Contributors
Ashish Kumar
As Assistant Vice President of Operations at Chetu, a global software solutions and support services provider, Ashish Kumar oversees multiple portfolios, including Retail, SAP, Cybersecurity, Manufacturing, Energy, IT Service Management, and Supply Chain. He brings expertise in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality to these projects. With nearly 15 years of service at Chetu, Ashish is a Certified AWS Solution Architect, Project Management Professional, and Scrum Master.
adam landis
Adam Landis was the founder and CEO of AdLibertas, a mobile app data platform acquired by Branch in 2022. At Branch, he serves as Head of Growth, where his deep experience in mobile advertising and data helps foster innovation in products that increase the ability to measure marketing performance in an increasingly difficult ecosystem.
Brian Lannan
Brian joined Avtex in 2021 from Target, where he led the Guest Experience team and was responsible for experience strategy and insights, guest-centric culture development, voice of guest, and brand and reputation insights. He has 15 years of retail experience developing and leading strategy, insights, and CX capabilities.
Gabe Larsen
Prior to joining Kustomer, Gabe was the VP of Marketing for XANT (formerly InsideSales.com) where he helped create the sales acceleration category and grow the company from six to nearly one-hundred million in revenue. Gabe oversaw the brand transformation, establishing XANT as an industry thought leader, and pioneering a new enterprise go-to-market motion.
Before XANT, Gabe served as a senior managing consultant at a research-based, global performance management company Gallup, Inc. While at Gallup, Gabe helped establish Gallup’s Middle Eastern headquarters in Dubai, sell a $10M dollar deal, and lead customer transformation projects for companies like Toyota, Honda, and IKEA.
Previous to Gallup, Gabe worked for Goldman Sachs as an equity derivative specialist. Gabe oversaw derivative activity on the London and Hong Kong exchanges for 75 U.S hedge funds, managing $750 million to $30 billion under assets.
Ignatius K.C. Lau
Mr. K.C. Lau was appointed Chief Executive Officer of SML Group in July 2015. He was previously the Group's Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Operating Officer. In these key roles, Mr. Lau helped build the Group's technology capability and strengthen its global operations.
Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence is Solutions Director, Analytics and Enterprise at Oracle Retail. He leverages 20+ years of retail-specific expertise in business intelligence, data warehousing, big data, data mining, cloud and various platform technologies to help retailers exploit the analytical value of their data, and to take informed and timely actions.
Assad Lazarus
Assad Lazarus is Chief Commercial Officer at Purchasing Power®. He is responsible for leading Purchasing Power's public sector vertical and spearheading strategic business development efforts to drive growth-oriented partnerships across the company.
John LeBaron
John LeBaron oversees go-to-market activities for Pattern and its partners. Prior to joining Pattern, John ran marketing for the Google Cloud business at Rackspace and has held a variety of global marketing roles with leading tech companies including Apple, Cisco, and Ciena. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, an MSW from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Communications from Brigham Young University.Marjorie Leonidas
Marjorie Leonidas is a dynamic entrepreneur and digital veteran with over three decades of experience in leading and scaling emerging technology businesses. She currently serves as CEO at Taggstar, a technology innovator that is reinventing the future of retail by changing how consumers find, choose, and buy products online.
Bruce Levinson
Bruce Levinson is Client Partner at SGK Inc., also classically trained CPG marketer with international experience helping many of the world's most famous brands to thrive.Nate Ley
Nate is a Director at Kin and Carta, working out of Los Angeles and serving clients nationally. Part product manager, digital strategist, user experience researcher, and project manager, Nate loves to understand why products should be built and how they can best solve customer problems. He’s served as a trusted advisor for clients in the financial services, healthcare, consumer electronics, and education sectors.
Dan Dan Li
Dan Dan Li is the founder of Popshoplive and chief innovation officer at CommentSold. She has worked as an entrepreneur for seven years and launched Popshoplive in 2018. Popshoplive merged with CommentSold in 2023. Li graduated from New York University’s interactive telecommunications program.
Alan Li
Alan loves serving retail customers through his company, Signs and Mirrors, providing signage and furniture solutions to leading brick and mortar brands. He spent 3 years running two physical locations for his self-portrait photo studio concept, FotoLab Studio. Alan also spent time leading growth marketing at Lucy, a venture backed DTC company in the consumer goods space. Alan is a graduate of Harvard Business School and UC Berkeley.
Andrew Lipp
After nearly a decade of leading marketing at Google, Andrew and two of his colleagues embarked on a mission to create a new kind of commerce solution to help brands harness passion and sell the world’s most in-demand products reliably and fairly. He helps retailers prevent site crashes, stop bots and scammers, streamline payments and processing, and deliver post-launch insights that can inform everything from product development to inventory management.
Jennifer Locke
Jennifer Locke has over 20 years of professional experience with mathematical, statistical and data analysis software as a software engineer, consultant, pre-sales engineer and product management. She has programming expertise with all major computer programming languages. Prior to joining Gurobi, she was a lead developer on the IMSL (International Mathematical and Statistical Library) engineering team and later serving as IMSL Product Manager.
Brandon Logsdon
Brandon's previous experience included roles with Bloomin Partners and JPMorgan Chase. Brandon is a board member of the North Texas chapter of the Folds of Honor Foundation and actively supports Men of Nehemiah. As a TCU graduate, Brandon sees everything in purple and is a Frog for life. In his spare time, he loves playing golf and spending time in the mountains with his wife, Sunny, and his three children.
Jorge Lopera
Jorge Lopera has over 15 years of global logistics experience in senior roles encompassing customer growth, product management, and strategy. As Vice President, Head of Global Strategy, Jorge drives industry strategy, go-to-market (GTM) and sales enablement at FarEye. He and his team develop GTM strategies and positioning, create thought leadership content elevating brand awareness, and drive sales enablement and strategic account management.Featured Vendor
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