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At CEO (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 San Francisco based CEO’ operating in the Retail space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Katrina Lake
Founder and CEO of Stitch Fix
Katrina is passionate about helping women achieve everyday confidence. She founded Stitch Fix to help women everywhere discover and explore their style through a truly client-focused shopping experience. Prior to founding Stitch Fix, Katrina developed extensive experience at the intersection of fashion, retail, and technology. She managed the blogger platform at venture-backed social commerce company Polyvore and consulted with a variety of e-commerce and traditional retailers during her time at The Parthenon Group. Additionally, she has invested in and worked with dozens of entrepreneurs and start-ups at Leader Ventures. Katrina holds a B.S. in Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About Grubhub, Stitch Fix: Stitch Fix is a personal styling platform that delivers curated and personalized apparel and accessory items for women.
Jack Dorsey
Co-Founder & CEO of Square
Jack Dorsey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Twitter Ventures
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About Cash App, Square, Twitter Ventures: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Eduardo Vivas
CEO & Co-founder of Curated
Eduardo Vivas is the founder of Bright.com which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2014, and also the founder of Social Hour, a startup acquired for $51.5M by PlayPhone in 2012. Despite dropping out of high school over 10 years earlier, Vivas is now the Head of Talent Solutions at LinkedIn and an active angel investor.
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About Curated: Curated is a provider of collaborative online shopping service intended to assist shoppers with high-consideration purchases.
Steven Yang
Founder & CEO of Anker
Steven Yang is the Founder and CEO of Anker Innovations. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Peking University and a master’s in computer science from the University of Texas – Austin. He was a senior engineer at Google in California before leaving to found Anker in 2011.
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About Anker, Hunan Ocean Wing: Anker is a multinational team of techies that provides a range of products from batteries and chargers to hubs and readers, and more.
Andy Ruben
Founder & CEO of Trove
Andy Ruben is the CEO and Founder of Trove. The world’s most innovative brands trust Trove to run their resale platforms. Andy left his executive role at Walmart to pursue his dream of building the next generation of retail. Andy was hired by Walmart to work with the Board of Directors and build a strategy department for Walmart. He led a number of transformational efforts over his tenure, including launching Walmart’s heralded sustainability effort, re-imagining Walmart’s $20 Billion private brands business, and integrating online and stores.
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About Trove: Trove builds white-label technology and end-to-end operations that power circular shopping for premium and luxury brands.
Max Rhodes
Co-Founder and CEO of Faire
Prior to starting Faire, Max was the first product manager for several key initiatives at Square, including Square Capital ($1Bn+ deployed) and Square Cash (Square’s only Top 50-ranked app in the iOS App Store). He first came up with the idea for Faire while introducing the Blunt Umbrella to the United States.
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About Faire: Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores.
Jaxon Klein
CEO, Co-Founder of Keyo
Jaxon Klein is an American businessman, entrepreneur, investor and startup advisor. Klein is currently CEO of Keyo, Inc., where he is a co-founder and former CTO. Prior to his role at Keyo, Klein founded two companies in hosting technology and web services.
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About Keyo: We place people’s identities in the palm of their hands.
Don Kingsborough
CEO&Founder of OneMarket
Don has been a serial entrepreneur for 30+ years and is Managing Director GM/VP Payments & Ventures at Capital One. He was formerly Head of Retail at PayPal, CEO of Worlds of Wonder and President of Atari. He was also the Founder and former CEO of Blackhawk Network. Don lives in Silicon Valley and likes to vacation in Hawaii.
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About OneMarket: OneMarket offers customer data management and activation that empowers mid-sized and emerging retailers to acquire new customers.
Francois Chaubard
CEO of Focal Systems
CEO at Focal Systems.
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About Focal Systems: Automate and optimize retail through the use of deep learning computer vision. With focalOS, Focal provides the operating system of retail.
Alex Mehr
CEO, Co-Founder of Retail Ecommerce Ventures
Alex Mehr is the co-founder and co-CEO of Zoosk.com.
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About Mentorbox, Retail Ecommerce Ventures, Zoosk: Retail Ecommerce Ventures create thriving online stores where physical-first operations previously struggled.
Michael Preysman
Founder and CEO of Everlane
Michael Preysman is the founder and CEO of Everlane. Prior to starting Everlane, he was an investor at Elevation Partners for both their New York and Menlo Park offices investing in media and entertainment companies. Michael enjoys sitting at the intersection of design and technology. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon with degrees in Computer Engineering and Economics.
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About Everlane: Everlane designs, manufactures, and sells clothing items for men and women via online e-commerce website.
Michia Rohrssen
Co-Founder, CEO of Prodigy
Michia Rohrssen is CEO at Prodigy, a growing Auto Startup.
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About Prodigy, Upstart: Prodigy digitizes the process to save customers’ time while improving trust and satisfaction.
Elise Polezel
Chief Executive Officer of HigherMe
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About HigherMe: HigherMe uses data and video to help retail and service employers find, screen, and hire better employees faster.
Stuart Landesberg
Co-Founder & CEO of Grove Collaborative
Stuart Landesberg is the Co-Founder & CEO of Grove Collaborative, the leading digital-first brand & ecommerce platform for natural home and personal care. Stu has long been passionate about sustainability. He founded Grove, which has been a Certified B Corp since its founding, after learning that offline distribution meant that just a small percentage of families were choosing healthy, sustainable home care products. Grove now serves hundreds of thousands of households in the U.S. every month and has raised over $100 million in total capital. Stu was previously an investor at TPG Growth, where he was involved in over $400 million in consumer and technology investments. Stu and his wife Caitlin live in San Francisco with their daughter and dog, and spend as much time outside as possible.
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About Grove Collaborative: Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
Ashvin Kumar
Co-Founder & CEO of Tophatter
Ashvin Kumar Co-founded Blippy Inc. in 2009 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Ashvin Kumar served as the Vice President of Engineering at Affinity Circles, where he managed an engineering team across Development & QA, Operations, and Technical Support. Ashvin Kumar graduated from Stanford in 2005 with a degree in computer science.
