At COO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 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 COO’ operating in the Retail space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
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.
Minesh Shah
COO of Stitch Fix
Minesh Shah serves as the COO 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.
Peter Ombres
COO and Co-founder of Curated
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About Curated: Curated is a provider of collaborative online shopping service intended to assist shoppers with high-consideration purchases.
Candace Denton
COO of Plug and Play Brand & Retail
Candace connects larger corporations with strategic investment, business development, licensing, and acquisition opportunities within Plug and Play’s startup community by way of individual introductions (deal review sessions) and events. Candace also develops acceleration programs that provide funding, corporate, and advisory resources to startups of strategic interest to a corporation.
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About ICONIQ Capital, Plug and Play Brand & Retail: Solving the biggest problems top brands, retailers, and industry players face today.
Stephan Jacob
Founder & COO of Cotopaxi
Stephan Jacob has been serving as Chief Operating Officer at Cotopaxi since November 2013.
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About Cotopaxi: Cotopaxi is an outdoor brand with a humanitarian mission at its core.
Mike Don
COO of InMarket
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About InMarket: InMarket offers a self-service location-based platform that captures accurate consumer location data, which drives campaign performance.
Jeffrey Kolovson
Co-Founder and COO of Faire
Jeffrey Kolovson is the co-founder and COO of Faire.
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About Faire: Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores.
Jonathan Um
Co-Founder, COO of Hollar
Co-Founder & COO at 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.
Taylor Wang
Founder & COO of Mayvenn
Taylor Wang is Founder at Mayvenn.
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About Groop Swoop, Mayvenn: Mayvenn enables Stylists to sell products directly to their clients without the upfront costs and burdens of holding inventory.
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.
Victor Crawford
Chief Operating Officer, Healthcare, Education & Facilities of Aramark
Victor manages our healthcare sector that provides patient and retail dining and facility solutions to hospitals and senior living facilities as well as biomedical and diagnostic imaging services. He also oversees facility maintenance services we provide to business and industry clients. Before joining Aramark in 2012, Victor served as president of field operations at Pepsi Beverages Company and led the company’s North American operating business and guided the field leadership in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Prior to that, he was executive vice president of supply chain and system transformation. Joining the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company in 1990, Victor quickly moved up through several finance and sales roles in Michigan and Ohio. In 1998, he was appointed vice president and general manager of the greater Chicago division of Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, Inc. Victor left the Pepsi system in 2000 to join Marriott as senior vice president of Marriott Distribution Services (MDS). He was named executive vice president and general manager of MDS in 2001 and, in 2003, became senior vice president and chief operations officer for the Eastern Region of Marriott International. He spent the early years of his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Michigan-based Federal-Mogul Corporation. Victor serves on the board of directors for the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, an affiliate of the American Hospital Association, as well as the board of the National Urban League. He is also a member of Aramark’s Executive Leadership Council and serves as co-chair of Aramark’s Diversity Advisory Board. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Boston College.
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About Aramark: Aramark provides food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to healthcare institutions and more.
Brad Drummond
Chief Operating Officer, Uniform & Refreshment Services of Aramark
Brad Drummond is the Chief Operating Officer of Aramark’s uniform and refreshment services—leading providers for uniforms, facility supplies and food beverage services. He is responsible for nearly 15,000 employees with more than 300 distribution and market facilities across North America. Brad joined the Aramark team in April 1999 as a Vice President of Business Development. That November, he moved to Burbank, CA to become Senior Vice President of the Western Region for our Uniform business. He returned to Philadelphia, PA in 2005 to serve as Executive Vice President of Aramark’s Healthcare and Education business units and just a year later Brad became President of Aramark’s Uniform Division. In 2015, his role was expanded to Chief Operating Officer of both our Uniform and Refreshments business units. Before joining Aramark, Brad held positions of increasing responsibility with Deloitte Consulting and Black and Decker. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a Captain. Brad earned his Bachelor’s Degree from the Naval Academy, an MS Degree from the Naval Post Graduate School and an MBA from Loyola.
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About Aramark: Aramark provides food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to healthcare institutions and more.
Brent Franks
Chief Operating Officer, International of Aramark
Brent leads our operations in international markets. In his role as chief operating officer (COO), Brent manages all food, facilities management and uniforms services, as well as any other operations in Europe, South America and Asia. His efforts further our presence and commitment abroad, accelerate growth in those regions and focus on delivering outstanding service and quality on behalf of clients and consumers. Before taking on his role overseeing International, Brent has served as COO for our education businesses as well as sports, leisure, and corrections sectors. While in those positions, he was responsible for the development and execution of master retail strategies and maintaining our high standard of service excellence across several industries. He joined Aramark after much success with Pepsi Bottling Company where he was president of their Mexico division and led the turnaround efforts for the country’s sales, manufacturing and distribution business. He also held roles as SVP, global sales and chief customer officer accountable for revenues of $14 billion. While at Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc., Brent served as president of several groups. He was senior vice president of global sales and chief customer officer and held positions of senior vice president of PBG North America and chief customer officer of PBG North America, a subsidiary of Pepsi Bottling Group. Brent led PBG’s selling organization in the U.S. and Canada and acted as vice president of retail sales for the Southeast Business Unit of Pepsi Bottling Group. Brent joined Pepsi-Cola North America in 1982 and held a number of field sales and general management positions. He was general manager of the Capital Market Unit of Pepsi-Cola North America and vice president of customer development of the Great West Market Unit of PBG. Additionally, he held the position of vice president of food service at PBG’s Southeast Business Unit and was its vice president of retail sales. Brent graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Arkansas.
