Speakers

Jeremy is Chairman of Revital, a multi-channel retailer of supplements, beauty and wellness products, and non-executive advisor to Scotmid Coop. He recently stepped down as CEO of the fashion brand White Stuff where he developed its multi-channel growth in the UK and overseas.

Before that, he was CEO of AS Watson, running Superdrug, Savers and The Perfume Shop, a business he co-founded in the 1990s.

Nordicfeel.se – Nordic Web Trading AB founded in Växjö 2016 is today a leading Nordic e-commerce player in the Beauty, Perfume, Skin, Hair and Make-up product segment. With head office in Växjö located in one of the largest warehouses in the Nordics, NordicFeel sell and distribute more than 15000 products ranging from beauty classics to new products from more than 200 beauty brands. We are proud winners of E-tailer Awards of the year five years in a row. In 2015 we opened up our first retail store in central Växjö.

Alice Hastings-Bass is a co-founder of LUX FIX, an e-commerce destination uniting the UK’s best, hard-to-find, independent designers on one easy to shop website. As luxury brands become increasingly the preserve of the super-rich and fast fashion chases the under-30s, LUX FIX provides expertly designed and age/price appropriate fashion for stylish 30+ women who have been neglected by the incumbent fashion players.  Before co-founding LUX FIX, Alice worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, and then in private equity.

Julien Callède co-founded the online furniture brand Made.com where he acted mainly as COO and Director of International expansion. Made.com gives customers in now 7 countries in Europe access to great quality & original design furniture items, at an amazing price. After less than 7 years of trading, Made.com reached sales of around £100M in 2016 and is still growing extremely fast, leveraging a fast growing community of hundreds thousands of happy customers across Europe. Julien has now left his executive role in the business, and is focusing his time advising and consulting for start ups and fast growing companies facing scaling challenges.

George Goley has been Chief Technology Officer for Sainsbury’s Argos since June 2015. George joined Argos from Sears Online, where he was Chief Information Officer responsible for all of Sears’ websites, mobile applications, marketplace seller software and many in-store systems. 

Prior to that George was Vice President of Technology at Amazon.com, responsible for Amazon’s catalogue systems, data warehouse systems, runtime web-facing systems and portions of the search systems. He has also held a variety of Director and Senior Director roles at Microsoft, including stints with SQL Server, MSN.com, Microsoft.com and The Office of the CTO.

Ralph joined the business in July 2014, and became Product Director in March 2015. Since March 2016 Ralph has also been responsible for the Group’s Retail Operations and in November 2017 added Logistics to his remit, becoming Chief Product and Supply Officer. Prior to N Brown, Ralph led teams in buying & merchandising at Marks & Spencer and Shop Direct, before widening his experience in digital and marketing at Sainsbury’s and Kitbag.com.

Highly motivated, multi-dimensional leader, with unrivalled experience of building brands and consumer loyalty for both blue chip companies and internet start ups.

Mirko Caspar studied business administration at the University of Münster, where he went on to gain a PhD. The most important appointments in his career to date were as a corporate consultant at McKinsey, with a focus on marketing and strategy, as senior director for business development at the entertainment conglomerate Universal Music and managing director of its mail order subsidiaries, and as a managing partner of the virtual world company Metaversum. As a managing director of Mister Spex, Caspar is responsible for the Marketing, CRM, Category Management, Public Relations and Product Management divisions and is in charge of international markets.

Peter Hobolt Jensen, native to Denmark, has spent most of his career successfully blending and expanding analog brands with relevant digital dimensions. He works with category leading creative brand Moleskine and before that LEGO – developing experiences and products that empower individual creativity and fun. Following being awarded his Industrial PhD. in Marketing and Design Management in 2001, Peter spend three years in New York followed by two in London. When returning to Denmark he led the development of one of the fastest growing children’s website and ecommerce business’: LEGO.com.

At Moleskine, which he joined in 2011, he initially built out an ecommerce business from 1 country to 32 and grew the earned media reach to significant levels. Since 2014 he has focused exclusively on leading digital innovation – developing products, applications and services that allow Moleskine users to bridge analog and digital as a means to enable their personal creativity and productivity. This has resulted in the Moleskine+ category has been built up of these activities which contribute significantly to the financial performance and growth of the Moleskine Company.

