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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 President operating in the Retail space. If you think a President 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.
Kara Hurst
Vice President, Amazon; Head of Worldwide Sustainability of Amazon
Kara Hurst is the Head of Worldwide Sustainability at Amazon. Prior to Amazon, Hurst was appointed as the CEO of The Sustainability Consortium in August of 2012. Hurst spent eleven years at BSR (Business for Social Responsibility), where she served as Vice President, playing a crucial role in BSR’s global expansion by overseeing all activities on the U.S. East Coast, BSR’s work with governments, multi laterals and foundations, and the annual BSR Conference. A skilled CSR practitioner, Hurst’s areas of expertise include corporate transparency, responsible supply chain management, management structures, policy assessment, and industry collaboration. Hurst holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College of Columbia University.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
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Andrew Jassy
President and CEO of Amazon
Andy Jassy leads the Amazon Web Services business (AWS) and the Technology Infrastructure organization for Amazon.com. AWS is a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides software developers and businesses with cloud-based infrastructure services that are inexpensive, reliable, scalable, comprehensive and flexible. AWS has grown tremendously since its inception in 2006 and now provides infrastructure services to hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world from start-ups to enterprises to government agencies. Andy earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his master’s of business administration from Harvard Business School.
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About Amazon, Amazon Web Services: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Toni Reid
Vice President of Alexa Experience & Echo Devices, Amazon of Amazon
Toni Reid oversees the Alexa Experience organization. She focuses on driving feature awareness and engagement, building Alexa’s personality, and maintaining customer trust, among other areas. Toni joined the Alexa team in 2014. Toni joined Amazon in 1998 as a recruiter, and has worked on several different Amazon teams, including Amazon Fresh, IMDb, and Amazon Media Group. Over the course of her career, she has helped launch several of Amazon’s high-profile initiatives, such as Dash, X-ray on Amazon Video, and most recently Echo devices and Alexa. Named to Fortune’s list of Most Powerful Women, Fast Company’s list of Most Creative People, and the Recode 100, Toni is passionate about innovating on behalf of customers. Toni earned her bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of North Texas.
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About Amazon, Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Dilip Kumar
Vice President, Physical Retail and Technology of Amazon
Dilip Kumar is the Vice President of Technology for Amazon Go and Amazon Books. He joined the company in July 2003 and has held a variety of roles in Amazon’s Consumer business. Dilip has led teams responsible for forecasting and supply chain, contribution profit, pricing, and helped bring cutting edge Machine Learning to Amazon’s core Retail systems. He spent two years as Jeff Bezos’s Technical Advisor before joining the nascent Amazon Go team. Dilip holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science and earned his MBA at Wharton.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
David Limp
Senior Vice President, Devices & Services of Amazon
David Limp has been at Amazon since March 2010 and is currently SVP of Amazon Devices & Services. He is responsible for the development, retail sales and operational aspects of Amazon’s consumer electronic devices and the services behind them, including Alexa, Echo, Kindle, Fire TV, Fire tablets, Ring, Day 1 Editions, Amazon Key, Amazon Appstore, and Project Kuiper. Prior to Amazon, David served as Venture Partner of Azure Capital Partners for four years. Before Azure, he served as Chief Strategy Officer of Palm where he was responsible for corporate development, business development and applications. From July 1997 to August 2002, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of Liberate Technologies. David started his career at Apple Computer and held various positions from 1987 to 1996, the last of which was Director of the North and South American PowerBook division. David has B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Vanderbilt University and a M.S. degree in Management from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
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About Amazon, Amazon, HDmessaging: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Rohit Prasad
Vice President & Head Scientist, Alexa AI of Amazon
Rohit Prasad is vice president and head scientist, Amazon Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon’s family of Echo products, Amazon Fire TV and third-party offerings. Prasad leads Alexa research and development in Artificial Intelligence technologies aimed at making interaction with Alexa a magical experience for customers. Prior to Amazon, Prasad was deputy manager and senior director of the Speech, Language and Multimedia Business Unit at Raytheon BBN Technologies. In that role, he directed U.S. Government-sponsored research and development initiatives in speech-to-speech translation, psychological health analytics, document image translation and STEM learning. He earned his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, India.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Maxwell Bardon
Vice President, Consumer Payments of Amazon
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Pat Bajari
Chief Economist and Vice President of Amazon
Patrick Bajari is Chief Economist and Vice President of Amazon Core AI. In this role, Mr. Bajari leads a team of approximately 120 software engineers and scientists in machine learning, statistics, operations research, and econometrics. His team is focused on delivering AI-enabled technologies throughout Amazon’s businesses, from Alexa to Amazon Go. Since joining Amazon in 2010, his team has built scalable systems for pricing, supply chain, operations, automated marketing, search, and other systems at Amazon. Mr. Bajari is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an elected Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Board Directors for the National Association of Business Economists. He also currently serves as Professor of Economics at the University of Washington. Prior to joining Amazon, Mr. Bajari was a faculty member in the economics departments at Harvard, Stanford, Duke, and University of Minnesota.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Patrick Gauthier
Vice President of Amazon
Patrick Gauthier is the Vice President of Amazon Pay. He is responsible for leading Amazon’s payment services for 3rd party merchants globally including Login with Amazon and the associated value added services. Patrick is a 20-year veteran of the payments and ecommerce industry. Most recently he was General Manager, Emerging Retail Solutions at PayPal where he managed PayPal’s prepaid, gift and demand generation businesses. Patrick has also held executive positions in innovation, product, sales and corporate development at Visa, Schlumberger, and Silicon Valley mobile and e-commerce startups. Patrick has held positions on the board of directors of, mFormation (mobile device management); Arcot (authentication); mTLD (Domain name); Upek (Biometrics); Humetrix.net. (eHealth), Tyfone (NFC), Sequent Software (Mobile Security) and SecureKey (Identity management). He is also a Foreign Trade Advisor to the France Ministry of Economy (Conseiller du Commerce Exterieur de la France). Patrick holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Telecom Sud Paris in France.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Stephenie Landry
Vice President, Grocery of Amazon
Stephenie Landry is the Worldwide Vice President of Amazon Prime Now, Amazon Fresh and Amazon Restaurants. Stephenie has been with Amazon.com for over 13 years and during that time she has held a variety of roles with a special focus on launching new initiatives. She was a founding team member of Amazon Fresh (fresh grocery delivery), and she led the conception and launch of several initiatives including Amazon Student, Amazon Mom, and Prime Pantry. She also led the team that created Prime Now, bringing the idea to market in 111 days total. Stephenie joined Amazon as a Pathways Intern after earning her Masters from University of Michigan. Prior to joining Amazon, she spent two years working at an Internet Start-up in San Francisco prior to earning her Master’s Degree.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Ned Curic
Vice President of Alexa Automotive of Amazon
Ned Curic has been Vice President of Automotive for Alexa at Amazon.com, Inc. since June 2017. Mr. Curic has more than 20 years of experience in technology field specializing in advanced technology and enterprise security. Before Amazon, he served as the Chief Technology Officer and Group Vice President at Toyota Motor North America Inc. as well he was co-founder and EVP at Toyota Connected, Toyota’s global connected car company. Before Toyota, he worked for Microsoft in various capacities.
