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Marketing: Influencer, Email & More TRACK

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Widely known as “The DTC Guy” on the internet, a Forbes 30 Under 30 member, AdWeek’s Young and Influential and a resource brands and investors turn to for growth, Nik Sharma is a 24-year-old DTC investor, advisor, and operator who has both assisted and led revenue growth at multiple organizations, including Hint Water and VaynerMedia.
Prior of entering the world of commerce, he worked on social media campaigns for A-list celebrities including Pitbull, Priyanka Chopra, MAGIC!, to natively increase distribution, as well as, increase fan interaction and engagement for the purpose of driving album sales.
Today, Nik works alongside brands and publishers to execute ROI- positive campaigns through cohesive digital strategies using paid, earned, and owned media properties.

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For the past three years, Kyle Ranally has been focused on uncovering global consumer insights and trends as part of Facebook IQ, Meta's home for insights powered by what unfolds on our platforms every day. In this role, he helps brands and retailers achieve success by identifying business opportunities grounded in a deep understanding of people's evolving behaviors and expectations.
Before joining Meta, he was an Insights Manager at Mindshare North America, working closely with clients such as Unilever, General Mills, TJX Companies, Booking.com and others.
Prior to that, Kyle worked as a Research Analyst at Dentsu Aegis Network’s Vizeum, supporting clients such as Reckitt Benckiser, Discover, Tommy Hilfiger, and Calvin Klein.

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Randi Zuckerberg is an entrepreneur, investor, bestselling author, and Emmy-nominated tech media personality. She is the founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media, with the mission of supporting current and future entrepreneurs through investment, mentorship, and media.
Randi’s unique background puts her at the forefront of both technology and the arts. As an early employee at Facebook and the creator of Facebook Live, she was on the front lines of shaping Web 2.0 technology for billions of people. She is also an accomplished artist who has performed on Broadway, won three Tony awards for producing Broadway shows: Hadestown, Oklahoma! and The Inheritance and produced the first ever simulcast of a commercial Broadway show during the height of COVID.
Now she is putting these two worlds together at the cutting edge of Web3. One of the most prominent voices for women in crypto and NFTs, Randi is passionate about the unparalleled opportunities for financial success that Web3 can provide for women.
In addition to being one of the largest NFT collectors of women-led projects, she founded HUG, an incubator aimed at growing the next billion-dollar women-led crypto businesses and in the first two weeks of business, received more than a hundred applications and raised $5 million for her initial NFT projects. Randi currently advises and works with more than a dozen different crypto, NFT & metaverse related companies, including Boss Beauties, BFF, Women Rise, OKCoin and Republic. Her YouTube channel explaining crypto has hundreds of thousands of views and her LinkedIn newsletter about Web3 is in the top ten most popular newsletters on the entire site.
A Harvard graduate, Randi hosts a weekly business talk radio show, Randi Zuckerberg Means Businesson SiriusXM and is the author two best-selling business books, Dot Complicated and Pick Three, as well as children’s book, Dot. When she's not trading jpegs, she can be found at the theater or doing her best to unplug at home with her husband and three children who are now almost as obsessed with crypto as she is.

Products TRACK

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David Fogarty is the founder of some of Australia’s biggest ecommerce brands. In 2018 he bootstrapped Calming Blankets and The Oodie to form The Davie Group. This group now launches hundreds of products a year and does over $270 million in sales.

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Chances are good you’ve run across a Square device at some point, especially if you’ve recently visited a food truck or mobile small business. The tiny piece of plastic that allows you to accept credit cards on your smartphone is all over the US and recently landed in Australia, along with a suite of business-management tools. 
The company, co-founded by Jim McKelvey and Jack Dorsey — also the Co-Founder of Twitter — has more than 2,500 employees and is now valued at $20 billion.
While best known for co-founding Square, Jim McKelvey is, in some circles, better known as a master glass artist and author, having written the world’s most widely read text on the subject, The Art Of Fire. His industrial design work is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and The Smithsonian in Washington DC. His glass studio, Third Degree Glass Factory in St. Louis, one of the United States’ main centers of glassblowing arts.
After founding Square, he created the nonprofit LaunchCode, making it possible for anyone to learn programming and land a full-time job in under six months–for free. LaunchCode is an open model that may be freely copied by anyone and aims to solve the worldwide shortage of programmers.
Jim’s most recent venture, Invisibly, gives people control of their online identities.
A 1987 Washington University Economics and Computer Science graduate, he will discuss founding successful companies in payments, education, scientific publishing, construction, printing, glassblowing and software.
Though an eclectic mix, each business is founded upon a simple idea and run by people committed to that idea. Jim has never sold any of his companies and as a result now oversees a diverse portfolio of businesses. Referencing personal experiences and local challenges, he offers a fresh approach to problem solving.
In March 2020, Jim released his book “The Innovation Stack” which is a first-person look inside the world of entrepreneurship, and a call to action for all of us to find the entrepreneur within ourselves and identify and fix unsolved problems-one crazy idea at a time. He has also authored three textbooks, two on computer programming and one on glassblowing. He lectures internationally on art and entrepreneurship.
Jim was appointed as an Independent Director of the St. Louis Federal Reserve in January 2017.
He and his wife, Anna (a programmer and attorney), have two noisy children.