As part of these efforts Peter has led the establishing of relevant partnerships across the digital landscape to deliver the Moleskine consumer vision. This includes partnering with Evernote in 2012 - subsequently expanding to include Adobe, Dropbox and most recently Microsoft. In 2015 a new Milestone was reached by establishing a partnership with Korean Company Neolab for the development of the Moleskine Smart Writing set - entering consumer electronics. 

In 2016 Moleskine added also a pure digital business through the introduction of the Moleskine Apps Business and the launch of Moleskine Timepage planner application. Early 2018 the Timepage application was followed by Moleskine Actions, a task management application.Most recently, in early 2018 Moleskine has created the Moleskine Digital Studio in partnership w. Bonobo Labs of Australia.

Melanie, Co-Founder of Smith & Sinclair, a business focused on making magical, innovative edible products for an accessible audience. The company has grown board game dating nights to manufacturing and selling over a million alcoholic cocktail gummies last year. 

Ms. Stoneham is Senior Vice President, Marketing Chico’s FAS, Inc. is a cultivator of brands serving the lifestyle needs of fashion-savvy women 30 years and older. The brand portfolio currently consists of three brands: Chico’s, White House Black Market and Soma. The Chico’s FAS brands are all specialty retailers of private label women’s apparel, accessories and related products. Currently, operating 1,518 boutiques and outlets throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as an online presence for each of our brands.

As Senior Vice President Marketing, Ms. Stoneham’s key accountabilities include: brand, consumer and marketing strategy, development of brand identity and essence, customer experience, customer relationship management, loyalty, digital development, leading multi-channel design including store and visual merchandising, advertising, agency management, marketing creation, media planning and investment. Prior to joining Chico’s in 2016, Ms. Stoneham was Senior Vice President, Marketing, Shoppers Drug Mart,licensor of more than 1,300 full-service drug stores across Canada, with $11.1 billion in sales, as well as57medical clinic pharmacies, and six luxury beauty destinations operating as Murale.

Ms. Stoneham is a dynamic and innovative senior marketing leader with tremendous experience and success optimizing shareholder value for top tier organizations. She is highly collaborative, equally skilled atcreating, building, and revitalizing brands as developing, inspiring, coaching and managing strong professional teams. Her experience spans a broad range of sectors including telecommunications, packaged goods, retail, high tech, airline, brand-name and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. Ms. Stoneham is an award-winning brand thought leader with a relentless drive for innovation and excellence. Ms. Stoneham serves as Director of the Vividata Board (formerly PMB and NadBank), and Director of Women's College Hospital Foundation.

Dr. Ali El Husseini, Vice President of global operations for Overstock.com, oversees both marketplace partnerships and the Worldstock program, which helps to support artisans in developing countries by providing them a platform to sell their products. Dr. El Husseini also sits on the Board of Directors for Bitt.com, a Caribbean digital asset exchange focused on providing access to cryptocurrencies in emerging markets.

Ali holds a Ph.D. in political science and government from the University of Utah, along with a Master’s degree in both political science and economics. Additionally, Dr. El Husseini frequently serves as a foreign policy advisor to the Lebanese Parliament, and is often a guest lecturer at top-tier universities covering topics on European and Middle Eastern political and economic affairs.

Thilo heads the Knowledge Management Department of the Otto Group, being responsible to organize the exchange of knowhow within the Otto Group, using technical means, organizing face to face exchanges and doing one to one consulting.

He has worked in the Otto Group since 1987, in market research, strategy, as marketing VP of the mother company Otto, spending 4 years in Asia setting up mail order companies and since 2005 as a corporate VP in his current role.

Amit Goyal has been with Overstock for more than a decade, starting out his career as a senior software developer in 2006. He worked his way up to software development lead, director and then vice president before assuming his current role as senior vice president.

As a software developer, Goyal worked on building out fulfillment systems before moving on to director where he managed software technology for OLabs, Overstock’s emerging business incubator. After his transition to vice president of development, Goyal was responsible for managing product technology for website and mobile.

In his current positon as senior vice president of software engineering, Goyal oversees a team of more than 300 engineers leading the department in software engineering and architecture. Under his direction, Goyal’s teams have been behind the creation and implementation of technology including augmented reality, virtual reality and machine learning.

