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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Director operating in the E-Commerce space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Allie Donovan
Senior Director of CRM & Retention of Boxed
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About Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Tim Riley
Sr. Director, Experience Design of Warby Parker
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About Warby Parker: Warby Parker is a lifestyle brand that offers designer eyewear while being a socially conscious business.
Priya Padmanabhan
Director of Software Development of Amazon
Ms. Priya Padmanabhan has served as an Engineering Director on the Amazon Marketplace team since 2015. Ms. Padmanabhan leads the Seller Services businesses globally responsible for billing, payments, pricing, business analytics and Marketplace Developer Experience. Across 11 global marketplaces, half of the units sold on Amazon worldwide are from small businesses that contribute to realizing Amazon’s vision of offering the earth’s largest selection of items at the lowest prices. Ms. Padmanabhan is a long time Amazonian. She was in Amazon’s first intern class in 2000 and was hired as a Software Engineer in 2001. She spent her initial year as a Software Engineer in the Retail Catalog Systems team responsible for scalability and performance of Amazon catalog systems. In early 2003, she became part of the Remote Catalog team and built the first set of tier-1 services for rendering catalog and availability data to the Amazon Website and subsequently built the storage and computation platform for Amazon’s e-commerce business. In 2007, she transitioned to becoming a manager and led the Fulfillment Systems platform team responsible for inventory management, inventory quality control and item data management for Amazon Fulfillment Centers. After four years in Operations, in 2011 she transitioned to the Amazon Marketplace team. Ms. Padmanabhan holds a Masters in CS from the University of Arizona. In her personal time, she enjoys spending her time with her 3 sons and pursues her interest in music and cooking.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Kintan Brahmbhatt
GM, Podcasts (Director) of Amazon
Kintan Brahmbhatt is the Head of Product and Technical Program Management Office for Amazon Music, where he leads global product teams responsible for the Amazon Music experience on Alexa/Echo, mobile, desktop, TV, cars and more. Prior to that, he was the Head of Products and Marketing for IMDb Everywhere at Amazon.com. He drove product strategy IMDb’s mobile business (iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows Phone, http://m.imdb.com), connected devices and web services. He worked on defining the next generation entertainment experiences for Kindle Fire and Amazon Video and launched X-Ray for Vidoes. He started IMDb Games by launching IMDb Trivia game on iPhone. IMDb’s mobile apps have been inducted in Hall of Fame by Apple and have been selected as Editor’s Choice apps by Google. His recent work at IMDb can be found at http://www.imdb.com/apps/ Prior to Amazon, Kintan spent five years at Microsoft’s Unified Communications group as a Program Manager and helped drive several key aspects of Microsoft’s Lync products. Prior to Microsoft, Kintan was the founder of Securamed, a healthcare communication platform. Kintan is actively involved as an advisor and investor for high-tech startups in San Francisco Bay Area. His notable investments include Twilio, Shyp, Lovely, Blueshift, Bloomthat, SourceEasy, Chewse and others. Kintan holds an undergraduate degree from Purdue University, where he studied Computer Science and Economics.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Jonathan Rubinstein
Member of the Board of Directors of Amazon
Jonathan J. Rubinstein has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at QUALCOMM Incorporated since May 2013. Jon was Senior Vice President of Product Innovation for the Personal Systems Group of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) from July 2011 to January 2012 and Senior Vice President and General Manager of Palm Global Business Unit of HP from July 2010 to July 2011. Jon was Chief Executive Officer and President of Palm, Inc. (Palm) from June 2009 until its acquisition by HP in July 2010 and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Palm from October 2007 through the date of acquisition. Jon was Senior Vice President of iPod Division at Apple Inc. (Apple) from 2003 to 2006 and Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering at Apple from 1997 to 2003. Jon is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering. Jon has been a Member of the Board of Directors at Amazon.com, Inc. since December 2010. Jon holds B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Colorado State University.