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Ted Buell is the Director of Measurement and Analytics for Google’s US sales & marketing organization. He advises Fortune 500 companies in the retail and B2B sectors on how to drive business growth through digital marketing.
He helps companies understand how consumer behavior is changing, how to reach consumers throughout their decision journey, and what digital strategies grow revenue and profits - including branding, customer acquisition, and customer retention and loyalty.
Ted earned a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Marketplaces & Social Commerce TRACK

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Kellen Fitzgerald leads the ecommerce business & customer experience at Glow Recipe, a fast-growing skincare brand that delivers fruit-forward, clinically effective products for glowing skin.
With over 9+ years of digital experience in the beauty & fashion industries, Kellen carries expertise across multiple ecommerce functions including digital marketing, customer service, CRM, and operations.

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Benjamin Chesler is a builder who loves tackling problems that affect real people's lives. He started Imperfect Foods to tackle the global food waste problem and make groceries more environmentally-friendly and affordable for everyone.
He currently lives in Maine and is working on sustainable economic development for the state.
When he's not at work, you can find him on the living room floor getting crawling lessons from his son Bodhi.

Marketplaces & Social Commerce TRACK

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Kate James is a digitally-native storyteller, who has built her career by authentically navigating brands through our digital world.
An award-winning marketer, she is currently defining digital commerce best-practices for The Coca-Cola company's billion-dollar brands. Formerly on the leadership teams for social media marketing centers at The Coca-Cola Company and Capital One.
Past consulting projects include Citibank and The Nature Conservancy. Masters Graduate of Georgetown University. Advisory Board member for eComm startup Unbox the Dress. Featured as “Who’s Who in eCommerce 2020” by the Path to Purchase Institute.

Business Operations TRACK

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Ezra Firestone has been recognized by Shopify and Entrepreneur Magazine as a leading ecommerce expert and a refreshing voice in the entrepreneurial community. He has founded multiple 7- and 8-figure brands (generating over $111.6 million in the past 5 years), and shares his personal and professional insights through Smart Marketer and Zipify Apps.
An outspoken proponent of “people over profit,” he leads a team of 113 employees while traveling the world educating business owners on how to build brands with integrity and purpose. Most recently in 2019, Ezra partnered with Shopify to create their premier course on Facebook advertising.

Business Operations TRACK

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Mirella Crespi is the founder of the creative strategy and content studio, Creative Milkshake.
By leveraging the powerful combination of performance design and innovative media buying strategies, they take brands from ideation to full-funnel execution.
Mirella Crespi has also founded Pixelhaus, the go-to agency for female-focused brands. Mirella and her female-led dream team have successfully created, launched, and scaled a wide range of DTC brands marketing to women around the world.

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Kyle Widrick is the Founder and CEO of Win Brands Group, an omnichannel retail platform that buys and builds category-defining brands.
Win’s enviable stable of brands includes Homesick (scented candles and home fragrance), QALO (silicone wedding rings and accessories), Gravity (the original weighted blanket), and Love Your Melon (mission-driven outerwear).
Kyle has spent over a decade honing the art of consumer-focused venture capital and brand building, raising millions of dollars, and building businesses responsible for employing hundreds of people in the process.
His background includes working side-by-side with billionaire serial entrepreneur and branding guru J. Christopher Burch, as well as, founding multiple best-in-class investment and marketing operations in the US and abroad.

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Lily Wyckoff is a Creative Industry Lead for Direct Response at Meta, working within Creative Shop and across the larger Global Marketing Solutions to build systems that push the creative potential of performance advertising. Her work focuses on marketing strategies for discovering and democratizing creative principles for advertisers of all sizes across key DR verticals, including Ecommerce, Disruptors, Travel and Retail.
With a BA in Communications from Lynchburg College, Lily got her start leading Social Media at Nordstrom, where she nurtured her love of fashion, technology and buying things online.

Brand Building TRACK

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Sarah Brown, founder and CEO of Pai Skincare is an organic skincare pioneer whose expertise developing all-natural, efficacious products was born from her own experience living with challenging skin. Sarah developed Chronic Urticaria in her mid-twenties and started mixing her own formulations from her garage as a last ditch solution for her hyper reactive skin.
Pai launched in 2007 at a time when the organic category was under-developed and clean beauty wasn’t yet a thing. Sarah was one of the early champions of certified organic, responsibly cultivated ingredients, passionately believing in their therapeutic properties when many around her didn’t. Pai continues to formulate, manufacture and distribute all products from its own custom built facility in West London.
This development process is owned end to end, giving the company creative freedom, full visibility of the supply chain and vigilance over production processes. Sarah believes this due diligence leads to unique, ownable formulations that are of a higher quality. In 2015, Sarah won ‘First Woman in Manufacturing’ at the CBI First Women Awards in recognition of her commitment to British manufacturing.
Before Pai, Sarah was International PR Manager for E&J Gallo Wines in California, having previously managed communications for brands such as Nike and Barclaycard. In 2015 Sarah was appointed to the Board of CEW (Cosmetic Executive Women), a leading beauty industry trade group and won their Achiever Award the same year. Sarah was promoted to the CEW’s Executive Board in 2018. She has appeared as a business commentator on BBC News, Newsnight, Sky News, CNBC and in The Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Financial Times. Pai won a Queens Award for Enterprise (Export) in 2016. Sarah lives in West London with her husband and two sons.

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Dean McElwee is the Director for International Ecommerce Strategy at The Stanley Black & Decker Company.
His remit covers running the international acceleration team across B2C, B2B and D2C ecommerce for the largest tool company in the world.
He combines commercial strategy, ecommerce and analytics to accelerate business performance.
Prior to joining Stanley Black & Decker, he worked for The Kellog Company, The Coca-Cola Company and Mastercard.

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Sailatha Karthikeyan is the Principal Director of Accenture, with experience in leading end-to-end digital commerce transformation projects.
Prior to that, she was leading IBM interactive commerce services for India. She has crafted various digital transformation solutions and implemented digital strategies for clients across retail, automotive, manufacturing and consumer goods industries.
She is an inventor with 15+ software patents and an eloquent speaker on technology trends in international forums.

