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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 Manager operating in the Retail space. If you think a Manager 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.
Kirstin Anderson
Senior Technical Product Manager of Warby Parker
Kirstin Slevin is a Senior Technical Product Manager at Warby Parker, an affordable and socially-conscious eyewear company, where she works with the Network and Security team. She manages the roadmap for security and had led key initiatives and compliance efforts during her time at the company. She is passionate about bringing devops principles to security, balancing thoughtful security work with organizational agility.
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About Warby Parker: Warby Parker is a lifestyle brand that offers designer eyewear while being a socially conscious business.
Peter DeSantis
General Manager, Amazon EC2 of Amazon
DeSantis, senior vice president of utility computing, is one of three AWS employees in the S-group, including his direct boss, AWS CEO Andy Jassy.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Rafi Witten
Software Engineering Manager, Amazon Scout of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Rob Green
General Manager, Amazon Business Public Sector of Amazon
Rob Green is the Director & GM of Amazon Business’ go-to-market team. He leads Marketing, Sales, Selection Expansion and Account Management across a diverse portfolio of B2B merchants. Rob recently joined the Amazon Business team after leading the Amazon Marketplace North American Sales organization from 2013-2015. Prior to Amazon, Rob spent more than 20 years at Oracle in development, consulting, and training leadership roles. From 2010 to 2013 he led Oracle’s global customer education business, which served more than 500,000 students annually in 120 countries worldwide. He has more than 20 years’ experience in technology development, implementation, and services.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Vasi Philomin
General Manager, Machine Learning & AI of Amazon
Vasanth ‘Vasi’ Philomin is currently a General Manager in the AWS AI team for services in the language and speech technologies spaces such as Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, Amazon Translate, Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Comprehend/Amazon Comprehend Medical. Prior to joining Amazon, he spent most of his career creating new high-tech businesses inside Philips as part of the corporate venturing strategy of the company aimed at organic growth. During this time, he held various management positions across all functions including General Management, Business Development, Marketing and R&D over the last 17 years and was responsible for creating a global connected lighting systems business focused on public sector customers. He is an entrepreneur at heart and has a very deep understanding of the software and services industry. This coupled with his ability to innovate on business models has helped him make valuable contributions to diverse businesses covering areas such as Robotics and 3D content creation for cinema. He is also an inspirational speaker and often speaks at various events and conferences around the world on hot new technology and business trends. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and two Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA as well as 72 US patents.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Mohamed El-Geish
Senior Manager, Head of Alexa Speaker Recognition of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Alex Ha
Principal Product Manager of Amazon
Alex Ha is a principal product manager at Amazon. He is also an advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Pragyan Mishra
Senior Manager, Robotics AI of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Supriya Kher
Software Development Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Troy Clair
Senior Manager, U.S. Public Policy of Amazon
Troy Clair is Senior Manager for Public Policy at Amazon where he focuses on education policy and outreach regarding Amazon’s community engagement programs. Prior to this role, Troy served a decade on Capitol Hill most recently as Chief of Staff to Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC), after having been the Deputy Outreach Director for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD). While serving as chief, Troy was the co-lead of the Congressional Black Caucus TECH 2020 diversity initiative. Troy has also served in the Executive Branch when he was appointed Senior Advisor to the Assistant Treasury Secretary for Financial Stability by President Obama. Troy has held leadership roles on national campaigns including his service as North Carolina State Director for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. A Brooklyn, New York native, Troy is a Truman Scholar who graduated cum laude from Duke University. Throughout all of his work, Troy continues to pursue his passion of coaching leaders on ways to make their mark on the world.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Ali S. Kazeroonian
Senior Manager Software Development of Amazon
A veteran technologist and product development specialist, All has over 18 years of experience In management, development and implementation of choice heuristics technologies and hosted online solutions, incorporating data warehousing and analytics. All’s solutions have been used in large and complex organizations including AT&T, Fidelity Investments, HP, Staples, Albertson’s, Sony, Bank of America and Fresh Express. Prior to co-founding ActionRun, All was VP of Engineering at Market6, a retail software pioneer in the fast-moving consumer packaged goods industry. He co-founded Active Decisions in 1997 and served as its CTO and VP of Engineering to build the first hosted guided selling solutions for large online and offline stores. Earlier, All co-founded FasTV where he led the development and commercialization of one of the first software technologies for real-time indexing of video over the web. All enjoys Tae Kwon Do and the great outdoors in his spare time. All received his BS from Caitech and Ph.D. from MIT, both in physics.
