Michael joined Redcats (former parent company of La Redoute and part of the Kering 'PPR' Group) in 2007 at the grand old age of 27, and believes that, for any business to succeed and ultimately create value for its shareholders, the business needs to be focused not only on its customers but also on its employees. Michael believes that if you have engaged and passionate employees, they will make your customers happy which in turn will create shareholder value.

As La Redoute International CEO, Michael is responsible for leading the company’s French Brands Worldwide (except France). La Redoute is a market leading Brand selling French Lifestyle products – Fashion and Homes products.

In 2012, Michael was awarded Finance Director of the Year at the Yorkshire Finance Director Awards.

Michael previously held the position of Redcats UK CEO for the brands La Redoute, Vertbaudet and Daxon and 5 Finance positions within Redcats UK (including CFO) before stepping across from Finance. Prior to Redcats Michael held senior positions with Condé Nast Publications and with Peter Blacks Footwear & Accessories.

With an extensive background in Online Media, Music and Mergers & Acquisition, Rob Feldmann has been involved in BrandAlley since its inception in 2008.

Rob worked for News Corporation from 1998 in a variety of roles, starting as the CFO of its Global Music Group before moving into a Pan-European role as Mergers & Acquisitions Director providing financial, operational and strategic guidance.

In mid-2009 Rob became CEO of BrandAlley.co.uk and under his leadership the business has achieved its position as the UK’s market leading fashion private sales site. Rob led an MBO of BrandAlley in January 2013 and continues to push the business forward with strong leadership and innovative ways of working, with the focus on being a “mobile first” company.

BrandAlley UK works with top designer and high-street brands including Hugo Boss, Joseph, Reiss, J Brand, Ted Baker, Hobbs, Aspinal of London, Radley, Hackett, Karen Millen, FitFlop and many more.

2018 has seen an exciting period growth at BrandAlley.co.uk, with the business acquiring leading homeware and beauty etailer Achica. Customers now benefit from a full range of leading brands available on both Achica and BrandAlley, with 15 new designer sales launching each day offering up to 80% off homeware, clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty.

BrandAlley – the non-stop designer sale!

Mark joined Whittard of Chelsea in January 2014 as CEO with the objective of transforming the company from a UK high street retailer to a global aspirational brand.

Prior to Whittard, Mark held senior positions at T.M. Lewin (International Director), FABERGE (CEO), and Alfred Dunhill Ltd (Group President, President Japan, MD UK, MD Hong Kong, GM Singapore /Malaysia).

An Oxford graduate, Mark worked for BP for the first 8 years of his career, most of which was spent in France in various marketing / management positions.

Mark is married with four children and lives in the East Sussex countryside.

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.

MADE is a vertically integrated, digital native, home design brand that makes great design accessible to everyone. In 2010 MADE launched in the UK and now operates across Europe. In 2018 MADE grew 37%, reaching £173m sales.

Adrian joined MADE as CFO following 10 years with NET-A-PORTER GROUP in various roles including CFO, where he was instrumental in a merger with YOOX. Following the merger Adrian spent 2 years as Commercial Director of the newly formed YNAP.

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.

I joined AH as a Director in 2002 having spent 10 years as a management consultant usually causing chaos implementing SAP. As you’d expect when working for a small organization my roles have been widespread and varied. They have included CIO, CTO, Head of Production and Head of Logistics (often all at the same time). Over the past 4 years I have been able to focus primarily on Technology and on ensuring that the organization is well positioned to take advantage of emerging digital technologies that can be used to improve customer experience and profitability. Having largely completed that work, in 2017 I took on the joint role of COO and CTO.

Pernilla is CEO of Eleven & Nordicfeel, which formed in 2018 through a merging of the top three largest E-commerce players within beauty in the Nordics.

Pernilla has a proven track record in building companies within the digital and e-commerce field in Scandinavia. She has 10+ years of experience in senior positions within digital & tech and various leading positions within Schibsted Media Group such as Former CEO of Schibsted Lifestyle Online, Business Unit Director of Aftonbladet and Head of Analysis & Product Development at Blocket. 

