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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 VP’ operating in the E-Commerce space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Andrea Chesleigh
VP of Product of Boxed
Andrea Chesleigh is the VP of product at Boxed.
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About Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Eric Carnell
CLO, VP Corporate 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.
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.
Steve Boom
VP, Digital Music of Amazon
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About Amazon, MusiCares Foundation: 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.
Paul Misener
VP, Global Innovation Policy & Communications of Amazon
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About Amazon, 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.
Jeffrey Blackburn
SVP, WW Business Development 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.
Steven Kessel
SVP, Worldwide Digital Media of Amazon
Mr. Kessel serves as a Senior Vice President, Worldwide Digital Media at Amazon.com. Kessel received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
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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.
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO of Amazon
Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Amazon.com in Seattle, Washington. In charge of driving technology innovation within the company, Vogels has broad internal and external responsibilities. He joined Amazon in September of 2004 as the Director of Systems Research. He was named Chief Technology Officer in January of 2005 and Vice President, World-wide Architecture in March of that year. Prior to joining Amazon.com, from 1994 until 2004, Vogels was a research scientist at the Computer Science Department of Cornell University. He mainly conducted research in scalable reliable enterprise systems. From 1999 through 2002 he also held a Vice President and Chief Technology position at Reliable Network Solutions, Inc. From 1991 through 1994 he was a senior researcher at INESC in Lisbon, Portugal. Vogels received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands with Prof. Henri Bal and Prof. Andy Tanenbaum as his advisors. He is the author of many conference and journal articles, mainly on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing systems. Vogels maintains a technology oriented weblog named “All Things Distributed†which he started in 2001 while he was still a scientist at Cornell. It was mainly used to discuss early results of his research. After he joined Amazon.com the nature of the weblog changed to more personal with some general technology and industry writings. Vogels described the deep technical nature of Amazon’s infrastructure work in a paper about Amazon’s Dynamo, the storage engine for the Amazon Shopping Cart.
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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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About Amazon, Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Tom Taylor
Senior Vice President Amazon Alexa of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Jay Carney
Senior Vice President for Global Corporate Affairs of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Stephen Hartell
Vice President of Amazon
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About Amazon, Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Amit Aggarwal
Sr. Vice President and Country Manager, Amazon India of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Philippe Saint-Just
Co-Founder and SVP of Product of REEF
Philippe Saint-Just is a Co-Founder and SVP of Product at REEF Technology.
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About REEF: REEF Technology is a company that transforms urban real estate such as parking facilities into thriving mobility and logistical hubs.
Tov Arneson
VP of Product of REEF
Tov Arneson is the Vice President of Product at REEF Technology and Co-Founder & Partner at AGG Group. He is a former Co-Founder & CEO at Validated and Co-Founder & COO at Parkt.
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About REEF: REEF Technology is a company that transforms urban real estate such as parking facilities into thriving mobility and logistical hubs.
Noora Raj Brown
SVP of Global Communications of Goop
Noora Raj Brown is the SVP of Global Communications at Goop.
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About Goop: Goop is a lifestyle brand providing digital content and commerce.
Stephen Martinez
SVP of Operations of Goop
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About Goop: Goop is a lifestyle brand providing digital content and commerce.
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
Paul Gaffney
EVP & CTO of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Bill Goldberg joined MediMedia as Chief Executive Officer in 2011.
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About Dick’s Sporting Goods, MediMedia, The Aspen Institute: 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
Stephanie Yee
VP of Data Science of Stitch Fix
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About Stitch Fix: Stitch Fix is a personal styling platform that delivers curated and personalized apparel and accessory items for women.
David Feller
VP, New Verticals of Gopuff
Highly analytical operator and entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience building, leading, innovating & driving hyper-growth for startups. Deep expertise in consumer, ecommerce, marketplace, and food tech businesses. Hands-on knowledge in marketing, product, growth, strategy, BD, M&A, mobile, data, monetization, fundraising, and management. Founder & CEO of Yummly. Utilizing award-winning product & design, cutting-edge growth marketing, and industry-leading data science, Yummly became the #1 global recipe app and digital kitchen platform for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Built Yummly from the ground up to over 25M registered users with a $0 CAC through hyperfocus delighting users and utilizing innovative approaches to growth, product, data, and monetization. Yummly won major awards including designation as an Apple “Essential” app (given to the top ~100 apps), Webby’s, Davey’s, W3 awards, and was nominated as Best Overall App by Google. Yummly was acquired by Whirlpool. Prior to Yummly, GM of a $500M revenue eBay business, and an early member of both Half.com and StumbleUpon (prior to their acquisitions by eBay). I’m an active mentor, advisor, and investor in early-stage and venture-backed companies.
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About Gopuff: Gopuff is digital delivery service designed to deliver daily essentials within minutes.