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About Tophatter: Tophatter is revolutionizing the e-commerce landscape with a discovery shopping app that’s truly one-of-a-kind.
Amrita Saigal
CEO & Founder of Kudos
Amrita Saigal is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kudos.
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About Kudos, Zera Life: Kudos is a retail company that offers natural disposable baby diapers with cotton liners.
Gower Smith
CEO & Co-Founder of Swyft
Gower Smith is the founder of ZoomSystems and Co-Chairman of the Board. Prior to starting the company in 2002, Gower founded and led several other successful technology startups, including ComputerLand (a retailer of PC and technology products, acquired by Random Access), CGF Electronics (Australian distributor for Apple computer products), Archives Computers (a networking and software company, acquired by Impact Systems), and Boomerang Imaging Supplies (a leading printing supplies business, acquired by TCR). Gower completed his radio technician certificate with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, and studied microprocessors at the Melbourne Institute of Technology and Caulfield Institute of Technology.
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About Swyft: Swyft sells great products from leading brands in strategic high profile locations, serving customers.
Daniel Chu
CEO and Co-Founder of MakersPlace
Daniel Chu is the CEO and co-founder at MakersPlace. He is a product and engineering leader with a passion for applying technologies to drive real-world change.
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About MakersPlace: MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators.
Arvind Patel
CEO and Co-Founder of Rowzzy
Seasoned Silicon Valley executive and CEO with direct experience in managing multi-million dollar companies. Wide range of experience in tech management, raising capital, revenue growth and M&A. Tenure in technology has spread across many verticals to include Hardware, Contract Manufacturing and Software. His multilingual skills leverage his wide network. Current activity is to lead a next-gen AI platform to funding, product launch and rapid growth.
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About Rowzzy: Innovators of NVU™ a PaaS /A.I. Voice-to-Display solutions for eCommerce and beyond.
Andy Moss
Founder and CEO of Roadster
Andy Moss is CEO at Fabkids.
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About Roadster: Roadster provides consumer-driven commerce solutions for today’s modern dealership.
Gabrielle Chou
CEO & Co-Founder of Allure Systems
Gabrielle Chou is founder & CEO at Allure Systems.
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About Allure Systems, New York University Shanghai: Allure Systems uses AI to produce apparel images for eCommerce.
Aleksandar Cabrilo
CEO of HTEC Group
Aleksandar is an entrepreneur by passion. He is the founder and CEO of HTEC Group, a consulting and technology R&D services company, founded in Serbia and grown internationally, headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Serbia, Scandinavia, and the UK, servicing its clients and partners globally in various verticals. Aleksandar has a special interest in business digitalization, corporate innovation, and venture acceleration and in HTEC he makes sure that technology excellence of its engineering teams meets relevant industry domain expertise to create the disrupting digital products that support innovative business models. Aleksandar is also a partner, advisor or investor with several technology startups.
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About HTEC Group: HTEC Group is a consulting, product development and digital platform engineering company.
Amy Errett
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Madison Reed
Amy is a partner at True Ventures. With years of experience as a senior executive, venture capitalist, and social-mission visionary, she founded the hair color company Madison Reed in 2013. Before Madison Reed, Amy was general partner for venture capital firm Maveron where she ran the company’s Bay Area office and focused on consumer-facing companies. While CEO at Olivia, Amy was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. She founded and served as chair and CEO of The Spectrem Group, which was acquired by an IPG subsidiary, NFO Worldwide (NYSE:NFO). After the sale, she joined E*Trade where she diversified the company’s business beyond brokerage and ran a $200 million wing of the business. A passionate humanitarian, Amy is a member of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization. She serves on the boards of non-profits Common Sense Media, Glide, and the University of Connecticut Foundation, in addition to several startups. A New York native, Amy earned an MBA in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from the University of Connecticut. She is a former student athlete and fanatical UCONN Huskies fan. She and her wife, Clare, live in San Francisco with their daughter, Madison.
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About Madison Reed, True Ventures: Madison Reed is a beauty company revolutionizing the way women color their hair.
Mark Lovas
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Trumaker
Mark Lovas serves as Executive Director, Co-Founder, and Chief Executive Officer at Trumaker, Inc.
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About Trumaker: Trumaker is a new kind of men’s apparel brand where every guy gets a client
Chai Mishra
CEO & Founder of The Essential
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About The Essential: The Essential creates an altogether new grocery store for a new era.
Charles Bergh
President & CEO of Levi Strauss & Co.
Chip Bergh is the president & chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.). He is also on the company’s board of directors.LS&Co. is one of the world’s leading apparel companies with sales of approximately $5 billion and business in more than 110 countries. The company operates more than 2,800 retail stores and has more than 50,000 wholesale doors globally for its two main brands: Levi’s® and Dockers®. Prior to joining LS&Co. in September 2011, Bergh retired from Procter & Gamble (P&G) after a 28-year career. Bergh grew up in brand management and served in a number of leadership positions with progressively increasing levels of complexity and scope. His last assignment before joining LS&Co. was group president, global male grooming. He was the first P&G employee assigned to the Gillette business following P&G’s $57 billion acquisition of Gillette in 2005. He led the integration and then ran the Gillette Blades & Razors business along with all of P&G’s male grooming brands (Gillette, Old Spice and The Art of Shaving). Bergh is a strategic leader with a proven ability to build and grow brand powerhouses, bring new products to the market and develop innovative marketing campaigns. He was the driving force behind a number of successful product launches and multi-platform media campaigns, including the launch of Gillette Fusion and Fusion Pro-Glide, the revitalization and dramatic growth of the Old Spice brand, the revival of the Clean brand and the creation and test market launch of Swiffer – P&G’s most successful new brand in the last two decades. Bergh has lived and worked in Europe and Asia during his career and has run large, global brands and businesses. He is married to another former P&Ger, who is from China, and they have a six-year-old daughter. He also has two grown sons.Bergh has previously served on the board of directors for VF Corporation and the Economic Development Board of Singapore and was a member of the US-ASEAN Business Council.