Products TRACK

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Alex Fedotoff has scaled his ecommerce business to 8-figures in less than 16 months in the hyper-competitive health and fitness niche, generating over $100 million. Forbes calls him the "King of Scaling Facebook Ads" and his community "Facebook Ads Rockstars" has over 48,000 advertisers.

Paid Advertising TRACK

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Maxx Blank is the Co-Founder of Triple Whale. He has deep experience in building DTC brands generating over $20 million in sales in just a few years.

Brand Building TRACK

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Jesse Leeworthy is a Product Design Engineer, brand visionary, and the Co-Founder and creator of memobottle.
memobottle is a Melbourne-based certified B-corporation, committed to inspiring a more reusable society through the design of convenient, everyday products. memobottle has partnered with events and companies such as Spotify and The Australian Open (tennis). Their products have won multiple international design awards, and been endorsed by celebs such as the Kardashians.
Founded in 2014 via crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, memobottle have become renowned for their multiple successful crowdfunding campaigns, shipping their products to 70+ countries, and have provided over 22 million days of clean water to those in need through their partnership with water.org.

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David Gaylord is the current CEO of Bushbalm Skincare, as well as, Shopify’s own Entrepreneur-in-Residence. His main role is scaling Bushbalm, which sells products to treat ingrown hairs, razor burn, dark spots and other commonly ignored skin irritations.
For 6 years, he worked alongside Shopify’s COO, Toby Shannan and learned what goes into scaling a fast-growing operation. Since then, he’s taken his marketing and ecommerce experience to scale Bushbalm to hundreds of waxing salons in North America, large major retailers and hundreds of thousands of consumers struggling with pesky skin concerns worldwide.

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Ronnie Teja owns and operates a thriving ecommerce portfolio of companies that sells watches and related accessories across a portfolio of 15 websites, including Branzio.com. His team consists of 40 employees in a dozen countries. Branzio recently shipped out it’s 1 millionth order.
Ronnie immigrated to Vancouver, Canada in 2008. For his first job, he was picking blueberries on a farm in Vancouver, he was 22 and calls himself an accidental entrepreneur.

Store Design & Optimization TRACK

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Aviv Gilboa is the Head of Product Discovery and Growth at Ring, the whole home security company with a mission to make neighborhoods safer.
In his role, Aviv oversees digital product growth, global ecommerce, and Ring’s concierge security service teams, and develops digital innovation programs that help drive customer engagement and growth. Since joining Ring in 2017, Aviv also launched the Neighbors app, served as the first Chief of Staff to Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, and launched digital innovation programs that helped enable the Amazon acquisition in 2018.
Prior to Ring, Aviv worked at Kleiner Perkins, where he helped establish the Venture Capital firm’s Corporate Development practice, responsible for building strategic partnerships and M&A opportunities between Kleiner’s portfolio companies and Fortune 500 companies like Visa, NBC Universal, Colgate, Best Buy, State Farm, and Mcdonalds. Aviv was issued a patent in 2018 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, is published in TechCrunch, and was a co-author of the inaugural Design in Tech report in 2015 and contributor to Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends reports in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Aviv holds a BA in Political Economy and Technology Entrepreneurship from the University of California, Berkeley, where he still serves on the board of UC Berkeley Hillel.
When he’s not working, Aviv enjoys cooking, rewatching episodes of The West Wing, beta testing tech gadgets, and traveling with family and friends.

Amazon: Growth TRACK

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Gracey Ryback is a social media influencer, award-winning Amazon Live creator, and influencer marketing expert. She has generated over multiple 7-figures of revenue for Amazon sellers and brands in the past year and has been streaming with the Amazon Live program as an A-list creator.
With her community of over a million followers on TikTok, she shares the best Amazon deals and products across 7 different platforms. She has the expertise to help brands on Amazon navigate the influencer marketing world to skyrocket traffic to their listing, boost their keyword ranking, and increase revenue like never before.

Brand Building TRACK

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Jonathan Byrt is a Chartered Accountant, strategic visionary and Co-Founder at memobottle.
memobottle is a Melbourne-based certified B-Corporation, committed to inspiring a more reusable society through the design of more convenient, reusable, everyday products. memobottle has partnered with events and companies such as Spotify, and The Australian Open (tennis), their products have won multiple international design awards, and been endorsed by celebs such as the Kardashians. Founded in 2014 via crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, memobottle have become renowned for their multiple successful crowdfunding campaigns, shipping their products to 70+ countries, and have provided over 22 million days of clean water to those in need through their partnership with water.org.

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Josh Howard is the Founder & CEO of viral sustainability brand Single Use Ain’t Sexy.
His range of revolutionary dissolvable ‘just add water’ hand soap tablets & reusable glass soap bottles have saved tens of thousands of single-use plastic soap bottles from landfill. His business has been featured by NBC Universal, Yahoo News & Time Out.

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Lillie Sun leads growth and DTC at Three Ships Beauty, a clean natural skincare brand. As one of their first employees, her role spans from performance media, to email marketing, to product launch campaigns and everything in between.
Prior to joining Three Ships, Lillie worked in marketing and business operations at various tech startups.

Amazon: Products & Operations TRACK

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Gregory Elfrink is the Director of Marketing at Empire Flippers, the largest curated marketplace in the world for people buying and selling online businesses. He's helped over 50 Amazon FBA entrepreneurs become a millionaire, and many more digital entrepreneurs than that through educating them about the often confusing M&A process of exiting a business. He speaks on stages around the world both virtually and physically while living the life of a digital nomad.

