter, an Advocacy Marketing Platform, and a prominent author and thought leader in product innovation, usability and entrepreneurship. He is considered an authority in social media and mobile marketing. His book, Manager's Guide to Online Marketing (McGraw-Hill), looks at the fundamentals of online marketing, as well as advanced tactics for the seasoned online marketing veteran. Prior to launching Spendsetter, Jason founded and successfully exited from two technology companies including Shoutlet, a leading Social Media Management platform, and Spendship, a Mobile Loyalty Platform

Jason leads Criteo's mobile product development, strategy and execution. Prior to Criteo, Jason ran Google's APAC mobile display product management team based in Tokyo. Jason joined Google though the acquisition of AdMob, where he was responsible for all aspects of the company's publisher product line including analytics and core revenue optimization tools for iPhone, Android and mobile web. Prior to AdMob, Jason spent five years at Yahoo! where he managed their global mobile browsing initiatives.

Jason is an ICT executive with over 16 years of experience in eCommerce. A proven leader in innovation with a track record of delivering cutting edge software and infrastructure for high volume omnichannel retailers, Jason has led the implementation of complex retail systems utilizing multiple technologies with emphasis on site performance and profitability.

Amit Shah has more than 15 years of experience in the ecommerce space.  As a venture capitalist early in his career, he invested in successful ecommerce ventures such as petstore.com.  He also served as global head of sales for leading ecommerce platform provider Magento, which went on to be acquired by eBay.  Following that was part of the founding team at OpenX, a leading adtech platform. 

Shah founded his current company, Jirafe, with the belief that merchants with an online channel needed insight into their businesses in a way that drove action.  He set out to create an ecommerce solution that was easy-to-use out of the box, and provided insights and data without programmatic intervention.  Jirafe is now used by more than 50,000 merchants - including Bliss, Nasty Gal, and GE Healthcare. Emerging brands such as Boll and Branch, Diamond Candles, Deborah Lippmann, and Bohemian Guitars also leverage Jirafe to help their brands grow.   

Follow Amit @jirafe  

Dan Franklin has over 13 years of experience working  in the tech industry with a long history of working with large and small sites on application acceleration, content delivery, site optimization and mobile delivery.  He has a strong focus in online commerce and a background in software engineering that has allowed him to become an expert in how sites can improve performance, security, scalability and security.

Dan has played a large part in helping many online retailers to  optimally deliver content locally, globally and at massive scale using CDN, DNS-based load balancing, PCI, SSL, mobile device enablement and more.

Antoine has more than 15 years of technology sales and marketing experience. He joined Criteo through the acquisition of Tedemis, a leading provider of real-time opt-in personalized email marketing solutions, where he was the Co-founder and CEO.  Before founding Tedemis, Antoine was a business development executive in the services and mobile marketing division of Orange.

Mark is a Senior Director at Oracle Marketing Cloud where he focused on vertical industries of retail, travel, publishing and CPG. He is a digital marketing and business development leader, online media executive and entrepreneur.

He was most recently VP Business Development and Marketing at social data SaaS provider, Cubeyou. Previously he was Chief Strategy Officer at Admonsters, a leader in strategic insights on the future of digital media and advertising technology. He has founded, grown and sold several Internet companies including B2B content network IndustryGamers, GameDaily.com, one of world’s largest video games sites and ad networks that was acquired by TimeWarner AOL in 2006. Previously, he founded Gigex, the leading download service for game and software demos and Internet content delivery leader VCast, Inc. He served as VP Business Development for B2B Internet consulting company, Reach Networks, that was part of a Nasdaq IPO. He was President at Worlds and Games LLC, a digital marketing consultancy focused on advertising, games, mobile, SaaS services.

He spent 6 years in Europe where he was Managing Director of Teleworld Sweden, a division of Philips Media, that operated voice response and interactive TV services with MTV. Mark’s first business introduced chocolate chip cookies to Sweden with its first chain of cookie stores.

Mark is a frequently invited speaker to leading marketing, business and technology conferences including AdTech, CES, Digital Hollywood, Digital Media Wire, Digiday, Enterpreneurs’ Organization, Game Developers Conference, E3, IMedia, Industry Insights Brand Summit, MobileBeat, OMMA, SIIA, VentureBeat. 

