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Dave Schneider
Dave Schneider is Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Red Wing Shoe Company, the family-owned, Minnesota-based maker of iconic American work boots founded in 1905. He leads the company's global marketing practice, spanning brand management, digital and traditional communications, ecommerce, retail experience, brand protection, and corporate communications, reporting directly to the CEO. After years in senior roles at leading agencies including Digitas, Tribal DDB, and BBDO, he brought an agency creative sensibility to an operator's job, championing a marketing model that balances long-term brand equity with performance-driven revenue while putting the skilled-trades workers who wear the boots at the center of the brand's story.
Krista Dalton
Krista Dalton is Chief Marketing and Digital Officer at Tecovas, the Austin-based western wear brand built on handmade cowboy boots that has grown into a lifestyle label with more than 50 US stores. She spent nine years at Target, where she moved from allocating plus-size and maternity apparel to becoming the first person the company shifted from stores to Target.com in 2013, then seven years at Overstock.com (now Beyond Inc), ending as Chief Customer and Merchandising Officer with a team of over 1,300 and an $800M-plus P&L. At Tecovas she has pushed the brand into work boots and women's workwear, run TV blackout tests to prove what awareness actually buys, sent her team into customers' closets, and built a custom AI agent to chew through the roughly 16 reports she used to read by hand. Footwear News named her to its Women Who Rock class of 2026, where she argued that authenticity is the new competitive advantage.
Scott Schoessel
Scott Schoessel is the Chief Marketing Officer of Wolverine Worldwide's Work Group, the division behind Wolverine, Cat, Harley-Davidson, Bates and Hytest work footwear. He joined the Rockford, Michigan company in 2020 as director of digital and retail marketing, rose to VP of global marketing for the Wolverine, Bates and Hytest brands in 2022, and now runs marketing across the entire work portfolio. Before Wolverine he built a career across Limited Brands, Bluedog Design, Gigunda Group, Gatorade and Kellogg's. He is known for pulling historically siloed brands closer together and for landing Wolverine's first television product placement deal, putting its boots on the Paramount+ series Landman.