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About Aramark: Aramark provides food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to healthcare institutions and more.
Shawn Beckwith
COO of ATLAS Technology Group
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About ATLAS Technology Group: ATLAS is a suite of business intelligence applications and services that assist Consumer Packaged Goods companies.
Sree Menon
Chief Operating Officer of Tophatter
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About Chief, Neythri, Tophatter: Tophatter is revolutionizing the e-commerce landscape with a discovery shopping app that’s truly one-of-a-kind.
Doug Barry
Co-Founder, COO and CFO of PORTL Hologram
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About MSMCi, PopJax, PORTL Hologram: PORTL Hologram offers at-home hologram machines.
Jessica Murphy
Co-Founder & COO of True Fit
Co-Founder | VP Operations at True Fit
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About True Fit: True Fit is a consumer experience platform leveraged by apparel and footwear retailers to decode fit and size and connect shoppers with only what they love. It has organized and connected the broadest footwear, apparel and shopper data in the world to provide best in class fit recommendations covering the industry’s brands and styles, driving shopper confidence and loyalty.
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.
Jennifer Scott
COO, Finance of eBay
Jennifer is an international Executive with over 20 years experience in profitably growing businesses.From brand giant, Diageo, to digital leaders Expedia, eBay & Virgin Media, and hands-on experience raising cash for start ups and advising small businesses.
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About eBay: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Jason Buechel
Chief Operating Officer of Whole Foods Market
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About Whole Foods Market: Whole Foods Market is a supermarket chain owned by Amazon that exclusively sells natural and organic products.
Michael Ferchak
Co-Founder & COO of Public Goods
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About Public Goods: Making healthy products affordable
Michael Nicholson
President, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer of J. Crew
Michael J. Nicholson, also known as Mike, has been President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of J. Crew Group, Inc. since January 11, 2016. Nicholson served as the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of ANN INC. (formerly, AnnTaylor Stores Corp) from September 17, 2007 to August 21, 2015 and served as its Chief Operating Officer from December 1, 2012 to August 21, 2015. He served as a Treasurer of ANN INC, from September 2007 to August 21, 2015 and served as its Principal Accounting Officer. He spent seven years at Limited Brands, Inc. He served as an Executive Vice President of Limited Brands Inc and also as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Victoria’s Secret Beauty Company. He served senior finance positions at Colgate Palmolive Company and Altria Group, Inc. He is a Certified Public Accountant. Nicholson received his Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Niagara University and his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from St. John’s University.
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About J. Crew: J. Crew is a clothing retailer with outlet stores, and an online and catalog business.
Marc Ashley
President and COO of Market America
Marc Ashley is the President and COO of Market America. Marc oversees all corporate operations of Market America Worldwide. He works closely with the Executive Board and Management Group to plan company initiatives, create and implement systems, improve field relations, and implement total quality management techniques. Having served as Board Chairman of the BBB of Central North Carolina, Marc was also a recipient of the Triad Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty award, selected for his leadership, community involvement and career accomplishments. Under Marc’s leadership, Market America Worldwide has grown into an internet retail giant – recognized as one of North Carolina’s fastest-growing companies, one of the Triad’s best companies to work for, and one of the top e-commerce companies in the world in terms of annual retail sales.
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About Market America: Market America Worldwide is a product brokerage and Internet marketing company that specializes in One-to-One-Marketing.
Wiley Zhang
COO of Acquco
Wiley Zhang is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Acquco. He is also the Co-Founder of RefundLabs.
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About Acquco: Acquco is an e-commerce platform that focuses on acquiring and growing Amazon Marketplace businesses.
Joanne Hsieh
Chief Operating Officer of Walker & Company Brands
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About Walker & Company Brands: We make health and beauty simple for people of color.
Wendy Wen
Co-Founder & COO of Senreve
Wendy Wen is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Senreve.
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About Senreve: Senreve is a luxury handbag company for the multifaceted modern woman.
Adam Berkowitz
Co-Founder/Chief Operating Officer of Pharmapacks
Adam Berkowitz is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Pharmapacks.
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About Pharmapacks: Pharmapacks is an e-commerce company that offers products for daily health and wellness needs.
Corey Bober
Co-Founder, COO of Jobble
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About Jobble: Jobble is the on-demand marketplace connecting businesses with people looking for flexible work.
Elliott Darvish
Co-Founder, COO & CFO of Switch
Co-Founder and Co-Ceo of Switch
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About Switch: Unlimited access to luxury, designer jewelry.
Barbara R. Smith
Chief Operating Officer of Commercial Metals Company
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About Commercial Metals Company: Commercial Metals is a vertically integrated, Fortune 500 steel company that recycles, manufactures, fabricates, and trades steel globally.
Ben Conway
COO/Co-Founder of VNTANA
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About VNTANA: Democratizing 3D for the world through the only automated 3D Collaboration Platform.
Ali Kriegsman
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Bulletin
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About Bulletin: Bulletin operates as a wholesale marketplace and community that connects premium brands and retailers.