Ferdinand Forster is heading the Connected Retail team at Zalando SE, Europe’s leading online platform for fashion. He is responsible for envisioning, developing and scaling smart tech solutions to to enable the digitalisation of brick-and-mortar fashion stores. Scaling onmi-channel commerce solutions should help brands, retailers and franchise store owners to further grow their business.

Before Ferdinand joined Zalando in 2017, he worked for Lazada and Shopwings but also founded a digital publication & consulting startup.

Nigel is Head of Operations Development for Sainsbury’s Argos where he leads Proposition, Operating Model and Format Development, together with Operational Product Management.

During his four years with the organisation Nigel has been at the forefront of the large change initiatives overhauling Argos’ Customer fulfilment capability, through its Hub & Spoke and FastTrack Delivery & Collection initiatives, and latterly leading the development and delivery of the Store in Store and Collection Point programmes across the Sainsbury’s Argos business.

Before joining Sainsbury’s Argos, Nigel was Head of International Business Development for Tesco where he looked after the expansion of Tesco’s multi-channel capability across its international markets.

Melissa is Head of Digital Product Development for the omni-channel digital customer experiences for Sainsbury’s Argos. Previously, Melissa has been VP of engineering for product management and search for Sears Online and a Technical Product Architect for Microsoft. Melissa sits on the Sainsbury’s Argos Women in Technology panel and was a finalist for Woman of the Year at the Women in IT awards.

Corin Mills' experience has centred around the marketing, strategy, architecture and visual identity of brands. From tactical hands-on delivery, through to global brand-led business transformations.

He has worked for leading brand agencies and large multi-national brands and is currently Head of Brand at Dixons Carphone, overseeing their range of brands including Currys PC World and Carphone Warehouse. Before this, he was overseeing implementation at Wolff Olins following a wide range of experiences including brand management for the launches of EE and Virgin Media, as well as store design for Tesco, Waitrose, Orange and T-Mobile.

Dave has worked at Dune for 9 years and in his current role for the last 5 years. His main responsibilities are around the instore Omni-Channel Journey encompassing, Endless aisle deliveries, Click & Collect, One stock pool visibility, instore analytics, Company intranet & digital scheduling. 

He started his career at Dune as an assistant manager in Oxford Circus then worked across 6 different central London locations, prior to his current role he was an area support manager.

Before working for Dune he also worked for Nike, Office Shoes, River Island & Sports Direct across the East Midlands, York & London. He studied at the University of York achieving a BSc in Management, IT & Language. 

Jai Whiting is a digital marketing professional with over 15 years experience working  across financial and professional services, media, advertising and retail. During his time working in both B2B and B2C roles, Jai has enabled companies to reposition their services online and develop new revenue channels.

Jai is Head of Digital and E-Commerce at JML, a consumer goods brand and multi-channel retailer. JML products are sold in over 80 countries, with a product sold every two seconds. Jai oversees JML’s e-commerce platforms and leads on steering the company’s digital strategy.

Antony Comyns is the Head of E-commerce at Hawes & Curtis – a leading heritage menswear and womenswear brand. In 2007, Antony took the position to run the Hawes & Curtis E-commerce business in its second year of trading. Since then, he has taken it from a small localised business to a successful international E-commerce site with four websites, serving more than 120 countries.

Originally from New Zealand, Antony’s first job in the UK was at Liberty of London where he was in charge of mail order and subsequently Muji, where he spent five years. Following that, Antony worked for Jake, a women’s fashion mail order business, where he used his experience from Liberty.

Antony’s expertise in mail order took him to GUS where he worked for McCord’s (furniture and homeware) and Innovations (gadgets and innovated products).

Simon is the Head of eCommerce Technology Services at House of Fraser, and has been implementing and optimising eCommerce IT Service for 12 years. Prior to joining House of Fraser, he set up/delivered service for big brands and retailers including Ted Baker, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Selfridges, Waitrose, Argos, Audi and Sainsbury's, providing industry-leading levels of customer satisfaction.

Patrick Osborne has worked with customer data analytics for 25 years in a variety of industries and sectors, beginning in direct mail fulfilment and events organisation.  He worked on the implementation of Nectar, the first multi-retailer loyalty programme in the UK, and has also spent time in the university sector, financial services and as a management consultant advising firms on the expert use of their customer data. He now works for QVC, one of the world’s largest direct selling retailers as the Head of Customer Insights & Analysis.