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About Amazon, Stellantis: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Jay Marine
Vice President, Prime Video, Worldwide Business & Product of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Brian Huseman
Vice President, Public Policy of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Peter Krawiec
Vice President of World Wide Corporate Development of Amazon
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Babak Parviz
Vice President of Amazon
Babak Parviz is a Vice President at Amazon. He is the creator of Google Glass, a pioneer of building contact lens microsystems for healthcare monitoring and computing applications and has been active in developing human-machine interfaces for a number of years. Prior to joining Amazon, he was a Director at Google [X]. He received his BA in Literature from University of Washington, BS in Electronics from Sharif University of Technology, MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from University of Michigan, PhD in Electrical Engineering from Univ. of Michigan; and completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard. His research and engineering interests span novel computing and communication paradigms, high-tech with social impact, bionanotechnology, bioengineering, and photonics. His work has been put on display at the London Museum of Science and has received numerous recognitions and awards including the NSF Career Award, MIT TR35, IEEE CAS Industrial Pioneer Award, Time magazine’s best invention of the year (2008 and 2012), Your Health Top 10 Medical advance of the year, and About.com top invention and has been reported on in thousands of articles worldwide. In 2012 he was selected by Ad Age as one of the 50 most creative people in the United States.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Matt Garman
Vice President, AWS Sales and Marketing of Amazon
Matt Garman serves as VP of AWS compute services.
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David A. Zapolsky
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Amazon
David Zapolsky joined Amazon.com in November 1999 as Associate General Counsel for Litigation and Regulatory matters and was promoted to Vice President in April 2002. He became Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary in September 2012, overseeing the company’s legal, policy, compliance, and regulatory affairs. Prior to joining Amazon.com, David was a partner at the Seattle offices of Dorsey & Whitney and Bogle & Gates. Before moving to Seattle from New York City in 1994, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office and later practiced law at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz. He received his undergraduate degree in music from Columbia University and a J.D. with honors from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Daniel Rausch
Vice President Smart Home & Alexa Mobile of Amazon
Daniel Rausch currently works as the Vice President of the Smart Home business within Amazon Devices division.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Eric Broussard
Vice-President – International Seller Services of Amazon
Eric Broussard has been Vice President, International Marketplaces and Retail, since August 2012. In this role, based in Seattle, WA, he leads Amazon’s International Marketplace businesses in Europe, Japan, China and Australia, as well as Amazon Global Selling initiatives worldwide. Prior to that, Broussard was Vice President, Amazon Services Europe for eight years,where he led development and implementation of Amazon Seller Services strategy in Europe and Japan. Amazon Services Europe offers eCommerce solutions for retailers who want to leverage the technical platform, operational capabilities, professional services and online retailing expertise of Amazon.com. Under Broussard’s leadership, Amazon Services Europe has become a leading Marketplace for hundreds of thousands of Sellers offering millions of products to customers in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Japan. Before moving to Europe, Broussard was Amazon.com’s Vice President of Jewelry and Health & Personal Care based at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle, Washington. Broussard drove the creation of these two businesses and managed all aspects of their expansion. Prior to this role, Broussard served as Amazon.com’s Vice President of partnerships and was responsible for the company’s alliances with third parties like Toysrus.com, Circuit City, Borders.com and drugstore.com. From 1999 to 2002, Broussard served as Vice President of the Home group at Amazon.com, managing the Kitchen, Tools & Hardware and Outdoor Living businesses. Broussard also managed Amazon.com’s launch into the UK and German markets, drove the integration of Amazon.com’s acquisition of PlanetAll and was instrumental in establishing Amazon.com’s partnership with drugstore.com. Prior to joining Amazon.com in 1998, Broussard was director of international Web business for Netscape Communications. There he developed marketing and sales strategies, negotiated contracts and managed public relations projects for Netscape’s European expansion activities. Prior to that, as a management consultant for Bain & Company, Broussard implemented corporate-wide strategies for Bain’s largest telecommunications client. Broussard’s experience also includes marketing positions and/or supervising projects at Cadence Design Systems and Valid Logic Systems.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Scott Wiltamuth
Vice President, Machine Learning of Amazon
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Tom Taylor
Senior Vice President Amazon Alexa of Amazon
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Jay Carney
Senior Vice President for Global Corporate Affairs of Amazon
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Stephen Hartell
Vice President of Amazon
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Amit Aggarwal
Sr. Vice President and Country Manager, Amazon India of Amazon
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Jojo Flores
Co-Founder & Vice President of Operations of Plug and Play Tech Center
Jojo is currently involved in the overall strategic planning and prioritizing of Plug and Play. Jojo’s immediate focus is on building strategic alliances in the Philippines and other reigns of South East Asia.