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About : Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Vicky Gkiza
Director of Product Management, Alexa Shopping of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Thomas Ryder
Member of the Board of Directors of Amazon
Thomas Ryder retired as Chairman of the Board of The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., a global media and direct marketing company, in January 2007, a position he had held since January 2006. Thomas was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of that company from April 1998 through December 2005. In addition, Thomas was Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Virgin Mobile USA, Inc., a wireless service provider, from October 2007 to November 2009. Thomas was President, American Express Travel Related Services International, a division of American Express Company, which provides travel, financial and network services, from October 1995 to April 1998. In the past 5 years, Thomas has also served as a director of World Color Press, Inc., a company acquired by Quad/Graphics, Inc. in July 2010.Ryder has been a Director of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. since April 2001, a Director of RPX Corporation since December 2009. As the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Reader’s Digest Association and former Chairman of Virgin Mobile USA, Thomas brings to the Board extensive leadership, public company governance and corporate finance experience.Thomas is the Board Director of Amazon.com.
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About : Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Ilse De Bruin
Director Global Logistics of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Jennifer Prenner
Director & GM – Global Head of Marketing, Growth & Customer Engagement of Amazon
Jennifer Prenner serves as director and general manager at for Amazon’s bestselling line of Fire TV devices. In her role, Prenner is responsible for marketing, customer engagement, demand generation, and revenue across the global suite of Fire TV products, services, and software.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Sujith Ravi
Director of Amazon
Dr. Sujith Ravi is a Director at Amazon. Prior to that, he was leading and managing multiple ML and NLP teams and efforts in Google AI. He founded and headed Google’s large-scale graph-based semi-supervised learning platform, deep learning platform for structured and unstructured data as well as on-device machine learning efforts for products used by billions of people in Search, Ads, Assistant, Gmail, Photos, Android, Cloud and YouTube. These technologies power conversational AI (e.g., Smart Reply), Web and Image Search; On-Device predictions in Android and Assistant; and ML platforms like Neural Structured Learning in TensorFlow, Learn2Compress as Google Cloud service, TensorFlow Lite for edge devices. Dr. Ravi has authored over 90 scientific publications and patents in top-tier machine learning and natural language processing conferences. His work has been featured in press: Wired, Forbes, Forrester, New York Times, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Engadget, New Scientist, among others, and also won the SIGDIAL Best Paper Award in 2019 and ACM SIGKDD Best Research Paper Award in 2014. For multiple years, he was a mentor for Google Launchpad startups. Dr. Ravi was the Co-Chair (AI and deep learning) for the 2019 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering symposium. He was also the Co-Chair for ICML 2019, NAACL 2019, and NeurIPS 2018 ML workshops and regularly serves as Senior/Area Chair and PC of top-tier machine learning and natural language processing conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, COLING, KDD, and WSDM.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Dan Conner
Director, Amazon Pharmacy of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Angel Calvo
Director – Alexa Smart Home of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Andrew Willingham
Director, Talent Products of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Kinley Pearsall
Director, PR of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Scott Lescher
Director, North America Fresh and Prime Now of Amazon
Scott Lescher is the director of North America Operations for Amazon Prime Now, a web- and mobile-app-based service that enables one-hour delivery for Amazon Prime members in cities across the U.S., Europe, Japan and now in Singapore. During Lescher’s eight years with Amazon.com, he has held leadership roles in the company’s North America Consumer Fulfillment Operations. He has an undergraduate degree in operations research from Princeton University, as well as an MBA from MIT Sloan.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Sean Cassidy
Director, Safety & Regulatory Affairs of Amazon
Captain Sean P. Cassidy (Alaska) serves as ALPA’s first vice president. He was elected on Oct. 13, 2010, at the Association’s 43rd Board of Directors meeting, and assumed office on Jan. 1, 2011. He holds the position of National Safety Coordinator, and is tasked with overseeing the Association’s Safety, Security and Pilot Assistance programs. In addition to being a frequent spokesman at a number of venues on safety issues he is also a member of the FAA Nextgen Advisory Committee Subcommittee (NACSC) as well as the DHS Aviation Security Advisory Committee (ASAC). “ALPA’s strength comes from identifying the values we have in common as pilots around the globe, and then working constructively with our industry partners as well as our regulators and legislators to map out a safe and successful plan to meet the challenges ahead,” said Cassidy. Cassidy has served as both chairman and vice chairman of the Alaska Airlines Master Executive Council. He was chairman of the Alaska Air Group Labor Coalition from 1999 to 2009 and has been actively involved in local and national aviation issues for over a decade. Hired by Alaska in 1996, Cassidy is a Seattle-based B-737 captain.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Mark Yoshitake
Director/GM, Alexa Skills Kit and Multi-Agent Initiatives of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Donn Morrill
Director, Amazon Content & Apps Developer Relations of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Shari Yoder Doherty
Director of Public Relations, Devices & Services of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Dan O’Connor
Director, Public Policy of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
David D. Hampian
Senior Director, Global Integrated Marketing – Twitch of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Joel Martinez
HR Director Consumer of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Alf Tan
Director, Luna of Amazon
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Daniel Grachanin
Director of Commerce and Analytics of Amazon
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Matthew Clark
Director, Business Development, Fire TV of Amazon
Matthew Clark serves as director of business development for Amazon’s Fire TV.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Matthew Clark
Director, Business Development, Fire TV of Amazon
Matthew Clark serves as director of business development for Amazon’s Fire TV.
