Kosta Popov

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Vipin Porwal

Vipin Porwal is the CEO and founder of Smarty, a premier shopping app. He is an entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in finance and consumer technology and a background in software development. Previously, he founded the influencer marketing platform SocialMob.com, which catered to big brands like AOL and Huffington Post. Smarty and Smarty+ collaborate with over 6,000 U.S. retailers, such as Target, Walmart, and Best Buy. Porwal also founded SmartRx, a prescription discount card that offers premium health savings related to office visits, telehealth, pet meds, and more.

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Sharat Potharaju

Sharat Potharaju is the Co-founder and CEO of Beaconstac, responsible for crafting the overall strategy and execution. Sharat is dedicated to achieving Beaconstac’s vision to enable digital connection with every physical object and place on the planet. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Sharat spent a few years working in investment banking at Merrill Lynch in New York. Sharat holds a master’s degree in engineering management from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras.

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Ryan Powell

Prior to his role at Insite AI, Ryan served as Vice President of Merchandising and Category Management at Symphony RetailAI Solutions.

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Lisa Powers

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Simon Powley

Currently role includes:
End to end management of the Global Retail Self-Service business, leading a global team responsible for:
- Business Strategy and Growth
- G2M Strategy, 
- Product Strategy & Lifecycle Management (HW/SW), 
- Pre-sales/Solution Specialist Teams
- Consulting Practice

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Archita Prasad

As Chief Executive Officer for Strategy at UPS Capital, Archita develops and implements corporate strategy, leads growth initiatives, and leads the ongoing digital transformation journey. She has more than 20 years of experience as a senior leader in business strategy and transformation, change management, and organizational strategy planning. She holds a Master of Business Administration from the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad, India and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Mumbai.

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Ankur Prasad

Prior to that, Ankur was the Head of Marketing for the Amazon Appstore, a division that he doubled over the course of 3 years. Ankur first joined Amazon to kick off developer marketing efforts for Amazon Appstore where he helped grow the number of apps and games distributed by the Appstore from 20K to 500K. Before Amazon, he led the creation of Microsoft’s first incubator program for student entrepreneurs. He has a Masters in Management Sciences from Stanford University with a focus on strategy and entrepreneurship.

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Gerry Price

Gerry Price is President and CEO, North America of The Look Company, creators of large-scale visual branding for big box and chain retailers, as well as sports and event environments. He has 35 years of C-level leadership experience and now coaches other leaders to defy the status quo and exceed the possible. Gerry has worked around the world, including in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

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Gideon Pridor

Gideon Pridor is the Chief Marketing Officer at Workvivo, the employee experience platform acquired by Zoom. Pridor is a veteran marketing leader with a track record of growing disruptive startups into global leaders that redefine their markets. Before Workvivo, Pridor was VP Marketing at TravelPerk, one of the world’s fastest-growing SaaS companies, Perfecto (acquired by Perforce), and others. Pridor is a frequent speaker at industry events, an HR tech enthusiast, and a startup mentor helping companies build their story and tell it to the world.

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Eric Prugh

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Roman Ptakowski

Roman Ptakowski serves as Chief Commercial Officer, Customer Experience at Bridgenext, where he leads the global CX practice, including Creative, Design, UX, Sales, Service, Marketing Automation, and the Content Studio. Previously, he was Managing Partner at AKQA, working with clients like Delta Air Lines, Coca-Cola, and UPS, and driving growth in Atlanta with a focus on diversity and inclusivity. Roman began his career in management consulting at Accenture, later transitioning to agencies like Organic, AKQA, and Huge, collaborating across industries such as healthcare, energy, and CPG.

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Mary Putman

Mary Putman is the Chief Consultancy Officer at Stone Mantel, a research-led consultancy at the forefront of customer and employee experience strategy.

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Elissa Quinby

Pari Raccah

 Prior to joining the GiftNow team, Kevin led corporate marketing for technology start-ups in the customer experience and supply chain industries. He holds a BA in marketing management from San Jose State University and an MBA from Golden Gate University, and lives in San Jose, California.

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Mridula Rahmsdorf

Mridula Rahmsdorf, is CRO at IKASI, providers of patented, autonomous, causal AI solutions that help organizations optimize pricing, promotions, and investments that are customized for each individual.

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Nikhil Raj

Nikhil is the Chief Business Officer for Retail Media at machine learning-powered adtech company, Moloco. Before Moloco, he was on the co-founding leadership team at WalmartLabs via the acquisition of Kosmix and started Walmart’s retail media business.

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Shekar Raman

Shekar Raman is CEO and Co-founder of Birdzi, a grocery retail AI solutions company that was inspired by an idea his 11-year-old daughter had about locating products in the supermarket. He is passionate about building data-driven technologies leveraging AI and machine learning to help retailers and brands elevate the customer experience.

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Raj Ramanan

Raj Ramanan is the CEO of Jitsu, a last-mile delivery company that helps retailers and brands meet or exceed their customers’ expectations. Prior to being named CEO, Raj was the chief operating officer for Scorpion, a digital marketing services provider for local businesses. Earlier roles include leading Loku, which he co-founded, and various positions at The Walt Disney Company, Nexstar Media Group, and McKinsey. Raj is a graduate of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

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