Mark is Head of Customer Marketing at QVC, one of the UK’s leading omnichannel retailers.

He began his career working in the magazine publishing industry before moving to QVC four years ago where he oversees acquisition and retention activity to keep growing the brand’s one million (and counting) customers.

Brad has over 20 years of Retail experience both as a customer and a provider of ERP systems and system integrations. Brad has been involved in many Omni channel businesses, thus proving to be an invaluable member of any ERP installation.

Steve has spent over a decade in grocery eCommerce and digital working both retailer and supplier side for Tesco.com/Dunnhumby, Burtons Biscuits, JDE and Arla Foods. Having spent his entire career working in the digital and ecomm space, he has a vast amount of experience in developing online specific trade and digital marketing strategies that drive digital engagement and sales through the online channel.

Ben Greener is the Digital Content Manager at Andertons Music Co. a family run and owned music instrument retailer for over 50 years.

Over the last few years Ben has worked with a team of content professionals and ecommerce specialists to build strong customer relationships through great experience and digital media.

Andertons Music Co. is an industry leading company that has won numerous industry awards for our customer service and digital media.

Rob is a passionate Ecommerce and Digital Marketing campaigner for an simpler, easier and better future.  He has been involved in Ecommerce since “the start” , has a career including launching The Fragrance Shop online and is now responsible for Ecommerce at Hotter shoes.  Brings together technology as solutions to customer experience and human endeavour to build experiences that help users to be great customers. 

Sumeet is an insightful and accomplished eCommerce & digital professional who has 7+ years proven success in identifying, nurturing and delivering online initiatives establishing a pathway to a more significant ROI. 

Having worked in luxury sector launching and trading multiple eCommerce sites across the Magento and bespoke platforms, he has developed a robust digital insight and passion for eCommerce. Results motivate him, and he is driven by an appetite to succeed. 

Head of Damart USA since 2014, a  Customer insight & Data Driven Marketing expert  for two decades,  Jonny has learnt (the hard way!) where to find the levers for sustainable profit . Passionate about UX,  and leveraging skills and insight from around and outside the organization, his current challenge is how best to develop a business from 3,000 miles away !

As Head of Ecommerce at Lulu Guinness, Tayyaba has taken on the rewarding challenge of re-aligning internal processes, establishing stronger links with acquisition and retention partners, developing new ways of working whilst striving to set ourselves apart from our competitors through innovation. A commercially minded senior digital and multi-channel retailer, experienced in International expansion, localisation and customer engagement, with over 10 years’ experience in Ecommerce and branding.

Danielle has worked across the 150 year old Co-op Group for over 15 years, across a multitude of sectors ranging from Food to Funerals. Danielle has predominantly operated in strategy, architecture and new ventures. Danielle has played key roles on programmes as diverse as Co-op Online Grocery Shopping in 2001, first relaunch of Membership in 2006 and its current incarnation launched in 2016, to the first Food mobile app in 2012. Danielle is currently Head of Practice for Architecture & Analysis in Co-op Digital. Danielle the chapter lead for Ladies Of Code Manchester and is a champion of diversity in technology within and outside of the Co-op as Non-Exec Director of Innovate Her. Danielle is also Board Director of the Co-op Credit Union and a Member of National Members Council.

Following a successful modelling career, Josie Cartridge studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology before working as Marketing Manager for UK brand Sainsbury’s, developing and managing the launch of their first own label clothing brand Tu.

Josie joined River Island in 2010 as Marketing Director. In this role Josie helped oversee the launch of the first TV campaign in 2014, and delivered the Rihanna for River Island collaboration and campaign. During her career as Marketing Director, Josie has also helped steer the creation of the plus-size offering, RI Plus, catering for sizes 18-24.

In January 2016, Josie was promoted to Customer Director, as part of a wider business strategy to increase engagement with customers across all product divisions and touchpoints.

A tenured digital executive, Angus Cormie has managed the Consumer and Small Business eCommerce channels for Dell in Europe for more than 10 years. His responsibilities have included digital marketing, Customer Experience management, and helping to drive the development new online journey’s and functionality, with previous experience including executive leadership for O2 Online from 2000 to 2005, Managing Director of an online gift retailer, and a short period as a digital media consultant in 2006 and 2007.