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About HP, Levi Strauss & Co., Levi’s: Levi Strauss & Co. is a brand-name apparel company designs, markets, and sells jeans, casual and dress pants, jackets, skirts, and more.
Vivian Wang
Co-founder and CEO of Friendshop
Vivian Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Friendshop.
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About Friendshop, Landed: Snag deals on the best in beauty when you shop with your friends.
Bryan Meehan
Chief Executive Officer of Blue Bottle Coffee
Bryan Meehan CEO at Blue Bottle Coffee. Previously, I co-founded Nude Skincare (acquired by LVMH) and Fresh & Wild in London (acquired by Whole Foods). I’m an advocate of socially responsible investing and co-founded Greenmont Capital, a venture firm focused on investing in people who are primarily interested in creating environmentally friendly products. Investments include IZZE soda line and Mary’s Gone Crackers. I get very excited about great founders and have recently invested in Slack, Hampton Creek, and of course, Blue Bottle Coffee where I spend most of my time working with James Freeman and the Blue Bottle team. I’m also a very active real estate investor. I grew up in Dublin. Since, I’ve lived in London, Boston and San Francisco. I love music, hiking, travel, art, organic food and coffee. I’m on the Board of Trustees at De Young and Legion of Honor museums in San Francisco. I hate GMOs and campaigning hard to have food properly labelled.
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About Blue Bottle Coffee: Blue Bottle Coffee is a coffee roaster and retailer platform that delivers coffee subscriptions to doorsteps nationwide.
Tristan Walker
Founder & CEO of Walker & Company Brands
Tristan Walker is the Founder and CEO Walker and Company Brands.
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About Walker & Company Brands: We make health and beauty simple for people of color.
Woodrow H. Levin
Co-Founder and CEO of Extend
Woodrow H. Levin is the Co-founder and CEO of Extend. He was the vice president for growth at DocuSign. He is also a board member at DraftKings. Previously, he served as the founder and chief executive officer of Estate Assist and BringIt. Levin holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Wisconsin and Juris doctorate in law from Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology. Levin lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Extend: Extend provides extended warranties as a service to merchants and innovates the broken customer experience associated with them.
Eric Allen
CEO & President of LISNR
Eric Allen President former CTO (Japanese conglomerate), CEO (2 Exits);former Gracenote GM running $250M business unit in audio fingerprinting.
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About LISNR, LISNR: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
Kimball Thomas
Co-CEO/Founder of Baby
Kimball Thomas is the Co – CEO & Founder at Baby.com.br . He earned his MBA from, Harvard Business School. His B.S. (Finance) from University of Utah.
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About Baby, Walrus Health: Baby is an e-commerce retailer of baby products in Brazil.
Keith Belling
Founder & CEO of Right Rice
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About popchips, Right Rice: RightRice provides a tasty rice grain that’s made from vegetables.
Bradley Bogolea
Co-Founder & CEO of Simbe Robotics
Bradley Bogolea, also known as Brad, is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Simbe Robotics.
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About Simbe Robotics: Simbe Robotics builds automation solutions for shelf auditing and analytics.
Selene Cruz
Founder & CEO of Re:Store
Selene Cruz is the founder and CEO at RE:STORE.
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About Knocknock.TV, Re:Store: Re:Store is a co-working and retail space for cult-favorite online brands.
James Reinhart
CEO of ThredUp
James is the co-founder and CEO of thredUP.com, the world’s largest online marketplace for secondhand clothing. thredUP’s mission is to “inspire a new generation of consumers to think secondhand first.”James is passionate about public education and the role it plays in our communities. Prior to thredUP, he helped develop one of the nation’s premier public schools, Pacific Collegiate School. James is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School where he earned a joint degree in public policy and business. In his free time, he is an avid golfer, cyclist and whiskey drinker – just not all at the same time. While a proud New Jersey native and diehard Bruce Springsteen fan, he lives with his wife Michele and three children in Oakland, California.
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About ThredUp: ThredUp is a fashion resale marketplace that enables individuals to buy and sell clothing for women and children.
Melissa Wong
CEO & Co-Founder of Zipline
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About Zipline: Zipline is the operations platform that powers retail’s most complex work.
Justin Yoshimura
Founder, Chairman and CEO of CSC Generation
Justin Yoshimura is an entrepreneur and investor. He is currently the CEO of CSC Generation, backed by China Science & Merchants Investment Group (China’s 2nd largest PE fund), Khosla Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Maveron, and Quest Venture Partners. Prior to this, he was SVP at Merkle (acquired by Dentsu for ~$2B) via the acquisition of his company 500friends, a provider of SaaS loyalty marketing solutions backed by $12M+ from Crosslink Capital, Quest Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, and YCombinator. He is also the founder and General Partner of RGF, whose publicly announced investments include, Dropoff (seed), First Opinion (seed, former member of the BOD), Next Force Technology (seed), Gigster (seed) Witlee (seed), Dave (seed), Macro Ventures (seed), Imperfect Produce (seed), Firebase (seed – acquired by GOOG), Zencoder (seed – acquired by BCOV), ifeelgoods (seed), Ownlocal (seed), Bounce Exchange (seed, co-lead Series A), Bright Funnel (seed), Mux (seed), BigFinite (seed). Justin began his career when he dropped out of high school to found his first company, which was acquired when he was 19, after exceeding $10M in revenues. Besides entrepreneurship, Justin is passionate about animals, especially dogs, most but not all cats, dolphins, and sea turtles.
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About CSC Generation, ice, One Kings Lane, Sur La Table, San Francisco, Z Gallerie: CSC Generation develops a proprietary technology platform designed to save brands from liquidating.
Amit RG
CEO and Founder of Richpanel
Amit RG is the founder of Richpanel.
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About Richpanel: Richpanel is the Customer Support and Experience Platform for Ecommerce.