Amazon: Growth TRACK

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Mina Elias is a multiple 7-figure seller in the supplement industry, investor, Amazon PPC expert and founder of Trivium Group, and Amazon Advertising agency.
Mina excels at developing cutting-edge supplements for different target audiences and combines his passion for supplements, his background in chemical engineering and chemistry, and his expertise in PPC to crush the competition on Amazon. His goal is to change the way people perceive Amazon PPC, and empower them to take back control and dominate their ads.

Fulfillment & Customer Service TRACK

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Kristina Muntean manages strategic partnerships for Gorgias in the South East region of North America.
Prior to joining Gorgias, she oversaw ecommerce for the supplement and functional foods brand, Kion.
She loves using her knowledge and passion for marketing strategy, customer experience, product innovation, and partnerships to help brands scale.

Business Operations TRACK

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Ryan Lewendon is an attorney focused on the representation of high-growth, innovative consumer products companies.
He is a partner at the Giannuzzi Group LLP, a premiere boutique law firm that concentrates on the representation of privately-held, high-growth consumer products companies.
Prior to joining The Giannuzzi Group in 2011, he was an associate at Donovan & Giannuzzi LLP.

Brand Building TRACK

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Liam Corcoran has been in the data industry for the past 17 years having founded, scaled and transformed various global businesses within MarTech. At BytePlus Liam is currently focused on bringing the technologies that power leading consumer applications such as TikTok, Fanno and Lemon8 to enterprises across the world.

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Kaitlin Holliday is dedicated to spreading well-being and has been in the natural food industry for over 9 years with a focus on DTC ecommerce, subscription and retention marketing.
Today, she is VP of Growth & Lifecycle at Wild Alaskan Company, a membership that's delivered sustainably-sourced Alaskan seafood to the doorsteps of hundred of thousands of households across the US.
Born and raised in Toronto, Kaitlin lives in New York with her husband, where they’re dedicated to eating their way through the city.

Paid Advertising TRACK

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To some, Jacques Spitzer is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside of some of the greatest performing ads of all time. His 2x Emmy® award-winning, eight-figure agency (Raindrop) has generated over a billion views and $750M in campaign sales for brands, like Dr. Squatch, Manscaped, Lume, Ruggable, William Painter, Worx, Omigo, and Crossrope. Raindrop was also behind the top performing YouTube ad of 2020 and the Dr. Squatch Super Bowl commercial. His work has been featured in publications such as Forbes, AdAge and Entrepreneur Magazine and he was recently named one of the “most influential people in San Diego,” according to the San Diego Business Journal, who added, “Raindrop’s success has put San Diego on the map for agencies nationwide.”

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Charlie is an advertising strategist, writer, speaker, and agency owner. He’s the founder and CEO of Gecko Squared, a paid media agency that manages more than $5.4 million per year in client ad spend. They specialize in working with high-growth ecommerce and information businesses such as industry experts, coaches and consultants in the UK and USA. He’s been planning and buying digital media for over 11 years since he started his first business aged just 18.
He loves speaking at marketing conferences and has been featured on industry leading publications and podcasts such as Social Media Examiner and Jon Loomer Digital.

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Meg Donovan is a seasoned retail executive with 20 years of experience in leadership, merchandising, planning, product development, sourcing, and strategic growth.
She has worked for some of the industry's top leaders, including Saks 5th Avenue, Bloomingdale’s, Pottery Barn, ZGallerie, and Modsy.
Most recently, in her role at Modsy, Meg built the dropship marketplace from the ground up, setting the strategic vision for merchandising and sourcing, building the product data infrastructure, and designing and deploying processes to enable rapid, scalable growth.
In just over three years, she grew the Modsy dropship marketplace from zero to +$30 million in revenue.
Meg holds a BA in Economics from Harvard and currently resides in Northern California.

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Benton Crane is the Chief Executive Officer of Harmon Brothers, a Provo, Utah-based ad agency behind the most viral ads in internet history. Since 2013, the company has created over 30 groundbreaking, distinctive social media spots, which collectively have over 1.5 billion views and helped drive over $700 million in sales.
He believes in bringing excellence to everything he does. Starting his career as an automotive repair mechanic, he was honored as the #1 student mechanic in Utah and #2 in the nation. This knack for diagnosing and solving problems led him to study economics and data analytics. In 2011, he was hired by Deloitte in Washington DC where he served as a consultant with various clients across the national intelligence community.
In 2013, he joined then newly formed Harmon Brothers for a campaign to promote Poo~Pourri, an internet ad that transformed the way products are marketed. Harmon Brothers went on to produce the most viral ads in internet history, including Squatty Potty, FiberFix, OraBrush, Poo~Pourri, Chatbooks, Lume, and Purple.
Crane has managed the agency's growth from its infancy to one of the most sought after ad agencies in the world.

Products TRACK

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Travis Price started his career in ecommerce when he invented Santa’s Flask, The Original Christmas Wine Stocking, and started selling it on Amazon, eventually growing it to become the #1 best-selling product in the drinking flasks category.
He then sold that business and went on to work for Wish.com, the world’s #1 most-downloaded shopping app.
At Wish, Travis helped launch Wish Local, a parcel pickup program spanning 3 continents and 36,000 locations.
Travis now leads ecommerce growth at Mercury, the US banking solution built for ecommerce businesses.