Tapasya Bali
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer (Board Director) of YOGASMOGA
Tapasya Bali is an Indian American entrepreneur. She is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of YOGASMOGA – a yoga inspired, wellness and technical apparel company. The highlights of the company included an authentic approach to wellness, proprietary development of technically advanced performance fabrics and a domestically scalable – Made in USA supply chain. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for the company. Tapasya is a seasoned executive with experience across a broad range of financial roles from managing trading strategies to company valuations and capital raising. She has a track record in building and operating businesses, leading strategic initiatives that grow revenue and leading operationally focussed teams. Tapasya is significantly influenced by her upbringing in the Himalayan region of India and the culture of yoga. In addition to being the Founder & COO of YOGASMOGA, Tapasya is a Co-Founder of the Namaskar Foundation –– a 501(c)(3) non-profit, that fosters corporate social responsibility. Tapasya holds an MBA from New York University and was previously a director at the Swiss Investment Bank – Credit Suisse. Tapasya is both a naturalized citizen of the United States of America and an Overseas Citizen of India.
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About Namaskar Foundation, YOGASMOGA: YOGASMOGA designs, manufactures and retails athletic apparel and accessories.
Marisa Sharkey
Co-founder and President and Chief Operating Officer of Birdies
Marisa Sharkey is the President & Co-Founder of Birdies. Marisa is a corporate strategy leader with a 20 year track record of leadership across retail and merchandising organizations as the Group Vice President of Strategy at Ross Stores and as a Senior Manager at Bain & Company. Marisa received her MBA from The Wharton School and her BS from Cornell University. Marisa lives in Sacramento with her husband and two daughters.
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About Birdies: Direct-to-consumer brand that designs stylish flats that feel like slippers thanks to their exclusive cloud-like comfort technology.
Phil Kaulfield
Founder & COO of ShoppingGives
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About ShoppingGives: ShoppingGives encourages consumers to make an impact through its change commerce technology.
Dave Goldberg
COO and Founder of Short Story
Dave Goldberg is the COO and Founder of Short Story.
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About Short Story: Short Story is the first online retailer and top rated personal styling service focused exclusively on petite women’s sizing.
Adrian D Souza
Chief Operating Officer of LotLinx
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About Integral Ad Science, LotLinx: LotLinx’ is a SaaS provider of Digital Retailing and Marketing technologies and for the Automotive Industry.
Meredith Han
COO of SoundCommerce
Meredith Han leads products and services at SoundCommerce. Meredith is a veteran technology product and direct-to-consumer commerce executive with tenure at Amazon.com where she launched the health & personal care business; Kosmix, acquired by Walmart to become Walmart Labs; and Brooks Running, a Berkshire Hathaway company where she led direct-to-consumer efforts as Head of Ecommerce for nine years. Meredith enjoys exploring the outdoors with her husband, and keeping her three kids and the trains running on time.
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About Flyhomes, SoundCommerce: SoundCommerce is a data platform that drives profitable growth, customer experience, and CLV for brands and retailers.
Marc Yount
President, COO of Field Agent
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About Field Agent: Field Agent is a provider of enterprise services used to offer mobile research and retail data collection.
Susan Morris
EVP & Chief Operating Officer of Albertsons LLC
Susan began her career in Albertsons Denver Division while still in high school and worked her way up in the ranks proving her ability to lead, to execute and to bring teams together in one assignment after another in her 30+ years in the retail grocery business. Since March of 2015, Susan has led the Denver Division team after having successfully led our Boise-based Intermountain Division for the two prior years. Her career has spanned roles from Store Director to Corporate Grocery Sales Director, Vice President of Bakery and Operations and, upon the sale of Albertson’s Inc.’s assets to SUPERVALU, Vice President of Customer Satisfaction. In 2010, she was Senior Vice President of Sales and Merchandising when she left SUPERVALU to join Albertsons LLC’s Southwest Division as Grocery Sales Manager, and was appointed Vice President of Marketing & Merchandising in 2012. Susan was named EVP, East Operations in April 2016.
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About Albertsons Companies, Albertsons LLC: Albertsons is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with both a strong local presence and national scale.
Michael Greehan
COO & Partner of Cue Ball, LLC
COO at Cue Ball, LLC and Owner, Cue Ball, LLC.
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About Cue Ball, LLC: Cue Ball, a management consultancy/brokerage firm, provides services to global publishing, media, technology, and entertainment industries.
Mark Geller
COO & Co-Founder of Happy Returns
Entrepreneur and executive with strong background in product/development, strategy, and marketing. Cofounder and COO of Happy Returns, an e-commerce service, technology, & logistics provider based in Los Angeles. Previously, led the mobile effort at NordstromRack.com | HauteLook, the online off-price division of Nordstrom, including creating and leading HauteLook’s Return to Rack program. Prior to HauteLook, worked in PM roles at Google, United Online, and several startups.
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About Happy Returns, Launchpad LA: Happy Returns provides comprehensive return solutions for leading online and omni-channel retailers and their customers.
Alain Miguel
Chief Operating Officer of Modalyst
Alain Miguel created a polo collection while an undergrad at Yale. The polos sold well locally, but dissolved due to a newfound love for financial services at JP Morgan. However, the dark side of Wall Street didn’t suit him well. After four years in finance, he ditched the industry in pursuit of an MBA at MIT Sloan. As every successful startup needs a drop-out, Alain has since left MIT to follow his entrepreneurial dreams at Modalyst.
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About Modalyst: Modalyst is a dropshipping platform for e-commerce businesses.
Diederik Rijsemus
COO & Co-Founder of Naadam
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About Naadam, Something Navy, Thakoon: Naadam is an American clothing company specializing in affordable, luxury cashmere products.