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About Launchgarage, Plug & Play, Plug and Play Brand & Retail, Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Connie Weisman
Vice President, Corporate Partnerships – Innovation of Plug and Play Tech Center
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Sobhan Khani
Vice President of Plug and Play Tech Center
Sobhan Khani serves as Mobility Director at Plug and Play Tech Center. Sobhan Khani is also the corporate partnership manager for Plug and Play IoT and founding member of Plug and Play Mobility. He has worked with Plug and Play. for the past two years. He manages corporate relationships within Plug and Play with a special focus in IoT/ Mobility. He assists start-ups in the field grow and connect with the right partners. Prior to Plug and Play, He worked for XEROX as business analyst. Sobhan Khani obtained a Master’s Degree in Engineering Management from University of Southern California in 2014.
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About Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Marco Sawires
President and CEO of The Primo
Marco Sawires, originally of Aurora, Illinois, is the Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the board of The Primo Enterprises LLC, and theprimoco.com.
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About The Primo: The Primo is an e-commerce website for consumers
Ron Harries
Senior Vice President, Head of Retail of TechStyle Fashion Group
Ron Harries is Vice President, Head of Retail for Fabletics. A TechStyle Fashion Group brand & Co-founded by Kate Hudson, Fabletics offers high-quality fashion forward activewear for women at great prices. As a 30-year veteran of the retail business, Ron began his career at Sears in 1987. He has helped develop & deploy successful Omnichannel strategies at multiple companies, & is driven to help pioneer technology that simply enhances the overall experience for all of Fabletics Members & Guests. While Ron has years of experience leading business units in excess of a billion dollars, he notes that the highlight of his job is spending one-on-one time with Members, Guests & Associates, adding that there is no better way to get honest feedback than to personally ask the person who is giving you the opportunity to serve them. Although his office is in LA, Ron lives in SLC, UT with his wife of 26 years. …Why SLC? Greatest Snow on Earth!
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About TechStyle Fashion Group: TechStyle is a global membership fashion commerce company focused on reimagining the global fashion business.
Meera Bhatia
President, Expert Services of TechStyle Fashion Group
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Adam Vitarello
President / Co-Founder of Optoro
Adam Vitarello is the Co – Founder & COO of Optoro. Adam Vitarello co-founded Optoro in 2008 with Moore after working with him at eSpot, which he joined in 2005 as CTO and COO. While at eSpot, Vitarello meticulously designed, programmed, and implemented every feature of the proprietary software, systems and marketing algorithms that put eSpot at the forefront of its industry and created the core for Optoro’s software today. He provides an eye for streamlining the reverse logistics process and an uncompromising attitude always demanding excellence. Vitarello has been responsible for Major Design Elements and Implementation Strategies of Optoro’s proprietary software and systems. As COO, he manages Corporate Headquarters and Remarketing Solutions with a one-on-one approach that puts employees first with the goal of maintaining a small-business feel in a rapidly expanding environment. Vitarello utilizes that same personal interaction strategy with clients and partners in advancing the automation and remarketing technologies that serve as the driving force of Optoro’s service. When he’s not pulling all the strings for Optoro and our partners, he can be found training for marathons, triathlons, or mountain climbing. Even atop Mt. Kilimanjaro, reverse logistics is never far from his thoughts. Adam holds a B.A. from Brown University.
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About Optoro: Optoro is a technology company that provides a way to liquidate returned, overstock, and damaged-box products.
Tab Ratan
Vice President, Business Development & Head of Marketplace 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.
Rob Caucci
Co-Founder, President of Fillogic
Rob Caucci is the Co-Founder and President at Fillogic.
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About Arteria Network, Fillogic, Pijon, SpaceSplitter: Fillogic is a New York-based technology company that provides retail and logistics services.
Tom Shannon
Founder, President & CEO of Bowlmor AMF
CEO Tom Shannon joined Gregg Greenberg of “The Street” to discuss millennials, expansion, and making bowling cool again. “It’s going to be an iconic ad campaign because it’s fresh, unique and legitimate,” said Shannon regarding Bowlmor AMF’s highly-anticipated new ad campaign featuring elite bowler Jason Belmonte.
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Brett Parker
Vice Chairman, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Bowlmor AMF
Brett Parker serves as a Vice Chairman, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at Bowlmor AMF.
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Ryan Kent
President of Mizzen+Main
Ryan Kent is the President of Mizzen+Main.
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About Mizzen+Main: Mizzen+Main creates a next great American brand and bring innovation to classic menswear.
