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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 Retail 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.
Kara Hurst
Vice President, Amazon; Head of Worldwide Sustainability of Amazon
Kara Hurst is the Head of Worldwide Sustainability at Amazon. Prior to Amazon, Hurst was appointed as the CEO of The Sustainability Consortium in August of 2012. Hurst spent eleven years at BSR (Business for Social Responsibility), where she served as Vice President, playing a crucial role in BSR’s global expansion by overseeing all activities on the U.S. East Coast, BSR’s work with governments, multi laterals and foundations, and the annual BSR Conference. A skilled CSR practitioner, Hurst’s areas of expertise include corporate transparency, responsible supply chain management, management structures, policy assessment, and industry collaboration. Hurst holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College of Columbia University.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
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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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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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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.
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.
Brian Grassadonia
Executive VP & General Manager of Cash App of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Alyssa Henry
EVP & General Manager Seller Business Unit, EVP Infrastructure & InfoSec of Square
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About Confluent, Intel, Square, Unity Technologies: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Jojo Flores
Co-Founder & Vice President of Operations of Plug and Play Tech Center
Jojo is currently involved in the overall strategic planning and prioritizing of Plug and Play. Jojo’s immediate focus is on building strategic alliances in the Philippines and other reigns of South East Asia.
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About Launchgarage, Plug & Play, Plug and Play Brand & Retail, Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Jackie Hernandez
VP of Operations of Plug and Play Tech Center
Jackie Hernandez is SVP Global Partnerships & Founding Member of Plug and Play.
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About Hollywood Production Center, Plug and Play Tech Center, Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Connie Weisman
Vice President, Corporate Partnerships – Innovation of Plug and Play Tech Center
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Sobhan Khani
Vice President of Plug and Play Tech Center
Sobhan Khani serves as Mobility Director at Plug and Play Tech Center. Sobhan Khani is also the corporate partnership manager for Plug and Play IoT and founding member of Plug and Play Mobility. He has worked with Plug and Play. for the past two years. He manages corporate relationships within Plug and Play with a special focus in IoT/ Mobility. He assists start-ups in the field grow and connect with the right partners. Prior to Plug and Play, He worked for XEROX as business analyst. Sobhan Khani obtained a Master’s Degree in Engineering Management from University of Southern California in 2014.
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About Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
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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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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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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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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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.
Brett Parker
Vice Chairman, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Bowlmor AMF
Brett Parker serves as a Vice Chairman, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at Bowlmor AMF.
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About Bowlero, Bowlmor AMF: Bowlmor AMF in bowling and entertainment in North America.
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.
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.
Anshu Bhardwaj
VP, Technology Commercialization and Strategy of Walmart
Anshu Bhardwaj is Vice President, Product at Sam’s Club for eCommerce, Membership, Marketing and Innovation. She is a seasoned executive with 20 years of experience in retail, eCommerce and technology industries across India and US. Anshu loves creating empowered teams that build magical experiences for members. Her team launched Scan & Go to chain in under a year and drove it to over $1B in revenue within a year of launch, engaged more Sam’s customers digitally by doubling the mobile app member base, merging Scan & Go app and core eCommerce app into one, driving 2x growth in site and mobile app revenue, overhauling holiday execution for SamsClub.com, launching in-club Innovation Labs in Nevada and Dallas to rapidly develop and test new experiences that reduce member friction, increase associate productivity, and drive digital engagement.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
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.
Casey Carl
EVP and Chief Omni Strategy and Operations Officer of Walmart
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About MATTER, Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Jeremy Verba
GM & VP (officer), Vudu of Walmart
Jeremy Verba is the vice president and general manager of [Walmart](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/walmart), a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department stores and warehouse stores. He also serves as a board director and board advisor at hopTo and Hilltop Venture Partners respectively. Previously, Verba was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Foundation Capital. Prior to Foundation Capital, he was the chief executive officer of eHarmony. He was also the general manager of Zynga. Before joining Zynga, Verba served as president and chief executive officer for Piczo. Additionally, he has held leadership roles at AOL, E! Online, and CNET. He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT and an MBA 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.