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About Amazon, Amazon Web Services: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Tony Lenzi
Software Development Manager of Amazon
Bringing his experience in leading senior developers and developing mobile apps for Fortune 500 firms from Tacit Mobile his mobile development firm, he leads the Drunk Mode Mobile Development Team. He is the maverick that ensures the user experience for drunk people around the world is the best it possibly can be for the nights you’d rather remember.
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About Amazon, Drunk Mode, Inc.: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Brian Waldman
Sr. Manager Amazon Last Mile – DSP Business Coaches – California of Amazon
Brian Waldman is the Senior Manager of Amazon Last Mile – DSP Business Coaches – California.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Robert Victor
Principal Product Manager – Technical of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Coco Zhang-Miske
Senior Partner Manager – AVS Auto , Alexa Automotive of Amazon
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About Amazon, NAAAP: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Vivek Vadakkuppattu
Senior Manager of Product Management of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Kun Liu
Senior Engineering Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Brian Tomasette
Sr. Manager, Product Management of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Allan MacInnis
Global Business Development Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Brent Payne
Manager, Machine Learning Applications, Checkout of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Mike McMurray
Sr. Manager, Product Management of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Taylor Lehman
Senior Product Manager – Echo of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Augustine Rietsema
Senior Product Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Pravin Mittal
General Manager, Amazon Timestream of Amazon
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About Amazon, Amazon, Microsoft: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Keith Fitzgerald
Software Development Manager of Amazon
Keith Fitzgerald is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Hurdle. Prior to Hurdle Keith was a Chief Technology Officer at PeopleLinx. Keith is a leader in the Philadelphia startup scene and was recently the Chief Technology Officer of TicketLeap, where he was responsible for executing their technology initiatives and developing a scalable platform that clients use to showcase and drive ticket sales for their live events. His experience at TicketLeap.
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About Amazon, Hurdle Co.: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Lindsey Vreeland
Manager, Programmatic Consultants of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Ben McInnis
Senior Manager, Alexa Connect Kit of Amazon
Ben McInnis is a senior manager in Amazon’s Devices division where he oversees the Alexa Connect Kit program. Alexa Connect Kit, combines Amazon-managed cloud services with a hardware module and developer tools to simplify and accelerate the process of creating Alexa-compatible smart devices, increasing the selection and diversity of devices available to Alexa customers. Prior to his current role, Ben held senior product, engineering, and user experience roles at Socrata, a big data and IoT SaaS company focused on the public sector. Before Socrata, Ben served in several product strategy roles at Microsoft. In his free time, Ben, a Seattle native, is an avid skier, hiker, and advocate for the nature and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Subodh Tiwaskar
Program Manager II of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Angela Sze
Principal Product Manager | Last Mile of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Eric Jones
Sr. Vendor Manager – Artist Merch at Amazon Music of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Amit Aggarwal
Sr. Vice President and Country Manager, Amazon India of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Sharleen Reyes
Senior Product Manager, Fire TV of Amazon
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About Amazon, Legacy Republic: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Will Najar
Senior Product Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Andres Pazos
Sr. Business Development Manager of Amazon
Andres Pazos is Founder at Mingles.
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About Amazon, Mingles: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Greg Levy
Senior Product Manager of Amazon
Greg is currently the Director of Product for Zed (www.zed.com), focusing on the development of m-commerce storefronts, mobile games and applications. Before that, he was a Product Manager for DIRECTV, managing their NFL and MLB ecommerce offerings. An entrepreneur at heart, he cofounded SportsTrack, Social Thrills Inc, and now LeagueHeads.