Samuel Jonas
CEO & COO of IDT Corporation
Mr. Samuel Jonas has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer of IDT Corp., effective December 31, 2013. Shmuel Jonas has served as Chief Operating Officer of the Company since June 2010. Shmuel Jonas joined the Company in June 2008 and served as a Vice President until June 2009, when he was elected to serve as the Company’s Vice President of Operations. Since 2004, Shmuel Jonas has also been the managing member of Arlington Suites, LLC, manager of a thirty million dollar mixed-use ground up development project in the Bronx, New York.
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About IDT Corporation: IDT Corporation enriches lives, providing communication, entertainment and financial services.
George Nunn
Chief Operating Officer – Global Markets Americas of BNP Paribas Private Equity
George Nunn is a Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer for BNP Paribas’ Global Markets Americas platform. Before taking on his current role, George was the Global Co-Head of the Fixed Income Advisory and Strategic Transformation (FAST) team, a strategic initiative aimed at improving the business’ management and transforming its business practices in order to improve efficiency and competitiveness in the market. Prior to this, George was Head of FX and Emerging Markets Sales for North America, responsible for delivering BNP Paribas’ Foreign Exchange and Local Markets products and services to institutional and real money investors. George was also formerly the Head of IR and FX Structuring from 2007 to 2010. He joined BNP Paribas in 2007 from HSBC where he was Head of Interest Derivative Trading. Prior to that, he spent four years as head of Interest Rate Options Trading for CSFB in London. George also held senior positions at BNP Paribas in both London and New York from 1991 to 2000.
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About BNP Paribas Private Equity: BNP Paribas is a French private equity firm that provides a range of asset management services to its institutional and retail clients.
Matt Kaplan
President & COO of KapStone
President, Chief Operating Officer and a director since the Company’s inception in 2005, Mr. Kaplan was Manager of Stone-Kaplan Investments, LLC, a private investment company, from July 2004 through December 2007. He was President, Chief Operating Officer and a director of Box USA Holdings, Inc., a corrugated box manufacturer, from July 2000 until the sale of the company in July 2004. Mr. Kaplan began his career at Stone Container Corporation in 1979 and was serving as its Senior Vice President and General Manager of North American Operations when Stone Container Corporation merged with Jefferson Smurfit Corporation in November 1998. He was Vice President / General Manager Container Division with Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation and a director of the company until March 1999. Mr. Kaplan served on the board of directors of Victory Packaging from January 2007 until late 2011. In addition, Mr. Kaplan formerly served on the board of directors of Magnetar Spectrum Fund. He is a director of the American Forest and Paper Association, the Fibre Box Association, and Pacific Millennium Paper Group Limited. Mr. Kaplan received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
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About KapStone: KapStone Paper and Packaging manufactures unbleached craft paper and bags.
William Naylon
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of PriceSmart
William J. Naylon has been Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company since January 2002. Naylon served as Executive Vice President – Merchandising of the Company from July 2001 until January 2002 and as Senior Vice President of the Company from March 1998 until July 2001. From September 1995 through February 1998, Naylon was Managing Director for the Company’s licensee warehouse club operation in Indonesia. Prior to joining the Company, Naylon was a General Manager for Costco and had served in various management roles for TPC.
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About PriceSmart: PriceSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSMT) is the largest operator of membership warehouse clubs in Central America and the Caribbean
David Kleyman
Co-Founder, COO of Wooter
Founder at Wooter
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About Wooter: Sports technology company revolutionizing the sportswear industry and the way leagues + teams are run.
Karen To
Chief Operating Officer of Wanelo
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About Wanelo: Wanelo (from Want, Need, Love) is an online community and social platform for shopping.
Bob Child
Chief Operating Officer of CU Direct
Bob Child, the chief operating officer at CU Direct, oversees the company’s finance, marketing and communications, training, and human resources functions. He is also a member of the organization’s strategic planning team. He has over 11 years’ experience in the financial services industry, with expertise in developing and executing new best practice strategy functions and establishing program management offices.
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About CU Direct: Technology and solutions for dealers and lenders
Kevin Clarke
CFO & COO of Authentic Brands Group
Kevin’s investment banking experience includes over twenty years of working with companies in a variety of industry sectors. Most of his investment banking experience was spent at Bear Stearns & Co., where he was a senior managing director and head of health care mergers & acquisitions.
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About Authentic Brands Group: Authentic Brands Group is a brand development, marketing, and entertainment company that manages the value of global brands.
Charles Liu
Chief Operating Officer of Away
Charles Liu is the COO at Away.
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About Away: Away is a modern travel and lifestyle brand designed with thoughtful features that solve real travel problems
Jessica Crothers
Co-Founder and COO of Good Buy Gear
COO and Co-Founder at Good Buy Gear.