Bianca Gates
CEO & Co-Founder of Birdies
Bianca Gates is the slipper obsessed CEO and Co-Founder of Birdies, the company that is disrupting the slipper market and creating a new category of footwear. Prior to Birdies, Bianca was a Sales Executive at Facebook/Instagram leading retail partnerships. During her time at Facebook, Bianca launched the first Lean In Circle with Sheryl Sandberg and is passionate about bringing women together to support each-others dreams. Bianca is a graduate from the University of California at Irvine and lives in San Francisco with her husband and two kids.
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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.
Chia-Lin Simmons
Founder/CEO of LookyLoo
Chia-Lin Simmons is the CEO of LookyLoo, a technology startup that brings together social, big data and machine learning AI to help identify fit in apparel, increase conversion, increase customer confidence and drive down return rates for apparel and online retailers. Chia-Lin is active in the automotive, transportation, digital media and e-commerce technology space as a consultant and advisory board member for a number of companies in the space. Her interest and expertise in the automotive technology space stems from her role as the former VP of Marketing & Content for Harman International’s (NASDAQ: HAR, now a Samsung business) Connected Car business. Chia-Lin helped build and launch Harman’s Connected Car service Aha which is featured in Honda, Subaru, Porsche and other automotive partners and availability in millions of vehicles and more than 50+ countries worldwide. Prior to her starting her own company, Chia-Lin was an executive at a number of high visibility technology companies. She was the former Head of Global Partner Marketing for Google’s digital business Google Play Music and the Google Play Store, the VP of Marketing and General Manager of Playphone North America, a senior business development executive at Time Warner/ AOL, as well as the VP of Strategic Alliances at Audible (an Amazon company). Chia-Lin serves on the Board of Directors for Servco Pacific, a $1.3B global automotive / goods company, and recently gave presentations on Autonomous Vehicles and legal concerns to more than 400+ autonomous car experts in Silicon Valley. In her free time, Chia-Lin founded the #bindersproject, which helps connected women tech founders with global funders looking to accelerate female founded startups. Chia-Lin graduated Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from U.C. San Diego and received her MBA from Cornell University, where she was a Park Leadership Fellow. Chia-Lin is a licensed New York State attorney and earned her JD from George Mason University School of Law.
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About LookyLoo, NXT-ID, Servco Pacific: Reshaping Retail Therapy – AI – powered stylist & social commerce platform
David Hua
Co-Founder & CEO of Meadow
David Hua is the CEO and Co-Founder of Meadow, a software company specializing in California cannabis, and Y-Combinator’s first start-up to operate in the cannabis space. Hua has dedicated the last 4 years to bridging the divide between cannabis and technology. He has partnered with dispensaries and delivery services of all sizes across California, utilizing technology to scale with demand from legalization, maintain compliance with local and state regulations, and create operational efficiencies to thrive in the regulated industry. He has also collaborated with California’s cannabis community and California regulators to draft, implement, and provide stakeholder feedback of medical and Adult-Use regulations. Prior to founding Meadow, Hua was Head of Platform at Sincerely, Head of Content and Contributors at Healthcentral, co-founded startups GotGame and HippoBird, and traded Foreign Exchange and Latin American Equities at Citigroup.
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About Meadow: Meadow builds connected cannabis retail, delivery, eCommerce, CRM, and marketing software for California’s legal cannabis industry.
Thatcher Spring
Founder & CEO of GearLaunch
Thatcher Spring is the CEO & Founder of GearLaunch, which offers a sophisticated platform for E2E commerce, a rapidly emerging category that focuses on the full e-commerce value chain. Thatcher’s experience with merchandising and supply chains began when he founded a nationally distributed wholesale apparel company shortly after graduating Georgetown University. Thatcher then went on to receive his MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler and briefly worked at J.P. Morgan and Mars before his entrepreneurial drive led him to founding GearLaunch. Outside of work, Thatcher is an avid sailor, and helped lead the Georgetown University sailing team to a national championship. He also serves as a Director of the Cape Eleuthera Foundation, Class Ambassador for Georgetown University, and an Associate for the Nantucket Conservation Foundation.
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About GearLaunch: GearLaunch offers a sophisticated platform for E2E commerce, a rapidly emerging category that focuses on the full e-commerce value chain.
Isabella Sun
Founder and CEO of Short Story
Isabella Sun is the Founder and CEO 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.
Kate Endress Doerksen
CEO, Cofounder of Ditto
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About Ditto: Ditto licenses virtual try-on and frame recommendation technology to the world’s best eyewear retailers.
Ali Ahmed
Founder & CEO of Robomart
Serial entrepreneur voted one of the ‘Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech’ by KPMG and endorsed by TechCity UK and the UK Government as an exceptional talent in technology, with over a decade of experience in on-demand delivery, communications and retail tech. Previously founded on-demand delivery startup Dispatch, and Lutebox, and worked at Groupon, Unilever, GSK.
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About GlaxoSmithKline, Groupon, Robomart, RSM International: On-Demand Mobile Stores
Howard Rosenberg
Founder & CEO of B-Stock Solutions
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About B-Stock Solutions: B-Stock Solutions offers liquidation sales management solutions for companies.
Jill Sherman
Chief Executive Officer of Modalyst
Jill Sherman, CEO and Co-Founder of Modalyst, an automated dropshipping platform, co-founded the company after managing the buying team at Harvey Nichols where she learned the inefficiencies of sourcing and selling physical inventory, while realizing the potential of a zero-inventory model for e-commerce. With over 16 years of industry experience, Jill has worked at Prada USA and Asia Pacific, where she managed the Miu Miu Visual Department, as well as worked at American Vogue and Italian Vogue for 5 years. With 5 years of working in China under her belt, Jill has mastered the art of eating a soup dumpling. She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and a BA from Tufts University. Jill was honored by Crain’s as a Woman to Watch in NY Tech and presented at TEDx on “The Rise of the Independents.”
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About Modalyst: Modalyst is a dropshipping platform for e-commerce businesses.