Rachel Humphrey is the PR & Strategic Partnerships Director at Birchbox UK, a beauty retailer best known for its monthly subscription of personalised products. Rachel has been with Birchbox UK since 2013, the year Birchbox launched into the UK market. Leading strategic partnerships with brands such as Vogue, Nike, Boden, Matthew Williamson, Stylist and many more; Rachel’s direction and vision has played an integral part in the growth of the UK business. 

As PR & Strategic Partnerships Director of Birchbox UK, Rachel is responsible for building and leading the Birchbox brand identity. She leads the PR & Partnerships division while also managing campaigns that generate social engagement, content, press coverage and organic consumer traction - with a major focus on shareability and subscriber engagement.

Prior to Birchbox, Rachel worked in-house and agency side across consumer PR; launching, implementing and developing brand profile strategy for many leading UK brands, mainly within the beauty sector. Rachel has a BA (Hons) in Dance and Theatre Performance from Bird College (Affiliated by The University of Greenwich). She is originally from Lancashire and now lives in London with her husband and daughter.

Sebastian is a digital native who has been working in the digital area for over 20 years. 

Currently he is working as the Global Digital Business Development and Digital Transformation Director for KAO’s luxury cosmetics brand, Molton Brown. 

His task is to grow the global digital e-commerce footprint for Molton Brown as well as helping Molton Brown to transform digitally. 

Sergio Romero is Director of Marketing & Performance Analytics at Vistaprint, a Cimpress company, where he leads the team responsible for optimizing online and offline channel activity, and improving the efficiency of the company’s marketing budget of hundreds of millions of dollars.

He brought to Vistaprint 15+ years of experience in the Consulting and Financial Services industries where he developed top notch strategies in order to increase customer loyalty, grow product distribution through non-traditional channels and enhance return on marketing investment. He started his career with The Boston Consulting Group, and prior to Vistaprint Sergio held different positions in customer analytics and business strategy with CaixaBank, the leading retail bank in Spain with more than 14M customers.

Sergio holds degrees in Engineering and Statistics from UPC, and an MBA from ESADE Business School.

Kerem Atasoy is the Commercial Director at Farfetch Black & White, the innovation arm of Farfetch building digital solutions for luxury brands.   He leads a team across London, New York and Porto covering business development, client services, project management and performance marketing. 

Prior to this  Kerem was Head of Digital Marketing at Harvey Nichols where he was responsible for Social Media, CRM, Digital Customer Acquisition and Loyalty.  He led the conception, development and launch of Rewards by Harvey Nichols and the launch campaign in partnership with Adam & Eve DDB "Shoplifters" which won a Grand Prix at Cannes Lions.  Before joining Harvey Nichols Kerem worked for Google for 8 years, most recently heading up YouTube sales for Turkey and the Middle East. Kerem also worked for Google in London where he set up and led their luxury practice running relationships with brands including NET-A-PORTER, Burberry, Farfetch and Rolex.  

Simon joined the Bonmarche team as Trading Director (Ecommerce, Merchandising, Marketing, Supply Chain & Logistics) in April 2017. Prior to this role, he was a Commercial/Buying & Merchandising Consultant at the Future Today Retail Consultancy. He has also held roles at The Conran Shop, Republic, and BHS Limited / Arcadia.

Currently Head of Ecommerce at Mamas & Papas, Julie started out in a product buying and development background transitioning that customer and product first focus into the digital environment. With previous experience at Next, Boots and Claire’s Accessories, Julie has worked and led teams in both UK and US in designing, delivering and trading global websites for global brands.  

Lara joined Auto Trader in 2015, and is responsible for the structure and strategy of the business’ commercial advertising platforms and operations. Originally joining to lead the programmatic and audiences team, her role has grown to jointly manage a talented team covering programmatic, data & audiences, analytics & insights, and ad technology functions.

Lara and her team launched Auto Trader’s first data management platform, built an in-house media buying team and developed a commercial strategy for the company’s first-party automotive intent data. In 2017, Lara was named to the ‘50 Women in Ad Tech’ list.