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William Colombo
Board of Director of Dick’s Sporting Goods
William J. Colombo became our Vice Chairman in 2008. Previously, Mr. William Colombo was President & Chief Operating Officer since 2002, and a member of our Board since 2002. From late in 1998 to 2001, Mr. William Colombo served as President of dsports.com LLC, our internet commerce subsidiary. Mr. Colombo served as Chief Operating Officer and an Executive Vice President from 1995 to 1998. Mr. William Colombo joined us in 1988. From 1977 to 1988, he held various field and corporate management positions with J.C. Penney.
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About : Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Lawrence Schorr
Board of Director of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Lawrence J. Schorr has served on the Board since 1985. Mr. Lawrence Schorr currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Empire Plastics, Inc. (a privately owned plastics manufacturing company) and as co-managing partner of the law firm of Levene, Gouldin and Thompson LLP. Mr. Lawrence Schorr has held both of these positions for the last five years. He previously was President of RRT-Recycle America, a subsidiary of WMX Technologies, Inc. He formerly served in the same position for Resource Recycling Technologies, Inc. (a solid waste material management company). Prior to that he served as a partner in the law firm of Levene, Gouldin and Thompson LLP.
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About : Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Larry Stone
Board of Director of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Larry D. Stone has served on the Board since 2007. Mr. Larry Stone is formerly the President and Chief Operating Officer at Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW), a home improvement retailer. Mr. Larry Stone was responsible for store operations, merchandising, marketing, logistics, distribution, store support, and Lowe’s Canadian operations. He also serves on the Board of General Parts International, Inc., a private company in the auto parts retail and distribution business.
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About : Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Allen Weiss
Board of Director of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Allen R. Weiss is a member of the Board of Directors of Alticor, parent company of Amway, one of the world’s largest direct selling companies. Weiss joined the board in 2012 and is the former president of worldwide operations for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, a $10+ billion business with 95,000 employees. He managed operations at the company’s theme parks and resorts, including the Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort, Disneyland Resort Paris, Disney Cruise Line, Disney Vacation Club and “Adventures by Disney.” He began his 39-year Disney career as a teenager in cash control and rose steadily through the ranks. Prior to his role as president of worldwide operations, Weiss served as president of Walt Disney World Resort. He led the company to its largest expansion — including double-digit revenue growth, seven consecutive years of record revenues and profit and worldwide expansion — through challenging global recession. Weiss also spent more than 20 years holding various executive positions in the areas of finance, marketing and sales, entertainment and operations. Weiss is an active community leader, serving on the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission Governor’s Council; the Give Kids the World Executive Advisory Council; and the Board of Directors for the Dr. P. Phillips Performing Arts Center and SunTrust Bank Central Florida. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for Apollo Group, Inc. and Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc., Great Wolf Resorts and a National Board Member for the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute. Weiss earned an MBA from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College, a BSBA from the University of Central Florida (UCF) and earned his CPA certification. He has been named a distinguished alumnus by the UCF and has been inducted into the Hall of Fame by Rollins College and UCF.
