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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 Retail 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.
Gregory Ray
Senior Associate Director of Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
Greg has supported the launch of multiple Creative Destruction Lab sites as the program has scaled up operations while supporting many CDL participant companies along the way, particularly in the life sciences. Greg has also taken a lead on the CDL pedagogy as the MBA Course Manager at two separate sites. Prior to his time at CDL, Greg served as the project manager for the development of an American managed hospital in Kuwait and supported the strategy development of a Dubai-based startup. In his free time, Greg mentors startups, scientists, and students exploring commercialization. Greg has also served as a mentor for the MIT Hacking Health and Yale Center for Biomedical Innovation & Technology hackathon programs.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL): Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a no-fee/no-equity mentoring program for the founders and executives of pre-seed stage ventures.
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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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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Daniel Grachanin
Director of Commerce and Analytics of Amazon
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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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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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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
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.
Wade Bitaraf
Founder and Director of Plug and Play Energy & Sustainability of Plug and Play Tech Center
Wade is the head of Energy & Sustainability practice at Plug and Play, an active early stage investor and global corporate innovation center. Wade holds master degrees in Chemical Engineering and Petroleum and Natural Gas engineering. His mission at Plug and Play is to bring innovation into the energy industry by bridging large corporations to the startup ecosystem. In the past 3 years, Wade has worked closely with the entrepreneurs that are building innovative products and solutions for the electric Utilities and Oil and Gas companies.
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About Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Allison Romero
Director of Marketing of Plug and Play Tech Center
Allison Romero is Director of Marketing at Plug and Play Tech Center.
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About Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Roja Amrollah
Director, Investment Operations of Plug and Play Tech Center
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About Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Seena Amidi
Managing Director, Co-head EMEA of Plug and Play Tech Center
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About Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Kevin Withstandley
Senior Director, Partner Success of Plug and Play Tech Center
Kevin is the corporate partnerships manager for the Internet of Things vertical at Plug and Play Tech Center, a global innovation platform headquartered in Silicon Valley. Plug and Play’s IoT vertical currently helps 30 partners such as Philips, Panasonic, Fujitsu, Bosch, and Samsung by introducing them to top tier startups for business development, pilots, investment opportunities, etc. Kevin also runs the Internet of Thursdays meetup consisting of 1,744 members, which helps engage the community around IoT topics, startups, and corporations. Prior to Plug and Play, Kevin worked for 6 years at Best Buy managing sales teams in different departments while helping grow the regional presence. Kevin holds a bachelor’s degree in Business with a focus in Entrepreneurship.
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About Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Lio Chen
Managing Director, Travel & Hospitality of Plug and Play Tech Center
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About Plug and Play Tech Center, Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotels: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
RJ Carver
Director: Plug and Play NYC of Plug and Play Tech Center
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About Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Ted Miller
Board of Director of Airgas
Ted B. Miller, Jr., 75, of Gering, died Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005, at his home. Cremation was held at Sunset Memorial Park Crematory in Scottsbluff. A memorial service will be at 10 a.m., Dec. 19, at Central Church of Christ in Gering with Pastor Herb Rainey officiating. Masonic rites will be conducted by Scotts Bluff Lodge 201 and Robert W. Furnas Lodge 265 AF & AM. A private family inurnment will be in West Lawn Cemetery in Gering with military rites by the Nebraska National Guard.
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About : Airgas, an Air Liquide company, is a leading U.S. single-source supplier of gases, welding equipment and supplies, and safety products.
Andrea Bell
Director of Insight and Executive Editor, Americas of WGSN.com
Andrea is a seasoned strategist with an in-depth knowledge of the Americas’ consumer marketplace and mindset. As Head of WGSN Insight globally, Andrea oversees all the Future Consumer content, planning and strategy for consumer insights, as well as travels the globe to meet with the team, clients and stay on top of consumer trends.
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About WGSN.com: WGSN a B2B, world-wide information source for the design, textile and style industries.
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.
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.
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.
Bennett Gaston
Director of Client Engagement of Confiz
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About Confiz: Confiz is a full service technology company, committed to enabling people and verticals by producing high performance industry solutions.
Irene Esteves
Member of the Board of Directors of Aramark
Irene Esteves has been a member of the Board since October 2014. Irene is an experienced public company executive, having served most recently as Chief Financial Officer of Time Warner Cable Inc. from July 2011 to May 2013. Prior to that position, Irene served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Regions Financial Corporation from April 2008 to February 2010. Irene is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Aramark and Spirit Aerosystems Holdings, Inc. and previously served on the Board of Directors of Timberland Co., Johnson Diversey Inc. and tw telecom. Irene is a member of the Audit Committee.