Prior to joining Auto Trader, Lara spent seven years at the Telegraph - first working on digital strategy and analytics, before moving into advertising in 2011 where she the built the Telegraph’s programmatic business. 

Lara previously worked for Disney, AOL, a Silicon Valley mobile start-up, and as an equity investment analyst. Lara holds an MBA from London Business School, a Masters in Social Psychology from London School of Economics, and an Economics degree from Harvard University.

Anouk is a seasoned Marketing & Sales Strategist who has worked with and for the worlds’ largest (and smallest) brands over the past decade. Having worn a variety of career-hats, she’s seen the industry develop from a cross-channel and cross-border point of view and is currently heading up the eCommerce and Marketing team for the National Lighting group. Seeing their brands through a digital transformation over 2017, she knows what media tools truly drive conversions. Anouk holds a Master Degree in Global Marketing, is a frequent speaker and contributor to industry events and publications around the world, a massive fan of puns, and she lives by the quote ‘‘In life you always meet twice – by Anouk’s dad’’.

Joe Tinston is Director of Customer Retention at Bloom & Wild, the UK’s most loved online florist offering a range of flowers and gifts through the letterbox.  Joe works across physical product, digital product, marketing and customer experience to drive loyalty.

Prior to that, Joe was Director of Ecommerce and Digital Marketing at onefinestay (acquired by Accor Hotels) and has previously worked for Tesco and eBay. 

Digital business developer and UX Lead in the department of Digital Customer Experience in Coop Denmark. UX Lead on Bip & Betal (Scan & Pay) and other self check out solutions in Coop as well as being user experience designer in the Coop app.

Copenhagen based digital creative mind working to make world class digital services that really help users in their everyday life. I work with creating seamless user experiences across platforms - before, in and after the customer visits our stores.

Tony Long is a Marketing Technology innovator with over 20 years of global leadership of initiatives that combine marketing, technology and commerce. His diversified background includes founding one of the first “Silicon Alley” web development shops in the mid 1990’s, consulting on digital marketing projects across numerous industries, serving as senior leadership with tech and non-tech start-ups, and heading marketing initiatives for clients across the US and Europe that included major retail, banking, consumer products and sporting franchises. 

In his current role at Kimberly-Clark Tony supports top-tier markets and leading retailers globally with e-commerce and digital marketing strategies and capabilities. He is a frequent keynote speaker at marketing and e-commerce conferences around the world, and writes a column on the subjects for Ecommerce Brasil magazine. He also plays bass, percussion and keyboards for Chicago-based rock band Samson The Aviator.

Jim started his marketing career at agencies doing PPC and SEO at agencies. He previously lead customer acquisition during fast growth periods at notonthehighstreet.com and ACHICA before joining Bloom & Wild as Marketing Director. Bloom & Wild aim to make the giving and receiving of flowers the joy it should be, operating in the UK and Ireland and more recently in Germany and France. 

Karen Pepper is the General Manager, UK for Amazon Pay. She is responsible for leading Amazon’s payment services for 3rd party merchants in the UK including Amazon Pay and the associated value added services.

Karen is a 15-year veteran of the payments and start up industries. Most recently she was Global Head of Alliance Banks at JP Morgan where she managed relationship with 22 banks across 41 markets. Karen has also held executive positions at American Express and her own multi-million pound start up in the health and fitness sector.

Karen sits on the board of Hatch, a UK incubator for social enterprises and on the board of Tamar, an anti-human trafficking charity.

Karen holds a MBA from the London Business School.

Laurel is responsible for UK marketing at high-growth fintech Klarna. Prior to joining Klarna, she spent many years at leading payments technology vendor Verifone (NYSE: PAY), looking after their European marketing activity. Laurel has 15+ years international marketing leadership experience across tech and financial services - producing award-winning campaigns, achieving commercial targets and winning new business along the way. Laurel is a proud alumna of the University of Texas and their prestigious creative advertising programme.

Amit Bivas, Optimove's Head of Marketing, is a seasoned marketing executive with vast experience in planning, developing and executing B2B and B2C marketing strategies from the ground up. His sharp business skills, creativity and keen eye for detail, alongside with a strong background in data analytics and statistics, place Amit as a unique combination between the art and science of marketing. Amit holds a BSc in Industrial Engineering and Information Systems.