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About : Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Vincent Byrd
Board of Director of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Vincent C. Byrd joined the Board in January 2013. Mr. Vincent Byrd has served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of the J. M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM), a manufacturer and marketer of branded food products (“J. M. Smucker”), since May 2011. Prior to that time, he served as President, U.S. Retail — Coffee of J. M. Smucker since August 2008, and Senior Vice President, Consumer Market, since February 2004. Mr. Vincent Byrd also serves as a director of J. M. Smucker and a director and the chair of the compensation committee of Myers Industries, Inc. (NYSE: MYE), an international manufacturer of polymer products for industrial, agricultural, automotive, commercial, and consumer markets. He also served as a director of Spangler Candy Company, a private company that manufactures confectionery products, from 1998 to 2008.
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About : Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Emanuel Chirico
Board of Director of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Emanuel Chirico joined the Board in 2003. In 2007, Mr. Emanuel Chirico was named Chairman of the Board of Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation, an apparel and footwear company. He was named its Chief Executive Officer in 2006. Previously, Mr. Emanuel Chirico had been President, Chief Operating Officer and a Director of Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation since 2005 and its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1999 to 2005. From 1993 until 1999, Mr. Emanuel Chirico was the Company’s Controller. Prior to that, he was a Partner at Ernst & Young, LLC.
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About : Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Paloma DeNardis
Director of Executive Search and Head of Diversity and Inclusion of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Paloma DeNardis is the director of executive search and head of diversity and inclusion at DICK’S Sporting Goods.
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About Dick’s Sporting Goods: Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Bruce Wong
Senior Director Data Platform of Stitch Fix
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About Stitch Fix: Stitch Fix is a personal styling platform that delivers curated and personalized apparel and accessory items for women.
An Tran
Director Of Engineering of Stitch Fix
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About Stitch Fix: Stitch Fix is a personal styling platform that delivers curated and personalized apparel and accessory items for women.
Sonja Erickson
Director Of Engineering of Stitch Fix
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About Stitch Fix, Stitch Fix: Stitch Fix is a personal styling platform that delivers curated and personalized apparel and accessory items for women.
Scott Havens
Director, Engineering of Jet
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About Jet: Jet operates an e-commerce platform that allows its member to shop online from various retailers.
Eric Jones
Director Corporate Development of Gopuff
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About Gopuff: Gopuff is digital delivery service designed to deliver daily essentials within minutes.
Nicole Stata
Founder and Managing Director of Boston Seed Capital
Ms. Stata is the Founder and Managing Director of Boston Seed Capital, LLC. From 2007 to 2010, Ms. Stata worked as an angel investor, advisor and start-up executive. Ms. Stata founded Deploy Solutions in 1996, an award-winning leading provider of SAAS Human Capital Management. As CEO and President, she led Deploy for eleven years through its sale to Kronos in 2007. Deploy was widely recognized as a national best place to work and was the recipient of Deloitte and Touche’s Fast 50 award in 2006. Before Deploy, Ms. Stata managed the global service center for Restrac (Webhire) and started her career with Lotus Development Corporation. Nicole serves as an advisor and board member for several companies and non-profit organizations.
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About Boston Seed Capital: Boston Seed Capital provides seed stage funding for internet-enabled businesses.
Peter Blacklow
Managing Director/GP and co-founder of Boston Seed Capital
Peter Blacklow is a Senior Partner at Boston Seed Capital. Peter was formerly the President of WorldWinner, a subsidiary of GSN (Game Show Network), a joint venture of Sony Pictures Television and DirecTV. In this role, he oversaw the online games businesses of WorldWinner.com and GSN.com, as well as its mobile and Facebook applications. Peter led the consolidation of WorldWinner and SkillJam.com, the two leading skill games sites, to create the world’s largest skill games network, with more than 30 million registered players globally. Prior to WorldWinner/GSN, Peter served as Senior Vice President of Marketing at Monster, the largest global careers website, where he was responsible for managing a $100+ million budget, including all advertising, promotions, public relations and business-to-business direct marketing. He negotiated and activated the company’s U.S. Olympics sponsorship, oversaw five Super Bowl commercials, and helped Monster become a top 20 most visited web destination. Before his time at Monster, Peter spent five years at Converse, Inc., where he became the Director of Marketing for five performance business units, including its flagship basketball line, developing its worldwide business plans and overseeing the negotiations of NBA endorsements. Peter has also spent several years at advertising and promotional agencies working on various consumer products. Peter is a graduate of Harvard University, and has received numerous awards and distinctions, including being named one of the nation’s top “Marketers of the Year” by Promo magazine. In addition, Peter serves as a board member of MassDigi, a trade association for digital games, and acts as a board advisor to Oyo SportsToys, AdAgility, DraftKings, and Ubersense.
