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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.
Melissa Wong
Melissa Wong is the CEO and co-founder of Zipline, the operations platform that fixes the broken communication chain between retail headquarters and store floors. Before building the product, she lived the problem — spending over a decade at Gap and Old Navy trying to get stores to actually execute corporate strategy. She started Zipline in 2014, raised $39.6 million, grew the customer base to 150+ brands including Sephora, American Eagle, and 7-Eleven, and co-authored 'Stores Don't Suck: The 5 Principles of Amazing Retail Execution.' In 2026 she was named to Inc.'s Female Founders 500 and won RetailTech Company CEO of the Year.