As Needle’s President & COO, Scott oversees all aspects of the business – including product development, go to market strategy, operations.  With his leadership, Needle has doubled in size and established itself as one of the most innovative, impactful technologies in the e-commerce space – helping brands like Coach, Overstock.com, American Apparel, Telstra, and more than 40 others to deliver more authentic customer experiences.  Before joining Needle, Scott ran Amazon Webstore, a division of Amazon Services – directing overall strategy and global expansion efforts. Under his guidance, Amazon Webstore was launched in the US and Europe, and rapidly scaled to support the ecommerce business of tens of thousands of companies. Prior to Amazon, Scott was Senior Vice President of Products and Marketing for Sterling Commerce, which was acquired by IBM in 2010. Scott joined Sterling through its acquisition of Yantra, where he led product strategy for what is today the leading order management platform for multi-channel retailers and manufacturers. Scott received his MBA from Harvard University. When not working, Scott keeps up with his family of six children, while sneaking in the occasional round of golf or day of skiing.

James specializes in optimizing the intersection of data, marketing, product, and technology. He ran his first optimization program back in 1999, and has gone on to run programs for startups, E-LOAN, Salesforce.com, and Symantec. At Ensighten James advises top brands on their digital marketing strategy and how to take action on their data. Prior to Ensighten, James was at Symantec where he built one of the most advanced optimization programs in the industry from scratch, running 100+ concurrent tests each month incorporating advanced targeting, 3rd party data, and real time predictive scoring. James is a frequent speaker at industry conferences where he shares the latest trends and best practices in digital marketing. 

Will comes to BloomReach with years of product management and marketing experience. Previously, he was Director of Product Management at Clearwell Systems, where he built a market leading product that tripled in revenues in his last year at the company. Prior to that, he worked in product marketing and management at Juniper Networks, which acquired his previous companies, Netscreen and Neoteris. Will managed the SSL VPN product line, growing it over 300% to a $110M+ revenue run rate. Will also spent several years building early-stage tech companies at Advent International and as a strategy consultant at BCG. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College and MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker and Siebel Scholar.

With over 10 years in online marketing, Bruce has made a career of building successful direct marketing programs.  As Director of Marketing at DealNews.com, he oversees various aspects of consumer marketing, including email strategy, customer acquisition, and customer retention.  Prior to joining DealNews.com in 2010, Bruce served in Marketing roles at Business Insider, Disney Interactive Media Group and Publisher's Clearing House (PCH.com).

As CMO, George is responsible for all worldwide outbound marketing activities at TouchCommerce. In that role, he oversees all corporate marketing, customer marketing, demand generation, product marketing, public and industry relations. George has over 25 years of progressive experience in the computer industry, and has demonstrated a proven business expertise in marketing and strategic partnerships for various sized companies in high technology and services areas, in both the domestic and international markets. Prior to joining TouchCommerce, George was a principal at MARKETify providing executive marketing consulting services for small and medium size companies. Previously he was the chief marketing officer (CMO) at SGI (Silicon Graphics Int'l) managing all inbound and outbound marketing functions. Prior to SGI, he held vice president of marketing positions at DigitalPersona, Wyse Technology and NEC Computers. He also served as president and general manager of Avatar Peripherals and spent several years at Logitech in a variety of marketing roles. George holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and MBA from the American University of Beirut.

One of the true veterans of the payments industry, Robert Clarkson has played a key role in identifying new markets and creating innovative products and solutions for the industry’s top companies for nearly 25 years.

Robert joined PayPal from American Express, where, as vice president of global business development, he guided AmEx’s efforts to define new growth strategies and strengthen the company’s B2B business. Before American Express, he served as president of global business development for GE Corporate Payment Services. There he built the sales and account service organization and led a business unit that generated more than $11 billion in payment volume. His career in the payments industry stretches back to 1990, when he first joined Citigroup.

In his role as PayPal’s vice president, GM of  N.A. large enterprise sales and retail solutions,  Robert’s focus is on accelerating growth and expanding the company’s large enterprise merchant base across North America. He is driving the delivery of innovative omnichannel solutions and partnerships that create seamless experiences across online and offline retail.

Aaron Buchanan is a digital marketing veteran, having served in various capacities for Internet Retailer's Top 500 brands for over a decade. In his current role as Digital Personalization Manager at Finish Line, he is charged with developing cross-channel marketing strategy to include delivering personalized experiences through all digital communication channels. He has great passion for leveraging data to facilitate engaging conversations between brands and their customers.