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About Good Buy Gear: GoodBuy Gear is a managed marketplace that enables parents to safely and sustainably circulate quality-used baby & kid products they love
Amitaabh Malhotra
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Omnyway
Amitaabh Malhotra is an entrepreneurial executive who has been leading innovative FinTech, Mobile and Payments companies globally for over 20 years. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder at Omnyway Inc, a contextual digital platform for retailers that focuses on providing online to offline experiences as well as acceptance of alternate payment types to Retailers in the US. Omnyway pioneered the concept of no integration QR based payment acceptance at physical retail in the US and is currently the driving force behind successful programs such as Kohl’s Pay and WeChat Pay acceptance in the US. He is leading the move into Livestream Commerce as the Third Rail of Retail with the new Omnyway offering VISX. Prior to Omnyway, Amitaabh was the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of DeviceFidelity, Inc., a pioneer in mobile payments and NFC enablement, where he was responsible for creating the first plug and pay NFC devices in the world – establishing the groundwork for architectures now being deployed in iOS, Android and MPOS devices. He also launched the award winning “moneto”, that pioneered a single app backed by a cloud based platform that combined mobile banking, mobile payments, peer-to-peer transfers, card-linked offers, international remittance, and pluggable NFC. DeviceFidelity was acquired by Square in 2015, and Cachet Financial acquired moneto in 2014. Amitaabh started his career at Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies) where he headed up New Product Introductions for mobile networks. He was a pioneer in the emerging CDMA technology that now forms the basis of high speed wireless communications worldwide. Amitaabh also held executive roles at Superconductor Technologies, where he was responsible for commercializing the adoption of High Temperature Superconductors worldwide. He then moved his focus to emerging smart devices and the optimization of app performance over high latency wireless links as an executive at Venturi Wireless. Amitaabh focuses on the cross section of design and function, and strongly believes that experiential commerce will be the key to the evolution and adoption of hyper utility apps Commerce.
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About Centaur Partners, Omnyway: Livestream commerce with integrated global payments
Tim Tierney
Co-Founder & COO of Stock Mfg. Co.
Tim Tierney is Founder @ Stock Manufacturing Company.
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About Stock Mfg. Co.: Stock Mfg. Co. is an American-made clothing brand that designs and manufactures premium men’s clothing in their Chicago factory.
Gerod Carfantan
Chief Operating Officer of Sente Foundry
Gerod Carfantan is the COO at Sente.
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About Sente Foundry: Sente is an international startup investment and innovation platform.
Gerod Carfantan
Chief Operating Officer of Sente Foundry
Gerod Carfantan is the COO at Sente.
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About Sente Foundry: Sente is an international startup investment and innovation platform.
Gavin Weigh
Co-Founder & COO of Revieve
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About LandInChicago, Revieve, ULLAC: Market-leading beauty customer-experience personalization solution for beauty brands and retailers
Awadhesh Sinha
Chief Operating Officer of Steve Madden
Awadhesh Sinha is Chief Operating Officer at Steve Madden.
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About Steve Madden: Steve Madden is easily America’s most successful shoe designer.
Michael Suswal
Co-founder & COO of Standard Cognition
Michael Suswal is the Co-Founder & COO of Standard Cognition.
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About Standard Cognition: Standard Cognition provides an autonomous checkout tool that can be installed into retailers’ existing stores.
Michael O’Sullivan
President and Chief Operating Officer of Ross Stores
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About Ross Stores: Ross Stores, Inc. is an off-price apparel and home fashion chain in the United States.
Ted Nadeau
COO of Shoppable
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About Shoppable: Shoppable specializes in ecommerce enablement technology and distributed commerce solutions for advertisers, publishers, and merchants.
Stephen Adkins
COO, Southeast Region of Edgewood Partners Insurance Center
Stephen Adkins has more than 25 years of experience in the commercial insurance industry in operations, finance, and administration. As Chief Operating Officer, Stephen is responsible for the operational management and leadership of EPIC’s Southeast Region and is charged with maintaining enterprise-wide profitability, client satisfaction and retention, and growth. Stephen joined the Atlanta team in 2005 to help lead the Risk Management and Property & Casualty Insurance Division. He has become involved in many aspects of enterprise-wide operations and management, coordinating both risk management and employee benefits resources and advancing best practices throughout the company. He continues to work closely with the EPIC leadership team to grow our business both organically and through acquisitions, and is charged with the operational and financial management of EPIC’s Employer Services Platform. Stephen earned his Bachelor of Industrial Management from The Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Risk Management and Insurance from Georgia State University. He holds the professional designations Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and Associate in Risk Management (ARM). Stephen is active in the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers, and Vistage International. Stephen enjoys golf, tennis, running, spending time with his family, and is active in the community. He occasionally competes in various business-sponsored golf tournaments, is training for a half-marathon, and proudly supports his Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
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About Edgewood Partners Insurance Center: EPIC is a unique and innovative retail property & casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage and consulting firm.
Cliff Caldwell
COO, Southwest Region of Edgewood Partners Insurance Center
As Chief Operating Officer, Cliff is responsible for the operational management and leadership of EPIC’s Southwest Region and is charged with maintaining enterprise-wide profitability, client satisfaction and retention, and growth. Cliff joined Ascende (an EPIC Company) in 2007 to launch the firm’s global solutions practice. Under his guidance, the practice grew from a single client with one expatriate employee to a team of specialists providing global benefit consulting services to a number of multinational organizations. Prior to Ascende, Cliff held various management positions with Cigna, Unocal and Chevron. His background includes workers’ compensation cost control, integrated disability management, and health and welfare program management for both active employees and retirees. Cliff earned a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from California State University, Northridge. He also earned a Global Professional Human Resources (GPHR) certification, conferred in 2008—a professional designation held by fewer than 1,500 people worldwide. Cliff is a frequent speaker at industry events focused on global benefit issues, including presentations at the National Foreign Trade Conference HR forum, the Texas State Council of the Society for Human Resource Management’s Global HR Symposium, the Gulf Coast Symposium of HR Houston, as well as at industry-specific functions for the drilling and energy services sectors. He is actively involved in the Worldwide Broker Network (WBN), providing insight and direction to enhance the Network’s national service efforts. Cliff is a past member of the Legislative Action Committee for HR Houston and he has served on the Board of Directors for the Pacific Business Group on Health.