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Peter Kennedy is the Founder and President of Tagger Media LLC, the leading SaaS data platform for agencies and brands who are using influencers as part of their marketing toolkit.
Tagger's powerful, award-winning, all-in-one Influencer Marketing platform and social listening tool allows brands, agencies, and media companies to maximize their influencer marketing strategy and campaign ROI throughout every phase of planning, discovery, activation, and reporting. Some of Tagger’s clients include HBO Max, Land Rover, Bloomingdales, Havas Media and Omnicom.
Prior to starting Tagger, Peter was the Co-Founder of Suturenetics, a medical device developer in the closure industry later sold to Boss Instruments. Other previous roles include Founder and CEO of Wake Nation, a developer and operator of recreational watersports complexes in Ohio and Texas, Co-Founder of Gorilla Guide, a web-based travel company offering products and services to businesses and consumers in the independent travel market, and Global Brand Manager at THQ, overseeing on average 3 titles per year including Disney/Pixar and Nickelodeon video games (Cars, Incredibles, SpongeBob SquarePants) generating over $75M in revenue per year.
Peter holds an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a BA from Denison University. Peter lives in Pacific Palisades, CA with his wife and their 5 children.

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Sanket Shah is a 2x founder having successfully exited his earlier tech start-up.
He started InVideo with a vision to enable everyone to create breathtaking videos fast and easy.
He studied technology at the University of Michigan.
He hails from Mumbai, India and is a proud dog parent to a two year labrador named Dexter.

Products TRACK

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Dayu Yang is the Founder of EcommOps, a premier China fulfillment and supply chain business serving hundreds of Ecommerce Brands fulfilling millions of orders per year.
He is an expert in the entire ecommerce value chain, with 8 years of experience in product development, branding, operations, and logistics. He was featured on ABC’s Shark Tank in 2020 for his company, Pillar Learning’s smart toy “Codi” where he walked away with a $500k deal.
He previously consulted for Fortune 500 companies at BCG on topics ranging from strategy to organizational design.
He has an Economics Degree from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

Amazon: Growth TRACK

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Sam Coyne is a creative and strategic executive with hands-on experience building teams, creating brands and launching products for fast growth companies.
He has spent a decade in Asia in B2B technology companies in a variety of sectors, and has held regional and global roles.
Before joining Currenxie, he was VP of Marketing at venture-backed technology startup OpenPort.
He holds a Masters degree in Business from UCC Ireland and NTU Singapore.

Brand Building TRACK

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Elizabeth Ray, VP of Client Strategy at the mobile messaging platform, Attentive, partners with the world’s most innovative brands to launch and reap the benefits of SMS marketing.
She has spent her career building talented CS teams at fast-growing MarTech companies, most recently at Movable Ink.
Named a 2019 DMN 40under40, Elizabeth lives in Manhattan and runs a digital art gallery in her free time.

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Tink Taylor is Co-Founder & President of Dotdigital (founded in 1999).
He has over 20 years’ experience in the field of digital communications and has introduced digital marketing to companies large & small.
He first launched dotdigital in the US at the back end of 2012 and later took dotdigital to APAC in 2015.
He is currently a strategic advisor to Dotdigital and the Plc Board. He constantly strives to help individual organizations, and the industry as a whole, to develop & progress, acting as a serial tech advisor and investor outside of dotdigital.
In 2018, he was invited to judge the UK Tech Founder and Great British Entrepreneur Awards along with the ANA ECHO awards in the USA.

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Vincent Yang is the Co-Founder and CEO of Firework, the world’s leading interactive experience platform in live commerce omnichannel digital transformation.
He was previously the Co-Founder and CEO of Everstring, No. 1 in predictive analytics, and raised $100M from top venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and IDG Ventures.
Prior to that, Vincent was an Investment Banker at J.P. Morgan and Investor at Summit Partners.

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Jess Chan is the Founder & CEO of Longplay, a full-service retention & lifecycle marketing agency for DTC ecommerce brands. She bootstrapped the agency - scaling to 7-figures in revenue in the first 18 months, and since then the business has continued to scale sustainably and profitably with a remote team.
Longplay has generated $300M+ in email revenue working with clients from startup to $500M+.
As a previous Chief Marketing Officer of a multi-million dollar DTC ecommerce company, Jess built Longplay with a focus on systematic marketing strategies and intensive team development to provide a white glove client experience that achieves results.

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Greg Woodfield is the Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Via, a mobile commerce software platform.
He is an expert on mobile commerce and the messaging space.
He's focused on building authentic relationships and believes the future of customer conversion will take place on mobile real estate.
Greg has worked with brands doing $1B revenue. He and Via’s other Co-Founder, Tejas Konduru have raised over $80M in the last 12 months.

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With over 10 years of experience scaling both B2C and B2B brands, Dan Gray became successful by building great teams, challenging assumptions, and continuously learning along the way.
Dan brings on a very unique perspective of working for early-stage companies and helping to build growth engines regardless of industry, company size or business model.

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Casey Burt is the Director of Client Services at Ordergroove — the leader in subscription performance.
With more than 15 years of ecommerce and subscription commerce experience, Casey is passionate about developing world-class subscriber and customer experiences that help turn one-time shoppers into long-lasting relationships.
His team partners with and guides Ordergroove's largest strategic clients, such as Petsmart, GNC, and Loréal, to ensure they implement successful subscription commerce strategies.
When he's not helping brands reach new levels of subscription success, Casey is spending time with his wife and son, or trying to add a mile to his long-distance running record.

Amazon: Storefront TRACK

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As the co-founder of Downstream, an opportunity he realized after  leading teams both internally at Amazon and on the agency side, Connor's understanding of ecommerce and its unique demands is truly one of a kind. The world’s largest consumer brands have sought Connor’s ability to decode the confounding black box that Amazon represents, and hundreds more use Downstream's technology to drive share on the platform. Connor lives outside of Seattle with his wife and four children.