Dr. Douglas Hollinger joined LiveArea in 2015. As SVP of Strategy & Consulting, he has global responsibilities for client services as well as the company's consulting and strategy offerings. With more than 12 years of executive experience and more than 17 years working in digital-focused consulting, Douglas specializes in helping B2B and B2C companies achieve measurable success by identifying and capitalizing on emerging digital opportunities.

Michael has worked in digital technology for over 13 years and is now Managing Director of BloomReach UK.  BloomReach is a unique, next generation Personalised Discovery platform which enables large retailers to react to web wide demand and to ensure customers discover what products they are searching for both offline and online.  Prior to working at BloomReach, Michael ran teams at Webtrends where he focused upon solutions in Web Analytics, Multi-Variate testing and site optimisation.  Michael has many years worth of experience in the retail tech sector and has worked with many leading brands in luxury, fashion, electronic and department stores.  

Chris Zakharoff has worked in the optimization and personalization sector since 2006 as the lead Technical Consultant for Adobe Test&Target, the R&D Personalization Product Manager for Ensighten, and the Optimization Architect for brands such as Sprint, Symantec, CenturyLink, and Delta Airlines.

A 2014 Digital Analytics Association finalist for Most Influential Industry Contributor, Chris is dedicated to evolving digital marketing through the convergence of data, personalization, and marketing architecture, transforming industry limitations into technical challenges that drive innovation.

Currently a Senior Solutions Engineer at Cloudinary, Chris helps organizations optimize their sites and applications with cloud-based image and video management, providing media solutions that solve critical digital marketing use cases.

Florian Pauthner is CEO of SevenVentures. Before joining ProSiebenSat.1 Group in January 2014, Florian Pauthner worked as an M&A consultant for SEB, one of Northern Europe’s largest financial institutions, and the management consulting division of KPMG.

Parry has worked with countless brands and media outlets to help them optimise their online results, and is one of the world’s leading experts on email marketing (which he blogs about here sometimes.) He started his career coding middleware for CRM software, then sent out millions of emails for global brands, before running the strategy department for an ESP.  He holds a BBA (1st) in Marketing & Statistics and can probably beat you in an Excel-off. On weekends, he helps wayward youths see the error of their ways through the magic of interpretive dance.

Andy Berry is Vice President EMEA, Software and Retail at Pitney Bowes. He is an accomplished global technology executive who brings over 20 years of international strategic experience of the retail, supply chain, distribution and fulfillment businesses.

Prior to joining Pitney Bowes, Andy Spent 4 ½ years as the General Manager of Wholesale Distribution at Infor Global Solutions. This business supported over 6,000 retail and wholesale distribution customers, 8 ERP systems, and 26 channel partners in Europe and the Americas. 

Andy holds a degree in Computer Science from the East Carolina University. Andy is married to his wife of 21 years Michelle, has 3 children, and lives in London UK.

Tal Ofer is UK Country Manager for Keros Digital, a leader eCommerce technology company providing modular and customised end-to-end omnichannel suite designed to boost sales for retailers and brands domestically and internationally. He has over 10 years of eCommerce experience having worked in leading global companies like Rakuten, Criteo and Pitney Bowes Global eCommerce, where he had the chance to work with some of the biggest fashion, sports and health&beauty retailers and brands in the UK.

Lori Hawthorne has ten years experience as a corporate event director and now works as a Divisional Director, spearheading the eTail portfolio of conferences. She creates targeted networking and educational conferences that foster innovation, address unique business challenges and advance careers. Her core focus is the successful production and execution of some of Worldwide Business Research’s highest grossing portfolio of events that service Fortune 1000 companies, specifically in the retail, finance, B2B and ecommerce space. Her responsibilities include event strategy development and execution, launch event creation,  forecasting and budget management, content creation, sponsorship and marketing campaign development. When she’s not supporting her team of conference producers, you can probably find her in her kitchen, baking for her family.

Ellen Granoff is an Associate Producer at Worldwide Business Research where she works on eTail Europe along with other events in the eTail portfolio. After graduating with honors from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., Ellen moved to New York City to pursue a career in corporate events. When she isn't in the office, you can find Ellen runnning outside on the East River running path or at one of New York's many fine pizza establishments.