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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About The University of Texas at Austin, Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Tracy Harlow
Vice President, Global Communications – Digital Engagement of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
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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Andy Trainor
VP, Walmart US Learning of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Brock McKeel
VP Customer Experience of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
John Damalas
Vice President, Associate Digital Experience of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Autumn Bayles
SVP Global Supply Chain and VP Global Supply Chain of Aramark
Autumn Bayles is responsible for implementing large-scale productivity initiatives across the client portfolio of Aramark, a $13B global leader in professional services, providing award winning food services, facilities services, and uniforms to clients all over the world.Prior to her current role at Aramark, Autumn was Vice President of Strategic Development, leading initiatives such as growth strategies, M&A projects, and other strategic assessments across the various business units. Before joining Aramark, Autumn was the SVP of Strategic Operations at Flowers Foods through the acquisition of Tasty Baking Company. Previously, Autumn was a Managing Principal consultant with IBM Business Consulting Services as well as Director of Consulting for Destiny Solutions, a portfolio company of venture capital firm Safeguard Scientifics.
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About Aramark: Aramark provides food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to healthcare institutions and more.
Michael Cantalino
VP of Recruiting & Culture of Focal Systems
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About Focal Systems: Automate and optimize retail through the use of deep learning computer vision. With focalOS, Focal provides the operating system of retail.
Rob Mills
SVP & CIO of Tractor Supply Company
Robert Mills has served as the senior vice president and chief information officer for Tractor Supply Company since 2014. Prior to joining the company, Mills was the chief information officer for Ulta Beauty. From 2005—2011, Mills was the vice president and chief information officer for the online business unit at Sears Holdings Corporation where he began as an information technology customer relationship leader in 2001. Prior to 2001, he held roles at Allstate Insurance, Rockwell International Telecommunications Division and Household Finance Corporation.
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About Tractor Supply Company: Tractor Supply Company helps customers find everything they need to maintain their farms, ranches, homes and animals.
Michelle Cutter
SVP of Digital and Ecommerce of Theory
Michelle Cutter is the SVP of Digital and Ecommerce at Theory. In her role, she manages the brand’s global digital strategy and execution. Michelle is also the founder of Dogged Digital, a digital strategy consultancy focused on raising the digital IQ of small women-owned businesses. In 2018, she was honored to be a Remodista Woman2Watch in business disruption. Prior to Theory, she held similar roles at Tory Burch and Tumi. Michelle received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.B.A. from New York University. Michelle lives in Hopewell, NJ with her husband, two children and dog.
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About Theory: Theory The latest news, collections and happenings.
Paul Moulton
Executive Vice President – CIO of Costco
Paul Moulton is EVP and CIO of Costco Wholesale Corporation. In this role, Moulton is responsible for the direction of all technology and information systems of Costco Wholesale worldwide. Moulton has been with Costco for 30 years and has served on the company’s executive committee for 23 years.
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Jeff Abadir
Senior Vice President, General Manager of Costco
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
James P. Murphy
Executive Vice President, International of Costco
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Caton Frates
Senior Vice President, General Manager of Costco
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Jaime Gonzalez
Senior Vice President, General Manager- Mexico of Costco
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Mario Omoss
Senior Vice President, General Manager, Northwest Region of Costco
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Rich Olin
Senior Vice President, and General Counsel of Costco
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Kathy Kearney
VP, Merchandise Accounting Controller of Costco
Kathy Kearney is the VP, Merchandise Accounting Controller at Costco Wholesale.
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Don Burdick
SVP Global eCommerce of Costco
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Timothy L. Rose
Executive Vice President, Costco Wholesale Industries of Costco
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About Costco: Costco is a membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
Alexander Ringsdorff
Vice President of Corporate Development of NewStore
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About NewStore: NewStore operates a platform for retailers to run their stores on the iPhone.