Anthony Soohoo
Executive Vice President, Home Division, Walmart U.S. of Walmart
Anthony Soohoo is the executive vice president of the Walmart U.S. home division.He leads overall strategy, assortment, and sourcing for home categories across stores and online. Previously, Anthony served as a senior vice president & group general manager in Walmart’s eCommerce division, accelerating growth in home across Walmart.com, Art.com, Allswell, Jet.com and Hayneedle. Prior to Walmart, Anthony founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Dot & Bo, one of the fastest growing commerce companies from 2013 to 2016. He also served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Entertainment at CBS Interactive, helping to grow it into the largest online television network in the industry. Before CBS, he served as Co-Founder and CEO of Dotspotter, one of the fastest growing online communities, and held product and leadership roles at Yahoo!, Inktomi and Apple. Anthony earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has been featured in TechCrunch’s top 40 people in Silicon Valley and The Hollywood Reporter has selected him as one of the top 50 executives in new media. Anthony has served as an early-stage investor investor and advisor to start-ups including Pinterest, Unity, Copper, Iterable, Brandfolder, Nuzzel, SportsAction, and Groupon.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Adam Ely
Vice President & Deputy Chief Information Security Officer of Walmart
Adam Ely is the co-founder of Bluebox Security focusing on product innovation and strategy. Previously, Adam was the CISO of Salesforce’s Heroku business unit, led security and compliance at TiVo, and held security leadership roles within The Walt Disney Company. In addition to his current role, Adam advises startups and Fortune 500 companies, has been a contributing author to numerous publications, and invited to present at conferences and executive forums on risk management, evolving trends, and strategy. Adam holds CISSP, CISA, and NSA IAM certifications and received an MBA from Florida State University.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Doug McMillon
President and CEO of Walmart
Doug McMillon is the president and chief executive officer of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Walmart). As CEO, Doug leads a strong management team that is working to deliver Walmart’s mission of “saving people money so they can live better.” Under his leadership, Walmart is bringing together its stores, logistics network and digital commerce capabilities in new ways to empower customers to shop whenever, wherever and however they want. From February 2009 to February 2014, Doug served as president and chief executive officer of Walmart International, a fast-growing segment of Walmart’s overall operations, with more than 6,400 stores and nearly 800,000 associates in 26 countries outside the United States. From 2006 to 2009, he served as president and chief executive officer of Sam’s Club, an operating segment of Walmart, with sales of more than $46 billion annually during his tenure. Doug is a longtime champion of Walmart’s customers, its associates and the company’s culture. In 1984, he started out as an hourly summer associate in a Walmart distribution center. In 1990, while pursuing his MBA, he rejoined the company as an assistant manager in a Tulsa, Okla., Walmart store before moving to merchandising as a buyer trainee. He went on to serve in successful senior leadership roles in all of Walmart’s business segments. He remains a merchant at heart and understands where customers around the world are heading next. Doug serves on the boards of directors for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the Consumer Goods Forum, the U.S.-China Business Council and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. He also serves on the advisory board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing, China; the executive committee of Business Roundtable; and the Dean’s Advisory Board for the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. He has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Originally from Jonesboro, Ark., Doug graduated from the University of Arkansas with a bachelor of science in business administration. He earned his MBA in finance from the University of Tulsa.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Greg Foran
President and CEO Walmart U.S. of Walmart
Greg Foran is president and CEO of Walmart U.S. and is responsible for the strategic direction and performance of more than 4,500 Walmart stores and 1.3 million associates. Greg and his team are focused on fulfilling the company’s mission of saving people money so they can live better by advocating for Walmart’s customers, working to exceed their expectations and earning their trust every day. Walmart U.S. serves more than 140 million customers each week and had revenues of $298 billion in fiscal year 2016. Greg is a 35-year retail veteran with extensive experience in marketing, operational and executive roles. He most recently served as president and CEO of Walmart Asia and was responsible for the company’s operations in China, Japan and India, as well as business development throughout the continent. Previously, he served as president and CEO of Walmart China, and his team made significant progress with its assortment, pricing, store operations and compliance as Greg led strategic investments in the supply chain and improved the store portfolio. Greg joined Walmart International in 2011 as a senior vice president.
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Julie Murphy
Executive Vice President, Neighborhood Markets of Walmart
Julie Murphy is the executive vice president and president of Neighborhood Markets – Walmart U.S. Her responsibilities include all aspects of the operations of our Neighborhood Market format. Prior to her current role, Julie previously was the executive vice president and president of the Walmart West business unit of Walmart U.S. Her responsibilities included all aspects of Walmart business in 25 states. Julie began her career with Walmart in 1985 as an hourly management trainee in Anna, Ill. She went on to serve in several positions of increasing responsibility, including assistant manager, store manager, district manager, regional general manager/vice president and divisional senior vice president. In 2010, Chicago Alderman Emma Mitts presented Julie with the Legendary Leadership Award during Women’s History Month. In 2011, Julie was recognized as the winner of the Walmart President’s Leadership Award. Julie is a member of the Dress for Success worldwide board of directors. She graduated from Missouri State University in 1985 with a degree in marketing and management. Julie and her husband, Dan, have two children.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Dan Bartlett
Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs of Walmart
Dan Bartlett is executive vice president of corporate affairs for Walmart. He is responsible for government relations and public policy, corporate communications, philanthropy, and the company’s social responsibility and sustainability initiatives. Before joining Walmart, Dan was president and CEO of the U.S. division of Hill+Knowlton Strategies, where he served as a strategic advisor to business leaders representing key sectors of the American and global economy. Prior to Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Dan served as president and CEO of Public Strategies, Inc. Previously, he served in several high-ranking positions at the White House, completing his service as counselor to President George W. Bush in July 2007. As one of President Bush’s most trusted advisors, he was responsible for all aspects of communications for the president and his administration, including the White House press office, speechwriting and office of communications. Dan is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and serves on the advisory board of UT Austin’s College of Communication. He also is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs and a fellow of the school’s Center for Politics and Governance.
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Tracy Harlow
Vice President, Global Communications – Digital Engagement of Walmart
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Daniel Eckert
Senior Vice President, Walmart Services & Digital Acceleration of Walmart
Daniel Eckert presently leads Walmart Services and Digital Acceleration for Walmart U.S. This includes Walmart’s Financial Services, Food & Personal Services, and Automated & Lottery Services business lines, as well as providing customers tech-enabled shopping solutions that integrate services and digital merchandising capabilities to help make shopping Walmart’s 4,700 U.S. stores easy, fast, and fun. Daniel joined Walmart in January 2010 as vice president of Financial Services before transitioning to lead all of Walmart Services. In 2015, his responsibilities broadened to include Walmart’s Digital Relationship activities, such as Walmart Pay and Walmart’s Mobile Express capabilities, and expanded again in 2017 to include leadership of the Digital Acceleration and Item File teams. Daniel led the conceptualization, development, implementation and rollout of Walmart Pay, a capability within the Walmart mobile app that enables customers to quickly, easily and securely checkout and pay with their smartphones in Walmart stores. In 2017, Daniel received the company’s highest honor – The Sam M. Walton Entrepreneur of the Year Award — for his and his team’s efforts in the creation of Walmart Pay. Prior to joining Walmart, Daniel served as senior vice president of card and retail services for HSBC, where he founded and led HSBC’s venture development and payment products group. He previously held positions at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Accenture and was an entrepreneur and president of an investment banking company. Daniel is a proud military veteran, having served as a Logistics Officer in the United States Marine Corps. Daniel holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Michigan and Master of Business Administration from University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He resides in Rogers, Arkansas with his wife, Jill, son, William.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Marcus Osborne
Vice President, Payer Relations of Walmart
Marcus Osborne is Vice President at Walmart.