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About Boston Seed Capital, Drive by DraftKings: Boston Seed Capital provides seed stage funding for internet-enabled businesses.
Ryan Breen
Director, API Management of Cimpress
Ryan Breen is the Director of API Management at Cimpress, the parent company to Vistaprint and other leading mass customization businesses. Ryan has been at Cimpress for the last 5 years, helping advance the organization’s shift to an internal platform built on microservices. Ryan is responsible for managing the API ecosystem as well as for the documentation, training, and UX that unites the platform. Prior to Cimpress, Ryan was the Chief Architect at Everbridge, the world’s leading mass notification service. Ryan lives in Lexington, MA with his wife, two boys under the age of 4, and no sleep.
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Mark Andersen
Senior Director of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
David Shedlarz
Member of the Board of Directors of Pitney Bowes
David Shedlarz, 65, retired vice chairman of Pfizer Inc. a pharmaceutical consumer and animal products health company. Formerly vice chairman of Pfizer Inc. 2005 – 2007; executive vice president and chief financial officer 1999 – 2005 Pfizer Inc. Director since 2001. (Also a director of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and The Hershey Company.)
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About : Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Anna Alexander
Director, Market Analysis of Pitney Bowes
Anna Alexander is the Director, Market Analysis at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Sia Ea
Executive Creative Director, Global Ecommerce of Pitney Bowes
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Anne Fuchs
Member of the Board of Directors of Pitney Bowes
Anne Sutherland Fuchs, 66, consultant to private equity firms. Formerly group president Growth Brands Division Digital Ventures a division of J. C. Penney Company Inc. a retailer November 2010 – April 2012; former Chair of the Commission on Women’s Issues for New York City 2002-2013. Director since 2005. (Also a director of Gartner Inc.)
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About : Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Greg Harden
Sr Director, Operations Support of Pitney Bowes
Greg Harden is the Sr Director, Operations Support at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Panpan Wang
Co-Founder & Board of Directors of The Flex Co.
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About The Flex Co.: The Flex Co. is the top-selling sustainable period care brand known for creating a more comfortable period for everyone.
Jon Buscemi
Co-Founder and Executive Creative Director of Greats
Founder/ Creative Director at Greats.
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About Greats, Lotto Sport Italia Spa, Lusso Cloud, Oliver Peoples: Greats Brands is a men’s footwear brand that offers a wide range of classically-inspired sneakers.
Francesca ReDavid
Global Marketing Director of IAC
Francesca ReDavid is the Director of Product & Growth at Care.com.
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About Care.com, IAC: IAC is a media and Internet company with more than 150 brands and products serving consumer audiences.
Molly Stevens
Director of User Experience Research of Booking.com
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About Booking.com: Founded in 1996, Booking.com is one of the world’s leading digital travel companies, available in 40+ languages and 155,000+ destinations.
Edward Gordon
Midwest Director of Sales of Power Kiosk
Power Kiosk helps property and energy managers to procure energy and suppliers to price deals in deregulated market place. Using a clearinghouse model, Power Kiosk is disrupting the old-fashioned energy industry. With Power Kiosk, building owners, suppliers and utilities simply connect to one energy market place (clearinghouse) and do business together. We help the users by providing efficiency, technology and data intelligence via the SaaS platform.