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About : Aramark provides food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to healthcare institutions and more.
Tyler Geopfert
Director Of Business Development-Higher Education-West of Aramark
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About Aramark, Griffin Company Realtors, TrackWired: Aramark provides food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to healthcare institutions and more.
Pankaj Mehndiratta
Director Of Engineering – Marketing Technologies of Sephora
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About Gap, Sephora, Sephora: Sephora is an online shopping site that offers a range of beauty products such as cosmetics and skincare items.
Andy Gorski
Sr. Director of Marketing of Best Buy
Andy Gorski is the Vice President Brand & Promotional Marketing at Best Buy.
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About Best Buy, Best Buy, Best Buy: Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services offering consumer electronics and more.
Nancy Tiran
Sr. Director, Procurement: Strategic Sourcing, Lifecycle & Risk Management of Best Buy
Nancy Tiran is the Sr. Director, Procurement: Strategic Sourcing, Lifecycle & Risk Management at Best Buy.
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About Best Buy: Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services offering consumer electronics and more.
Joseph Serrano
Director of Digital Strategy of Best Buy
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About Best Buy: Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services offering consumer electronics and more.
Scott DeToffol
Director, Digital Product Management of Best Buy
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About Best Buy: Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services offering consumer electronics and more.
Tim Zawislack
Senior Director of Ecommerce and Digital Marketing of Delta Galil
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About Delta Galil: Delta Galil is an Israeli textile manufacturing and marketing apparel for men and women.
Frank A. Savage
Board Of Director of Supervalu
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About : Super Value Market is a retail company serving customers through a network of over 3,000 owned, franchised, and affiliated stores.
Mathew M. Pendo
Board Of Director of Supervalu
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About : Super Value Market is a retail company serving customers through a network of over 3,000 owned, franchised, and affiliated stores.
David P. Engel
Director of Susser Holdings Corporation
David Engel previously served on our board from 2000-2005 and has been a long-term investor in the Company. Mr. Engel brings to the Board more than 30 years of experience in business management, both as a business owner and as a management consultant. Mr. Engel is principal of Corpus Christi-based Engel and Associates, LLC. Prior to forming his consulting practice, Mr. Engel was president of Airgas Southwest, Inc., a distributor of welding supplies and packaged gases. Earlier he was CEO, president and owner of Welders Equipment Company, which he sold to Airgas Southwest’s parent, Airgas Inc., in 1996. Mr. Engel serves on the board of directors of First Victoria National Bank and is an advisory board member to Heldenfel’s Enterprises. He also serves on the board of the Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corporation, CHRISTUS Spohn Health System, the Lexington Museum and the South Texas Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Engel received a bachelor of business administration degree from Southern Methodist University and is a graduate of the Harvard University Owner/President Management Program.
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About : Susser that operates 630 convenience stores in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, with 583 under the Stripes® banner.
Lachlan Given
Member of the Board of Directors of Cash Converters International
Given joined the board on 22 August 2014. He is the Executive Vice Chairman of EZCORP Inc (a major shareholder in the Company) and also a Director of The Farm Journal Corporation, a 134 year old pre-eminent US agricultural media company; Senetas Corporation Limited (ASX: SEN), the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of certified, defence-grade encryption solutions; CANSTAR Pty Ltd, the leading Australian financial services ratings and research firm; and RateCity.com Pty Ltd, one of Australia’s largest Internet based financial services comparison organisations. Given began his career working in the investment banking and equity capital markets divisions of Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong and Sydney where he specialised in the origination and execution of a variety of M&A, equity and equity-linked and fixed income transactions.Given graduated from the Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Business majoring in Banking and Finance (with distinction).
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About : Cash Converters International (CCV) is a franchised retail network listed on the ASX
Menderes Akdag
President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of 1800 PetMeds
Mr. Menderes Akdag has been the Chief Executive Officer of PetMed Express, Inc. since March 16, 2001 and has been its President since August 2005. Prior to joining PetMed Express Inc., from November 15, 2000 to March 31, 2001, Mr. Akdag served as the Chief Executive Officer of International Cosmetics Marketing Co. (also known as Beverly Sassoon & Co.). From May 1991 to August 2000, he was employed by Lens Express, Inc., a subsidiary of Summit Autonomous, Inc.
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About 1800 PetMeds: At PetMeds we love your pets. Follow us to see pins about products we love, helpful pet resources, and of course cute pet photos.