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John Damalas
Vice President, Associate Digital Experience of Walmart
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Kathleen McLaughlin
President, Walmart Foundation of Walmart
Kathleen McLaughlin is president of the Walmart Foundation. Last year Walmart and the Foundation together surpassed more than $1 billion in giving worldwide. She also has responsibility for Walmart’s sustainability and women’s economic empowerment initiatives. In 2013, Kathleen joined Walmart after more than 20 years with the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company. As director of the firm’s Social Innovation Practice, she helped develop solutions to social challenges for institutions around the world. In the firm’s Retail Practice, she worked with companies in the Americas, Europe and Asia to increase their efficiency and drive growth by expanding into emerging markets, defending home markets against foreign competitors and revamping retail formats. Kathleen also served as a director of the Toronto Community Foundation, where she was chair of the Community Issues Committee responsible for initiatives and grant-making to NGOs addressing poverty, hunger, housing and integration issues. She holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Boston University, and a bachelor of arts in politics, philosophy and economics and a diploma in theology from Oxford University
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Eric Foss
President & CEO of Aramark
Eric is the chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Aramark (NYSE: ARMK), a $15 billion global provider of food, facilities and uniform services. Eric was named president and CEO in 2012 and chairman of the board in 2015. Since his appointment, Aramark has recorded consistent growth in sales, new business and adjusted net income and operating margins. He is also improving profitability by establishing a repeatable business model across the company. He most recently led Aramark’s successful return to the New York Stock Exchange in December 2013. Under Eric’s leadership, Aramark and its 270,000 employees are poised for sustainable growth through new business generation, geographic expansion and more efficient operations. Prior to joining Aramark, Eric served as chairman and CEO of Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG), the world’s largest bottler of Pepsi-Cola. He was named CEO and elected to the PBG Board of Directors in 2006 and elevated to chairman in 2008. He participated in the successful process of taking PBG public in 1999. Eric oversaw the acquisition of PBG by PepsiCo in 2010, which brought outstanding value to PBG shareholders, and then led the integration of the business within the corporation serving as CEO of PepsiCo’s Pepsi Beverages Company. Throughout his career with Aramark, PBG and PepsiCo, Eric Foss has established a strong track record of generating profitable growth through integrated strategies and consistent execution that meets or exceeds financial commitments. He has led global teams to successfully build leading brands through a frontline-first mindset while achieving broad-based productivity gains. Today he serves on the board of directors of Aramark, Cigna, Catalyst and the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts. Eric is also a member of the Business Roundtable and the Wall Street Journal CEO Council. Eric earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Ball State University and was honored with the Miller College of Business Award of Distinction in 2005.
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About Aramark: Aramark provides food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to healthcare institutions and more.
Andy Ellwood
Co-Founder & President of Basket
Andy Ellwood is cofounder and president of Basket, the first ever shopper powered smart shopping list and grocery business intelligence platform. Prior to Basket, Andy ran Business Development for Waze until their acquisition by Google in 2013 and before that, for Gowalla until their acquisition by Facebook in 2011. Andy is also cofounder of Exosphere, a learning and problem solving community headquartered in Catalonia, Spain. Andy is a graduate of Texas A&M University and serves as an officer for the New York Aggies alumni club, most recently as President of the club for the past two years. Andy frequent speaker, contributor, and serves as an advisor to early stage companies around the world. For more of his adventures, follow along on Twitter: @andyellwood.
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About Basket: Basket believes you should never overpay for groceries and is the largest community of Shoppers working together to save time and money.
Paul Moulton
Executive Vice President – CIO of Costco
Paul Moulton is EVP and CIO of Costco Wholesale Corporation. In this role, Moulton is responsible for the direction of all technology and information systems of Costco Wholesale worldwide. Moulton has been with Costco for 30 years and has served on the company’s executive committee for 23 years.
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
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.
James P. Murphy
Executive Vice President, International 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.
Rich Olin
Senior Vice President, and General Counsel of Costco
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Timothy L. Rose
Executive Vice President, Costco Wholesale Industries of Costco
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Alexander Ringsdorff
Vice President of Corporate Development of NewStore
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About NewStore: NewStore operates a platform for retailers to run their stores on the iPhone.
Allan Smith
Vice President, Global Marketing of Steelcase
Allan Smith is vice president, global marketing for Steelcase Inc., the global leader in the office furniture industry.
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About Steelcase: Steelcase is the global company that manufactures furniture, interior architecture, and technology products and services.
David Sylvester
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Steelcase
Dave Sylvester is senior vice president, chief financial officer for Steelcase Inc., the global leader in the office furniture industry. Named to this role in April 2011, Dave expanded on his previous role as vice president, chief financial officer (2006-2011) and also took responsibility for global facilities and real estate and Steelcase aviation. In November 2013, Dave also added information technology to his reporting structure. In March 2014, our global business centers were added to his responsibilities. Previously, Dave was vice president, operations finance (March 2005-October 2006), responsible for operations finance in North America and internationally. He also worked closely with the supply chain organization on product and process placement decisions and on implementing supply chain strategy around the world.
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About Steelcase: Steelcase is the global company that manufactures furniture, interior architecture, and technology products and services.
