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Jai Shankar Has Spent a Career Finding the Moment When Markets Move
From Dubai retail floors to Chennai's digital-commerce corridors, Jai Shankar's career has followed one durable question: when technology changes, how do you bring the market with you?
Sheila Dahlgren Has Spent a Career Making the Invisible Feel Obvious
From putting a product within reach on a screen to moving a stubborn paper check into a digital payment, Sheila Dahlgren's career has followed one durable idea: technology wins when people can see the practical difference.
Kristie Schmuck Learned to Market the Moment of Choice
From demand-generation plumbing to Flywheel's C-suite, the Toronto marketer built a career around the instant data, media and a shopper's decision meet.
Rahul Chabukswar Left Microsoft to Fix the Grocery Aisle’s Messiest Problem
He began with a warehouse, learned why supermarket data lies, and built Homesome around a stubborn idea: the neighborhood grocer should own the digital relationship too.
Jonathan Halvorson Has Spent 20 Years Making Big Brands Feel Less Like Big Brands
From Oreo's real-time swagger to Kenvue's digital shelf, Jonathan Halvorson has built a career around one deceptively hard brief: make global marketing more personal without making it creepy, generic or needlessly complicated.
Raj De Datta’s Long Bet on What People Are Really Seeking
He built Bloomreach around a deceptively simple idea: the best digital experiences begin with human intent. Sixteen years, several reinventions, and one AI wave later, that idea has become the company’s operating system.
Michael McKay Bet His Consulting Firm on One Platform
After a career spanning Accenture, the Dallas Cowboys and sports merchandise, Michael McKay built Enforce around an unfashionable idea: deep focus beats a sprawling services menu. Its 2026 merger with HR Path turned that constraint into a global opportunity.
Katherine Bond-Debicki Is Teaching an Old Bucket New Tricks
KFC Canada’s marketing chief has spent a decade turning heritage into a working asset - balancing the Colonel, the bucket and 11 herbs and spices with digital ordering, cultural timing and a sharper appetite for change.
Geoff Seeley Learned to Market the Marketplace, Not Just the Logo
From an architecture degree to Airbnb, Afterpay and PayPal, Geoff Seeley built a career around a deceptively practical idea: a brand grows when both sides of its marketplace understand why they should care.
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.