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Scott Sundheim’s Long Route From Pop-Tarts World to the Digital Pawn Shop
A marketer trained on cereal-aisle brands and coupon clicks is now helping a 20th-century retail format meet the online shopper - one local inventory feed, loyalty member and customer promise at a time.
Jacob Hawkins Has Spent a Career Closing Retail’s Most Expensive Gap
The Five Below executive has spent more than two decades learning where shopping journeys break - and how product, data, creators and a faster checkout can put them back together.
Joe VanDette
Joe VanDette built his career where data meets the store aisle. At National Vision, he is turning that discipline into a broader brand reset - one customer moment at a time.
Dan Clifford
Dan Clifford is the Chief Marketing Officer of Cotopaxi, the Salt Lake City B Corp that builds outdoor gear and directs 1% of revenue toward fighting global poverty. He leads the brand's full marketing function - creative, brand storytelling, growth, performance, and e-commerce - after two decades scaling specialty, outdoor, and luxury retail brands. Before Cotopaxi he was CMO at the lingerie brand Pepper, and earlier held senior marketing roles at Victoria's Secret, Express, and J.Jill, where he helped transform multibillion-dollar names for the digital era.
Melissa Haynes
Melissa Haynes is the Chief Marketing Officer of Glik's, one of the oldest family-owned fashion retailers in the United States, founded in 1897. A digital commerce and merchandising leader who cut her teeth as a shoe buyer at Zappos and later ran merchandising at eBags, Shane Co. and Scrubs & Beyond, she now steers marketing and customer experience for the roughly 70-store Midwest chain. Her calling card is hyper-local: she believes Glik's wins by tailoring each store's assortment to the community around it, backed by modern unified-commerce technology.
Thomas De Stio
Thomas De Stio is the Chief Marketing Officer of Summit Golf Brands, the New York-based maker of premium golf apparel behind B. Draddy, Zero Restriction, Fairway & Greene, and EP New York. He arrived in August 2024 after more than a decade steering digital and ecommerce for luxury houses including Tom Ford, Loro Piana, Gucci, Tod's Group, and LoveShackFancy. His remit is to translate the codes of high fashion into the world of golf, running ecommerce and marketing strategy across the group's brand portfolio and reporting to president Jack Lessing.
Deren Baker
Deren Baker is the CEO of Flywheel Ventures, the innovation arm of Flywheel Commerce Network - now part of Omnicom Group after a landmark $835 million acquisition in 2023. A serial operator with deep roots in digital commerce analytics, Baker has led transformative companies including Jumpshot (which tracked 160 billion monthly clicks) and Edge by Ascential. He is a recognized thought leader in ecommerce strategy, retail media, and data-driven advertising, with bylines in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Entrepreneur Magazine.
Will Bewley
Will Bewley is the Co-Founder and CEO of Woflow, a San Francisco-based AI agent platform that structures and manages merchant and product data at scale for enterprises like DoorDash, Square, Walmart, Uber, and Deliveroo. Starting as a side project at a San Francisco co-working cafe, Woflow has digitized over 60 million products for 800,000+ restaurants and retail stores globally. Bewley, a Chartered Accountant from the UK who transitioned from London finance into Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, raised $10.8M in funding and grew Woflow into one of Inc. 5000's fastest-growing private companies.
Leonard Livschitz
Leonard Livschitz is the CEO and Director of Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ: GDYN), a Silicon Valley-based digital engineering company serving Fortune 1000 enterprises. An immigrant from Kharkov, Ukraine with dual master's degrees - one in robotics from Ukraine and one in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University - he spent over two decades at Ford, Visteon, HP, and Philips before co-founding Luxera and ultimately taking the helm at Grid Dynamics in 2014. Under his leadership, Grid Dynamics has grown from a boutique e-commerce consultancy into a publicly traded AI and cloud engineering powerhouse with nearly 5,000 employees and over $350 million in annual revenue, earning a Preferred Vendor designation from AWS in 2025 amid a 30% year-over-year growth in its AI division.