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About Edgewood Partners Insurance Center: EPIC is a unique and innovative retail property & casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage and consulting firm.
Deepa Gandhi
Founder & COO of Dagne Dover
Co-Founder and COO at Dagne Dover Deepa combines her fashion acumen with analytical skills and insights. Recognizing her passion for retail, she transitioned from Lehman Brothers to Club Monaco where she honed knowledge of merchandising, planning, and managing a retail supply chain. She now brings this experience to Dagne Dover.
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About Dagne Dover: Dagne Dover is a performance bag brand for humans getting the most out of life.
John Wise
Chief Operating Officer of LovePop
John Wise is the founder of LovePop Cards.
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About LovePop: LovePop creates a precious handmade keepsake that unfolds like a miniature surprise.
Luis Moncayo Castillo
Co-Founder & COO of Inspectorio
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About Inspectorio: Inspectorio’s SaaS solution improves quality, compliance and on-time delivery with actionable insights and data-driven collaboration.
Heather Le
COO, Co-Founder, VP of Product & Ops of Candidly
Heather Le is the Co-Founder and COO at Candidly
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About Candidly, Women in Product: Book an event photographer on Candidly.com and receive photos back within 24 hours. We shoot all events EXCEPT weddings.
Claire Chen
Founder and COO of Clobotics
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About Clobotics: Clobotics provides intelligent computer vision solutions for the retail and wind power sectors.
Morgan Linton
Co-founder & COO of Bold Metrics
Co-founder at Bold Metrics.
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About Bold Metrics, MorganLinton.com: Building a sustainable future by reducing product returns and informing better design practices
Naomi Gonzalez
Co-Founder & COO of TomboyX
Naomi Gonzalez has over 10 years of sales and small business experience. She has been the driving force behind TomboyX, taking an idea hatched in 2011 and growing it to where it is today. She has conducted market research, co-authored the business plan and currently oversees the inner workings of the company. In addition to co-merchandising with Fran, Naomi manages everything from shipping and vendor management to customer service and daily backend website updates. An entrepreneur at heart, Naomi’s passion for filling a glaring demand in women’s fashion provides the impetus that moves TomboyX towards becoming a market leader in the tomboy space.
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About TomboyX: TomboyX is a fashion-based company that offers clothes and accessories to any gender.
Dede Houston
Co-founder and COO of Myxx
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About Myxx: Myxx is a shoppable marketing platform based on a proprietary personalized List-to-Cart technology with real-time store sales lift analytics
Mohsin Hassan
Chief Operating Officer of Discount Power Texas
Mohsin serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Discount Power. He has been involved in the retail energy industry since the early days of deregulation in 1997. He has previously worked at Enron Energy Services, Tara Energy, and Fulcrum Power Services. Most recently, he was responsible for launching a new retail energy brand in New York and Pennsylvania markets. His areas of expertise include retail and wholesale operations, risk management, business development, customer care and information technology. Mohsin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University and an MBA from the University of Missouri.
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About Discount Power Texas: Discount Power Texas is a Retail Electricity Provider (REP) serving residential, commercial, and industrial customers.
Frank Conforti
COO & CFO of Urban Outfitters
Frank Conforti joined URBN in March 2007 as Director of Finance and SEC Reporting and was subsequently promoted to Controller, Chief Accounting Officer and then Chief Financial Officer, his current role. Frank oversees Finance, Accounting, Tax, Investor Relations, Business Development & Strategy and Loss Prevention. Prior to joining the company, Frank worked with AlliedBarton Security Services, LLC, for five years, serving as Controller for three years.
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About Urban Outfitters: Urban Outfitters is a global retailer with a boutique approach.
Nisha Shoukath
COO & Co-Founder of People10 Technologies
Nisha Shoukath is Co-Founder of Skyl.ai & People10
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About People10 Technologies, Skyl.ai: People10 Technologies Inc. provide Software Services like., Agile and Lean Product development, QA , Application management & many more.
Paul Watson
Co-Founder & CFO/COO of Ledbury
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About Ledbury: Ledbury is a luxury shirtmaker and menswear brand known for dress and casual shirts that prioritize fit and quality.
Christine Strzalka
COO and Co-Founder of It’s By U
Christine Strzalka is the co-founder and COO of It’s By U.
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About It’s By U, It’s By U: It’s By U is a do-it-yourself arrangement kit with farm-fresh blooms, by subscription.
Jan-Hein Pullens
Co-Founder and COO of roOomy
Jan-Hein Pullens is the Advisor To The Board at Loft.
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About roOomy: roOomy’s patented 3D/AR/VR technology brings your listing, home and décor to life with fast, scalable 3D modeling and rendering services.
Ted Allen
COO of WAO!
Bilingual Latin America regional expert leveraging strategic innovation and technology to launch new companies and advise clients on digital transformation.
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About WAO!, WAO!: Platform, SaaS, Mobile App, Social Commerce
Scott Langmack
COO of KUKUN
Tech startup CEO and enterprise CMO with experience in B2C and B2B businesses ranging from startups to growth companies to Fortune 50 global leaders. Expertise in leading high-performance teams who build powerful global products and brands. Early career executive experience with Microsoft, Pepsi-Cola and others. Two-time entrepreneur/founder. One success/successful exit. One miss. Avid home designer and builder.
