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Derek Yarbrough
Derek Yarbrough is a retail marketing executive who has spent more than two decades turning fashion brands into customer-first, digital-first businesses. A Stanford Urban Studies grad who joined Walmart.com as employee #33, he built his craft in early direct-to-consumer commerce, then spent 11 years at J.Crew Group, rising to Chief Marketing Officer of both Madewell and J.Crew, where he steered the brand's post-bankruptcy comeback and its splashy 40th-anniversary campaign. He later became a Chief Marketing Officer at Gap Inc., leading marketing for Old Navy. Yarbrough is known for arguing that the marketer is 'the chief storyteller and customer champion,' pairing hard data with emotional brand storytelling.
Fabiola Torres
Fabiola Torres is the Global Chief Marketing Officer of Gap, the marketing executive brought in during 2024 to revive one of America's most recognizable clothing brands. With more than 25 years spanning Nike, Apple's Beats by Dre, and PepsiCo, she built a reputation for connecting brands to culture through music, sneakers, and self-expression. At Gap she has led a run of digital-first campaigns - Get Loose, Give Your Gift, Feels Like Gap, Better in Denim - that pulled the label back into cultural conversation. A proud Latina and diversity advocate educated in Monterrey, Mexico, Torres describes her leadership philosophy as 'the power of WE.'
Renee Halvorsen
Renee Halvorsen is the Chief Marketing Officer of Marine Layer, the San Francisco apparel brand known for absurdly soft t-shirts and a laid-back California outlook. A Yale-trained economist who began her career in finance and investment banking, she has spent the better part of a decade at Marine Layer, helping grow the business more than tenfold by treating marketing as a blend of art and science and treating customer lifetime value as the metric that matters most. Before Marine Layer she sharpened her craft in strategy and analytics roles at Gap Inc. and Athleta.
Vivian Alhorn
Vivian Alhorn is Chief Marketing Officer at Torrid, the plus-size apparel retailer serving women in sizes 10 to 30. She joined Torrid in 2021 as VP of Digital Experience, was promoted to Chief Digital Officer in 2022, and stepped into the CMO seat in March 2023. Her career has moved through some of the country's most recognizable specialty retailers, including Gap Inc., Banana Republic, Pottery Barn, Sephora and Gymboree, giving her a rare mix of merchandising, ecommerce and brand fluency.
Yidi Campbell
Yidi Campbell is the founder and CEO of Indyx, a San Francisco connected-wardrobe platform that lets people catalog, style, and resell the clothes they already own. A Georgetown business graduate, she moved from investment banking at Credit Suisse to corporate development at Gap Inc. and strategy at Athleta before launching Indyx in 2021 to fight fashion overconsumption from the closet outward.
Chris O'Neill
Chris O'Neill is a veteran technology executive with 25+ years of leadership across Google, Evernote, Glean, and Xero. Best known for leading Evernote's turnaround as CEO (2015-2018) and doubling its user base, he joined GrowthLoop as CEO in August 2024, steering the composable CDP startup through its AI transformation and Series D funding. A Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth) MBA and former Google Canada Managing Director who scaled that business to billions in revenue, O'Neill is also a board director at Gap Inc. and a published contributor to Fast Company and Fortune on the themes of AI, leadership, and compound growth.