Daniel Folkman
SVP, Business of Gopuff
SVP, Business at goPuff
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Julie Channing
VP of Marketing of Allbirds
Julie Channing is the VP of marketing at Allbirds.
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About Allbirds: Allbirds is an apparel and fashion company that specializes in manufacturing eco-friendly wool shoes.
Haroon Mokhtarzada
VP Digital Products of Cimpress
Haroon Mokhtarzada, together with two of his brothers founded Freewebs in 2001. In 2006 Haroon raised $12m in capital for Freewebs (later renamed to [Webs]. In 2007, he co-Founded [SGN], the Social Gaming Network, and spun it out as a separate company after raising $15m in venture capital. SGN was acquired by [Mindjolt] in 2010. Webs was acquired by Vistaprint in 2011 for $117.5 million. Haroon is now VP of Digital Products at Vistaprint and is an active angel investor and advisor.
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About Cimpress, The Aspen Institute, Truebill: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Trynka Shineman
EVP & President, Vistaprint BU of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Don Nelson
EVP, Chief Operating Officer of Cimpress
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Sean Quinn
SVP, Chief Financial Officer of Cimpress
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Jim Cutler
SVP, Chief Talent Officer of Cimpress
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Jim Cutler
SVP, Chief Talent Officer of Cimpress
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Lawrence Gold
SVP, Chief Legal Officer of Cimpress
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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.
Sabah Mikha
VP of Finance & Strategy, Global Fashion Brands of TechStyle Fashion Group
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About TechStyle Fashion Group: TechStyle is a global membership fashion commerce company focused on reimagining the global fashion business.
Alden Miles
VP of Product of Trove
The world’s most innovative brands trust Trove to run their resale platforms.
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About Trove: Trove builds white-label technology and end-to-end operations that power circular shopping for premium and luxury brands.
Caitlin Moorman
VP of Data of Trove
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About Trove, Yerdle: Trove builds white-label technology and end-to-end operations that power circular shopping for premium and luxury brands.
Jacob Schultz
VP of People of Trove
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About Trove: Trove builds white-label technology and end-to-end operations that power circular shopping for premium and luxury brands.
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.
David Schwartz
VP, Customer Solutions of Pitney Bowes
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About Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Joseph Schmitt
SVP & Chief Information Officer of Pitney Bowes
Joe Schmitt is the SVP & Chief Information Officer 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.
Jason Dies
EVP & President, Pitney Bowes Sending Technology Solutions of Pitney Bowes
Jason Dies is the EVP & President, Pitney Bowes Sending Technology Solutions 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.
Johnna Torsone
EVP, HR of Pitney Bowes
Johnna Torsone is the EVP, HR 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.
Daniel Goldstein
EVP, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer of Pitney Bowes
Daniel Goldstein is the EVP, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer 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.
Christoph Stehmann
EVP & President , Enterprise Solutions Group of Pitney Bowes
Christoph Stehmann is the Corporate Strategy & Corporate Development at Pitney Bowes.
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About Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Oren Ellenbogen
VP Engineering of Forter
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About Forter: Forter offers a fraud solution that helps retailers grow sales, lower costs, and improve customer experience via its Decision as Service.
Nick Stoumpas
SVP, Investor Relations & Treasurer of IAC
Nick Stoumpas is the SVP, Investor Relations & Treasurer 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.
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.
Michael Schwerdtman
SVP, Controller & Chief Accounting Officer of IAC
Michael Schwerdtman is the SVP , Controller & Chief Accounting Officer 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.
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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About IAC, IAC: IAC is a media and Internet company with more than 150 brands and products serving consumer audiences.
Barrow Hamilton
VP, Product of Chargify
Barrow is passionate about creating products which most help customers get done what they want to get done. Prior to joining Chargify, Barrow lead product development at AllClear ID, creating products to protect consumer identities and solutions to increase identity protection capabilities for the company’s clients. In his career he has also lead teams focused on developing customer solutions at Accenture, AT&T, and Rackspace, Barrow enjoys time with his family, music, sports, and learning about new ideas for solving things with software.
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About Chargify: Chargify is a subscription billing software service that offers a recurring billing and subscription management space.
Megan Evert
SVP, Operations of Flexe
Megan Evert is the SVP of operations at FLEXE.
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About Flexe: Flexe delivers omnichannel logistics programs for eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, same-day delivery, and network capacity.
Monal Patel
SVP & CBO of Unbxd
At Unbxd, Monal helps eCommerce companies solve their product discovery problems and create growth by providing new and improved approaches to decision making. Monal has 15+ years of experience in the software & retail industry and is a seasoned speaker at major eCommerce events like Etail West, MivaCon, Fashion Digital, Etail East, etc. Monal holds a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Southern California.
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About Unbxd: Unbxd is an e-commerce product discovery platform that connects shoppers to the products they are most likely to buy.
Frank Bruno
Vice President Business Development of Power Kiosk
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About Power Kiosk: Connecting Buyers And Sellers Of Gas And Electricity
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.