Marc joined Joules in 2015 from Walgreens Boots Alliance, where he was Chief Financial Officer of its International Retail & Global Consumer Brands division.  Marc has previously held a number of senior financial and corporate development positions at Alliance Boots, Homeserve, Experian and Freeserve plc.  Whilst at Freeserve, he was involved in the successful IPO process and the subsequent merger with Wanadoo.  Marc is a chartered accountant and has an MBA from Sauder Business School.

As a co-owner and Director of Tinyme, Ben oversees the Finance, HR, Compliance & Risk, IT, Customer Service and Logistics functions of the business.

 Since joining Tinyme in 2010, Ben has been instrumental in developing the company’s export strategy and building out the business platform to sustain rapid growth.

 Growing rapidly in sales of personalised children’s products, Tinyme featured in the BRW Fast Starter List 2011 and has been a finalist 16 times in the Online Retail Industry Awards, winning the ORIAs for Best Pureplay Online Retailer, Best Omnichannel Customer Service and Best Mobile Commerce Site in 2017 and Best Site Optimisation & Design in 2016. Tinyme has featured in the Power Retail Top 100 Online Retailers for 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Ben served for two years as a Non-Executive Director of the National Online Retailers Association (NORA) and featured in Inside Retail’s Top 50 People in E-Commerce list for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. In 2017, Ben was nominated as a finalist in the Industry Recognition Award at the ORIAs.

As CXO I am responsible for the experience we create and deliver to our worldwide customers. I sit on the Board and report to the CEO. Working closely with colleagues, I ensure that we are shaped to deliver great experiences where physical and digital intersect. At all stages I champion the customer and the desired experience we want to create.

Digital retailer with over 20 years experience, having worked with many exceptional brands in the UK, Europe and the USA, as both the retailer and as a consultant.  Unique experience born from the initial launch of Tesco Direct, riding the start up wave during the dot com boom, launching (and closing) digital London 2012. As a self confessed data geek, navigated the takeover of ‘big data and data insight’ in Silicon Valley, whilst keeping a firm eye on the customers needs. Recently taking on the new role of Chief Commercial Officer at Lovehoney and getting to grips with having to say ‘ rude’ words as part of business as usual, so truly combining business with pleasure !

Robert is the Chief Commercial Officer for MallforAfrica.com, a patented, award-winning global e-commerce platform. Prior to this Robert founded the Internet’s first dedicated fashion search engine in 2007 and later he launched the UK's first online personalised fashion sales service, which remains the UK’s market leader. The businesses were acquired in 2016 by one of the world’s largest media companies. Previously Robert was a venture capitalist for over six years at a top performing IT, Internet and media fund in London.

A customer focussed, commercial, logistics and multichannel director with an outstanding track record of delivering rapid results: for example launching Asda Direct in under 9 months. A confident communicator who thrives on challenge in a fast paced environment, who is adept at seizing the initiative and harnessing her analytical and leadership skills to decisively lead change to deliver sustainable bottom line benefits. A resourceful problem solver whose breadth and depth of understanding of the key business functions; operations, merchandising, trading, supply chain and ecommerce coupled with her tenacity, negotiation skills and commercial acumen enables her to successfully navigate change and lead complex projects to a successful resolution. Passionate about identifying and achieving ambitious goals, and making a difference through empowering people, developing teams and driving a culture of continuous improvement

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.

Anouk is a seasoned Marketing Strategist who has worked with and for the worlds’ largest (and smallest) brands over the past decade. She won’t exactly tell us how long – as that would indicate her age which, for the past 10 years or so, has been 21 + VAT. Now that that’s out of the way! You should know that she has worn a variety of career-hats and seen the digital commerce world develop from a cross-channel and cross-border point of view. In her current position, she heads up the eCommerce and Marketing team for the UK’s brightest retail group; National Lighting – having recently gotten their brands through a digital transformation over 2017. She knows what media tools truly drive conversions. Anouk holds a Cum Laude Master Degree in Global Marketing from the top 1% ranked University of Liverpool and is a frequent speaker and contributor to industry events and publications around the world, a massive fan of puns, and lives by the quote ‘‘In life you always meet twice – by Anouk’s dad’’.