Mary Beth Laughton
EVP, Omni Retail (US Stores & Digital) of Sephora
Mary Beth Laughton is the Executive Vice President of U.S. Omni Retail at Sephora. A visionary and strategist with a deep understanding of how customers are evolving, Ms. Laughton is responsible for Sephora’s omnichannel business, driving growth and ensuring a seamless and holistic client–centric approach across store and digital channels. In this role, she oversees the stores field organization, retail operations,Sephora.com, and omni experiences and innovation. During her time at Sephora she has pioneered many innovative, consumer-focused experiences both online and in stores, reflecting her relentless focus on making the client experience as integrated as possible. Ms. Laughton joined the Company in 2012, and since that time, Sephora’s e-commerce business has quadrupled, due in large measure to its leadership in mobile, digital marketing and site experience. Promoted to Sephora’s Senior Vice President of Digital in 2014, Ms. Laughton led the retailer to its dominance in digital innovation, including the launch of its award-winning mobile App and site, as well as its leading in-store digital, omnichannel, and CRM/personalization experiences. She has also served on the Operating Committee for the company since 2015. Previous to Sephora, Ms. Laughton spent nearly a decade at Nike, where she held a variety of strategy, merchandising and e-commerce roles including three years as General Manager for Nike’s Europe e-commerce business. Ms. Laughton also previously worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company in Chicago, her hometown. Ms. Laughton earned a BA from Indiana University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She currently resides in San Francisco with her husband and two children
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About Athleta, Sephora: Sephora is an online shopping site that offers a range of beauty products such as cosmetics and skincare items.
James Ludwig
VP of Global Design + Engineering. Executive Officer of Steelcase
James Ludwig joined Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University as Adjunct Professor in 2021.
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About Segal Design Institute, Steelcase: Steelcase is the global company that manufactures furniture, interior architecture, and technology products and services.
Robert Krestakos
VP Global Operations of Steelcase
Bob Krestakos is vice president, Global Operations at Steelcase Inc. The global leader in the office furniture industry. Named to this role in March 2015, Bob is responsible for Supply Chain, which includes Order Fulfillment, Procurement, Manufacturing, Transportation, and Distribution, at all locations around the globe. Previously, Bob was vice president, Americas Operations, a role he held alongside his previous role of vice president, Information Technology (2013-2015). During this time, he focused on introducing new technologies into the manufacturing arena. As of January 2015, Bob was focused solely on Operations. Previously, Bob was vice president, Information Technology (2007-15). Prior to that, he was vice president, Global Technology Infrastructure (2005-07), where he co-led global IT services, with responsibility for systems, networks and associated technical services for all of Steelcase.
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About Steelcase: Steelcase is the global company that manufactures furniture, interior architecture, and technology products and services.
Allan Smith
Vice President, Global Marketing of Steelcase
Allan Smith is vice president, global marketing for Steelcase Inc., the global leader in the office furniture industry.
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About Steelcase: Steelcase is the global company that manufactures furniture, interior architecture, and technology products and services.
David Sylvester
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Steelcase
Dave Sylvester is senior vice president, chief financial officer for Steelcase Inc., the global leader in the office furniture industry. Named to this role in April 2011, Dave expanded on his previous role as vice president, chief financial officer (2006-2011) and also took responsibility for global facilities and real estate and Steelcase aviation. In November 2013, Dave also added information technology to his reporting structure. In March 2014, our global business centers were added to his responsibilities. Previously, Dave was vice president, operations finance (March 2005-October 2006), responsible for operations finance in North America and internationally. He also worked closely with the supply chain organization on product and process placement decisions and on implementing supply chain strategy around the world.
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About Steelcase: Steelcase is the global company that manufactures furniture, interior architecture, and technology products and services.
Eddy Schmitt
Senior Vice President of Steelcase
Eddy Schmitt is senior vice president, Americas for Steelcase Inc., the global leader in the office furniture industry. Appointed to this role in February 2011, Eddy is responsible for sales and channel activities in North America and Latin America. Eddy is also responsible for our global client collaboration teams and applied research and consulting teams in EMEA and APAC. Previously, Eddy was vice president, France for Steelcase (2006-2011), where he was responsible for all sales and channel activities in France.