Olga Vidisheva is the founder and CEO of Shoptiques, an online destination where customers can shop the best boutiques from around the world. Considered the OpenTable of retail, Shoptiques also provides small local businesses access to a suite of digital marketing tools so that they can have a competitive online presence. After graduating from Wellesley College in 2007 and Harvard Business School in 2011, Vidisheva went on to be the first single-founder non-technical entrepreneur accepted to Y Combinator in early 2012. Later that year after raising over $2 million dollars in funding from investors such as Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Benchmark, and William Morris Endeavor Agency, Vidisheva went on to launch Shoptiques with 25 boutiques on the platform. The company recently passed the 1,500 boutique benchmark—and is quickly growing. Prior to starting Shoptiques, Vidisheva attended Harvard Business School, worked at CHANEL, Goldman Sachs & Co., and modeled for numerous fashion brands.

Umair manages Staples’ mobile websites and is responsible for product management and the end to end customer experience.

Prior to joining Staples, he worked in the telecom industry for several years, serving various roles focused on Sales, Corporate Account Management and Customer Experience Management. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 

Sam Sarullo is Vice President and Head of E-Commerce for Lakeshore Learning – a multi-channel retailer of childhood educational products for schools and home.  Mr. Sarullo’s 17-year career spanning Corporate Retail and Management Consulting has specialized in strategic entrepreneurial turnarounds for middle-market retailers struggling to grow online sales, acquire new customers digitally, leverage technology investments, mentor/scale teams, and create an omnichannel customer experience.

Jean-Michel Boujon is a B2C marketing professional with 10 years experience working with several subscription model services and retail brands including TheLadders.com and BookRenter.com. He engages in most aspects of eCommerce: Strategy, Product, Marketing and Operations.  He designed award winning CRM programs and he is a fervent advocate for “Email” as a key element to build successful businesses.

Alyssa Meritt has spent the last 15 years working at various advertising agencies and digital media companies on the agency-side, client-side, and as an entrepreneur. As a Digital Strategist at Urban Airship, Alyssa partners with enterprise clients to deliver tailored, digital marketing strategies that increase mobile app engagement. This includes defining KPIs, utilizing research, trends and data on markets, consumers and culture, and ultimately inspiring clients to incorporate a profitable relationship-based mobile strategy into their core marketing mix. Alyssa’s client experience spans a diverse set of vertical industries, including brands such as The Times, CBS, the NBA, NASCAR, Bank of America, BCBS, Dunkin’ Donuts, PayPal, Caesar’s Entertainment, Abercrombie + Fitch, Neiman Marcus, Novartis, Biogen, and Comcast.

Cortney's 14 years of Ecommerce experience include everything from warehouse management and design to new product development, acquisitions, custom software development, and marketing strategy and implementation. At Artbeads, she leads the Marketing team in presenting beads and jewelry-making products, promotions, and video content to inspire customers around the world and fuel their creative endeavors.
 
Prior to Artbeads, Cortney led the team at Addicted To Rubber Stamps, another online craft retailer, from start-up phase through acquisition. Before diving into the world of Ecommerce, Cortney completed a Master’s degree in Analytical Chemistry at Washington State University and still enjoys dabbling in science with her husband (a high-school Chemistry teacher) and her budding-scientist kids.

Andrew Pearson is an Australian-born, green-pants wearing digital marketer with 15+ years of marketing, ecommerce, and tech start-up expertise. As VP of Marketing at Windsor Circle, Andrew overseas all marketing efforts and provides thought leadership and strategic guidance to thousands of retailers. Andrew has an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, a background in email marketing automation and big data analytics, and has been an angel investor and advisor to over a dozen start-ups in Durham, NC, where he is based.

Sean Mitton is an author, speaker, entrepreneur and mind mapper with over 8 years worth of experience in email and content marketing. Having spent time working directly with email service providers he is an expert in leading retailers down the path of increased revenue and retention.

In addition to marketing, Sean is founder of the Canadian Expat Network (CEN). He co-authored the book, "The Goal That United Canada," and has been interviewed by over 30 media outlets including CBC News and Radio and Breakfast Television.

As Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Scientist, George helped develop Merkle | RKG’s paid search management system, and has remained involved in the ongoing evolution of our proprietary platform. An acknowledged thought-leader in Paid Search Marketing, he sits on Google’s SEM Advisory Council, serves as an unofficial consultant for the Bing product development team, and fields regular calls from the investment banking community.
Prior to Merkle | RKG, George worked as Manager of Marketing Systems at Crutchfield Corporation. There, he worked on the channel attribution problem, helped develop Crutchfield’s early PPC bidding system, and had primary responsibility for Crutchfield’s list rental and alternative media programs. Outside of marketing, he served as ‘Analyst at Large’ for the company tackling challenging problems related to forecasting, operational efficiency and website analytics.
George is the principal author at Merkle | RKGBlog, one of the top marketing blogs in the world, and contributes a monthly paid search column for Search Engine Land. He speaks at industry conferences including Shop.org, Internet Retailer, SMX (East, West and Advanced), Etail, the DMA Annual show, ACCM and more. He writes and speaks for Internet Retailer, Marketing Profs and Market Motive, and guest lectures at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and Darden Graduate School of Business.