Eddy Schmitt
Senior Vice President of Steelcase
Eddy Schmitt is senior vice president, Americas for Steelcase Inc., the global leader in the office furniture industry. Appointed to this role in February 2011, Eddy is responsible for sales and channel activities in North America and Latin America. Eddy is also responsible for our global client collaboration teams and applied research and consulting teams in EMEA and APAC. Previously, Eddy was vice president, France for Steelcase (2006-2011), where he was responsible for all sales and channel activities in France.
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About Steelcase: Steelcase is the global company that manufactures furniture, interior architecture, and technology products and services.
Christopher Matue
Vice President of THG
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About THG: The Hut Group is an online retailing platform focused on fast moving consumer goods, specifically focused on health and beauty.
Andrew Blachman
President of Tophatter
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About Tophatter: Tophatter is revolutionizing the e-commerce landscape with a discovery shopping app that’s truly one-of-a-kind.
Gihan Amarasiriwardena
Co-Founder & President of Ministry of Supply
Gihan Amarasiriwardena is adorable. No seriously- he says the highlight of his day is seeing his office rabbit Thumper *insert cute noise here.* Besides being a kind soul, Amarasiriwardena is the founder of Ministry of Supply, a menswear brand that makes cool things like a dress shirt that helps regulate body temperature and shirts that fight.
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About Ministry of Supply, Ministry of Supply: Ministry of Supply is creating a new category of clothing, performance professional performance clothes for the workday.
Mark Van Buskirk
Executive Vice President, Merchandising, Marketing, & Retail of Supervalu
Mark Van Buskirk is executive vice president, merchandising, marketing, and retail for SUPERVALU. As a member of the executive leadership team, Van Buskirk is responsible for overseeing companywide retail operations including merchandising and marketing efforts, along with directing SUPERVALU’s private brand offerings and retail pharmacy teams. Since 2006, he served as vice president of meat and seafood merchandising and procurement for The Kroger Co., where he was primarily responsible for the sales planning, merchandising and category management for the meat and seafood departments. Mark joined Kroger in 1992 with Fred Meyer, Inc., as a meat manager in Seattle, WA. His tenure included several key management positions including vice president of meat and seafood, group vice president of perishables, group vice president of the food division and senior vice president and director of the food division.
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About Supervalu: Super Value Market is a retail company serving customers through a network of over 3,000 owned, franchised, and affiliated stores.
Sam L. Susser
President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Susser Holdings Corporation
Sam L. Susser has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the general partner of Susser Petroleum Partners LP since its initial public offering in in 2012. Mr. Susser also serves as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Susser Holdings Corporation. Prior to founding the Southguard Corporation (the predecessor to Susser Holdings) in 1988, Mr. Susser spent 1985 to 1987 with Salomon Brothers Inc. in New York City and in Dallas in the corporate finance division and the mergers and acquisitions group. He received a BBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985.
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About : Susser that operates 630 convenience stores in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, with 583 under the Stripes® banner.
Joseph Weber
Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer of Neiman Marcus Group
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About Neiman Marcus Group: Neiman Marcus Group is a company that owns an apparel store that sells everything from shoes to shirts.
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.
Cody Bauer
Vice President Of Retail Operations of Leap Services
Cody Bauer serves as VP of retail operations at Leap Services.
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About Leap Services: Leap develops a retail platform that enables brands to deploy stores and accelerate growth.
James Finnigan
President & Creator of Bernie’s Perfect Poop
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About Bernie’s Perfect Poop: Bernie’s Perfect Poop is a website selling digestion support supplements for dogs.
William R. Adler
Co-Founder, CEO, and President of True Fit
William R. Adler, also known as Bill, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of True Fit Corporation and TrueFit Solutions, Inc. William Adler was a Timberland executive who has multiple generations of apparel leaders. He has 20+ years of leadership and general management experience. He successfully led True Fit’s pivot from direct retailer to a big data SaaS solution for major retailers and brands.
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About True Fit: True Fit provides an intelligent data platform created for fashion retailers to find online stores.
Niki Allen
Senior Vice President Of Technology 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
Janna Potts
Executive Vice President and Chief Stores Officer of Target
Janna Potts is executive vice president, chief stores officer for Target and a member of its leadership team. In this role, she is responsible for leading more than 300,000 team members and operating more than 1,800 stores. Janna joined the company in 1989 as a campus hire and worked in its Mervyn’s stores in variety of leadership positions. She was promoted to vice president, employee relations and distribution human resources at Target in 2004. She held a number of other key leadership positions and spent nearly five years as senior vice president of store operations, before she was promoted to senior vice president, human resources in 2015 where she was focused on stores and supply chain. Janna graduated from Southwest Texas State with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989.
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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.
Jackie Hourigan Rice
Executive Vice President and Chief Risk and Compliance Officer of Target
Jackie Rice is executive vice president and chief risk and compliance officer for Target, and a member of its executive leadership team. She is responsible for the centralized oversight of enterprise risk management, compliance, vendor management and corporate security. She leads a team focused on evolving and enhancing enterprise risk and compliance standards to protect Target and its stakeholders, including guests, team members and vendors. Jackie has more than 18 years of legal and compliance experience. Prior to joining Target in 2014, she served as chief compliance officer and legal counsel for a major global automotive manufacturer. She led a global team of lawyers and compliance professionals to develop programs focused on global compliance including anti-corruption, export controls, data privacy and ethics. Jackie also served as legal counsel across several business areas, including marketing, information technology, transactions and retail finance, including overseas assignments in Zurich, Switzerland and Melbourne, Australia. Jackie graduated from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Law Review. She obtained her undergraduate degree from James Madison College at Michigan State University.
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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.
Laysha L. Ward
Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer of Target
Laysha Ward is president of Community Relations for Target and a member of its executive committee. She oversees the corporation’s domestic and international grant making, community sponsorships, cause marketing initiatives, volunteerism and other civic activities. Ms. Ward serves on the board of directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Executive Leadership Council, and Denny’s Corporation. She is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Commission on No Child Left Behind, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and The Links, an international woman’s service organization. She is also a member of the advisory committee for The Shriver Report, a project founded by Maria Shriver that examines current cultural transformations affecting American women and families. Ms. Ward received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University and a master’s degree in social services administration from the University of Chicago.