Kyrylo Ledovskoy
VP Data Services 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.
Lee Feigenbaum
EVP of Customer Success of Salsify
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About Salsify: Salsify empowers brands by providing tools to track and analyze inventories, presentation, and sales of goods on digital shelves.
Brian Becker
VP, Content & Innovation of 1-800-FLOWERS
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About 1-800-FLOWERS: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is a floral and gift retailer offering fresh flowers, plants, gift baskets, gourmet foods, balloons and plush toys.
Leslie Leifer
VP , Enterprise Strategy & Business Development of 1-800-FLOWERS
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About 1-800-FLOWERS: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is a floral and gift retailer offering fresh flowers, plants, gift baskets, gourmet foods, balloons and plush toys.
Pratik Bhadra
SVP of Product of Bluecore
Pratik is the SVP of Product at Bluecore. In this role, Pratik leads the evolution of the next generation email solution and the leapfrog to a retail performance platform. Previously, he was the VP of Product at Zeta Global, where he led the product initiative to define and build Zeta’s marketing cloud, incorporating several ESPs and marketing databases to form Zeta’s flagship product line. Prior to Zeta Global, Pratik held several software management roles at National Instruments. Pratik holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.
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About Bluecore: Bluecore uses predictive intelligence to automatically connect shoppers to products, content, and offers, wherever they are.
Tim Kimmet
VP Cloud Platform of Walmart Labs
Tim leads the Cloud Computing Platform at Walmart, code-named Strati. This includes common layers such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and Platform frameworks and services that support rapid application development at Walmart. The scope of this Platform is to dramatically increase the digital to physical integration of Walmart’s assets including @WalmartLabs Global E-commerce, Stores, Clubs, Distribution Centers and Fulfillment Centers. Tim is responsible for driving many of Walmart’s open source initiatives, including OneOps— a tool that manages continuous lifecycle management for business critical applications for all of Walmart’s properties (digital and physical). Prior to Walmart, Tim built similar platforms at scale for internet companies in Silicon Valley, including Ebay, PayPal and other startups prior.
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About Conscience VC, Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Becky Case
VP Engineering of Rent the Runway
Becky is the VP of Engineering at Rent the Runway. She is a musician-turned-computer-scientist who specializes in architecting large-scale systems in the e-commerce space. Prior to joining Rent the Runway in July 2018, she was VP Engineering at Birchbox, after having worked at a variety of early-stage startups, including Bonobos and OpenSky, as well as the multi-million-dollar-per-day Zappos.com.
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About Rent the Runway: Rent the Runway is an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories.
Ted Conbeer
SVP of Strategy + Data of MakeSpace
He is an SVP of Strategy + Data at MakeSpace.
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About MakeSpace: MakeSpace is an on-demand storage company that makes it easy to order, store, and retrieve physical belongings.
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.
Dennis Careri
VP of Engineering of ShopAdvisor
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About ShopAdvisor: Provides the data & analytics to power mobile shopping experiences that drive consumers’ path to purchase in brick-and-mortar locations.
Dennis Careri
VP of Engineering of ShopAdvisor
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About ShopAdvisor: Provides the data & analytics to power mobile shopping experiences that drive consumers’ path to purchase in brick-and-mortar locations.
Bill McLaughlin
SVP Sales & Marketing of ShopAdvisor
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About ShopAdvisor: Provides the data & analytics to power mobile shopping experiences that drive consumers’ path to purchase in brick-and-mortar locations.
Lori Flees
SVP and Chief Operating Officer, Walmart Health & Wellness of Walmart
Lori Flees is Senior Vice President, Next Gen Retail and Principal, Store No 8. In this role, Lori leads the incubation of new businesses (via Store No 8) and builds strategic partnerships that will help Walmart define, enable and win the next generation of retail. Lori is also responsible for our growth strategies and partnerships in digital media/entertainment (including day-to-day leadership of our VUDU platform) and in Health and Wellness in close collaboration with the Walmart US Stores leadership. Lori joined Walmart in 2014 as SVP, Corporate Strategy and had responsibility for Corporate Strategy, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis, Mergers & Acquisitions and Integration (Acceleration). In this role, Lori worked with Walmart’s senior leadership to define the company’s priorities and align the organization to execute. This included an aggressive corporate development agenda which comprised the acquisition and integration of Jet.com, several additional eCom acquisitions, some International portfolio divestitures as well as key strategic or joint-venture partnership agreements in healthcare and supply chain. Prior to joining Walmart, Lori spent over 17 years at Bain & Company where she was a partner in the global strategy consulting firm. While at Bain, Lori worked with clients to develop growth strategies (organic and acquisitive) and to drive performance, improvement & organizational alignment. Prior to Bain, Lori held roles at Intel Corporation and General Motors. Lori has a bachelor’s degree in management systems from Kettering University (formerly General Motors Institute) and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