Amazon: Growth TRACK

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Emma Schermer Tamir transforms her insatiable curiosity into conversion-spiking copy. As Co-Founder and CEO of Marketing by Emma, she’s helped over 1,000 businesses from around the world boost their sales and build their brands online.
Through her thoughtful approach and winning strategies, she has become a leading expert in the field of selling on Amazon. Whether she's speaking on stages across the globe, leading her team, or working with clients, her goal is to empower everyone to create better product pages, Amazon listings, and website copy that makes brands' dream customers excited to click "Add to Cart!”

Business Operations TRACK

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Ecommerce makes sense with the right guidance.
In the last 11 years, Stefan Chiriacescu helped hundreds of businesses, from North America and Europe, to optimize their ecommerce and retail operations.
His priority is to always look at the big picture, find the best direction, and put in place the correct approach.
From integrating POS/ERP systems to the ecommerce components, to actually helping our clients sell their products, Stefan has been and is still involved in day-to-day operations.

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Daniel Rood serves as a product evangelist and the Head of Product Marketing at Gladly.
Before entering the CX space 10 years ago, he served various roles at Amazon.com, Expedia.com, and American Express.
In his spare time, Daniel loves coaching his kids' basketball teams, wearing velcro shoes, and making pizza with his outdoor smoker.

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With over a decade of experience in the financial planning and analysis aspects of the IT and telecommunication industries, Roy Barak brings extensive expertise in pricing models, financial modeling, and working with senior management to transform existing business lines and generating new ones.
Previously, he worked at Amdocs, Vindicia’s parent company. Here he held key financial positions that supported the establishment of an internal accelerator, which introduced half a dozen successful new offerings.
Roy also worked with the Amdocs services sales arm in transforming commercial and pricing models.

Marketplaces & Social Commerce TRACK

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Juan Camilo leads Dentsu commerce services and Martech solutions in Latin America with one of the largest commerce operations in the region. Currently CEO in Isobar Colombia, he has been involved in business strategy, digital transformation and execution of commerce, CRM, customer experience and analytics projects.
He is the Co-Founder of Chef, a company acquired by Dentsu group. He is a performance-driven executive offering 25 years of comprehensive achievements across operations, management and internet disciplines. He has business experience across diverse cultures and industries (retail, utilities, financial, eTravel and telecommunications).
Juan is also a speaker at the Google Analytics Conference in Mexico City, GAUC Bogotá, Click to Action, Think Performance by Google, The World BPO/ITO Forum in New York, Customer Experience Management in Argentina, VTEX Day in Sao Paulo, and MoveOn2019 in Panamá.

The Future of Ecommerce TRACK

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Khaliq Khan is a Managing Director in Accenture. He leads the digital solutioning organization for Accenture Interactive across growth markets and ME delivery lead. The organization is focused on delivering end-to-end customer engagement technologies.
Previously, he served as Delivery Director focused on complex delivery, which includes 30+ digital commerce implementations and 10+ digital transformations programmes across the industries.
Given Khaliq’s exposure to clients across industries over the past 23 years, he has a unique perspective on the evolution of technology and trends for the future in an ever-increasing connected economy. He has a deep understanding and appreciation of the transformative role that technology can play.
His current focus is on helping organizations navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by digital technologies, transforming their businesses to remain competitive in an ever-changing and increasingly digital world.
Khaliq has had cultural submersion across the many countries, working and living in the United States, France, Denmark, United Arab Emirates and most recently calls United Kingdom home.

Fulfillment & Customer Service TRACK

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Fiona Stevens is the Head of Marketing at LoyaltyLion, a data-driven loyalty and engagement platform for fast-growth ecommerce merchants.
LoyaltyLion helps thousands of retailers worldwide to build fully customised loyalty programs, proven to increase customer engagement, retention and spend.
Fiona has almost 15 years’ experience in marketing, having worked in-house and agency side across functions including PR, SEO and content. She has specialised in loyalty for retail and ecommerce brands for the past eight years.

Amazon: Growth TRACK

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Fernando Campos is the Co-Founder of MarketplaceOps, and specializes in scaling CPG brands on Amazon. MarketplaceOps leverages fully-integrated technology and proprietary marketing techniques to beat your competition with repeatable strategies.
He has generated more than $150MM in revenue for his clients, and sold two businesses in the Amazon space. His companies were ranked in the Inc. 5000 in 2019 & 2020, and in Entrepreneur360 in 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019.

Amazon: Storefront TRACK

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Marcel Marculescu is the Co-Founder of intelliRANK, an entrepreneur and strategist for Amazon Sellers.
With a lot of background in the IT field and ecommerce marketing, and driven by a strong desire to learn and share the knowledge, he has helped a lot of Amazon Sellers launch, rank, and create brand awareness for their products.
Their Micro-Influencers Program is applicable on any marketplace and has been successfully implemented by hundreds of sellers. It's one of the best ways to get authentic photo/video content and social-proof for Amazon products.

Amazon: Products & Operations TRACK

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With 2 decades of experience building and scaling successful product software businesses in the customer experience space, Dermot O’Connor knows a thing or two about global business growth.
Today as ecommerce shows no sign of slowing down, he takes the reins as CEO at eDesk - a customer support solutions company for online sellers to help manage sales, support and reputation.
Prior to this, he co-founded two Irish software companies: Skillko and Boxever. He led product and growth at Boxever until it was successfully exited to Sitecore during the pandemic last year.
Passionate about enabling innovation through technology, Dermot is a customer advocate at the core with a committed focus on building long-term relationships.