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About Power Kiosk: Connecting Buyers And Sellers Of Gas And Electricity
Edward Gordon
Midwest Director of Sales of Power Kiosk
Power Kiosk helps property and energy managers to procure energy and suppliers to price deals in deregulated market place. Using a clearinghouse model, Power Kiosk is disrupting the old-fashioned energy industry. With Power Kiosk, building owners, suppliers and utilities simply connect to one energy market place (clearinghouse) and do business together. We help the users by providing efficiency, technology and data intelligence via the SaaS platform.
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About Power Kiosk: Connecting Buyers And Sellers Of Gas And Electricity
Michelle Andino
Director of Merchandising of Hollar
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About Hollar: Hollar is an online dollar store that features toys, apparel, electronics, beauty, accessories, party supplies, to home essentials.
Samantha Brody
Managing Director of Ella & Oak
Experienced retail and e-commerce marketer passionate about delivering the best end-to-end customer experience. Co-Founder of Ella & Oak, an online bridal boutique where our brides choose what works for their body, not the other way around. We are focused on selling wedding gowns for today’s curvy bride, size 12 and up, with a fun and easy at-home try-on shopping experience.
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About Ella & Oak: Ella & Oak is a bridal marketplace where it offers gowns for plus-size brides with a fun and easy at-home try-on shopping experience.
Sara Resnick
Director, Enterprise Community Marketing, SEO & Social of 1-800-FLOWERS
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About 1-800-FLOWERS: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is a floral and gift retailer offering fresh flowers, plants, gift baskets, gourmet foods, balloons and plush toys.
Suleman Rehmani
Director, Product and Growth of 1-800-FLOWERS
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About 1-800-FLOWERS: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is a floral and gift retailer offering fresh flowers, plants, gift baskets, gourmet foods, balloons and plush toys.
Saloni Goyal
Director, Mobile Product of 1-800-FLOWERS
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About 1-800-FLOWERS: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is a floral and gift retailer offering fresh flowers, plants, gift baskets, gourmet foods, balloons and plush toys.
Alex Grigoryan
Director of Engineering of Walmart Labs
Alex Grigoryan is the director of engineering of WalmartLabs. Alex builds application platform at WalmartLabs. He focuses on customer experience, fan of python, Node.js, and react.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
James Zhang
Sr. Director of Marketing of Walmart Labs
James Zhang is Sr. Director of Marketing at Walmart Media Group. He was previously Head of Rakuten Interactive, a Rakuten USA executive, and a member of Rakuten’s CEO Office. He was China CEO and Global Head of R&D at London-based Powa Technologies, once Europe’s largest startup by capitalization. James’s career spans 9 countries as a country manager and consultant for Samsung Electronics and KPMG. James is a mentor for Techstars, Plug & Play Tech Accelerator, and a Judge for the MIT 100K.
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About Blue Tornado, Red Jasper Worldwide, Splunk, Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Or Zelig
Director of Product Management of Walmart Labs
Or is an experienced product manager and a serial entrepreneur. Or’s greatest passion is technology, and his mind is constantly brimming with new ideas. After his graduation from the IDF, where he lead the development of the next-generation of military data security devices, Or worked as a consultant and later as an entrepreneur; SlickLogin was his second venture in the field of cyber security that was acquired by Google. Today he a lead at Google Accelerators program.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Gerald Bothello
Director Of Cloud of Walmart Labs
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Brendan Wright
Director – International mobile products of Walmart Labs
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
John Engerholm
Senior Managing Director of Globant
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About Globant, Virtusa: Globant is a digitally native technology services company building a new way of being digital.
Chris Brummel
Director of Design of Globant
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About Globant, L4 Digital: Globant is a digitally native technology services company building a new way of being digital.
Daniel Escobar
Director of Engineering Services of BitPay
Daniel Escobar Co-Founded Maestro Music, Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Escobar manages the design and development of all Maestro technology. Mr. Escobar he Founded Aquiva, an innovative Enterprise Content Management software company that was designed to provide media companies a more robust and flexible solution than Vignette, Interwoven and Documentum, while seamlessly integrating advanced networking and mobile technology. Mr. Escobar also built Cox Radio’s first Web Content Management (WCM) system, which is shared by over 80 radio stations. Mr. Escobar provided IT consulting services to several national and international businesses and developed numerous software systems using multiple programming languages, which involve networking with UNIX, Linux and Windows machines. Mr. Escobar holds B.S. in Computer Science and Information Systems and has been designing and developing software applications including Internet applications, content management solutions, and digital media applications for over 15 years.
