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Andy Gay Put a Dial on Water - Then Waited Six Years for the World to Turn It
A spilled scoop of sports drink became a six-year lesson in patience. Cirkul co-founder Andy Gay turned that locker-room nuisance into a customizable beverage system built for shelves, subscriptions and individual taste.
James Moody Keeps Building Places Austin Wants to Be
Before he sold mineral water, James Moody sold Claritin. Then Austin’s clubs rewired his ambitions - and he spent two decades turning rooms, festivals and cans into invitations to belong.
Debbie Woloshin
Debbie Woloshin is the Chief Marketing Officer of Stitch Fix, the personalized styling and apparel company. A brand builder with more than 30 years in fashion marketing, she joined in 2022 from Marc Jacobs, where she led a global digital transformation. Across earlier roles at the Jones Group, Ann Inc., the Frye Company, L'Oreal and Nine West, she has shaped some of fashion's most recognizable brands and orchestrated collaborations with talent from Taylor Swift to Kate Hudson. At Stitch Fix she launched the 'Retail Therapy' brand platform and pushed a marketing strategy that pairs empathetic storytelling with AI-powered personalization.
Kerry Konrady
Kerry Konrady is the Chief Marketing Officer of OluKai, the Hawaiian-inspired premium footwear brand. A former civil-engineering student and college pitcher who fell for baseball statistics before marketing, he has helped build OluKai from a niche label into a B-Corp certified, direct-to-consumer growth story rooted in the Aloha spirit. Over more than 20 years marketing premium consumer goods, he rose through OluKai from Director of Marketing to VP to CMO, oversees ecommerce and owned retail, and serves as a board director of the Ama OluKai Foundation supporting Hawaiian culture and communities.
Larry Nusbaum
Larry Nusbaum is a consumer-products and retail turnaround executive who serves as President and Chief Marketing Officer of Work 'N Gear, the Mid-Atlantic and New England workwear, footwear and healthcare-apparel chain, and as an operating partner at Dark Alpha Capital. Over two decades he has run companies as CEO, CMO and COO across housewares, electronics, personal care, apparel and fitness, most visibly at Ronco, the Ron Popeil gadget brand he bought out of bankruptcy with Marlin Equity Partners in 2007 and steered from a reported $7.5 million annual loss to roughly $4 million in profit on about $30 million of 2009 sales. He has also led Midwest Trading Group, where he acquired the phone-accessory brand TYLT in December 2023, and restructured the artisan-goods company GlobeIn into a subscription model. At Work 'N Gear he took a 25-year-old, roughly $40 million retailer through a 2025 Chapter 11 filing, a DIP financing, a shrink from 38 stores to 26, and a April 2026 asset sale to a family-office-backed operator that repaid the lender in full and set up a relaunch of the e-commerce platform and up to ten stores.
Rob Kent
Rob Kent is Head of Marketing (CMO) at Vuori, the Carlsbad, California performance-apparel brand valued at around $5.5 billion. A Cannes Grand Prix-winning brand and creative leader with roughly two decades in the business, he spent a decade running Nike's global brand marketing work at the agency R/GA before crossing over to lead marketing for one of the fastest-growing names in activewear. His career runs from British editorial publishing through blue-chip tech clients to some of Nike's most talked-about brand work.
Shenhav Kimhi
Shenhav Kimhi is the Chief Marketing Officer of Magnetic Me, the New York baby and toddler apparel brand known for its patented magnetic closures. A brand builder and growth marketer, she has led marketing, brand, and e-commerce at fashion and lifestyle names including Crabtree & Evelyn and Public Clothing (home to Derek Lam 10 Crosby and ATM Collection). She holds an MBA in Global Management and Strategic Marketing from Bar-Ilan University and today oversees marketing for a company built on making getting dressed a little less of a fight.