Top Women in Retail Technology 2026

Evolvending’s Ellison redefining airport dining

November 3, 2026 by Judy Mottl — Editor: RetailCustomerExperience.com & DigitalSignageToday.com, Connect Media

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Company: Evolvending

In her role as CEO and co-founder Valentina Ellison is helping to redefine airport dining and leads the company's strategic vision, growth initiatives, partnerships, airport development efforts and deployment of unattended retail solutions across the U.S.

She is focused on advancing customer experience through automation, increasing access to quality dining options and scaling next-generation foodservice technologies that redefine how travelers access food in airport environments.

What sets Valentina apart is her ability to identify opportunities where technology can solve customer experience challenges that others have accepted as unavoidable. Her entrepreneurial mindset, combined with extensive airport industry expertise, has allowed her to move innovative concepts from idea to implementation at an exceptional pace, making her one of the most influential emerging leaders in retail technology today.

These are just a few reasons we chose Valentina Ellison as one of Connect Media's Top Women in Retail Technology Award winners. Connect Media's Top Women in Retail Technology Awards recognize women driving retail technology innovations.

About Judy Mottl

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Judy Mottl is the editor of RetailCustomerExperience.com and DigitalSignageToday.com at Connect Media. She is an award-winning editor, reporter and blogger who has worked for top media for nearly four decades,  including AOL, InformationWeek and Internet News, as well as for leading technology providers including HP. She’s written everything from breaking news to in-depth industry trends and reported on technology long before the internet arrived, including the debut of the first smartphone. When she's not sharing insights on digital signage deployments and trends in retail customer experience she's on the beach or watching the latest live murder trial.

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