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About BitPay: BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations.
Steve Pratt
Director of Business Development of BitPay
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About BitPay, Superion: BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations.
Beth Kaplan
Member of the Board of Directors of Rent the Runway
Beth Kaplan is the chief operating officer and strategic advisor of [Rent the Runway](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rent-the-runway), an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories. She was previously a managing member of Axcel Partners. Kaplan holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Axcel Partners: Rent the Runway is an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories.
Carley Roney
Member of the Board of Directors of Rent the Runway
Carley Roney is a co-founder of [The Knot](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/theknot), a wedding planning solution for couples. She previously co-founded XO Group. Roney holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from New York University.
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About : Rent the Runway is an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories.
Jen Blackman Lavelle
Marketing Director of Mizzen+Main
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About Mizzen+Main: Mizzen+Main creates a next great American brand and bring innovation to classic menswear.
Ryan Stevens
Director of Product of Mayvenn
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About Mayvenn: Mayvenn enables Stylists to sell products directly to their clients without the upfront costs and burdens of holding inventory.
John Lagerling
Director and CBO of Mercari
John Lagerling is the Director, Android Global Partnerships at Google.
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About Mercari: Mercari is a community-powered shopping app from Japan allowing anyone to buy and sell anything from anywhere.
Masumi Nakamura
Senior Director / Engineering Manager of Mercari
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About Mercari, Techstars: Mercari is a community-powered shopping app from Japan allowing anyone to buy and sell anything from anywhere.
Sara Decker
Director, Federal Government Affairs of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Ravi Jariwala
Senior Director, Public Relations of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Zach Freeze
Sr. Director, Strategic Initiatives, Sustainability of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Kara Kazazean
Senior Director, Payment Services of Walmart
Kara joined Walmart in 2011 and currently serves as Senior Director Payment Services. In her current role, she works closely with the networks and acquirers to support acceptance of debit and credit products within Walmart and Sam’s Club and oversees a number of projects related to these tender types. She also has responsibility for the team that reconciles payments, fees, and researches settlement variances. Prior to this role, Kara had responsibility for the global closed-loop gift card program, helping to expand the program beyond traditional gifting with programs such as 1-Hour Guarantee, Pre-sale video games and the Humana Vitality program.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
David Hoke
Senior Director II, Health and Well-being of Walmart
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About Thrive Global, Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Amandeep Singh Juneja
Sr. Director, Cloud Operations and Engineering @WalmartLabs of Walmart
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About American Express, OpenStack, Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
DeWayne Hixson
Director, Cybersecurity of Walmart
DeWayne Hixson has a bachelor’s in computer engineering and 20 years with Walmart. He started his career working as a Store Associate. Moving to the home office, he became one of the pioneering engineers involved with building foundational environments and strategic solutions on which many of today’s systems still rely. The past 13 years have focused on information security across the global markets.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Mario de Armas
Senior Director of International Payments & Financial Services of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Linda Wolf
Member of the Board of Directors of Walmart
Linda served in various positions with Leo Burnett, a global advertising agency and division of Publicis Groupe S.A., and its predecessors from 1978 to 2005, including chairman and CEO from 2001 until 2005. She is a trustee for investment funds advised by the Janus Capital Group Inc. and has served on the board of InnerWorkings, Inc., a provider of managed print and promotional procurement solutions, since 2006. Among other endeavors, Ms. Wolf serves on the boards of the Field Museum, Children’s Memorial Hospital, and The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
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About : Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Neal Simmons
Sr Director II Health & Wellness Finance/Strategy of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Blake Jackson
Senior Director, Global Communications of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Vanathy Lakshmi
Sr. Director Digital Product Management – Merchandising of Walmart
Vanathy is a passionate product leader who has worked in the retail industry for the last 13+ years. Currently, she is solving customer journeys within the Merchandising Organization at Walmart where she is responsible for building product teams and roadmaps that focus on Assortment Precision. Prior to this experience, she has experience in leading, building and shipping several complex products.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Srikanth Victory
Director of Pricing & Space Optimization of Walmart
Srikanth Victory is an enthusiastic technologist with more than twenty years of experience in software development, big data technologies, data fabric, master data management, data quality, data governance, and merchandising analytics. Prior to his current role in Retail Analytics, Srikanth held roles in a variety of areas across Walmart Technology, including Pharmacy Store Systems, Store Operations, Enterprise Architecture, and Data Governance giving him a deep understanding of retail enterprise technology. Srikanth has an MBA from Webster University and a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Loyola College (Chennai, India).