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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.
Tomas Kadlec
Senior Vice President Infrastructure & Operations of Target
Tom is an IT professional with a powerful combination of technology and business skills in USA, UK, and international environments. He has a wealth of in-store and online IT experience in both mature and growing businesses and markets. Over the past 20 years, Tomas has played a number of leadership roles in technology management in the USA, UK, the Czech Republic and Hungary. He has also undertaken technical roles within service provider organizations. Currently Tomas is working as a Senior Vice President of Infrastructure and Operations at Target.Previously as principal consultant in finance sector and was involved in new technology and start-up businesses. During his time at Tesco, Tomas displayed clear, forward-looking vision and embedded a culture of innovation into his teams, enabling them to rapidly deploy new technology solutions as well as meet the changing demands of business stakeholders. He transformed the siloed country IT teams into a centralized, global IT Services function. His responsibilities included managing a large international teams.
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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.
Carlos Saavedra
Vice President – Brand Marketing 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.
Rick Gomez
Senior Vice President, Brand and Category Marketing of Target
Rick Gomez is executive vice president, chief marketing and digital officer for Target and a member of its executive leadership team. He is responsible for overseeing marketing and media strategy, creative, guest research, loyalty, and corporate responsibility efforts. In addition, Rick is the head of Target’s e-commerce business and oversees the company’s digital strategy.
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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.
Stephanie Lundquist
EVP and President of Food & Beverage of Target
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About MBOLD, Target: Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Mike McNamara
Executive Vice President, Chief Information and Digital Officer of Target
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About Target, Target: Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Joel Crabb
Vice President, Architecture and Chief architect 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.
Scott Swartz
Vice President 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.
Krish Srinivasan
Vice President of Target
Krish is the Vice President for Cloud & Compute with over 18 years of Technology experience. Prior to that he was the Vice President for Security Solutions. In his current role, Krish is responsible for engineering solutions that protect Target, reduce friction for its guests and team members. He is supported by a diverse and high performing security engineering team at 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.
Tim Tompkins
Vice President & Deputy Chief Information Security Officer of CVSHealth
Vice President & Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at CVS Health.
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About CVSHealth: CVS Health provides an integrated healthcare services offering for its members.
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.
Jonathan C. Roberts
President Caremark Pharmacy Services and Executive Vice President of CVS Caremark Caremark of CVSHealth
President Caremark Pharmacy Services and Executive Vice President of CVS Caremark Caremark at CVS Caremark Corporation
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About CVSHealth: CVS Health provides an integrated healthcare services offering for its members.
Papatya Tankut
Vice President, Pharmacy Affairs of CVSHealth
Papatya Tankut is Vice President of Pharmacy Affairs for CVS Health. Tankut is responsible for engaging with nonprofit, governmental and health-based organizations to expand CVS Health’s efforts to improve and enhance pharmacy care. Tankut began her career as a pharmacist at CVS/pharmacy in 1994. She has held various positions within the organization, including Vice President of Pharmacy Professional Services; Director, Pharmacy Recruiting and Professional Relations; and Manager of Professional and College Relations. In those roles she helped develop the company’s pharmacist recruitment strategies and initiatives, and oversaw the regulatory compliance, quality assurance and patient safety, and retail clinical services departments. Tankut graduated from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.
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About CVSHealth: CVS Health provides an integrated healthcare services offering for its members.
Eileen Howard Boone
SVP of Corporate Social Responsibility & Philanthropy, President of CVS Health Foundation of CVSHealth
Eileen Howard Boone is Senior Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility and Philanthropy, for CVS Health. In this role, she leads a team responsible for implementing the company’s philanthropic and CSR programs. Howard Boone is also President of the CVS Health Foundation, the private foundation of CVS Health. In this role, she oversees the foundation’s charitable giving and is responsible for creating and managing strategic partnerships with non-profit organizations that share in the Foundation’s commitment to provide greater access to health care in communities nationwide. Previously, she served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Community Relations for the company and led media relations, internal communications and events for ten years. During that time, one of her most significant accomplishments was establishing CVS Health All Kids Can, a signature philanthropic program committed to making life easier for children of all abilities. Prior to joining CVS Health, she gathered a wide range of executive-level experience at JP Morgan, Talbots and Office Depot. Howard Boone is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and received her MBA from Fordham University.
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About CVSHealth: CVS Health provides an integrated healthcare services offering for its members.
Stephen J. Gold
Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer of CVSHealth
Stephen Gold is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for CVS Health. In this role since July 2012, Gold is the company’s senior technology executive and has responsibility for all information systems and technology operations, including information technology strategy, application development, technology infrastructure, and business and technology operations. A seasoned executive with more than 30 years of information systems management experience, Gold was previously Senior Vice President and CIO for Avaya, guiding all aspects of the company’s technology strategy, as well as leading IT business operations and systems globally. Prior to joining Avaya, Gold was the Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Corporate Chief Technology Officer for GSI Commerce. At GSI, Gold was responsible for product development, product marketing, systems architecture, product engineering and technology operations for one of the nation’s premier eCommerce solutions providers, supporting brands such as Toys R Us, Polo, BCBG, Estee Lauder, Kate Spade and all major sports leagues. Gold holds an undergraduate degree in computer science from Saint John’s University and currently serves as a member of their advisory board.
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About CVSHealth: CVS Health provides an integrated healthcare services offering for its members.
Robert (Rocky) O. Kraft
Executive Vice President of CVSHealth
Rocky Kraft is the President at Omnicare Inc.
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About CVSHealth, Omnicare, Omnicare: CVS Health provides an integrated healthcare services offering for its members.
Troyen Brennan, M.D.