Stephen Russell
CEO & Founder of Prism Skylabs
Steve Russell is a Silicon Valley veteran with 15 years of experience in building and managing disruptive content networking, video search, and video intelligence technology companies. Steve is CEO and Founder of Prism Skylabs, the global leader in visually understanding and optimizing offline commerce. Its unique cloud service transforms any video camera into a visual merchandising, auditing, and business intelligence tool that can be accessed from any device. Prior to Prism Skylabs, Steve served as the CEO and Chairman of 3VR, the world’s leading video intelligence company, which he founded in 2002. In less than 10 years, Steve took 3VR from a small group of engineers working in his basement to an industry leader serving global customers including Wells Fargo, T-Mobile, GAP, Hilton, and many more of the world’s leading brands. Before 3VR, Steve was VP and GM of the Content Networking group at Internet search giant Inktomi. In 2000, Inktomi Acquired eScene Networks, a consumer video management platform company he founded. In addition, he also served as managing partner at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and President of a pioneering Silicon Valley ISP. Steve is an early investor and advisor to a number of companies across the video intelligence, social media and analytics spaces, including StumbleUpon, LongTail Video, MesmoTV, Qumu, OpenDNS and UberCab, among others. He also sits on the Board of the Center for Secure Information Technologies and is an active speaker and writer, posting frequently on his blog, InHardFocus.com, which explores the many intersections of technology and society. Steve holds 11 patents and was named #8 in the American Venture’s Top 40 under 40™ list. He Studied Economics and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he graduated with honors and distinction and was the recipient of the university’s Anna Laura Meyers prize for outstanding research.
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About InHardFocus.com, Prism Insights Fund, Prism Skylabs: Prism is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that transforms video cameras into powerful business tools.
Evan Horowitz
Founder and CEO of WeedClub
Technology Founder, Entrepreneur and Investor based at Runway Incubator in the Twitter Building. Being the CEO and Co-Founder at WeedClub.com Platform, the @420 Pitch and @420 on Twitter, gives me a unique eco-system to play in. The Blockchain will cut out all of the creepy mainstream service provider middlemen that plague the cannabis industry, so WeedClub is going all in!
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About WeedClub: WeedClub is a fast and accurate way to discover local dispensaries and retailers.
Roger Casals
Co Founder & CEO of Plazah
Currently, co-Founder and CEO of Plazah
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About Plazah: Plazah is the One-on-One Sales Marketplace where anyone can make money recommending the products they love
Christine Moseley
Founder & CEO of Full Harvest
Christine Moseley, Full Harvest Founder + CEO, is a passionate serial social entrepreneur. At age 17, she started a music education non-profit, which is still growing 14 years later. Currently, at Full Harvest, she is solving the food waste problem at the farm level. Full Harvest is the first institutional B2B platform connecting large farms to food companies to sell surplus and imperfect produce. Christine has over 10 years of experience in the logistics and food industries at both Fortune 100 companies (P&G, Maersk- world’s largest logistics company) as well as high-growth food start-ups. In her last corporate role, she assisted Organic Avenue, a NYC healthy food + juice start-up, double in size as Head of Strategic Projects and Business Development. Christine holds an MBA from Wharton Business School and BA from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill.
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About Full Harvest: Full Harvest is the first B2B marketplace for ugly and surplus produce.
Cory Ondrejka
Co-Founder & CEO of Mori
Cory Ondrejka is the CEO and co-founder of mori, inc. (formerly Overlook Research), a stealth, venture-funded startup in Los Gatos, CA. Prior to mori, Ondrejka led the Mobile Product group at Facebook and was responsible for Facebook’s mobile turnaround and delivering Facebook to over a billion mobile customers worldwide. Ondrejka also led Facebook’s multi-billion dollar acquisition and integration of Oculus VR. Before Facebook, Ondrejka was the co-founder of Walletin, a startup focused on high-performance javascript and Web rendering acquired by Facebook in 2010. He was the Chief Technology Officer of Linden Lab, where he co-created the award-winning virtual world Second Life. He has served as Executive Vice President for Global Digital Marketing at EMI Music, and has been a visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California where he gave classes on online communities. Ondrejka began his career in game development startups, shipping arcade and console video game titles. He holds a bachelor’s of science degree in Weapons and Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and was an officer in the US Navy. Ondrejka also advises several early-state technology companies.
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About Mori: Mori is a branded food company with quality products.
Amar Chokhawala
Founder & CEO of Reflektion
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About Reflektion: Reflektion understands the individual intent and preferences of each customer and intelligently responds in real time.
Mary Jimenez
Chief Executive Officer of ModCloth
Mary Jimenez is the Chief Executive Officer at ModCloth.
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About ModCloth: ModCloth is an online clothing, accessories, and decor retailer that aims to provide an engaging shopping atmosphere for the user.
Honghao Deng
Chief Executive Officer of Butlr
Honghao Deng (zh:邓鸿浩) is an award-winning innovator and computational designer creating the field of responsive context-aware architecture with the integration of IoT and AI. He holds a Master of Design Technology with Distinction at Harvard GSD. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Butlr Technologies Inc. He formerly was a researcher at City Science Group, MIT Media Lab. Honghao has won multiple awards in the field of smart city technology, including Architizer A+ Award in Smart Building Technology, Time Magazine 100 Best Inventions, Red Dot Best of Best, Core77 Award, Gold and Platinum A’ Design Award, iF Design Award, Fast Compay Innovation by Design, World-Changing Ideas, and 1st Prize Future Cities Contest. His research is published on UIST, SIGGRAPH, CHI, TEI, DIS, and ISWC. His works have been covered by Financial Times, TechCrunch, World Economic Forum, Domus, CCTV, Wallpaper, and the National. He is recognized on Forbes 30 Under 30 List 2022. https://www.forbes.com/profile/butlr/?list=30under30-manufacturing-industry&sh=1c1cf30c68e7
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About Butlr: AIoT intelligence Platform for People Sensing
John Yang
CEO and Founder of Treez
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About Treez: The leading enterprise cloud commerce platform that streamlines retail and supply chain operations within the cannabis market.