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Kathryn Wong
Associate Director, CRM Marketing of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Jason ODell
Senior Director II, Incident Management of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Aaron Bernstein
Senior Director 2, Insights & Advocacy of Walmart
Aaron Bernstein serves as a senior director at Walmart.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Anna Veit
Associate Director, Product Marketing of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Theresa Gehler
Director, Travel Sourcing of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Amelia Ransom
Sr. Director of Engagement & Diversity of Avalara
Amelia Ransom is a dynamic executive with over 20 years of expertise building strategy and delivering impactful results in business operations and human resources. Amelia recently joined Avalara as the Sr. Director of Engagement and Diversity at Avalara. Prior to this role, Amelia spent 26 years at Nordstrom where she held team, regional and enterprise-wide leadership positions including Store Manager, Corporate Learning and Development Director, Director of Talent and VP Diversity Affairs. Her areas of expertise include leadership development, early in career and millennial engagement, executive level mentorship and advisement and diversity and inclusion strategy and execution. Amelia serves on the boards of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Seattle Goodwill, The Institute for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion and Building Changes. She is also on the advisory board for the Seattle chapter of the Association of Latino Professionals in America (ALPFA). Amelia is also a thought leader, a sought after mentor and an inspirational public speaker.
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About Avalara: Avalara develops a platform that automates the major steps of tax compliance, all in the cloud.
Lauren Gallo
Senior Director, Brand Marketing & Creative of Nike
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About Adweek, Nike, Shorty Awards: Nike designs, develops, and markets footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products.
Mona-Lisa Pinkney
Sr Director, Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, Compliance, Engagement and Geos of Nike
Mona-Lisa Pinkney, Sr. Director, Governance, Risk, Compliance & Engagement Management Corporate Information Security at Nike.
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About Nike: Nike designs, develops, and markets footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products.
Russell Rutledge
Director of Community and Inner Source of Nike
Russ Rutledge is the lead of Nike’s Community Core team. This startup within Nike culls the process and tools to encourage and foster cross-team and community interaction and development. Russ’s drive and passion is to enable all software engineers to achieve incredible technical and business throughput via quality tooling and streamlined work process. Prior to this role Russ ran another successful startup delivering JavaScript continuous delivery solutions to hundreds of projects throughout Nike. Previous experience includes feature and infrastructure development at Microsoft on the Outlook and OneDrive consumer web sites.
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About Nike: Nike designs, develops, and markets footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products.
Nelson Farris
Global HR Talent Development and Sr. Director of Nike
Sr. Director, Nike Inc.
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About Nike: Nike designs, develops, and markets footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products.
Tim Pacholke
Senior Director, Digital Innovation – Nike Explore Team (NXT) of Nike
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About Nike: Nike designs, develops, and markets footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products.
Don Shilliam
Director, Network Architecture & Strategy of Nike
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About Nike: Nike designs, develops, and markets footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products.
Erin Long
Director, CAO Solution Delivery of Nike
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About Nike: Nike designs, develops, and markets footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products.
Lysandre Follet
Computational Design Director – Innovation Kitchen of Nike
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About Nike: Nike designs, develops, and markets footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products.
Erica Pereira
Director, Technology Communications of Nike
Erica Pereira is the director, technology communications at Nike.
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About Nike: Nike designs, develops, and markets footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products.
