MEET THE SPEAKERS

Scott Adel currently serves as Head of Omni Chanel for menswear e-tailer Frank & Oak, He is a seasoned retail sales and operations professional whose main responsibilities include leading their Omni Channel efforts, Store Operations and Growth strategies,  and developing and overseeing the...

Troels Adrian joined the Metro Atlanta Chamber (MAC) in January 2015 as director of supply chain and advanced manufacturing. In this role, he leads the industry expansion team’s initiativesin the supply chain and advanced manufacturing clusters as part of MAC’s economic development...

Grant is the CIO for Living Space Furniture and Former Chair of the NRF-ARTS Board. He has over 20 years of experience in retail technology including Tuesday Morning, Academy Sports and Outdoors, Garden Ridge and Ahold USA. Just for fun Grant competes in Ironman triathlons.

Senior Ecommerce User Experience Analyst with extensive experience in quantitative and qualitative research and analysis methods - web analytics, data mining, usability studies, focus groups, heuristic evaluations, and other user centered research methods. User experience research focused on...

Sean Bunner serves as the Vice President of New Business Development for HSNi where he is responsible for developing opportunities across marketing, merchandising, and digital that leverage HSN’s unique platform for storytelling and building brands.  Sean is developing HSN’s leadership in...

Robin Copland's progressive experience in the retail and retail technology industry culminated in his current position as Vice President of Retail for the Americas for ThoughtWorks. His focus is on addressing the growing challenges that retailers are facing today, including enabling innovation...

Results–oriented, decisive leader with proven success in sales, partnerships, and marketing for over 13 years. Coupled with a proven ability to navigate complex organizations and establish credibility on the executive level with a willingness to take action. I believe in utilizing experiential...

Scott is an experienced practitioner in the on-line grocery space.  He has 20+ years of hands-on experience, and continues to be one of the thought leaders in the development of the channel.  He started his own company in the early evolution of on-line ordering, and after several years of rapid...

Justin Fine is an entrepreneurial leader with 15+ year track-record of building businesses, developing brands and driving revenue within hyper-competitive, continuously evolving industries.  Justin’s experience spans the digital commerce, lifestyle brand, sports and entertainment realms. His recent ...

Jon is a successful entrepreneur in NYC’s fashion industry. Prior to WindowsWear.com, Jon expanded new market opportunities for internationally-renown designers and served as an investment analyst at distressed debt, activist hedge fund Aurelius Capital Management and an investment banker at Lehman ...

A thought leader with many years of experience in store operations as well as information technology, Kurt began his career at Hy-Vee in 1989.   Throughout his career Kurt has worked on a number of system including accounting, pricing, promotion, labor management, forecasting and supply...

As Founder and CEO of CART, Gary Hawkins has an unparalleled view to current and future innovation in fast moving consumer goods retail. Reviewing thousands of new solutions each year, combined with over 30 years of industry experience leading shopper-focused innovation across the supply...

Sam Iosevich has over 18 years of experience delivering financial results for clients through advanced analytics. Sam is a Founder and Managing Partner at Prognos, a leading Retail/CPG analytics company acquired by Antuit in April 2015.While at Prognos, Sam designed the forecasting methodology that ...

Michael Jaconi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Button, the leading mobile platform powering contextual commerce. Button’s Marketplace enables developers and marketers to connect their apps to the fastest growing companies in mobile commerce, opening up new channels of revenue and driving higher...

Brian Laney is the VP of Sales of Alert Tech (Previously VP of Product and Design) and long time retail customer experience and operations hacker that has technology and thought leadership in over 7000 retail stores spanning 41 countries and the worlds best retailers. Brian brings a no-nonsense...

As the Director of E-Commerce within Coca-Cola North America's supply chain, Nicole is responsible for building out a strategy and standing up a supply chain operating model to meet the company's short and long term e-commerce objectives. Her responsibility spans from the implementation of...

Michael is a transformational leader with a unique retail, marketing services, and consumer products expertise. A 28 year industry veteran, Michael has established a reputation for successfully leading large and complex businesses. Michael and the Lowes Foods team are leading a complete rebranding...

Clay has 25+ years experience in the retail industry, both as a consultant and retailer. He has led major transformations, developing strategy & processes, selecting & deploying systems and organizational change. He specializes in merchandising, including item / foundation...

Scott Raio is the CTO and Co-Founder of behind Combatant Gentlemen, or Combat Gent, the world's first "sheep-to-closet" e-commerce-driven company. Founded in 2012, Raio continues to be an integral part in defining and improving Combat Gent’s unique vertically integrated supply...

Dr. Nadia Shouraboura is the CEO of Hointer. Hointer is reinventing the shopping experience, making it easy and fun. At Hointer men and women have a new way of discovering, trying-on and buying great clothing.Nadia was born in Soviet Russia and pursued her education in mathematics and science in...

Mark Veeder is the vice president of online merchandising.  He is responsible for driving product authority and Home Depot’s interconnected retail strategy.  He works closely with core merchandising, Home Depot.com operations and development, supply chain, and our suppliers.  He is focused on...

Albert is responsible for the Interconnected / Omnichannel in-store customer experience for The Home Depot’s 2,200+ locations.  Albert’s brings 20+ years of experience specializing in Retail strategy, systems, and omnichannel enablement.  His background comes largely from management consulting at...

Eli is passionate about mobile technology and how consumers use mobile devices to shop. He has helped spearhead a tremendous mobile commerce program at B&H, keeping up with the changing ways consumers use the Internet. The iPad app Eli and his colleagues at B&H developed is especially...