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About Amazon, LeagueHeads: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Douglas Jardine
Software Engineering Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon, BlueAnatomy, LA CTO Forum, PypeTV: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Kapil Bansal
Principal Product Manager, Amazon Pay of Amazon
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About 1-800-FLOWERS, Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Rob Vawter
Principal Business Development Manager, Alexa Games of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Kevin Crews
Sr. Product Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Chacko Daniel
Senior Manager – Technical Program Management of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Carl Meadows
Principal Product Manager of Amazon
Carl Meadows is a principal product manager at Amazon responsible for Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Open Distro for Elasticsearch and Amazon CloudSearch.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Andrew Crowell
Software Development Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Nick Bogert
Sr. Product Manager, Product Compatibility Platform of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Nicholas Bowers
Senior Product Manager, Search Customer Experience of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Steve Kurtz
Senior Manager, advertising sales-grocery of Amazon
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About Amazon, Narrative: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Jeff Gibb
Sr. Business Development Manager – Alexa of Amazon
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About Amazon, Techstars: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Ying Zhou
Senior Product Manager – Amazon Music of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Thomas Peng
Senior Software Development Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Clayton Anthony
Senior Product Manager | Amazon Advertising of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Shawn Marck
Software Development Manager, Information Security of Amazon
Shawn Marck is a Software Development Manager at Amazon.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Siva Padisetty
General Manager, Management Tools of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Mohamed AbdelHady
Applied Science Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Jennifer Yador
Senior Business Development Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Simon Vining
Principal & Product Manager of Amazon
Simon Vining is the Principal Product Manager at Amazon .
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Jessica Blat
Principal Technical Program Manager, Net Zero Carbon of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Harrison Weber
Account Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Melissa Saelzer
Sr. Technical Program Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Melissa Saelzer
Sr. Technical Program Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Harrison Weber
Account Manager of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Douglas Nelson
Sr. Product Manager Intern of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Christopher Moody
Manager of Shop Recommendations of Stitch Fix
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About Stitch Fix, Stitch Fix, Stitch Fix: Stitch Fix is a personal styling platform that delivers curated and personalized apparel and accessory items for women.
Kevin Zielnicki
Data Science Manager 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.
Brian Grassadonia
Executive VP & General Manager of Cash App of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
David Rusenko
General Manager of E-Commerce of Square
David Rusenko is the general manager of e-commerce at Square. He was the founder and CEO of Weebly.
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Saumil Mehta
General Manager – Square Point of Sale, Customers of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Alyssa Henry
EVP & General Manager Seller Business Unit, EVP Infrastructure & InfoSec of Square
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About Confluent, Intel, Square, Unity Technologies: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Travis Raila
Lead Product Manager of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Salvatore Testa
Engineering Manager of Square
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About Persona, Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Jason Sperling
Product Manager of Square
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About People Speak, Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Megan Ramies
Senior Manager, International & Government Relations of Plug and Play Tech Center
Megan is the Senior Manager of International & Government Relations for the Plug and Play International department.
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About Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Oscar Gutierrez
Business Relationship Manager 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.
Nicholas Spitzman
General Manager – US of Razor Group
Nicholas is the US General Manager for Razor Group, one of the largest FBA aggregators in the world with over $550M raised. Previously, Nicholas was CEO of Pet Pro Supply Co., an online retailer of premium products for pet care professionals and pet parents. Prior to that he was Managing Director of Digital at Regus, the world’s largest provider of serviced office spaces. He oversaw web, mobile, e-commerce and digital transformation of customer experience. Before Regus he was Regional CEO for HomeAway in South America. Nicholas grew HomeAway’s business in Brazil post-acquisition from 8 to 60 people, doubling revenue and expanding operations from Brazil to Spanish-speaking markets in Argentina and Colombia. He has also served as Chief Operating Officer of Love Home Swap, an online community where homeowners can swap or use points to stay in thousands of inspiring homes worldwide. His other work experience includes The Boston Consulting Group and Draper Fisher Jurvetson FIR Capital Partners, a venture capital fund in Brazil. Nicholas holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a MBA from Wharton.
