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This list showcases the top United States based Vice President operating in the E-Commerce space. If you think a Vice 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.
Derek Joyce
Vice President and General Manager, Global Accounts of Klarna
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About Klarna: Klarna is an e-commerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers.
Matthew Meisner
Vice President, Research and Development of Farmers Business Network
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About Farmers Business Network: FBN is an AgTech and commerce platform that helps its members make confident decisions to ensure the economic viability of their farms.
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.
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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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
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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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
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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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
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.
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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Lauren Hobart
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Chelsea Collective General Manager of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Lauren Hobart joined DICK’S Sporting Goods in February 2011 as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Lauren currently serves as the Company’s Executive Vice President/Chief Marketing Officer and Chelsea Collective General Manager. In this role, she oversees marketing for all of the Company’s lines of business, as well as the strategy, merchandising and operations for our specialty shop, Chelsea Collective. In addition, Lauren serves as the President of The DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation. Prior to joining DICK’S, Lauren spent 14 years at PepsiCo in various roles, culminating in being the CMO of Carbonated Soft Drinks in North America. In addition to other significant marketing roles within PepsiCo, Lauren also worked with JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo earlier in her career. Since January 2014, Lauren has served on Sonic Corporation’s Board of Directors.
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About Dick’s Sporting Goods: Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
George Giacobbe
Senior Vice President – Supply Chain of Dick’s Sporting Goods
George Giacobbe joined DICK’S Sporting Goods in 1999 as a Department Manager at the Smithton Distribution Center. George Giacobbe was promoted to the Director of Logistics and Project Manager in 2006, and has since held the roles of Senior Director of Operations for the Plainfield Distribution Center and VP of Supply Chain. In 2014, George Giacobbe was promoted to the role of SVP of Supply Chain. Prior to joining DICK’S, George Giacobbe employed with Lord & Taylor for 15 years, where he started as an executive trainee and held increasing roles of responsibility in operations.
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About Dick’s Sporting Goods: Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Daniel Ostrowski
Senior Vice President, Store Environment of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Dan Ostrowski was named Senior Vice President, Store Environment in November 2013, overseeing all aspects of our Store Environment. Dan Ostrowski joined DICK’S Sporting Goods in 1999 as a Director of Stores in Field Operations. In 2005, he took on the role of Vice President of New Stores, and in 2008 his role was expanded to include Construction and Facilities and again in 2012 to oversee all facets of the Store Environment as the Vice President of Store Environment.
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About Dick’s Sporting Goods: Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Steve Mironov
Vice President, Store Operations of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Steve is a customer focused, results oriented operations professional with over twenty years of store operations experience growing sales, reducing expense, and streamlining operations. He is the Vice President, Store Operations for Dick’s Sporting Goods, where he has worked for the last seven years and is responsible for workforce management, operational planning and communications, store process and systems, and operational reporting and analytics.
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About Dick’s Sporting Goods: Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
John Hayes
Senior Vice President – General Counsel & Secretary of Dick’s Sporting Goods
John Hayes joined DICK’S Sporting Goods as Senior Vice President – General Counsel & Secretary in January 2015. Prior to joining DICK’S, John served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary at Coldwater Creek. During his tenure with Coldwater he also served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources and interim Senior Vice President and CFO. Prior to Coldwater, John was a partner with various prestigious law firms, including Hogan & Hartson, LLP in Boulder, CO, and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP in Broomfield, CO.
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About Dick’s Sporting Goods: Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Jason Williams
Vice President, Customer Technology of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Jason Williams is the Vice President of Customer Technology at Dick’s Sporting Goods. He is responsible leading the engineering efforts focused on delivering solutions impacting the customer’s journey. Jason has played a significant role in the ongoing digital transformation at Dick’s Sporting Goods.
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About Dick’s Sporting Goods: Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Michele Willoughby
Executive Vice President – eCommerce & Supply Chain of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Michele Willoughby joined DICK’S Sporting Goods in March 2004 as Vice President – Planning and Allocation. She was promoted to Senior Vice President – Supply Chain in 2009 after serving as a key leader in our integration of the former Chick’s Sporting Goods business in California. In November 2010, the Company added eCommerce to her responsibilities. In July 2013, Michele Willoughby was promoted to Executive Vice President – Inventory, Supply Chain and eCommerce.