David is Farfetch's VP of Innovation, where he leads open innovation and engagement with startups. David has 18 years of experience in technology, and before joining Farfetch in 2018 spent 8 years at Google in various partnership and business development roles. Most recently, he led Google for Entrepreneurs' partnerships globally with responsibility for building the startup ecosystem around the company, working with startup communities, accelerators and incubators. Before Google he founded three companies, including an e-Commerce startup, and also consulted to leading international media and technology corporations on product and digital strategy. He lives in London with his wife and three children. 

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. 

Gail has 20 years of Marketing experience both in Ireland and abroad. With a background in design, digital marketing and user experience she brings strong, customer centric, creative thinking to the senior management table.

Gail is the Ecommerce and Marketing Director for Fraser Hart and Fields Jewellers, responsible for all digital marketing, SEO, PPC, social, CRM and customer care in addition to ATL marketing, POS, merchandising, packaging, PR, events and partnerships.

Before this she spent 2 years in Staycity, the world’s largest pan European aparthotel chain as their Digital Marketing Manager leading all aspects of international digital marketing with a focus on PPC, SEO, social and CRM.

Previously Gail was the Head of Marketing for RaboDirect leading on all aspects of ATL and BTL marketing focussed primarily at building the brand and driving conversions in Ireland. 

John McDonnell has launched and marketed a number of successful global spirits brands and is highly regarded as a leader in his industry. In addition to helping Patrón become the world’s #1 tequila brand in retail value, John is widely credited for having established the ultra-premium tequila category around the world.  Most recently, as Managing Director, International for Tito’s Handmade Vodka, John has been leading the spectacular global expansion of the brand – growing in five years from only a few international locations to 145 countries today, with more to come.  Although he’s a global road warrior, he’s Boston-based. 

He is a smart but down-to-earth exec who’s extremely effective at making an authentic audience “connection” for audiences as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, American Express, even the Boston Celtics.  He gave a very well-received TEDx talk at Suffolk University.  John is available for booking as a Guest Speaker and will custom-tailor his presentations to a desired message, audience and/or meeting theme.   He has been featured on Bloomberg Radio, CNBC in Singapore, Hong Kong, China and New York City as well as the Fox Business Network. 

Keng has over 15 years of commercial experience from the world’s most competitive and successful companies. He currently oversees MARS digital sales strategy and as a specialist in online execution and activation, he is responsible for driving their eCommerce channel. Prior to this, Keng led leadership ecommerce positions in RB (FTSE 20 company – Global Marketplace Development Director) and during his time at EY consulted for global brands such as GSK, Diageo, Kraft/Cadbury, Kellogg's, Britvic, Coca cola enterprises and Sony Electronics to name but a few.

Jo is the Brand Director of Moonpig, overseeing all aspects of development and strategy for the brand as well as brand marketing, PR and social.  

Prior to joining Moonpig, Jo spent seven years at Lebara, most recently as the Global Brand Director. In charge of overseeing the brand’s growth, she worked on rebranding, global campaigns, the launch of new territories and categories including content and financial services. Jo also led the brand through its sale to a private equity firm.

Before her work at Lebara, Jo spent some time at Screwfix where she defined their customer strategy and launched differentiated propositions through new brands and delivered a single customer view.

Rossen has 25+ years of international experience in Digital, Business, IT, Marketing and eCommerce. His career path includes positions at the United States Information Agency, Apple, the United Nations, and Royal Dutch Shell. He has led large scale global initiatives across Asia-Pacific, Middle East, EMEA and the Americas with a multitude of brands including Lego, IKEA, Starbucks, Ecco, and illy. In his current role of Digital Director for Pandora Jewelry’s Global eCommerce division – he is responsible for the company’s global solution design, development, deployment and operations of a range of end-to-end Digital initiatives including eStores, OMS and fulfillment, Endless Aisle, and Omni-channel. He is based in the UK with his wife and a true globetrotter. 

I am an entrepreneurial, result driven e-commerce fanatic. I joined Unilever 3 years ago to disrupt & set-up new e-models and direct to consumer opportunities. Before I worked at TUI the largest leisure travel company in the world in various e-commerce and digital transformation roles. 