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About Razor Group: Razor Group is a global consumer holding company that partners with e-commerce merchants to acquire and scale brands.
Yiyi Zeng
Senior Manager of Walmart Labs
Yiyi Zeng is a senior manager/principal data scientist at Wal-Mart Labs. She has 12 years of extensive experience in business analytics and intelligence, decision management, fraud detection, credit risk, online payment and e-commerce across various business domains including both Fortune 500 firms and startups. She and her team use supervised and unsupervised machine learning technics to detect frauds including stolen financial, account take over, identity fraud, promotion/return abuse & victim scam. She is enthusiastic about mining large-scale data and applying machine learning knowledge to improve business outcomes.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Imran Ansani
Principal Manager, Innovation of Walmart Labs
Imran Ansani works in Wal-Mart Global E-Commerce and has more than 15 years’ experience in e-commerce product management, content curation technology and omnichannel innovation across industry leading companies, including Wal-Mart, FedEx and HP. Imran holds an MBA from the Thunderbird School of International Management, Arizona, and Economics and Engineering Degrees from BITS, Pilani, India. Imran is an avid golfer and sports enthusiast, having completed the Chicago International Triathlon in 2010, 2011 and 2014.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Kamiya Motwani
Senior Data Science Manager of Walmart Labs
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Senior Manager Software Engineering of Walmart Labs
Naveen is an Engineering Manager with 7+ Years of Data Engineering, Data Science & Analytics experience across Retail, Finance & Marketing industries. In his current role at WalmartLabs, Naveen leads Walmart’s Customer Experience and Store Marketing engineering team and one of his key initiatives in the last few months has been to bring all the various data assets at Walmart under one single data lake platform. He has worked across various database technologies throughout his career and has been extensively working on the entire Hadoop stack at WalmartLabs. Over the past few years, he led several teams building end to end data and visualization platforms and also worked on evaluating and implementing multiple query acceleration and SQL on Hadoop layers such as Druid, LLAP, Spark, Kinetica, SAP HANA etc. to power Walmart’s BI platforms.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Sridhar Leekkala
Senior Manager II Software Engineering of Walmart Labs
Sridhar is a technology leader and currently responsible for building a Finance data lake in Walmart. He is Sr Manager II Engineering, Global Data Analytics Platform, Walmart. Before working in the Data Analytics area, Sridhar led multiple HR implementations in Walmart. Previously, he worked in Deloitte Consulting, Hyderabad. Sridhar has 15+ years of IT experience in Retail, Healthcare and Finance domains.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Igor Savin
Group Product Manager – Business Analytics of Walmart Labs
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Fareena Contractor
Manager & Tech Strategy of Walmart
Part of the team that developed the H1N1 vaccine, Fareena is a former molecular geneticist. Following her research in brain cancer suppressors at the University of Alberta, she left the lab to pursue a career in business. Fareena graduated with an MBA from the University of Toronto. Focusing on Design Thinking and Strategy, she found her calling in business innovation. Today, she leads tech implementation for Walmart Canada, where she is accountable for the effective delivery of large scale projects, such as online grocery, ML forecasting in logistics, next generation Wi-Fi, and in-store applications. Fareena also founded and continues to lead the Walmart Innovation Community (WIC), a grassroots organization which has since been adopted internationally. When she’s not working, you can find her on a silent meditation retreat or a backpacking adventure overseas
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Nikita Sudan
Senior Engineering Manager, Search Algorithms of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Zorba Manolopoulos
Principal Product Manager of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Ryan Kee
Senior Innovation Manager, Artificial Intelligence of Walmart
Ryan Kee is a senior innovation manager at Walmart.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Ravi Rao
Pharmacy Manager of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Ashok Ramaraj
Manager/ Architect , Inventory Intelligence – Simplify & Automate Inventory of Walmart
Ashok Ramaraj serves as a manager of Inventory Intelligence at Walmart.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Ashok Ramaraj
Manager/ Architect , Inventory Intelligence – Simplify & Automate Inventory of Walmart
Ashok Ramaraj serves as a manager of Inventory Intelligence at Walmart.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Jeff Abadir
Senior Vice President, General Manager of Costco
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Caton Frates
Senior Vice President, General Manager of Costco
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Jaime Gonzalez
Senior Vice President, General Manager- Mexico of Costco
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Mario Omoss
Senior Vice President, General Manager, Northwest Region of Costco
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Bruce Reynolds
Manager, Corporate Communications of Steelcase
Bruce Reynolds is the manager of corporate communications at Steelcase.