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JP Elliott
Vice President of Talent Management of Dick’s Sporting Goods
JP Elliott is the VP of talent management at Dick’s Sporting Goods at DICK’S Sporting Goods.
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About Dick’s Sporting Goods: Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Alexander Tomey
Senior Vice President – GMM Athletic Apparel, Licensed & Accessories / Footwear / Outerwear Apparel of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Alex Tomey joined DICK’S Sporting Goods in June 2011 leading our Apparel and Footwear Merchandising categories. Previously, Alex Tomey was Vice President Product Development and Design for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., where he was responsible for their private and exclusive brand portfolio including apparel, accessories, outerwear and shoes. During his tenure, he led the creation of Wal-Mart’s New York Apparel Office as well as managing all aspects of Kid’s Apparel. Before joining Wal-Mart, Alex Tomey held Merchandising and Product Development roles with Famous Barr and Kohl’s Department Stores.
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About Dick’s Sporting Goods: Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
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.
Rick Hernandez
Commercial Innovation Leader & Vice President of Global Business Development of Pitney Bowes
Rick Hernandez leads Commercial Innovation and Business Development for Pitney Bowes. He launched Pitney’s Shipping API business and is responsible for guiding Pitney’s Global Fulfillment, Shipping and Returns strategy. A graduate of Stanford University, Rick previously led Research & Development, Customer Service and Business Development at Endicia, where he transitioned the business from a $10M startup to a $100M powerhouse. Rick has held leadership positions in Product Management and Client Services for successful startups that have been acquired by Sungard, Travelocity/Sabre, Infor, Newell Rubbermaid, and Stamps.com. He has been awarded eight patents and currently serves on a volunteer basis as a Planning Commissioner in Half Moon Bay, where he lives with his family.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Gary Johnson
Vice President, Global Technical Operations, Planning & Support of Pitney Bowes
Gary Johnson is the Vice President, Global Technical Operations, Planning & Support at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Manish Choudhary
Senior Vice President, Global Product Management & Strategy of Pitney Bowes
As the SVP for SMB Products & Strategy at Pitney Bowes, Manish has responsibilities of the SMB Shipping & Mailing portfolio that generates over $1.7B in annual revenues. He is responsible for product and market positioning & strategy including equipment and SaaS offerings, SMB financial results, customer experience, driving market competitiveness and delivering client value to a base of 700k clients globally. He is leading a team that is at the center of transformation of the legacy mailing business of PB and is responsible to drive new value offerings with capabilities in IOT, cloud, data & analytics & AI. He is also building domain-relevant developer communities, ecosystem & partner marketplaces in shipping, mailing and ecommerce industry. Manish has held a variety of leadership roles in his 17 years at Pitney Bowes. Most recently, Manish was the SVP for Global Innovation where he led a global team of over 900 people, across 5 countries, 12 locations to create products and technologies for driving digital and physical commerce for Pitney Bowes clients worldwide. He founded PB Bowes India office in 2007, moving from Albany NY, as the first employee and grew it to 800 people. Pitney Bowes has been named one of India’s Top Workplaces consistently for the past 6 years. Manish also launched the Pitney Bowes Startup Accelerator Program in 2014 that has incubated 23 starts up and has been named one of Top 15 Startup incubators. He regularly participates in policy and decision making with Indian and US business councils evangelizing Pitney Bowes brand and solutions in the global ecosystem. He is also one of the key founding Board Members of Catalyst, a global nonprofit organization that promotes inclusive workplaces for women. Manish is an MBA from the Anderson School of Management, UCLA, Los Angeles, an MS from Ohio and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture. He also has an executive MBA from NUS Business School, Singapore and received executive education at Harvard Business School and MIT.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Steven Green
Vice President, Finance & Chief Accounting Officer of Pitney Bowes
Steven Green is the VP Finance & CAO at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Michael McComb
Senior Vice President Of Sales of Pitney Bowes
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About Newgistics, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Ralph Kasuba
Vice President & General Manager of Pitney Bowes
Ralph Kasuba is the Vice President & General Manager at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Debbie Salce
Vice President & Treasurer of Pitney Bowes
Debbie Salce is the Vice President & Treasurer at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Phil Landler
Vice President Strategy of Pitney Bowes
Philip Landler is the Vice President Strategy at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Michael Fellers
Vice President of Sales, Global eCommerce of Pitney Bowes
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About Convey, Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Julie-Anne Selvey
Vice President – Brand Communications / Head of Corporate Social Responsibility for IAC Applications of IAC
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About IAC: IAC is a media and Internet company with more than 150 brands and products serving consumer audiences.