Deena Varshavskaya
Founder & CEO of Wanelo
Deena Varshavskaya, is the Founder and CEO of Wanelo (“wah-nee-lo,” from Want, Need, Love), the first-ever digital mall on your phone, currently used by millions of people to discover, browse and buy products online. Deena conceptualized Wanelo after feeling frustrated with the shopping options in traditional malls. Her personal style did not fall within a simple category, and she knew there had to be a better way to find things that complemented her flair for the unique. Deena decided to create a single, social destination that would make it easy to discover amazing stores and the best products, and unite all of shopping in one place. Before attracting Wanelo’s first users, Deena spent more than two years working on the social shopping platform using her own savings. In 2011, she moved to San Francisco and raised funding for Wanelo, though she initially received 40 investor rejections. Today, Deena oversees Wanelo’s team of 33 employees who make it possible for their users to peruse over 12 million products including clothing, accessories, home décor, beauty and more to create a universal shopping wish list. Deena was named one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs for two years in a row by Goldman Sachs, appeared in Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business list and was highlighted as one of 15 “up-and-comers to keep an eye on” in Vanity Fair. Deena lives in San Francisco and can be followed on Wanelo, Twitter and Instagram at @siberianfruit.
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About Wanelo: Wanelo (from Want, Need, Love) is an online community and social platform for shopping.
Allison Lee
Co-founder, Entrepreneur, and CEO of Hemster
Allison has actively pursued her entrepreneurial passion since her time at Berkeley, where she launched her first company. Prior to Hemster, she was a director of monetization at IOT start-up, Peel, where she grew the revenue from $20,000 to $10M in less than 18 months. She has been selected to pitch at Shoptalk, the biggest retail conference, to showcase her work with Hemster.
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About Hemster: Hemster is an on-demand tailoring service that empowers customers to create their own size no matter where they shop.
Khaled Naim
Co-Founder & CEO of Onfleet
Khaled is CEO and Co-Founder at Onfleet, the leading last-mile delivery management software platform. Khaled holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and a BE in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. Khaled is based in San Francisco, California.
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About Onfleet: Onfleet is a technology company that develops last-mile delivery management software.
Will Glaser
Founder & CEO of Grabango
Mr. Will Glaser is Founder and CEO of Grabango. He is an original co-Founder of Pandora Media and has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in high-technology for his prior work at Hydra Systems. He presently serves on the board of Blue Shield of California. He graduated from Cornell University with a triple major in Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics.
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About Grabango: Grabango is the leader in checkout-free technology for existing, large-scale grocery and convenience stores
Gideon Yu
CEO & Co-Founder of EVA Automation
Gideon is currently a General Partner at [Khosla Ventures](/financial-organization/khosla-ventures). Previously, Gideon was the Chief Financial Officer of [Facebook](/organization/facebook), where he led the $375 million investment round from [Microsoft](/organization/microsoft) and Hong-Kong billionaire [Li Ka Shing](/person/li-ka-shing) at a record $15 billion valuation. Before that, Gideon was a Partner at [Sequoia Capital](/financial-organization/sequoia-capital), and was also the Chief Financial Officer at [YouTube](/organization/youtube) where he negotiated its $1.65 billion sale to [Google](/organization/google) amidst a highly competitive auction for the company. Prior to YouTube, Gideon was the Treasurer and Senior Vice President of Finance for [Yahoo](/organization/yahoo), executing over 30 acquisitions / investments, including Shimon, Alibaba / Taobao, Overture, Haber, Inktomi, [Flickr](/organization/flickr), and del.icio.us and over $5 billion of capital markets transactions, including $750 million in zero coupon / zero yield convertible notes – Yahoo’s first financing since its IPO. Prior to Yahoo, Gideon was the Chief Financial Officer of Haber Software (acquired by NeuStar, NYSE: NSR) and held positions at Disney, Shimon, Hilton, and DLJ / CSFB. Gideon graduated from Stanford University majoring in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Gideon is also very active philanthropically, likes art, movies, fast cars. Currently serves on the Board of Directors of the UCSF Medical Foundation.
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About Cloudera, EVA Automation, San Francisco 49ers: EVA Automation is a Silicon Valley-based startup that reimages audio and video experiences.
Nion McEvoy
Chairman & CEO of Chronicle Books
Nion McEvoy, Chairman and CEO, joined Chronicle Books in 1986. He became Editor-in-Chief of the Adult Trade division until the acquisition of the company in February of 2000 by The McEvoy Group. He previously worked in the Business Affairs offices of Wescom Productions and the William Morris Agency. He is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz, and the University of California’s Hasting’s College of the Law.
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About Chronicle Books, SFMOMA: Chronicle Books is on of U.S A’s finest book sellers when it comes to books. They have had several bestseller in the due course of time.
Robert Denning
Founder & CEO of Westward Leaning
Robert Denning is the Founder & CEO of Westward Leaning.
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About Westward Leaning: Westward Leaning offers sunglasses that celebrate human achievement by integrating unique materials specific to a past or present human.
Robert Denning
Founder & CEO of Westward Leaning
Robert Denning is the Founder & CEO of Westward Leaning.
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About Westward Leaning: Westward Leaning offers sunglasses that celebrate human achievement by integrating unique materials specific to a past or present human.
Laya Adib
Founder & CEO of ShopLook
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About ShopLook: Virtual styling marketplace connecting shoppers, stylists, and brands
Ravihans Wetakepotha
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of HypeHash
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About HypeHash: World’s 1st marketplace for shopping #Hashtags!
Gunjan Garg
CEO / Founder of Heartyy Fresh
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About Heartyy Fresh, Rahein: Heartyy Fresh is an online grocery shop for fresh Indian goods and other everyday essentials from local neighborhood stores.
Skye Elijah
Co-founder and CEO of CoinBeyond
Tech entrepreneur seeking solutions to problems facing the bitcoin community. Co-founder and CEO of CoinBeyond.
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About CoinBeyond: Modern Payment Processing, Simplified.