I love to challenge myself and other’s. I travel for work & private, play various sports and love foods especially sweats. It came as no surprise for my friends that I was a first mover in ordering desserts online for immediate consumption on for example: UberEats, Deliveroo, Delivery Hero, Take Away etc. When I ordered online I thought the experience and offerings where limited. I took immediate action and pitched my idea to the Unilever board to run a consumer test with B&J Ice-cream.  

After a successful launch across Europe I got promoted to drive this globally. If you have a craving in the evening for a lovely ice-cream/dessert. You know what to do! One click and it will be delivered to your doorstep. 

With 15+ years of experience in leading Data Science and analytics in multiple industries and countries, Gael is now responsible for data analytics within Shop direct and has lead a team of 30. He provides strategic direction on how to best leverage the data they own and is currently heading up an internal training programme to increase data skill levels across the company. On a journey to make ShopDirect one of the world analytical powerhouses, Gael has started to include linking with the academic world, having a nurturing environment for analysts of all levels, strong processes and delivering on world class analytical projects in helping shape the business.

With 15+ years of experience in leading Data Science and analytics in multiple industries and countries, Gael is now responsible for data analytics within Shop direct and has lead a team of 30. He provides strategic direction on how to best leverage the data they own and is currently heading up an internal training programme to increase data skill levels across the company. On a journey to make ShopDirect one of the world analytical powerhouses, Gael has started to include linking with the academic world, having a nurturing environment for analysts of all levels, strong processes and delivering on world class analytical projects in helping shape the business.

Hey, I'm Yoann, data-driven marketing leader passionate about innovative and creative marketing techniques to deliver growth. Striving to blend the frontier between online and offline marketing,keeping a customer first approach!

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.

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. 

I have been working in Insight roles since 2003 across both agency and client side.  My experience covers Commercial and Corporate websites across a variety of industries with a history of building analytics capability and teams.

I have a track record of delivering data and insight lead transformations by building lean teams and being an advocate for positive and rapid change.

At RS I lead the Insight Team with a particular accent on Digital delivering insight and activating data products through Personalised experiences across digital and non-digital channels.

Steve is helping develop test and learn thinking (that has persistent in digital for a long time) at an organizational level. He has also designed the components for the componentization of the John Lewis and Sky.com sites, in order to create a consistent customer experience and drive production efficiencies. Steve’s current passion is creating ways to facilitate leadership level workshops, in order to push things forward and not just create circular debates.

A self-motivated creative who is commercially minded and hard-working with a can-do attitude. Social media, PR and marketing specialist with over 6 years' experience working with global retail, fashion, beauty, entertainment, hospitality and lifestyle brands and personalities.

Padraig Slattery is an experienced finance executive who has comprehensive experience developing go-to-market strategies and undertaking creative concepts for growth across multiple verticals including Retail, Digital, Travel, Finance, Telecoms, and Automotive. Consistent and flexible, Padraig has a proven track record delivering complex payment solutions to some of the world’s most recognisable and fastest growing brands.

Jeff has more than 18 years of experience in the IT market in both strategy and marketing roles. Jeff is currently the Global Head of Marketing and Communications for Pitney Bowes' Software Solutions business. Reporting jointly to the CMO and President of the Software Solutions business, Jeff manages a cross-functional team across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC that is responsible for growing the software business, including products, solutions, and digital assets (APIs, Data). Covering the entire marketing value chain across awareness/brand, demand generation, product marketing, analyst relations, media and PR, and retention/customer marketing, Jeff’s team is also responsible for all indirect sales channels, working with resellers, OEMs, and Systems Integrators to expand the software business.

Prior to joining Pitney Bowes in February 2016, Jeff served as VP of Marketing - North America.  He also spent many years in various marketing and strategy leadership roles at both SAP and IBM.  Jeff’s work on Account Based Marketing has been recognized by multiple industry awards, including the Sirius Decisions (Program of the Year) and the IT Services Marketing Association (Diamond Award) for Excellence.  Jeff holds a Masters of Business Administration from Emory University's Goizueta Business School in Atlanta, Georgia, and a Bachelor of Arts from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York (USA). He grew up outside Washington, DC and now lives in Fairfield, Connecticut with his wife and two young sons. Jeff is an out-of-shape triathlete, enthusiastic and improving golfer, ambitious but tone-deaf guitar player, and political wonk. Jeff also played professional basketball in Israel.