Joanne Hawkins
Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of IAC
Joanne Hawkins is the Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of IAC. In this capacity, her responsibilities include securities laws and related regulatory compliance, corporate governance and corporate finance matters and assisting in the general administration of the legal department. Ms. Hawkins was promoted to this position in February 2006 from Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, a position she held since September 2005. She previously served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel, a role she held since December 2000. Prior to IAC, she worked for Cahill Gordon & Reindel, a New York law firm, serving first as an Associate and then as a Senior Attorney. At Cahill Gordon & Reindel, her practice focused on general corporate law, securities laws, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Hawkins graduated with a B.S. in accounting from St. John’s University and a J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law, where she was a member of the Law Review.
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About IAC: IAC is a media and Internet company with more than 150 brands and products serving consumer audiences.
Mark Schneider
Senior Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis of IAC
Mark Schneider is the Senior Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis at IAC.
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About IAC: IAC is a media and Internet company with more than 150 brands and products serving consumer audiences.
Trish Lounsbury
Senior Vice President & Internal Audit of IAC
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Frank Bruno
Vice President Business Development of Power Kiosk
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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.
Annie Banks Raser
Vice President Of Production of MeatEater
Annie Banks Raser is the Vice President of Production and Operations at MeatEater. Previously, Annie spent over three years working at Zero Point Zero Production as the Head of Production from the year 2016 to 2018 and as a Producer form the year 2015 to 2018.
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About MeatEater: MeatEater is an outdoor lifestyle media and commerce company that provides content about the natural world.
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.
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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Martin Hood
Vice President, Channel Partnerships of CashStar
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Terry Sutton
Vice President, Client Success of CashStar
Terry Sutton is a seasoned senior executive with over 25 years of experience in Operations, Technology and Customer Experience. She most recently was at L.L.Bean where she oversaw the E-commerce and Marketing departments as Senior Vice-President of the Direct Channel. Prior to that she was the VP of Customer Satisfaction for L.L.Bean, responsible for four call centers and over 1,000 employees. She is unique in her ability to bring together people, process and technology to solve complex business problems and is known for her ability to translate strategy into action. Her passion for the customer experience and business process design and optimization positions her well to scale DAVO Technologies for the future. Terry has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Dan Farrell
Vice President, Worldwide Sales of CashStar
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Dan Farrell
Vice President, Worldwide Sales of CashStar
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Katherine Edenbach
Vice President, Finance of CashStar
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Julian King
Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development of Xoom
Julian King joined Xoom in 2005 and is the company’s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development. He runs marketing, advertising, public relations, business development and strategy. Julian came to Xoom from EarthLink, where he was Vice President of Marketing and Products for the PeoplePC Online business, and was instrumental in growing it to more than a million paying subscribers. From 1992 to 2000, Julian worked at Procter & Gamble, most recently as Marketing Director. Julian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Xoom: Xoom is a digital money transfer company that allows users to securely transfer money online.
Hannah Budreski
Vice President Marketing Communications of Endurance International Group
Hannah Budreski is Vice President of Marketing at Endurance International Group, a technology company focused on helping small businesses around the world and whose family of brands includes Constant Contact, Bluehost, HostGator, and Domain.com. During her 20 year career, Hannah has honed her skills at building brands, driving demand, and helping customers meet their milestones. Deeply passionate about small business, Hannah is accomplished at adding value for customers at all stages of their journey from those just starting out to established and expanding businesses.
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About Endurance International Group: Endurance International Group provides small businesses with the products and technology they need to enhance their online presence.
Shahab Salemy
Vice President, Digital Transformation & Global Technology Program Office of Nike
Shahab Salemy is Senior Program Director within Global Digital Innovation at Nike.
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About Nike: Nike designs, develops, and markets footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products.
Jarvis Sam
Vice President, Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion of Nike
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Andrew Chen
Senior Vice President – Product, Design, & Data of Flow Commerce
Andrew Chen is the senior vice president of product management at [Flow](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/flow-8), a turn-key platform for e-commerce companies to go global, capturing international demand for their products. Previously, he was the vice president of product management, UX, and design at [BaubleBar](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/baublebar#/entity). Prior to BaubleBar, Chen was the director of products at [Gilt Groupe](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gilt-groupe) and [iHeartMedia](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clear-channel-communications#/entity). He was also the principal product manager of [Lot18](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lot18#/entity). In 2009, Chen founded SnapItTo.Me and served the same company as the head of products. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Yale University.