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About Steelcase: Steelcase is the global company that manufactures furniture, interior architecture, and technology products and services.
Eric Posen
Senior Product Manager of Honey
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About Honey: Honey is a shopping platform that provides access to exclusive savings, deals, rewards, and discovery.
Natasha (Tong) Young
Product Manager – Profile of Best Buy
Seasoned product management professional with demonstrated abilities to manage and market a product through its lifecycle. Extremely effective in establishing product specifications, market positioning with focus on customer needs. Adept at understanding interdependent relationships between technical and business issues. Proven success in identifying growth opportunities, delivering differentiated products to market, and communicating value through integrated marketing programs. Successfully launched and managed numerous products. Looking to use my broad cross section of hands on product management, business development, team building and technical skills to bring focus and drive to innovative product or service to meet customer’s needs and to create the organization’s competitive advantage. Specialties: Innovation Process Management, Product Strategy and Roadmap, Marketing and Launch Strategy, Communication, Cross functional leadership and team development, Change management, New product design & development, Training Development and Implementation, Creation of MRD/CRD/PRD.
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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.
Rich Hultman
Senior Manager | Services & Strategic Growth Office of Best Buy
Rich Hultman serves as a senior manager 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.
Amanda Rosenberg
Product Analytics Manager of Grove Collaborative
Amanda Rosenberg is the Data and Insight Analyst at The Weather Channel, LLC. since August 2013. Amanda has worked in Ad Operations on the publisher side for 4 years. After becoming proficient in campaign management she has focused on training teams how to analyze campaigns, developing advanced reporting, building documentation and campaign performance optimizations. Prior to the Weather Company, Amanda worked as a Associate Web Analyst for e-Commerce Conversion at Williams Sonoma where she perfected her analytic skills and learned to manage large sets of data. Previously, Amanda was a Campaign Manager at Jumpstart Automotive Group. Amanda earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Economics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Amanda currently resides in San Francisco.
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About Grove Collaborative: Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
Ashley Wahl
Web, E-commerce & Digital Manager of IKEA
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About IKEA: IKEA Systems offers a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products.
Patrick Ray
Senior Retail Operations & Projects Manager of Leap Services
Patrick Ray is the Senior Retail Operations & Projects Manager at Leap Services.
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About Leap Services: Leap develops a retail platform that enables brands to deploy stores and accelerate growth.
Sara Susman
Project Manager – Innovation and Customer Experience of Kohl’s
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About Kohl’s: Kohl’s Corporation (Kohl’s) operate family-oriented department stores that sell apparel, footwear and accessories
Jad Mikhail
Senior Collections & Fraud Operations Manager of Kohl’s
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About Kohl’s: Kohl’s Corporation (Kohl’s) operate family-oriented department stores that sell apparel, footwear and accessories
Brad Mares
Sr Manager, Cyber Security Fraud and Abuse 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.
Holly Lahd
Lead Energy Program Manager 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.
Diane Lucenta
Project Manager – Indirect Sourcing & Procurement Center of Excellence 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.