Elliott joined LiveArea as Director of Commerce Consulting in May 2018. He is an experienced global eCommerce and multi-channel retail professional, with expertise in supporting B2C and B2B companies achieve measurable success by identifying and capitalising on emerging digital opportunities across a variety of sectors. Based in London, Elliott heads the LiveArea EMEA agency offering, encompassing digital marketing, trading and strategic services.

Francois Laxalt is a VP at Tinyclues, focusing on product marketing. Prior to Tinyclues, Francois led product marketing and product innovation for Neolane, followed by Adobe, for 10 years. Before Adobe, Francois was Director of Customer Marketing at HSBC France for five years where he created the customer marketing team and successfully developed CRM, campaign management, business intelligence, and data science strategies. Previously, Laxalt spent seven years working for various software companies, including SAS and Datadistilleries as a marketing manager and campaign management expert. Laxalt holds a Master of Science in marketing and data-mining.

Having championed the value of direct mail with eCommerce retailers over the past seven years at Epsilon Abacus, Ben and his team are well known and trusted by many prominent retail brands such as Phase Eight, Bloom & Wild and This Works to help incorporate data driven direct mail to drive online sales growth. Ben demonstrates the compelling case for the catalogue in a digital age by sharing real-life examples of how brands like these have reached a scalable new audience of more engaged and more valuable long-term customers.

As Vice President of International Operations at PFS, Joe manages PFS's locations across the UK and Europe. Joe has been with PFS since its inception 20+ years ago serving in various roles, including Sales Manager, Pricing Manager and Director of Client Services.

Lindsay leads our diverse multicultural team and sets the strategy to ensure Locaria’s services remain at the cutting edge of international digital marketing and localisation. She is responsible for overseeing the strategic development of Locaria’s business model to support our clients across our global locations. Prior to Locaria, Lindsay worked client-side in e-commerce, developing new businesses and expanding into international markets with some of the world’s leading brands. Lindsay is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, having lived and worked in the APAC region, and is a passionate advocate for international trade.

Sai Koppala is the CMO at SheerID. Prior to SheerID, Sai led a variety of marketing and product teams at global software companies like Google and SAP as well as start-ups like Proximity (acquired by Apple) and Apigee (acquired by Google). Sai is an Electrical Engineer by training, with an MBA in Marketing from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

One of the initial team at Maxymiser (now part of Oracle Group) Duncan currently leads UK operations at ContentSquare, a user experience analytics and optimization solution. In between carting his two sons around the weekend football circuit Duncan likes unwind with a few Whisky sour, though if any of his pals from Wolverhampton ask, he exclusively drinks pints of manly beer down the pub.

Anthony Gavin Anthony has been actively involved in Customer Experience projects for the past 7 years. He has worked on initiatives with over 150 leading retailers and brands including John Lewis, PrettyLittleThing, Levi’s, ASDA and Gymshark. Anthony joined Narvar, as it’s first employee located in EMEA, during February 2017. Before Narvar, Anthony worked in the personalisation sector for Monetate and the CX Practice at Oracle, gaining a unique exposure to the needs of retailers. 

As an advanced senior technology executive, Monal has over 12 years of experience developing and executing comprehensive IT strategies and brining competitive value to businesses. 

Dalia Lasaite is the CEO and co-founder of CGTrader, the world's leading provider of high quality 3D content. Dalia joined the company in 2015 and has been instrumental in growing the CGTrader community of 3D developers which now exceed 750,000. CGTrader provides photorealistic 3D models for a variety of applications including advertising, gaming, entertainment and most recently for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality e-commerce applications that increase sales conversion while reducing product returns. CGTrader works with more than 150 Fortune 500 companies including blue chip customers such as Shopify and Wayfair.

Ellen Granoff is a Producer at Worldwide Business Research where she works on conferences like eTail Europe, Future Stores Miami, and Future Restaurants. After graduating cum laude from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., Ellen moved to New York City to pursue a career in events. When she isn't in the office, you can find Ellen running outside on the East River running path or exploring one of the city's iconic art museums.