Skye is a go-to-market leader with 15 years of background in advertising effectiveness and brand strategy. He has spent his career helping brands use predictive analytics to guide how they deploy marketing resources to grow their brands. Prior to Incremental, he held roles at BERA, Neustar, and comScore leading brand strategy, marketing science, and media measurement.
Mark is Modulate’s Director of Customer Success, leading a team in partnering with customers in the gaming and retail delivery space, including Activision, Ubisoft, Rockstar Games and Fortune 400 companies. Mark oversees Modulate's customer success strategy, ensuring smooth onboarding and ongoing successful outcomes for customers, helping them to detect and prevent abuse and fraud in their voice channels and phone lines.
Edward Funnekotter serves as the Chief Architect and AI Officer at Solace. Leading the architecture teams for both Cloud and Event Broker products, he also leads the company’s strategic direction for AI integration within products and internal tools. In 2004, Edward began his journey with Solace as an FPGA architect. He later transitioned into management and led the Core Product Development team for several years before ascending to his present position.
He is also a retail and eCommerce expert and while at Loqate, has worked with leading eCommerce brands including Nordstrom, Sephora, Kohl’s, Ralph Lauren and Michaels. Before joining GBG, Matthew cofounded Global Address (later acquired by Trillium Software) and helped to create a single platform model for a global location validation service.
Dafna is focused on helping clients realize the most value from their data, whether they are retailers and/or brands, by leveraging data to develop insights for timely decisions and optimized business and loyalty outcomes. Dafna has over 25 years of global experience in consumer, shopper, and business insights along with strategy, category management, and analytics/data science expertise working with both retailers and suppliers in the CPG industry. Dafna earned a Master’s degree in Statistics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Mike is keenly interested in new and emerging experiences and leads the innovation practice and AI strategy at O3. He regularly shares my business and strategy knowledge with people as an advisor, professor, conference speaker, and mentor. He has designed college curriculum and taught graduate-level UX courses, and speaks to industry professionals at numerous events across the country.
Samantha Giaver is an experienced Retail Media executive and Head of Global Sales at ADvendio, the leading omnichannel advertising solution provider. Since joining the business in 2016, Samantha has successful contributed to the international growth of the business, starting as an account manager based in Chilie, where she progressed to heading up the sales operation in that region. In 2020 Sam was promoted to Head of Global Sales, based out of Connecticut in the US. Her strategic role is aimed at driving business growth for ADvendio’s retail media advertising management solutions.
Zohar is an entrepreneur who enjoys creating, growing, and leading products, businesses, and companies. He founded Fast Simon Inc., a highly-scalable, next-generation, eCommerce site search app for millions of merchants worldwide.
He formerly led pricing strategy at Kirkland’s, Academy Sports + Outdoors, and Safeway, where he was hands on with AI-based analytical tools, retail strategy and change management. John is also an avid marathon runner and triathlete.
Tom Gleeson is the CEO of Kepler Analytics. He is an experienced global executive with a strong track record in transformation and strategic leadership. Prior to joining Kepler Analytics, Tom was in the Royal Australian Air Force, where he served as a fighter pilot, flying instructor & executive, including several operational deployments. He later worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, ran his own consultancy and held multiple C-Suite roles.
Courtenay Godshall leads product marketing for the Webex customer experience portfolio at Cisco. In this role, she drives strategy and execution of initiatives to educate customer-driven enterprises about the powerful capabilities of innovative Webex solutions that can empower them with technology to create lasting, memorable relationships with their customers.
As SVP for Data, Cloud, Experience & Digital Commerce, I partner to develop, lead, and facilitate strategy and solutions, leveraging data and analytics across domains within the Consumer & Healthcare, and Financial Services industries. I engage with our clients to further their strategic business agendas and deliver long-term value. I have a diverse and varied background with Genpact, having worked with the business in various roles for over 23 years across three continents.
Samir Gosavi is the Chief Business Officer for Retail & Consumer Goods at LTIMindtree, located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas. With a career spanning over 25 years, Samir is an accomplished leader in the technology sector, particularly within the Retail, Consumer Goods, and Manufacturing industries.
As CEO of GroupBy, Roland Gossage is transforming the eCommerce digital experience and bridging the gap between merchant and consumer by enabling seamless online customer shopping experiences. A visionary and seasoned tech executive, Roland brings years of search and AI expertise from his years at Endeca, one of the trailblazers of enterprise search, where he led their North American operations.