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About Steelcase: Steelcase is the global company that manufactures furniture, interior architecture, and technology products and services.
Christopher Matue
Vice President of THG
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About THG: The Hut Group is an online retailing platform focused on fast moving consumer goods, specifically focused on health and beauty.
Jordan Savage
Co-Founder & VP, Creative of Grove Collaborative
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About Grove Collaborative: Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
Mark Van Buskirk
Executive Vice President, Merchandising, Marketing, & Retail of Supervalu
Mark Van Buskirk is executive vice president, merchandising, marketing, and retail for SUPERVALU. As a member of the executive leadership team, Van Buskirk is responsible for overseeing companywide retail operations including merchandising and marketing efforts, along with directing SUPERVALU’s private brand offerings and retail pharmacy teams. Since 2006, he served as vice president of meat and seafood merchandising and procurement for The Kroger Co., where he was primarily responsible for the sales planning, merchandising and category management for the meat and seafood departments. Mark joined Kroger in 1992 with Fred Meyer, Inc., as a meat manager in Seattle, WA. His tenure included several key management positions including vice president of meat and seafood, group vice president of perishables, group vice president of the food division and senior vice president and director of the food division.
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About Supervalu: Super Value Market is a retail company serving customers through a network of over 3,000 owned, franchised, and affiliated stores.
Daniel Murphy
Corporate VP Meat & Seafood & SVP West Region Merchandising of Supervalu
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About Supervalu, UNFI: Super Value Market is a retail company serving customers through a network of over 3,000 owned, franchised, and affiliated stores.
Stacey Renfro
EVP, Chief Digital and Customer Experience Officer of Vitamin Shoppe
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About mDesign Global LLC, Vitamin Shoppe: Vitamin Shoppe is an online and physical retailer for vitamins and supplements.
Joseph Weber
Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer of Neiman Marcus Group
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About Neiman Marcus Group: Neiman Marcus Group is a company that owns an apparel store that sells everything from shoes to shirts.
Neva Hall
EVP Stores of Neiman Marcus Group
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About Neiman Marcus Group: Neiman Marcus Group is a company that owns an apparel store that sells everything from shoes to shirts.
Lincoln Smith
Swyft President & Co-Founder
Lincoln co-founded Lead Creation an Australian B-B digital marketing agency before co-founding Swyft.
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About Swyft: Swyft sells great products from leading brands in strategic high profile locations, serving customers.
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.
Jeff Gower
EVP Sales and Services of LoopPay
Jeff Gower is the Chief Executive Officer at MarketSpark.
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About LoopPay, Marketspark: LoopPay is an m-commerce platform provider that enables retail consumers to pay with their mobile phones.
Adina Kagan
SVP, Media & Insights of CHANEL
Adina is the SVP of Media & Customer Insights at Chanel. She is a seasoned marketing professional with expertise in global brands, luxury and retail.
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About CHANEL: CHANEL is provider of latest in fashion & accessories, eyewear, fragrance & beauty, fine jewelry and watches.
Niki Allen
Senior Vice President Of Technology of Kohl’s
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About Kohl’s: Kohl’s Corporation (Kohl’s) operate family-oriented department stores that sell apparel, footwear and accessories
Twinkle Desai
VP Technology of Kohl’s
Twinkle Desai, VP of Technology is responsible for overseeing the Cloud Transformation and DevOps practice for Kohl’s Digital Channels and Stores. Twinkle joined Kohl’s in 2015 and was responsible to bring in the DevOps culture to Kohl’s Digital world. She is responsible to build and delivery the Kohl’s Cloud Transformation strategy and create the footprint to deliver the same. Her previous experience also includes working at Walmart as System Engineer before moving into the leadership role to drive the Data Center strategy and Cloud Migration for global Walmart apps.
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About Kohl’s: Kohl’s Corporation (Kohl’s) operate family-oriented department stores that sell apparel, footwear and accessories
John Mulligan
EVP, COO 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.
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.