Business Operations TRACK

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Amit RG is the Founder and CEO of Richpanel, a CRM used by 2,000+ ecommerce merchants to automate their customer service.
He has an engineering background, spends his time learning from and advising ecommerce merchants.

Business Operations TRACK

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Toby Russell is the Co-Founder of Shift which went public via SPAC —the platform to make buying and selling cars simple and accessible to everyone.
Previously, he was the Managing VP of Digital at Capital One, where he led the bank’s technology transformation to mobile.
In 2007, Toby co-founded Taxi Magic (now known as Curb), the first on-demand mobile transportation booking technology company. He also led a $12 billion renewable energy and efficiency investment program for the U.S. Department of Energy.
He holds a Doctorate from Oxford University.

Business Operations TRACK

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Christopher Veck has been working with Miansai for over 11 years. Starting with the company from nearly the beginning, he has touched nearly every aspect of the company from ecom, administration, accounting, operations. In that time, Miansai has grown from a small room to a company with two retail stores in New York and Los Angeles and sells to people around the globe both directly and through wholesale partners.

Amazon: Growth TRACK

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Claressa Sackllah is an Amazon Brand Manager - responsible for managing the Angry Orange brand on Amazon. Claressa has managed various brands and categories on and off of Amazon throughout her career, but the Pet category is by far her favorite. With experience from Brick and Mortar to ecommerce, Claressa has most recently been focused on managing Amazon growth while with Thrasio since June 2020.

Store Design & Optimization TRACK

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Nolan is the Founder of HEY-C, a marketing consulting solutions company that specializes in scaling CPG brands on Shopify.
With over 7+ years of experience in the health & wellness CPG space, he’s assisted companies such as KAGED, KOS, Transparent Labs, GHOST, and PAKA while growing their DTC businesses.
He is passionate about providing a stellar ecommerce experience with customer advocacy being a major focus of site development.
In his spare time, he enjoys working out, sneaker shopping (bad habit), and spending time with his fiancee.

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Paul Rafelson is an experienced attorney with over 15 years in complex Corporate, Tax Intellectual Property and M&A matters.
He is also a trusted resource in the ecom world, regularly quoted in the news on matters involving Amazon and ecommerce. Paul was also the most-cited source of information in the US government's investigation into Amazon’s business practices as it pertains to third-party merchants.
Prior to starting a private practice dedicated to the needs of ecommerce businesses, Paul spent the majority of his career in-house at some of the largest companies in the world such as Microsoft, Walmart and General Electric.

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John Ghiorso is the Founder and CEO of Orca Pacific, a full-service Amazon agency that brings cutting-edge strategies and managed services to over 100 industry-leading brands such as Reebok and Godiva. After a decade of studying Amazon, John has built a reputation for approximating industry reaction and forecasting shifts within the Amazon marketplace. His insights have been featured in publications like The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Vox, Modern Retail and Digiday.

Paid Advertising TRACK

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Maria is the founder and CEO of Cross Pacific Global, a digital marketing agency where she built CxOmni. Previously, she was at Meta, where she directed large-scale media strategy, measurement, and optimization with a specific focus on the adoption of compliant advertising solutions for verticals across financial services, healthtech, telco and e-commerce.
She mastered the science behind the blackbox of ad policy to ensure brands succeeded in navigating the cryptic waters to avoid business interruption with ad disapprovals and account shutdowns.

Fulfillment & Customer Service TRACK

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Rayan is the founder and CEO of Shorages, an e-commerce distribution and fulfillment center that helps international brands sell across the MENA in countries such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Shorages does this by providing importing, storage, and fulfillment services to international brands.

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Scott Needham has been selling professionally on Amazon for 10 years with over $300m in sales. With a masters Degree in Computer Engineering has been writing software and analyzing data to learn about the marketplace. Host of the humbly named Smartest Amazon Seller podcast.

Marketplaces & Social Commerce TRACK

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Meg Pedersen is the Founder of steep & mellow. The mission-driven emerging start up creates functional teas that are infused with adaptogenic mushrooms and natural nootropics. Each blend was carefully crafted with a special selection of mood-boosting mushrooms to increase energy, enhance productivity levels, or to help support a better sleep.
Since launching in April 2021, Meg has lead steep & mellow to earn online marketplace distribution with notable retailers including Indigo, Uncommon Goods, The Detox Market and Goop. Steep & mellow has seen a co-branded product partnership with Pela Case and has been featured in the Goop Holiday Gift Guide, Thingtesting Best of 2021 list, and The Fascination as one of the ‘Top 22 Female-led Brands to Watch in 2022.’ Meg has recently been recognized by the Amazing Women in E-commerce initiative presented by Yotpo as a 2022 Honoree.

Brand Building TRACK

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Catarina Oliveira is the founder and CEO of Hey Harper – a self-funded waterproof jewelry brand. Hey Harper was founded in 2018 and in just 3 years generated millions of dollars selling jewelry worldwide - being US, UK and Germany the top markets.
Catarina has been recently recognized as Amazing Women in Ecommerce of 2022 Honoree by Yotpo.

Amazon: Storefront TRACK

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Mallory Ashwander is the Director of Thrasio’s Creative Strategy team, leading a team of 80+ creatives to optimize and improve the creative brand strategy for products within Thrasio’s portfolio. She guides her team to execute each brand’s vision individually formatted for Amazon, D2C websites, retail, and emerging marketplaces.
Mallory has worked with various startups throughout her career, which involved growing and developing company branding, ecommerce products, and new revenue streams for brick-and-mortar stores. Before working at Thrasio, Mallory was the Lead Creative at Bravelets. During her 3-year tenure there, she managed branding plans, advertising, social media, brand content, product design, and more.
She holds a B.A. in Graphic Design from St. Edward’s University, where she was the Executive Director of the Student Leadership Team, leading philanthropic and student body initiatives. When not hard at work, Mallory explores her love of art, typography, and design.

