Contributors
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.
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.
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.
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.Julio Lopez
Julio has worked across multiple Mar-Tech SaaS companies whose integrated solutions focused on driving digital innovation for retailers, including Cheetah Digital, RevTrax and Eversight. Julio’s expertise and love for retail has kept him focused on the vertical - he joined Movable Ink as a founding member of the Strategy team as an Associate Director focusing on Retail, continuing to add to his 10+ years of experience in Retail Services.
Tony Lorentzen
Before that he served as the leader of several teams at Nuance including Sales Engineering, Business Consulting, and Product Management. A proven leader in working with the cross-functional teams, Tony blends his in-depth knowledge of business management, technology and vertical domain expertise to bring Nuance’s solutions to the Enterprise market, partnering with customers to ensure implementations drive true ROI. Prior to Nuance, Tony spent time at Lucent and Verizon where he led teams that applied the latest technologies to solve complex business issues for large enterprises. Tony received a B.S. from Villanova University and a MBA from Dowling College.
Trey Loughran
Trey Loughran is an authority on mid-to-lower income consumer spending patterns and CEO at Purchasing Power. He joined the company in early October 2019, having held multiple senior executive roles spanning financial services and technology, digital marketing and data analytics across both business-to-business and business-to-consumer platforms.
Michael Lowenstein
Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., Senior Director, Employee Experience has committed entire books, countless articles, and decades of consulting to the employee experience craft. This experience has garnered him numerous accolades and recognitions within the EX space, as well as the seasoned perspective that he pours into his continued consulting work on behalf of InMoment.
Casper Luchies
I help retailers and loyalty-driven businesses streamline document processing, reduce errors, and improve customer experiences with AI automation. At Klippa, I guide clients through building strong business cases, selecting solutions, and ensuring smooth implementation.
Glyn Luckett
Glyn Luckett is Commercial Director at TTi Global Research, a Division of GP Strategies, which provides worldwide customer research programs to drive brand loyalty and growth.
Jason Luther
Jason Luther is the Chief Technology Officer at RetailNext, where he leads the development of the company's SaaS platform, including key initiatives like Aurora, a next-generation sensor for physical location analytics. He oversees product planning, delivery, and research efforts to ensure the platform remains future-proof and adaptable to emerging trends. Previously, Jason was Director of Product Management at Nearbuy Systems, where he shaped the vision and roadmap for a cloud-based Wi-Fi retail analytics platform.
Kristin Lynch
Kristin Lynch is Senior Director of Restaurant Strategy for Paytronix Systems (www.Paytronix.com), the leader in guest engagement for restaurants and convenience stores. She has more than 20 years’ experience managing large CPG and retail brands in marketing and brand strategy. Kristin was previously Vice President with Round Table Pizza and Director of Marketing for well-known brands such as Thorntons, Pyrex, and Craftsman Tools.