Samir Shah
Senior Director – AI Foundations of Target
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About Target: Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Asher Chaudhry
Sr. Director Technology of Target
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About Target, University of St Thomas, Saint Paul: Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Henrique Castro
Member of the Board of Directors of Target
Previously, Henrique served as Chief Operating Officer of Yahoo! Inc. Additionally, he was elected to join the Board of Directors for Minneapolis-based retailer, Target Corp. on March 13, 2013. Henrique is a senior executive with 20+ years experience in leading companies such as Google, Dell and McKinsey, building, scaling and managing business globally. He is recognized by his knowledge of the Media, Internet, Telco/Tech, Retail, Consumer industries and has extensive experience as CEO/GM, CRO, Head of Strategy and Business Development, Sales & Marketing and Operations Lead. Henrique was formerly Google’s President of Media, Mobile and Platforms Worldwide with full responsibility $5bn+ full P&L of Google’s TV Ads, YouTube Ads, Google Display Network, Mobile Ads, AdMob, AdExchange and DoubleClick business globally. He built and scaled the Display, Mobile and Platforms Business from scratch to turn them it into #1 digital business globally with multi-billion dollar revenue and 2000+ people. In this position he lead the team to launch operations in 40+ countries, hired 1000+ people, acquired and integrated Google’s two largest acquisitions. Prior to this position Henrique lead European Sales & Media Solutions and Sales Operations for Google Europe. Before Google, Henrique was Sales & Business Development Director for Dell Western Europe Region where he managed sales and operations across 9 countries for all B2B businesses with revenues of $2+bn and 30%+ growth. Early in career Henrique worked for ABB- Asea Brown Boveri in Corporate/Project Finance and in the Private Equity. Henrique holds a MBA from IMD and MSc in Economics/Business Administration from ISEG. He is fluent in English, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Henrique is also a Board Director of the IAB – Interactive Advertising Bureau – The as industry association, that comprises 500+ leading media and technology companies, to set the agenda to educate marketeers, agencies, media companies and regulators on Interactive Advertising.
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About : Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Maria Brinas-Dobrowski
Director Of Engineering – Site Reliability Engineering, Digital Commerce of Target
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About Target: Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Evan Gaustad
Director Cyber Fraud and Abuse Detection Engineering of Target
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About Target, University of Minnesota: Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Greg Larson
Sr. Director of Technology of Target
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About Target: Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Ryan McCoy
Director Product Development of Target
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About Target: Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Daniel Parker
Director Of Engineering of Target
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About Target: Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Daniel Parker
Director Of Engineering of Target
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About Target: Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
David Casey
President, Board of Directors of CVSHealth
David Casey serves as Vice President, Workforce Strategies and Chief Diversity Officer for CVS Health. Casey joined the company in 2010 and is responsible for developing and driving diversity and engagement strategies across the company. He is also focused on ensuring that diversity and inclusion are embedded in CVS Health’s recruitment, talent development, performance management and succession planning efforts. In prior roles, Casey was Chief Diversity Officer at WellPoint, where he led the development and execution of enterprise-wide strategies to leverage diversity management for the workforce, workplace and marketplace. Casey was also a Regional Director of Business Development for Bernard Hodes Group, where he consulted with regional, national and international clients. Casey is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and served in Operation Desert Storm. Casey has a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Indiana Wesleyan University.
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About CVSHealth: CVS Health provides an integrated healthcare services offering for its members.
Vijay Patel
Senior Director Strategic Partnerships of CVSHealth
Vijay Jun Patel is the Co-Founder & Partner CVS Health Ventures.
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About CVSHealth, CVSHealth: CVS Health provides an integrated healthcare services offering for its members.
Nels Lindahl
Director, Clinical Decision Systems of CVSHealth
Nels Lindahl is the Director of Clinical Decision Systems at CVS Health.
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About CVSHealth: CVS Health provides an integrated healthcare services offering for its members.
Kerry Noone
Director, Employer Branding and Recruitment Marketing of CVSHealth
Kerry Noone is the Director of Employer Branding and Recruitment Marketing at CVS Health.
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About CVSHealth: CVS Health provides an integrated healthcare services offering for its members.
Jack Carlson
Founder, CEO, and Creative Director of Rowing Blazers
Jack Carlson is the Co-Founder, CEO, and Creative Director at Rowing Blazers.
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About Rowing Blazers: Rowing Blazers is a youthful, irreverent menswear label dedicated to the idea that the classics can be cool.
Dave Lyons
Managing Director, Resharp of The Hillman Group
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About Clover, The Hillman Group: The Hillman Group is a provider of complete hardware solutions, delivered with industry best customer service to over 26,000 customers.
Andy Lisk
Sr Director, Global Customer Experience of eBay
Andy Lisk serves as senior director at ebay where he focuses on global customer experience.
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About eBay: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