Paul Tasner
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of PulpWorks
Paul Tasner is a senior executive with more than 30 years of experience in all facets of supply chain management. He has held leadership positions in procurement, manufacturing, and logistics in ventures ranging from start-up to Fortune 100. His career focus has been on supply chain sustainability, strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management. His company affiliations include: The Clorox Company, Clif Bars, California Closets, Method Products, and Hepagen Vaccines. In 2008, Mr. Tasner founded and continues to lead the San Francisco Bay Area Green Supply Chain Forum – the first such assembly of supply chain executives anywhere. Mr. Tasner has authored many papers and presentations on supply chain sustainability and currently lectures on this timely topic in the MBA Program at San Francisco State University. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Boston University.
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About PulpWorks, TED Conferences: Pulpworks offers compostable products, molded from 100% post-consumer waste paper.
Lauren Barnard
Founder + CEO of Wine + Moxxi
Lauren is the founder and CEO of Wine + Moxxi. She is also the founder and CEO of Kampala Wines, an online wine club and wine shop platform. Earlier in life, she worked for Fluxx as partnerships manager and senior project manager. She has 2 years and 6 months experience as grants manager in Campaign for Female Education. Lauren attended University of Wisconsin-Madison and studied journalism.
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About Booz Allen Hamilton, Wine + Moxxi: Wine + Moxxi engages in delivering monthly wine subscription for customers.
Hannon Comazzetto
CEO & Founder of AirRobe
Hannon Comazzetto is the CEO and Founder at Air Robe.
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About AirRobe: Empowering the collaborative consumption of luxury consumer goods.
Paul Voge
Co-Founder + CEO of Aura Bora
Paul Voge is the Co-Founder of Aura Bora.
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About Aura Bora: Aura Bora is a maker of craft sparkling water that features herbs, fruits, and flowers.
Ashok Narasimhan
Co-founder and CEO of Omnyway
Ashok Narasimhan He is currently the CEO of Omnyway, a platform that empowers retailers, banks and brands to build a contextual digital commerce ecosystem.
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About Omnyway, The Angels’ Forum, TiE: Livestream commerce with integrated global payments
Joel Beal
Co-Founder and CEO of Alloy
Joel Beal is the CEO and founder of Alloy.
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About Alloy: Alloy equips consumer goods brands to adapt quickly to change by aligning execution and planning to real-time consumer demand.
Michael McCarthy
Founder, CEO of Inkit
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About Inkit: Reach Enablement Platform (REP)
Laura Alber
President and CEO of Williams-Sonoma
A driving force in the growth of Williams-Sonoma Inc., Laura Alber has served as the company’s president and chief executive officer since 2010. In her tenure at WSI, Alber has held various leadership roles, executing effective growth strategies, strengthening brand recognition and bolstering profits for the company’s portfolio of multichannel brands. As the company continues to innovate, launch new businesses and expand product offerings, Alber has extended the WSI imprint into new categories, with introductions such as Pottery Barn Kids, PBteen, PBdorm and, most recently, new growth opportunities — West Elm and West Elm Market, Mark and Graham, Rejuvenation and the WS Agrarian collection. Alber considers WSI to be at the intersection of superior lifestyle merchandising and state-of-the-art analytics, positioning the company to outperform competitor lifestyle brands. She believes that WSI’s portfolio of global brands, collaborative and creative culture and customer focus positions the company to be “tomorrow’s retailer.” Alber received a BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Williams-Sonoma: Williams-Sonoma is a retailer of home furnishings and gourmet cookware that offers products for every room in the house.
Jordan Fisher
Founder & CEO of Standard Cognition
Jordan Fisher is CEO and co-founder of Standard Cognition, a startup bringing fully autonomous checkout to physical retail. Jordan has spent his career focusing on both fundamental research and product development. He has worked in computational fluid dynamics, securities regulations, video games, machine learning, and retail, and seeks out areas where innovative products can be forged by tackling difficult research initiatives
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About Standard Cognition: Standard Cognition provides an autonomous checkout tool that can be installed into retailers’ existing stores.
Nicky Jackson
CEO and Founder of RangeMe
The concept of RangeMe came to Nicky while developing a range of baby skincare products. Looking for ways to achieve fast distribution, she had the idea to create a single network to match sellers with buyers looking for products like theirs. Before launching RangeMe Nicky worked as a Marketing Executive at Kellogg’s, Uncle Toby’s, Goodman Fielder, Pepsico and Jim Beam.
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About RangeMe: RangeMe is revolutionizing how retailers and brands work together.
Stacey Boyd
Founder & CEO of Olivela
Stacey Boyd is the Founder and CEO of Olivela.
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About Olivela, SavvySource for Parents, Schoola: Olivela is an online luxury retail platform with a philanthropic business model.
Justin Behar
Chief Executive Officer of Trax
Justin Behar is the CEO at Trax.
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About Trax: Trax provides in-store execution tools, market measurement services, and data science solutions for retail.
Antonio Nunes
Founder, CEO of Instaleap LLC
Antonio Nunes is the Founder and CEO of Instaleap SaaS.
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About Instaleap LLC: SaaS Platform for retailers to operate their on-demand digital channels efficiently
Robert Kim
Co-founder and CEO of GoodGood
Robert Kim is the Co-founder and CEO at GoodGood.
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About GoodGood: GoodGood is creating a better kind of local commerce, helping neighbourhoods discover specialty treats, niche beverages.
Marco Mascorro
Founder, CEO of Fellow AI
Marco is an entrepreneur, roboticist, passionate about technology and innovation. He likes programming, robotics, Internet of things, virtual reality, artificial Intelligence, disruptive technologies, 3D printing, product design and startups. He loves starting new things, creating new stuff, exploring new cultures, has lived in 6 countries and is a passionate doer.
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About Fellow AI: Cloud-based Inventory Management and Supply Chain Solutions
Dan Leahy
CEO of MakerSights
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About MakerSights: Actionable product intelligence. Make more confident decisions about your products and future concepts.