Marketplaces & Social Commerce TRACK

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Andrew is currently Chief Product Officer at CommentSold, where he will be accelerating and scaling product investments, building and evolving the company’s team of product managers and designers, and helping to launch new, innovative products for CommentSold’s thousands of merchants.
Previously, Andrew served as Senior Vice President of Product, Design, and Data for Global-e (formerly Flow Commerce, which was acquired by Global-e for $500m in January 2022).
Andrew was instrumental in scaling Flow Commerce’s team, serving as a founding, board-level lead for all Product Strategy, UX, Design, and Data, leading all aspects of the company’s global e-commerce SaaS platform and growing revenue from zero into the millions.
Prior to that, Andrew served as Vice President – Product Management, UX, and Design for Baublebar Inc., Director of Product – International, Personalization, and Growth for Gilt Groupe, and Director of Product – Music Streaming, Mobile, & TV Platforms, at iHeartRadio. Andrew also serves as an Angel Investor through programs with First Round Capital and Gaingels, which specializes in investing in startups with diverse leadership teams. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Yale University.

Amazon: Products & Operations TRACK

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Oliver’s wife had family dogs which struggled with dry itchy skin, they couldn’t find a brand out there who offered 100% natural products free from nasty chemicals. So they created Pets Purest and launched it on Amazon.
They grew the business from their spare bedroom for 5 years to a multi-million pound company using Amazon and with no full-time staff. They’ve recently taken on investment and now have a team of 5 full-time staff. They’re now looking to grow the brand to become a recognised D2C brand in the natural pet care space throughout the UK & Europe.

Fulfillment & Customer Service TRACK

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Alex Yancher is the Co-Founder and CEO of Passport Shipping, an asset-light international shipping carrier built for ecommerce. The company handles the international parcel shipping for top brands such as Native, Bombas and Tommy John. Passport recently closed their $39M Series B round led by TCV. Prior to starting Passport, Alex led operations for a YC-backed international personal shopping service called Lynks. Prior to that, Alex was at Facebook and Morgan Stanley.

Amazon: Growth TRACK

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Henry Krause advises medium-sized and large companies from various industries in a leading position. He is an expert for international market analyses and go-to-market strategies on various marketplaces. Well-known international brands such as Dunlop, Powerbar and Calvin Klein rely on MOVESELL's expertise and software-driven approach. The agency's area of expertise includes strategies, analyses and marketing services.

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Driven by the mission to empower individuals and businesses, Daniel has been at the forefront of driving innovations and delivering real-time skillsets in the eCommerce space.
Since 2017, Daniel and his partner have co-founded multiple eCommerce brands which have consistently delivered million dollar annual revenues. In 2021, they successfully sold off their Toys & Games Brand for a 7-figure sum. Daniel is also the lead spokesperson for the company's eCommerce software technologies which equip eCommerce sellers with the best tools to scale their businesses effectively in the shortest possible time.

The Future of Ecommerce TRACK

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Kalin is the Chief Marketing Officer of CoinPayments, the world's largest provider of cryptocurrency payment services.
He focuses on bridging the gap between marketing and technology, which is increasingly important in every business environment. Through growth marketing strategies and MarTech implementation, he creates innovative strategies to develop meaningful brand-to-customer interactions. He strives to utilize results-orientated digital marketing tactics to provide prospects and customers with the best user experience possible.
He has been in marketing for over a decade and is convinced that the strategic use of tools partnered with data brings speed to marketing ideas, campaigns, and digital products. Kalin is captivated by blockchain technology and believes it will contribute to business innovation in fields ranging from retail, banking, cybersecurity, and IoT to the government sector.
As the CMO of CoinPayments, he leads the company's global marketing operations, driving crypto payments adoption for businesses in a digital age

Marketplaces & Social Commerce TRACK

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Jason Harra is the Co-Founder of SellerActive, a multi-channel management software company that was recently acquired by Cart.com.
He is now the Head of Product Marketplace where he helps Cart.com customers win the buy box and compete on the largest online marketplaces.
He lives with his family in Portland, Oregon.

Fulfillment & Customer Service TRACK

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Jordan Arshinoff Foss and three associates launched Xpedigo (now Obibox) in 2016 with the intention of taking over the last-mile parcel delivery industry by creating awesome technology applied to logistics. Fast forward five years and Obibox is ''delivering the goods!''.
Generating over $20 million in sales, Obibox is poised to double once again as they continue to grow exponentially. Laser focused on customer experience, the Obiteam is confident they have the recipe for success by perfectly integrating technology and logistics.

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Ana is the Marketing Director for LATAM at Estée Lauder, where she is responsible for the entire marketing strategy for all Latin America countries, including product, consumer engagement, and media approach.
Ana has worked for Estée Lauder Companies for 10 years where she has had the pleasure of working with beautiful brands like Clinique, La Mer, Aveda, Bumble and bumble, and Estée Lauder. Prior to Estée Lauder, Ana worked for Johnson & Johnson Medical Mexico. She has a masters degree in Marketing from Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña.
Ana became a mom during the pandemic and she has been raising a boy while she works from home for the past 2 years.

Fulfillment & Customer Service TRACK

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Alex Lewkowict skipped going to college to found his skincare brand called Black Wolf. Over 3 years they sold millions of units and he was named Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2021 at the age of 23.
Last year, the fulfillment operation he had run exclusively for Black Wolf, evolved into ONE23 Fulfillment - which has grown to fulfill thousands of orders a day.