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About Flow Commerce, Gaingels: Flow is a platform that enables e-commerce companies to go global.
Juliana Pereira
Vice President Marketing of Flow Commerce
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Heather Howard
Senior Vice President of Operations and People of Rothy’s
Heather Howard serves as VP of Operations and People at Rothy’s.
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About Rothy’s: Rothy’s is a global lifestyle brand transforming sustainable materials into timeless shoes, handbags and accessories.
Michael Elkins
Vice President of Red Ventures
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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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Caton Frates
Senior Vice President, General Manager of Costco
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Jaime Gonzalez
Senior Vice President, General Manager- Mexico of Costco
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Mario Omoss
Senior Vice President, General Manager, Northwest Region of Costco
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Rich Olin
Senior Vice President, and General Counsel of Costco
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Timothy L. Rose
Executive Vice President, Costco Wholesale Industries of Costco
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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.
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.
Ryoma Ito
Vice President of Product Management of Specialdeals.com
* VP of Product at Sologamoco/PayEVER * Over 5 years of software development and product management experience * Founder of Asianrice.tv * Project Manager at Microsoft * Director of Product at EatLime/TwitVid * Employee #1 at Mertado (acquired by Groupon) * University of Waterloo, Canada, BS in Computer Science
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About MakersPlace, Specialdeals.com: Specialdeals.com, Inc. is an online social bank account to collect money for certain events.
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.
Jamie Nessel
Vice President of Buying & Merchandising of Good Eggs
Schooled by the pioneers of the organics movement at Good Earth Natural Foods, Jamie moved on to join Whole Foods Market and take on roles of ever increasing oversight and responsibility. At the end of her 12 years at Whole Foods, Jamie owned purchasing and operations for Dairy, Frozen, Bulk and Grocery at 44 stores in Northern California, a $600 million business unit. She came to Good Eggs in January 2017 to build and scale a thriving purchasing program in order to yield a complete yet curated marketplace of absurdly fresh and rigorously sourced products. She now leads a team of 40 across Production, Merchandising, Engineering and Category Management and is proud to be living her values every day.
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About Good Eggs: Good Eggs is an online grocer and meal kit delivery service with a mission to reinvent the food system, for good.
Olivier Ropars
Vice President & CMO of StubHub
Olivier Ropars oversees StubHub’s global marketing organization, advancing StubHub’s brand to appeal to a global audience across a wider range of live events and expanding the company’s vision to connect people through inspiring live events experiences.Prior to StubHub, Olivier spent six years at eBay where was the Head of Global Performance Marketing and Senior Director of eBay’s European mobile shopping business before that. As an engineer with expertise in business, Olivier has also held various roles as a strategist and growth leader in the technology and retail sector, including McKinsey & Company and Motorola, Inc.
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About StubHub: StubHub is an online ticket marketplace enabling fans to buy and sell tickets to entertainment events.
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.
Mike McNamara
Executive Vice President, Chief Information and Digital Officer of Target
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Joel Crabb
Vice President, Architecture and Chief architect of Target
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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.
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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Vanessa Clayton
Vice President of Legal & HR of Homie
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Carl Asmus
Senior Vice President eCommerce, President & CEO – FedEx Cross Border of FedEx
Carl W. Asmus is Vice President of Supply Chain Solutions & Market Development for FedEx Services. He is responsible for the development, management and execution of the Global Supply Chain Solutions portfolio as well as the vertical segment strategies including: Crossborder E-Commerce, Healthcare and Aerospace. Asmus joined Federal Express in 1989 as Manager of Advanced Automation Programs. In 1992, he was promoted to Vice President, Strategic Sales Planning and Support. In 1997, he was named Vice President in Global Marketing where he has held numerous positions before assuming his current position in 2013. Before joining FedEx as part of the Federal Express-Flying Tigers merger, Asmus was the Senior Director of Marketing for Flying Tigers. Prior to Flying Tigers, Asmus was a partner with C. William Associates, a marketing consulting firm based in Los Angeles, California. Carl is a graduate of California State University-Northridge.
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About FedEx, FedEx: FedEx provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce, and business services.