George holds degrees in physics and math from Macalester College and a master’s degree in political science from the University of Virginia.

Follow George @GeorgeMichie1.

Amber Yeray has over ten years of digital marketing experience. She is currently the Digital Marketing Manager at EXPRESS, where she leads paid search, affiliate, and display advertising initiatives for the brand. In her current role at EXPRESS, she is focused on determining the impact of multiple channel marketing with the goal of creating one view of the customer and driving omni-channel performance. Prior to working at EXPRESS, Amber oversaw digital strategy and campaign planning for top CPG brands.

Mark Chitwood is an e-commerce professional experienced in all aspects of the digital ecosystem including operations, quality assurance, project management, and most recently product management.  As the product owner for Autotrader's consumer experience agile program, he scopes MVP and drives valuable enhancements to increase user engagement.  Prior to joining the agile program, Mark oversaw the very successful launch of a significant redesign of Autotrader's Dealer pages.

Before Autotrader, Mark had success leading change for major e-commerce brands including The Home Depot and Case-mate.  He initiated the creation of Case-mate's mobile site, as well as co-managing their e-commerce expansion to Europe.  He was integral in the selection and management of system integrator and (Magento) platform for the Case-mate EU sites.

Charis Márquez is the Director of E-Commerce and Digital for Kenmore, Craftsman and DieHard brands at Sears Holdings Corporation. In this role, she leads a team of professionals in digital marketing, social media, ecommerce and user experience to support and drive revenue for the Brands.  Prior to working with Kenmore, Craftsman and DieHard, Charis held various roles within Product Management and Digital Strategy, building and launching Sears' first foreign language website and Sears' first localized website.  Charis has also has spearheaded hundreds of online and multi-channel capabilities for Sears.com and Kmart.com.

Al Lalani is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategist at Social Annex. He leads all customer management and technical interaction at Social Annex and is responsible for the product vision. Prior to Social Annex, Al oversaw eCommerce and Online Product Management at Teleflora, managing several eCommerce services and partners. Al has over 10 years of experience with eCommerce, including online marketing, conversion optimization and remarketing.

Arish oversees Skava’s management and strategic planning to build innovative, game-changing technologies. Prior to founding Skava, Arish worked at Brience and Microsoft. Arish received his Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and a Master’s from University of Massachusetts.

As Founder and CEO of Bronto Software, Joe Colopy leads the company’s efforts to provide commerce marketing solutions to over 1400 clients worldwide, including Adidas, Timex and Samsonite. Bronto is the #1 ranked email provider to the Internet Retailer 1000 and helps retailers and other commerce-focused companies to drive revenue through a variety of digital strategies, each at the leading edge of omni-channel interaction and customer engagement.

Bronto is a global company of over 240 people, headquartered in Durham, North Carolina with offices in New York, London and Sydney. Its marketing automation platform for commerce is a high-performance, full-service offering with scalable technology that integrates with key e-commerce platforms such as Demandware and Magento, among others. 

Bronto is a nine-time Stevie Award finalist for Best Customer Service Department and a CODIE Finalist for Best Marketing Software in 2011 and 2012 and Best Marketing Automation Solution in 2014.

As Wyndham Hotel Group's Director of Customer Insight & Optimization, Danielle Harvey strategizes and leads the creation of great customer experiences through designing, testing and delivering new functions and features for Wyndham Hotel Group's 15 global brands.  She is responsible for leading the A/B and multivariate testing program across desktop, tablet and mobile platforms.  She also oversees user research and voice of the customer data collection and analysis for all online channels.  Danielle has 10 years of experience in the eCommerce world with expertise in areas across online marketing, user experience and IT, with the vast majority of her career being in the travel industry.  Prior to joining Wyndham Hotel Group in 2011, she worked at Toys R Us and Avis Budget Group.

Danielle is nominated for the 2015 eTail's Mobile Best-In-Class Award.