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About ConnectUp Inc., KUKUN: Kukun is an originator of property data and predictive analytics delivering superior valuations and forecasts
Donald Oelke
Co-founder & COO of Clerk
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About Clerk: Clerk is building the digital infrastructure to enable more transparent, efficient, and profitable in-store marketing & merchandising.
Michael Avon
Chief Operating Officer of Clutch
Michael Avon is the COO at Clutch,a customer marketing platform for business-to-consumer brands.
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About Clutch: Clutch serves as a customer marketing platform for business-to-consumer brands.
John Yost
Chief Operating Officer of Sports Shop TV
As Chief Marketing Officer for Steep Hill, Mr. Yost manages the marketing strategy and communications for the company, including oversight of the brand, messaging, materials, website, advertising and public relations. He also serves as a member of the executive management team. Previously, Mr. Yost served as the Founder and President of Black Rocket, a prominent global advertising agency that was sold to the large advertising holding company Euro RSCG in 2001 and is best known for its innovative advertising campaign for the launch of Yahoo! Mr. Yost has also served as the CEO of Hal Riney & Partners in San Francisco, CEO of Chiat-Day/SF, Chief Marketing Officer for Francis Ford Coppola Presents, and Chief Marketing Officer for Sungevity Home Solar. A graduate of UC Berkeley with an AB in Economics and an MBA from the Harvard Business School, Mr. Yost currently serves as a Board Member at both KQED Public Media and the Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley.
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About Sports Shop TV: Sports Shop TV operates a home shopping television program.
Thomas Quinly
Chief Operating Officer of Tupperware Brands
Quinly was named Chief Operating Officer of Curtiss-Wright Corporation in October 2013. Most recently, he was President of Curtiss-Wright Controls, the Controls Segment of the Corporation, since 2008. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of the Motion Control Embedded Computing Unit, where he was responsible for integrating previous Curtiss-Wright acquisitions in this technology sector and growing the Embedded Computing business through additional acquisitions. Quinly has over 30 years of experience in the defense, aerospace and commercial markets.
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About Tupperware Brands: Tupperware Brands provides housewares products.
Paul Willoughby
Chief Operating Officer of TRUNO, Retail Technology Solutions
As the Chief Operating Officer, Paul oversees special projects and major roll outs for customers. A problem solver and executor, Paul takes a hands on approach with the projects he leads. Never afraid to go above and beyond to get the job done, Paul sets a strong example for the TRUNO team. Paul began in the retail point of sale industry in 1988 and has since developed a reputation as one of the foremost experts in the ISS45 software platform. Recognized with numerous awards for customer support and technical achievements, Paul served as a member of the StoreNext Technical Council. Paul was a recipient of the George C. Wallace Scholarship and attended Troy State University.
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About TRUNO, Retail Technology Solutions: TRUNO, Retail Technology Solutions is the national leader in integrated technology solutions focused solely on the retail industry.
John Miller
COO, President, Cofounder of Defunkify
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About Defunkify: Defunkify is a stage CPG company that uses green chemistry to engineer laundry cleaning products.
John Miller
COO, President, Cofounder of Defunkify
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About Defunkify: Defunkify is a stage CPG company that uses green chemistry to engineer laundry cleaning products.
Ahmed Zedan
Founder & COO of Haute Hijab
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About Haute Hijab: Haute HIjab is a hijab brand that operates at the intersection of fashion, technology, and retail.
Michael Lukemire
President & Chief Operating Officer of Scotts Miracle-Gro
Mike was named chief operating officer in December 2014. He is responsible for the Company’s worldwide portfolio of consumer brands and products. He has accountability for overall leadership of all aspects of the Global Consumer business including Marketing, Sales, Research and Development and Global Supply Chain. He is also responsible for the Company’s Scotts LawnService business, as well as leading growth in emerging growth areas. Mike began his ScottsMiracle-Gro career in 1995, and has had several progressive assignments, including director, operations; vice president, manufacturing; and senior vice president, Global Supply Chain. He was also executive vice president, global technologies and operations, responsible for Global Supply Chain, Research and Development and Business Transformation. Mike also served as regional president, responsible for leading the Company’s Business Development, Marketing and Sales efforts in the southeastern U.S. He eventually led the North American sales function until March 2014, when he was named executive vice president for the entire North American business. Mike had 16 years of business unit and operations management experience before joining ScottsMiracle-Gro, with leadership assignments at Nabisco, Kraft-General Foods and Kroger. He earned bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and biology at Georgetown College (Kentucky) and attended Kraft Executive Management School at Southern Methodist University. Besides his family, Mike has two passions. He loves to play golf and he loves the Cincinnati Bengals. His love for the Bengals started when he attended the 1981 Freezer Bowl when they played against the Chargers in -50 degree weather.
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About Scotts Miracle-Gro: ScottsMiracle-Gro is dedicated to a beautiful world with industry-leading lawn, garden and outdoor living products and services.
