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Dana Seguin
Dana Seguin is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Altar'd State, the fast-growing Knoxville-based women's fashion retailer, where she leads all creative, marketing and eCommerce work across its family of brands - Altar'd State, Arula, Vow'd, Tullabee and AS Revival. A brand builder with roughly 25 years in retail and fashion, she began in merchandising at American Eagle Outfitters before moving into creative marketing for SPANX, Chico's and Aerie. She is best known for leading the creation and launch of the Aerie Real campaign, which stopped retouching model images and helped make body positivity a mainstream retail message.
Frank Berman
Frank Berman is the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Bloomingdale's, where he has spent his entire 30-plus year career - starting in 1991 as a housewares business manager and rising through buying and loyalty roles to lead marketing for the 150-plus-year-old luxury department store. He built his reputation on keeping the brand 'fun,' framing Bloomingdale's as a place to buy wants not needs, and steering high-profile experiential campaigns from rotating themed pop-ups to the Wicked-themed holiday takeover and the retailer's 150th anniversary gala.
Katherine Beede
Katherine Godfrey Beede is Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of The TJX Companies, the Framingham, Massachusetts off-price retail group behind T.J.Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners and TK Maxx. She stepped into the top marketing seat in February 2024 after roughly a quarter-century inside the company, having previously run marketing for HomeGoods, then T.J.Maxx, then the combined T.J.Maxx and Marshalls division known internally as MarMaxx. Before TJX she spent a decade on the agency side in Boston and Philadelphia, at shops including Hill Holliday, LevLane, Arnold Worldwide and Holland Mark Martin. Her remit now covers marketing for a roughly $60 billion retailer with more than 5,200 stores across nine countries, built on a business model that sells a shopping trip nobody can fully predict - the so-called treasure hunt. She keeps an unusually low public profile for a Fortune 100 CMO.
American Eagle Outfitters Inc.
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (NYSE: AEO) is a Pittsburgh-headquartered specialty apparel retailer that has spent nearly five decades selling jeans to teenagers and young adults - and, more recently, learning how to sell a great deal more than jeans. Founded in 1977 by brothers Jerry and Mark Silverman, the company now runs a five-brand portfolio: the namesake American Eagle denim and casualwear label; Aerie, the intimates and swim brand built on unretouched imagery; OFFLINE by Aerie in activewear; Todd Snyder in premium menswear; and Unsubscribed, a slow-fashion experiment. Fiscal 2025 revenue reached roughly $5.5 billion across about 1,168 company-operated stores, 357 internationally licensed locations, and a digital business spanning ae.com, aerie.com and toddsnyder.com. The company describes its flagship as the leading jeans brand for US shoppers aged 15 to 25. Its recent story is one of divergence: Aerie crossed $2 billion in trailing-twelve-month revenue and posted 25% comparable-sales growth in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, while the American Eagle brand has been flatter - even after the widely debated Sydney Sweeney denim campaign of July 2025 delivered what management called unprecedented new-customer acquisition.
ANINE BING
ANINE BING is a Los Angeles-based global fashion house founded in 2012 by Danish designer Anine Bing and her husband Nicolai Bing. Built out of a Silver Lake garage and scaled through a highly engaged social-media audience, the brand pairs Scandinavian minimalism with American energy to make timeless wardrobe essentials - leather jackets, denim, knitwear, jewelry and accessories - sold direct-to-consumer online and through a growing network of global retail stores. Backed by Index Ventures, Greycroft and Felix Capital, ANINE BING has grown into a nine-figure business operating dozens of stores worldwide.
Ann Taylor
Ann Taylor is an American specialty retailer of women's clothing, shoes, and accessories, founded in 1954 and known for polished, tailored wardrobing aimed at professional women. Headquartered in New York's Times Square, the brand operates a network of stores and an e-commerce platform, and sits alongside sister label LOFT under KnitWell Group, a portfolio company of private-equity firm Sycamore Partners.
Bloomingdale's
Bloomingdale's is an American upscale department store founded in New York City in 1861 and now a division of Macy's, Inc. It sells designer fashion, beauty, accessories, and home goods across a national fleet of full-line stores, small-format Bloomie's locations, outlets, and bloomingdales.com. Known for its flagship at 59th and Lexington, the Little Brown Bag, and Forty Carrots frozen yogurt, it positions itself as America's only nationwide full-line luxury department store and has been Macy's fastest-growing banner through the mid-2020s.
Glik's
Glik's is a fifth-generation, family-owned specialty apparel retailer founded in 1897 and headquartered in Collinsville, Illinois. It operates roughly 70 boutique-style clothing and footwear stores across 11 Midwestern states, plus an e-commerce site, carrying denim and trending national brands like Judy Blue, Birkenstock, The North Face, Silver Jeans, Roxy and Simply Southern. One of the oldest continuously operating retailers in the United States, Glik's focuses on smaller communities and personalized service.