Aurelie Guerrieri is General Manager North America at MobPartner, the leading mobile performance marketing company in the world. Aurelie spent the past 12 years building digital business and is Founder of Akila One, a company enabling fast growing mobile and online businesses to scale. Most recently Aurelie was EVP, Corporate Development and CMO at SendMe, a $100M+ mobile entertainment company. Previously, she was a VP & GM at QuinStreet, a $300M+ online marketing company, helping the company grow from 50 to 500 employees in her 6 years there. Aurelie started her career in strategy management consulting with McKinsey. In her spare time, Aurelie is Co-President of Women in Wireless (10,000 members).

Brian Schulman has more than 15 years of proven digital marketing and eCommerce experience strategizing with IR500 and Fortune500 retailers across the globe. As the Head of Enterprise Sales & Strategy for Wiser, the leading pricing and merchandising engine, Brian is responsible for Wiser’s Enterprise sales operations. Brian previously served as Director of Sales at Tealium, helping grow the company into the market leader for enterprise tag management. After that he assisted in the global launch of AudienceStream, the first real-time segmentation and action engine designed for marketers. Prior to Tealium, Brian provided his leadership skills across companies such as Anametrix (now Ensighten), Visual Sciences, Keylime Software (now Yahoo!) and served as one of the earliest and most successful sales executives and managers at WebSideStory, contributing to its highly successful IPO in 2004 and its eventual acquisition by Omniture for $394 million in 2008 and Adobe in follow for $1.8 billion in 2009. He is passionate about building high revenue growth organizations and the excellent teams that power them. In his spare time, Brian is also an advisor to start-up companies such as Industry, Inc., the exclusive professional network for the service and hospitality industry.

Eric Marston is currently Co-founder/CTO of DAILYLOOK, a fashion brand experience powered by real personal stylists leveraging our technology platform: Eric has over 14 years experience in custom-built eCommerce systems for high traffic websites. Top sites like BillOreilly.com, Samys.com, and LeatherUp.com currently use Eric’s eCommerce platform to process more than $150M in eCommerce transactions per year. Previous to DAILYLOOK Eric was Co-Founder/COO of Nox Solutions, a custom eCommerce solutions provider. Before Nox Solutions Eric was CTO of an Idealab/Kleiner Perkins startup, firstlook.com which raised more than $75 million in funding. He also held various senior technical positions at IBM.

Personalization and machine learning veteran. 5 patents pending in recommendations domain, and over 4 publications in international conferences. He developed Personalization engines for Amazon.com, IMDB, Zappos and audible. He is Masters in Computer Science, specializing in Machine Learning from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA) and a BTech in the same from IIT Guwahati(India).

Kathy is an experienced multi-channel direct marketing executive with over 25 years of know-how in all facets of business processes and consumer sales and marketing,   including experience at companies such as Office Max, Coldwater Creek and Discount School Supply .  Kathy has a proven track record launching new marketing initiatives, and a talent for building strong and motivated teams.  Kathy recently joined Silver Star Brands (formerly Miles Kimball Company) as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, where she is responsible for the development, implementation and execution of all marketing strategies, in order to create the strongest possible brand presence for all five Silver Star Brands.   Prior to her move to Silver Star Brands, Kathy held the position of VP of Marketing at Acxiom where she was responsible for the re-launch of the 43 year old brand; updated brand strategy and positioning to regain relevancy and differentiation.

Kathy received her BS in Economics from Colorado State University and earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. 

Kathy is a leader who brings a clear focus on business impact to her organization and offers a fresh perspective on what success looks like today.

Joe is the Chief Product Officer at SmartFocus, the leading provider of on-demand consumer marketing applications, and is responsible for the SmartFocus Message Cloud overall product strategy. Joe has over 25 years experience designing and building applications that address critical business needs, and was the founder and CEO of Knowledge Discovery One (KD1), which is widely credited with inventing and applying advanced analytics, such as market basket analysis, to solve key marketing and merchandising challenges in the retail industry. Joe lives in Seattle, and holds an M.B.A., a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A in Economics from the University of Michigan.

Irene is a Senior Digital Analyst on the Digital Analytics team at Nordstrom, an American upscale fashion retailer.  Prior to Nordstrom, she worked extensively on the Data & Analytics team at Blue Nile, with 10 years of experience in data warehouse design, data modeling, database programming and development, and ETL architecture providing metrics and insights to business decision making while also working with reporting technologies in the online retail environment.  Before gaining expertise in Data Warehousing and becoming well-versed in all things related to relational databases, Irene was a Senior Programmer Analyst at Airborne Express and Wells Fargo Bank, where she thrived on technical problem solving and software/systems development life cycle.  While away from work, Irene enjoys creative endeavors such as song writing, playing guitar with friends, cooking, sewing frogs, knitting hats and making jewelry.

