Jacyn Heavens is the Founder and CEO of Epos Now - an AI-driven embedded finance POS platform giving 90,000+ merchant locations in 11 countries, the technology to compete with giants. Epos Now is one of the UK's largest and fastest-growing tech scale-ups, driven by 600+ superstars with offices in the UK, US and Australia. Achieving an average of 50% growth YoY and revenues over $150+m completely organically funded.
Simon heads up business development, strategic partnerships and is the architect of the ReTime data capture and analysis app
Rebecca has been spent over 15 years partnering with retail businesses to improve their marketing, customer experience, and profits through the digital advertising and financial kiosk channels.
Andrew Helms is the CEO – USA at SumUp, a global financial technology company, where he leads the US strategy focused on empowering small and mid-sized businesses with an integrated payments and loyalty POS ecosystem and exceptional, US-based, bilingual customer service. An accomplished leader in Fintech, CPG, retail, and corporate strategy, Andrew is known for his data-driven approach, having previously helped scale Home Chef to a billion-dollar business through new product development and retail strategy.
Leigh has more than 10 years of business consulting experience and 20 years of corporate leadership experience. She thrives in working with clients to help build scalable solutions profitably. Her experience spans a wide range of Fortune 500 organizations across multiple industries. At Centric Consulting, she prioritizes growing client relationships, business development, marketing, and management of the Columbus office. She brings her experience from retail, financial services, manufacturing and logistics to clients to help look at complex opportunities through a unique lens.
John joined Genesys in 2020 as SVP and General Manager, Genesys Engage. Within a few months in the role, he spearheaded the launch of the Genesys Multicloud architecture, an industry first.
Prior to joining Genesys, John was CEO of Selligent, a cloud marketing platform, Chief Operating Officer of the Salesforce multi-billion-dollar Service Cloud business, and Vice President and General Manager of the Contact Center business unit within the Cisco Collaboration division. He also held a variety of management positions at IBM and Nortel Networks.
John holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Santa Clara University.
For the past 20 years, Rhonda has brought clarity to many top-tier global brands on their toughest growth challenges at the intersection of brand, experience & innovation. As global CEO at Clear M&C Saatchi, Rhonda oversees work spanning from global repositioning to omnichannel experience transformation. She knows that putting the consumer at the heart of any challenge is the most successful path to growth. From Restaurants to CPG, Retail, B2B, Healthcare, Fashion, Financial Services, and Hospitality,
Chief Revenue Officer with 20+ years of experience helping companies scale customer-facing technology responsibly. Dean has worked across SaaS, security, and digital commerce, with a focus on how testing, trust, and real-world performance impact customer experience at scale — especially as retailers adopt AI, mobile, and omnichannel platforms.
Prior to her role at Avalara, Megan was Senior Vice President, Client and Partner Success, North America, at Pitney Bowes where she led a team responsible for managing more than 700 partners and clients. She spent more than 15 years at Pitney Bowes holding various leadership positions for product management, business development, and marketing.
Brian Higgins is the Chief Customer Experience Officer, Verizon Consumer Group, where he leads the Consumer Group CX organization, responsible for shaping customer and employee experiences and empowering the Verizon workforce through tools, capabilities, and resources needed to drive simple, personalized and memorable customer experiences. Brian earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Rutgers University and holds a Master of Science degree from University of Pennsylvania.