J.McLaughlin
J.McLaughlin is a New York-founded American lifestyle apparel brand that has been making classic, colorful clothing and accessories for women and men since 1977. Started by brothers Kevin and Jay McLaughlin, the company pairs timeless preppy design with signature prints and proprietary performance fabrics like Catalina Cloth, and sells through a network of roughly 170-200 neighborhood boutiques across the United States plus a growing direct-to-consumer e-commerce business. Backed by private equity firm Brentwood Associates since 2015, J.McLaughlin is known for stores designed to reflect their local coastal or historic settings and a deep commitment to community events and charitable partnerships.
Nordstrom
Nordstrom is a Seattle-based fashion retailer that began as a single shoe store in 1901 and grew into one of America's best-known department store chains. It sells apparel, shoes, beauty, accessories and home goods across full-line Nordstrom stores, off-price Nordstrom Rack locations, small-format Nordstrom Local service hubs and its digital platforms. Long defined by high-touch customer service and a liberal returns culture, the company returned to family control in May 2025 when the Nordstrom family and Mexican retailer El Puerto de Liverpool took it private in a roughly $6.25 billion deal.
The TJX Companies, Inc.
The TJX Companies, Inc. is the world's largest off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions, operating more than 5,200 stores across nine countries under brands including T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, HomeSense, Sierra, TK Maxx, and Winners. Headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, TJX buys excess inventory, closeouts, and canceled orders from thousands of vendors and sells brand-name and designer merchandise at prices typically 20% to 60% below full-price retailers, creating a rotating 'treasure hunt' assortment. The Fortune 100 company surpassed $60 billion in annual sales in fiscal 2026.
Torrid
Torrid is a California-based direct-to-consumer retailer of plus-size women's apparel and intimates, designing trend-driven clothing in sizes 10 to 30. Launched in 2001 as a Hot Topic concept and public on the NYSE since 2021 under ticker CURV, the brand pairs a digitally led e-commerce business with a fleet of specialty stores, and builds fit authority by developing garments on live plus-size fit models rather than grading up smaller patterns.
Sara Griffin
Sara Griffin is a retail marketing executive who serves as Chief Marketing Officer at Belk, the Charlotte-based Southern department store chain. She built her career over a decade at Saks OFF 5TH, where she rose from marketing leadership to Chief Marketing and Analytics Officer, launched the SaksOFF5TH.com site in 2013, helped build the retailer's Canadian store fleet, and created the tender-neutral OFF 5TH Rewards loyalty program that surpassed 2.5 million enrollments. A Yale graduate with a Wharton MBA and a former Monitor Deloitte consultant, she later served as CMO of The Shade Store before joining Belk. She is known for tying data, analytics and marketing together to deliver personalized shopping experiences.
Victoria's Secret & Co.
Victoria's Secret & Co. is a Columbus, Ohio-based specialty retailer of lingerie, intimates, beauty and fragrance, operating the Victoria's Secret, PINK and Victoria's Secret Beauty brands along with the digital-first label Adore Me. Spun off from L Brands as an independent NYSE-listed company (VSCO) in 2021, it sells bras, panties, sleepwear, activewear, body care and fragrance through roughly 1,300 retail stores, a global network of partner-operated locations and a large e-commerce operation. With about $6.55 billion in fiscal 2025 revenue and around 31,000 employees, the company is pursuing a turnaround that pairs a revived Victoria's Secret Fashion Show with a broader, more inclusive brand message.
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.
Sabrina Cherubini
Sabrina Cherubini is the Chief Marketing Officer of FULLBEAUTY Brands, the plus-size and big-and-tall apparel group behind names like Catherines, ellos, Swimsuits for All, Jessica London and Brylane Home. A French-born marketer who began at Leo Burnett and Havas in Europe, she has spent two decades moving between advertising agencies, startups and Fortune 500 retailers including Kmart, Sears, Ann Taylor and Loft. Before FULLBEAUTY she spent nearly four years at lingerie brand Hanky Panky, where she helped grow the direct-to-consumer share of revenue from under 20% to roughly half. She is a Women in Retail Leadership Circle member, a nonprofit board member, and an advocate for women's leadership communities.
Taryn Rayment
Taryn Rayment is the Chief Marketing Officer of J.McLaughlin, the New York heritage apparel brand, a role she took in April 2024. Over roughly two decades she has run marketing and ecommerce for consumer brands across fashion, footwear, travel goods, and floral delivery - including a stretch as CMO and consumer division head at FTD during the pandemic, CMO at ecoATM Gazelle, and senior digital and CRM leadership at Cole Haan and TUMI. She is known for a data-driven, retention-focused approach to direct-to-consumer marketing and for steering omnichannel and e-commerce growth.
Thomas Zanetich
Thomas Zanetich is the CEO of INTURN, the New York enterprise software company that helps large consumer brands manage and sell off slow-moving and excess inventory. He spent close to a decade inside INTURN, most visibly running client success for accounts like Nike, Levi's and KIND, before acquiring the business and taking it back to independent ownership after its stint inside AI firm Mad Street Den. His pitch is unglamorous but real: the surplus goods piling up in warehouses are one of retail's most expensive problems, and there is money hidden in getting rid of them well.