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of CVSHealth
Troyen A. Brennan, M.D., M.P.H., is Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of CVS Health. In this role, Brennan provides oversight for the development of CVS Health’s clinical and medical affairs and health care strategy, as well as the company’s MinuteClinic and Accordant Health Care businesses. Previously, Brennan was Chief Medical Officer of Aetna Inc., where he was responsible for clinical policies, as well as Aetna’s full range of clinical operations, disease management programs and patient management services. Prior to that, Brennan served as president and CEO of Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization. In his academic work, he was Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Law and Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health. Brennan received his M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from Yale Medical School and his J.D. degree from Yale Law School. He has a Master’s Degree from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He earned a BS from Southern Methodist University. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
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About CVSHealth: CVS Health provides an integrated healthcare services offering for its members.
Jonathan Greller
President of Outlets of Hudson’s Bay Company
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About Hudson’s Bay Company: Hudson’s Bay Company is a retail business group.
Randall Fagundo
President | Robotic Digital Solutions of The Hillman Group
Randall Fagundo is President | Robotic Digital Solutions at The Hillman Group .
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About The Hillman Group: The Hillman Group is a provider of complete hardware solutions, delivered with industry best customer service to over 26,000 customers.
Steve Yankovich
Vice President of Innovation and New Ventures of eBay
Steve Yankovich joined HomeValet as Chief Experience Officer in 2020.Steve Yankovich, vice president of innovation and new ventures at eBay Inc., leads a newly formed team focused on future-looking technologies and experiences that will drive innovative new approaches to connecting retailers, merchants and sellers with consumers around the world. Steve is focused on creating the future – opportunities beyond core products from a business and technology perspective. From 2009 to 2012, Steve served as vice president of eBay mobile, responsible for eBay’s mobile business and product development worldwide on device platforms such as the iPhone, iPad, RIM, Android, Windows Phone, tablet and mobile web. Under Steve’s leadership, eBay mobile doubled its mobile commerce volume every year from 2008 through 2012, with $13 billion in mobile commerce volume in 2012 alone. eBay mobile is expected to generate $20 billion in 2013. Steve spearheaded the eBay Inc acquisitions of RedLaser and Critical Path Software. His patent portfolio consists of 29 leading technologies, four of which have been formally issued. Before eBay, Steve was Adobe’s Entrepreneur in Residence where he created an Adobe seed project targeted at knowledge and information workers. Before Adobe, he was the founder/CEO/CTO of Movaris Inc., an Enterprise BPM software company that was acquired by Adobe. When Steve isn’t busy tinkering with technology, he enjoys building and driving fast cars.
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About eBay, HALL Wines, HomeValet, Relay Ventures: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Alexander Stojanovic
Vice President, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Semantic Platform Engineering of eBay
Alexander is an executive and entrepreneur, currently serving as Managing Director of Adaptive Insight. Previously, he served as Vice President of Applied Research and Machine Learning at eBay, managing machine learning activities globally. He was the founding Vice President, CTO, and Chief Architect of the Cisco Cognitive Computing and Real-time Analytics SaaS platform – now a part of the Cisco Cloud Center product line. Prior to Cisco, Alexander was a Vice President and CTO at Oracle Corporation, working on design and strategy of Oracle’s public cloud platform offerings with an emphasis on machine learning-based SaaS offerings. He served as CTO for the Oracle Data Integration Cloud Services and founded both Oracle Data Catalogue and Big Data Preparation Cloud Services. Alexander has also held founder and leadership roles at MAANA. At Microsoft, Alexander founded and led Azure HDInsight, SQL Server Semantic Engine, and Microsoft Solver Foundation product lines. Alexander is an active angel investor and advisor to innovative AI and ML-driven start-ups, including: Kosmos AI, Wave Computing, Sapiens Data Science, Roambee, and DataRPM (acquired by Progress Software in 2017). A graduate of Santa Clara University, he resides in Los Gatos with his family – wife Tatjana and daughter Mina – enjoying electronic music composition, Leica photography, cinema, and sailing.
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About eBay: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Jordan Sweetnam
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas Market of eBay
Jordan Sweetnam is the SVP and general manager for Americas Market at eBay. He was the vice president of customer experience for Walmart eCommerce. He brings rich e-commerce experience building differentiated products that delight customers and drive growth. He is responsible for leading a high-performance organization with Design, Analytics and Product Management teams that are focused on delivering an amazing customer experience when shopping Walmart.com at home, on their mobile devices or engaging digitally in the store. Jordan joined Walmart’s eCommerce team in 2016. He previously spent 12 years at eBay with his last two years as vice president of Seller Experience. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a specialization in finance from the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with honors.
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About eBay, Walmart Labs: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Sanjeev Katariya
Vice President & Chief Architect of eBay
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About eBay: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Bowen Zhou
President, AI Platform and Research of JD.com
Bowen Zhou has been the President of Artificial Intelligence Platform & Research of JD.com since September 2017.Bowen is a technologist and business leader of human language technologies, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. He is keen on creating and advance relevant theory and applications that matter in the real world.Before joining JD.com, Bowen was with IBM for almost 15 years. In April last year, Bowen was appointed as the Chief Scientist of Watson Group, where he was responsible to lead and align Watson Group’s science agenda with IBM’s technical strategy and IBM Research’s cognitive computing and artificial intelligence agenda. As an IBM Distinguished Engineer, Bowen was an integrated member of the Executive Team of IBM Watson. He was also appointed to be the Director of AI Foundations, which were founded and launched by Bowen in January 2017, the first horizontal core learning and AI research lab at IBM Research.
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About JD.com: JD.com is an internet company and online consumer electronics retailer in China.
Jeffery Fowler
President, North America of Farfetch
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About Farfetch: Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
Michael Bashaw
President, Midwest Region of Whole Foods Market
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About Whole Foods Market: Whole Foods Market is a supermarket chain owned by Amazon that exclusively sells natural and organic products.