Meera has made her career in building great technology products for consumers and businesses. Born in Madrid and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Meera is a proud global nomad having lived in five cities in the US and two in Europe. She began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, but found her passion for online businesses while working at ZEFER, a boutique internet strategy consultant firm. Meera then spent 6 years at Microsoft in both the US and London before leading Global Product Management for Hotels.com, an Expedia company. Most recently, Meera was at LinkedIn where she lead a team delivering products for LinkedIn's Marketing Solutions business. Meera was drawn to Stella & Dot because of the opportunity to help build a company empowering women to live bold and joyful lives. Through her role, she will be enabling Stella & Dot's Stylists and Customers with market leading technology solutions. Meera received her BSE in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Andy is Director of Data Management and Integration at Sears Holdings Corporation. Andy is a leading member of the team that builds, deploys and manages an enterprise-scale Hadoop platform at Sears. Part of the Sears Big Data Center of Excellence, Andy is involved in the development of design best practices for Hadoop and production-ready big data environments. Prior to working with Hadoop, Andy spent over seven years as a Data Warehouse Manager at Sears, managing Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum and other data warehouse environments.

As Digital Marketing Manager at The North Face, Lindsay oversees digital tactics to fuel eCommerce and retail traffic growth including digital strategy of search, email and remarking. In her three years with the brand these programs have supported more than 50% traffic growth. Prior to joining The North Face, Lindsay held marketing roles at Hallmark and Williams-Sonoma. 

Dov Kaufmann has spearheaded Yotpo's relationships with strategic partners like Google, Facebook, and Twitter. These relationships have enabled Yotpo to quickly become the world leader in User Content Marketing, a field it is pioneering. Dov has made a movie and is steadfast Dylan fan.

Don joined Sears Holdings Corporation as Director, Business Development of MetaScale in June of 2014. Don plays a critical role in translating business requirements into leading edge Hadoop/NoSQL solutions. Prior to his appointment, Don held executive roles at Forsythe and Mainline Information Systems. In addition, Don has served as a senior leader at Lenovo and spent nearly 20 years at IBM.

As chief product officer, Brosnan heads up StrongView's product strategy from definition through successful implementation across the company's entire suite of products. In this role, Brosnan manages a cross-functional team to ensure that StrongView's products align perfectly with its vision for contextual marketing. Prior to joining StrongView, Brosnan was Principal Analyst for Customer Intelligence at Forrester Research. His research focused on helping firms build customer relationships and create competitive differentiation through marketing technologies, such as cross-channel campaign management, marketing automation and real-time interaction management. Brosnan holds a B.S. in physics from Clemson University and a M.A. in philosophy of science from Indiana University.

Kathleen Chambard has worked for eScholastic since 2006. Crafting digital marketing plans to support new product launches is a mission-critical aspect of Kathleen’s role at Scholastic. As Senior Director of Digital Marketing, Kathleen focuses on marketing and strategic planning for Scholastic.com's Educator and School-to-Home channels. In this position she orchestrates digital campaigns in display, social, search, as well as email marketing. Prior to joining Scholastic, Kathleen held several marketing and creative services roles for both large and small companies, from online start-ups like Babyzone.com to international media companies such as Bertelsmann/BMG Classics. Kathleen received her Bachelor of Arts in Communications and German from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Rob has over thirteen years in the digital advertising space at companies across the ecosystem. He has held senior operating roles at Advertising.com, AOL (Platform-A), Weather Channel, LivePerson, was most recently Global GM of Tribal Fusion as well as SVP of Business Operations. His data driven roots were planted at Mars & Co, a boutique strategy consulting firm. Rob holds a bachelor's degree from the John Hopkins University and an MBA from University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Daniel is the Vice President of Search at Direct Agents, where he utilizes his 9+ years of experience to help clients acquire new customers through search engine marketing. At Direct Agents, he not only founded and expanded the paid search division followed by the fast growing SEO division, but he also helped expand the search offerings to include mobile, social media, remarketing, and display. Under his guidance, the growing search team has consistently developed innovative solutions for clients with a strict focus on maximizing client performance,  The team has also developed industry first proprietary technology and in house tools to put their client's several steps ahead of the competition.  Prior to Direct Agents, Daniel co-founded two startup companies after attaining his MBA from USC and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. Daniel has also published search articles, spoken on search marketing panels at leading industry conferences, and co-hosted webinars with companies like Google.