Jacob Sky Levin
Founder & COO of SparkPlug
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About SparkPlug: SaaS, Mobile App, Sales Gamification, B&M Retail
Rotimi Akinyemiju
COO of Eleven James
Rotimi Akinyemiju serves as the Chief Operating Officer at BaubleBar. In this role, he is responsible for human resources, facilities, customer experience, global supply-chain management, including international and domestic logistics, packaging supplies, and Information Technology. He is also a Board Adviser at Topshelf. Before joining Baublebar, Rotimi was the Chief Operating Officer at Moda Operandi, where he held overall responsibility for global supply chain, warehousing, logistics, HR, facilities, and accounting functions. Previously, Dr. Akinyemiju was a Head of the US Operations at Net-A-Porter.Com, the UK based online luxury retailer, where he worked from October 2005 to January 2012. Prior to this, Dr. Akinyemiju was a Distribution Manager with Net-A-Porter.Com at their London Distribution Center, between 2005 and 2007. He has been in the luxury industry for over a decade and has a complete understanding of the online luxury market. Dr. Akinyemiju also specializes in global supply chain and logistics issues associated with global ecommerce space. He previously worked with Sheffield Insulations as a Logistics Manager and prior to that worked with Tibbett & Britten as a Warehouse Operations Controller in the United Kingdom. Dr. Akinyemiju holds a Bachelors degree in Management of Logistics from Anglia Ruskin University, UK, a Masters degree in Purchasing and Supply-Chain Management from London Metropolitan Business School, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Argosy University Business School, Chicago.
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About Eleven James: Eleven James is a lifestyle brand that is pioneering the luxury experience for the digital age.
Mark Holmes
COO of Cozzia USA
Mark Holmes has been serving as COO at Cozzia USA since 2008.
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About Cozzia USA: Cozzia USA designs and manufactures massage chairs, lift chairs, zero gravity chairs, and foot and calf massagers.
John McLaughlin
COO of Critical Mass
As Chief Operations Officer, John is charged with overseeing the efficiency of the Agency’s process and quality of its work product. Since joining Critical Mass in 1999, he has progressed through several roles in the organization. Through his experience leading individual projects, large-scale client teams and entire offices, John has developed a great understanding of the challenges facing complex organizations and enjoys identifying and capitalizing on opportunities for improvement. With a Master’s Degree in Integrated Marketing from Northwestern University, John believes in the power of data and analytics to drive business and organizational decisions. He also holds a degree in journalism with a concentration in advertising and business administration from Ohio University. His free time is occupied by baseball, cheesy science fiction novels and chronicling the adventures of his 2-year-old son.
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About Critical Mass: Critical Mass is a digital experience design agency with a relentless focus on the customer.
Stephanie Peng
Co-Founder & COO of St. Frank
Steph has worked in social enterprise strategy with REDF/Goodwill of Silicon Valley and in the impact investing ecosystem with Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX). Steph started her career with four years in asset management at AllianceBernstein. Steph holds a B.S. in Operations Research and Engineering from Cornell University, and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About St. Frank: Luxury lifestyle brand offering a curated line of globally-inspired products made ethically by artisans working in traditional crafts.
Mike Snow
COO/Founder of Seek
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About Seek: B2B SAAS bringing web-based AR to the masses
Thomas J. Benson
COO of Helen of Troy
COO at Helen of Troy .
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About Helen of Troy: Helen of Troy Limited (NASDAQ: HELE) has established a leadership position in the consumer products
Carlos Lerena
Co-Founder & CFO-COO of RetailApp
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About RetailApp: RetailApp develops proprietary, mobile technology for retail analytics and omni-channel retailing.
Rudy Rodriguez
Chief Operating Officer of SaviCorp
Rudy Rodriguez is responsible for overseeing corporate operations, supply chain management, procurement, vendor management, lean manufacturing, capital asset management, and sourcing of both raw materials and finished goods. Prior to joining SaviCorp in August 2004, Rudy Rodriguez held several esteemed positions at American Range located in Pacoima, CA. Rudy Rodriguez directed and oversaw the entire supply chain function, developing policies and high level objectives related to the manufacturing of commercial and residential applicances. Responsibilities included, but were not limited to, the timely fulfillment of finished goods, services and asset mangement. Rudy Rodriguez led the operations staff in a variety of supply chain concepts, practices, and procedures. Rudy Rodriguez’ prior management position was working for Wilbur Curtis Company located in Los Angeles, Calfornia, where he was responsible for the procurement of all goods and services from suppliers.
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About SaviCorp: SaviCorp is an innovative automotive technology company dedicated to saving the planet, one vehicle, one fleet, at a time.
Tal Golan
Co-founder and COO of Outernets
Insightful, creative, good at reading people, analytic thinking and problems solving.
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About Outernets: Redefining Physical Consumer Engagement, creating meaningful, measurable, data-driven, and personalized interactions with consumers OFFLINE.
George M. Carrara
President & COO of Kate Spade & Company
Mr. George M. Carrara, CPA, has been appointed as President, Chief Operating Officer of Kate Spade & Co.(formerly Fifth & Pacific Companies Inc.), effective February 26, 2014. He joined the Company in April 2012 as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, he had held numerous finance positions at Tommy Hilfiger over the prior 12 years, including Chief Financial Officer for the Jeans division from 1999 to 2003; Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of wholesale operations from 2003 to 2004; Executive Vice President of US Operations — Wholesale and Retail from 2004 to 2005 and Chief Operating Officer from 2006 to 2011.
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About Kate Spade & Company: Kate Spade & Company debuted on February 26, 2014, but the initial sparks formed far earlier in the minds of two imaginative
Jason Luna
COO of Rapid RMS
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About 38 Degree Draft, Rapid RMS: The first point-of-sale and inventory management system that runs on Apple iPads and integrates with gasoline pumps.