Mac Harman
Founder & CEO of Balsam Brands
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About Balsam Brands, Woodland School: Balsam Brands is a multi-brand E-Commerce retailer with roots in holiday and home décor.
Andrian Galkin
Co-Founder and CEO of Storiqa
Andrian Galkin is the co-founder and COO of Storiqa.com, a marketplace with a wide range of functions for effective sales in the world of a new digital economy. His is a is a PhD candidate in Political Science and has been studying and interning at Stanford University and the Institute for US and Canadian Studies.
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About Storiqa: Storiqa is a smart marketplace powered by blockchain.
Alexander Reichert
Co-Founder & CEO of AgVend
Alexander Reichert is the Co-Founder & CEO at AgVend.
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About AgVend: AgVend powers the omnichannel experience in agriculture. Our white-labeled Grower Portals digitally connect ag retailers to growers.
Hana Lee
Founder & CEO of Melixir
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About Melixir: Melixir is a cult beauty brand rooted in Korean skincare rituals backed by science.
Daina Burnes
Co-founder & CEO of Bold Metrics
CEO at Bold Metrics.
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About Bold Metrics: Building a sustainable future by reducing product returns and informing better design practices
Cristian Petschen
Founder & CEO of TABLE.co
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About TABLE.co: Every customer interaction, one easy platform. TABLE provides a digital-first conversational interface for every customer need.
Hank Rao
Founder & CEO of Japan Crate
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About Japan Crate: Japan Crate is a monthly subscription box that aims to deliver Japanese culture through candy and snacks.
Susan Jeffers
CEO of XY Retail
CEO, Founder XY Retail
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About TOOVIA, XY Retail: XY Retail is a modern, cloud based platform that simplifies commerce for brands to sell globally across physical stores and eCommerce.
Ben Seidl
Co-Founder and CEO of Neyborly
Founder at Neyborly
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About HIAGO Inc., Neyborly: Marketplace for short-term commercial real-estate
Eric Senn
Founder & CEO of Storr
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About Storr: The most personalized, social, and easy-to-use remote sales platform. Now available in white label.
Kevin McKenzie
CEO of skuIQ
Prior to skuIQ Kevin was EVP, Chief Digital Officer of the Macerich Company US based shopping center and mall developer with 48 shopping centers around the country where he led their digital and omni- channel retail initiatives. Most recently he ideated and built from the ground up BrandBox, a new turnkey approach to physical retail for digitally native brands to open and operate stores and develop the playbook to scale offline as a complement to e-commerce growth. Prior to Macerich, Kevin worked at Westfield Corporation where he oversaw the development of all digital strategy and omni-channel initiatives. He drove the integration of Westfield’s shopping centers around the world with emerging digital technology as well as examined new business development opportunities. He setup up and incubated Westfield’s digital division, Westfield Retail Solutions and built a digital retail platform that converged digital and physical retail for each of Westfield’s markets. Kevin is a digital entrepreneur, with more than 24 years’ experience in Internet, e-commerce, digital media, omni-channel and product development. Before joining Macerich and Westfield, Kevin founded NinthDecimal Inc, an omni-channel intelligence company that empowers retailers and brands with the most comprehensive understanding of people by connecting their digital and physical lives. By bridging online and offline data sources, NinthDecimal offers the most precise online to offline measurement of purchasing behavior and intent. Prior to founding NinthDecimal, Kevin was Senior Vice President, Shopping Services, with CNET Networks Inc (Acquired by CBS Corporation), a pioneer in internet marketplaces and digital publishing, the world’s leading source of information and services for buyers, sellers and suppliers of technology and consumer electronic products.
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About skuIQ: skuIQ helps retailers with one or more locations keep their inventory, orders and more, synced.
Alexei Agratchev
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RetailNext
Alexei Agratchev is the CEO and Co-founder of RetailNext and he serves on its Board of Directors.
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About RetailNext: RetailNext enables retailers and manufacturers to collect, analyze, and visualize data about in-store customer engagement.
Guido Meak
Founder and CEO of Nembol
In 2014 Guido founded Nembol, Inc., a software company headquartered in San Francisco with a development team in Italy. In 2015 Nembol put to market its first product: Nembol App, the ultimate user-friendly online advertising tool for traditional retailers. Nembol App enables brands to share their catalogue and advertising content with retailers and the latter to use such content seamlessly on the Internet in their multi-channel posts and listings. Guido previously co-founded Bizcash in 1999, an online payment company, and Zerogrey in 2000, a company enabling e-commerce for brands. At Zerogrey Guido has been MD and CEO between 2002 and 2013 and lead the company from $200k to $9M in revenues and into a team of 50 people from 15 different nationalities with offices in Dublin, Turin and Shanghai. Before becoming and entrepreneur, Guido worked in corporate finance at Ernst & Young and in the consumer goods at Diadora. Guido is also a former athlete: he raced with the Italian National Ski Team, won at the national level and represented Italy over two seasons at the Europa Cup. Guido earned his Master’s Degree in Economics at the London School of Economics, on a scholarship issued by the Italian Government, and was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University on a scholarship issued by ENI. Finding a value in life-long learning, Guido also served as a university lecturer for business students at USAC, the Unites States Study Abroad Consortium.
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About Nembol: Nembol moves a retail product from a shelf in a store onto multiple online selling and advertising channels in 5 seconds.
Alexis Wong
CEO/Founder of BLINQ
Alexis Wong is the CEO and founder of BLINQ.
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About BLINQ: Discover, experience and get things done at your nearest BART station.
Libby Cooper
CEO and Co-Founder of Space Coyote
Libby Cooper currently works as Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Space Coyote. She was a Creative Director at VideoPixie. She is a visual storyteller. She loves all things design and has a not-so-secret passion for icons.
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About Space Coyote: Space Coyote is a community-driven company that produces infused joints rolled.
Vineet Chaudhary
Co-founder & CEO of Trendage
Specialties: Web & Marketing Strategy, UI Design & User Experience, Product Positioning & Management
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About Trendage: Trendage develops and operates an online platform, which allows retailers to make recommendations for shoppers.
