He has more than twenty-five years of business experience, with approximately fifteen years of consulting experience plus direct management roles within industry. He has extensive experience leading and advising Fortune 100 companies, with a focus on retail and consumer products companies.
Manyam is the Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer at Blueshift and was previously employee #1 at Kosmix which was acquired by Walmart to become Walmart Labs. He was also Senior Director of Engineering at Walmart Labs and is a Graduate of UT Austin & IIT Bombay.
Bobby Marmahat is the CEO of Raydiant — a Digital signage and in-store experience solutions provider.
Tim Marshall is the Vice President of retail Partnerships at Syndigo. His expertise is in building and refining sales processes, sales team structure, go-to-market strategy, and sales enablement programs. He fully embraces the challenge of looking within processes and teams to fine-tune for growth.
Manu Mathew boasts a rich history of involvement with several marketing software-focused startups. Presently, he serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of Cohora, a B2C Customer Retention & Activation platform. Before Cohora, Manu was President of the Americas for Ad-lib.io, a creative optimization SaaS business headquartered in the UK and the remarkable growth in the US market eventually culminated in Ad-lib's successful acquisition by Smartly.io in 2022.
Presently, he serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of Cohora, a B2C Customer Retention & Activation platform. Beyond his professional pursuits, Manu finds joy in cooking and is currently navigating life as an empty nester in his free time. Prior to Cohora, Manu co-founded and served as the CEO of Visual IQ, a market leader in the space of cross-channel marketing attribution targeted at the world's largest advertisers. At the time of the acquisition by Nielsen in 2017, Visual IQ had been recognized with several awards for pioneering the attribution space boasting over 250 clients
Early on in her career she was part of the team that won Media Plan of the Year for an OOH Yahoo! Campaign. Most recently she lead the team that won the OAAA Silver Media Plan Awards in both 2016 (Nestle Haagen-Dazs) and 2017 (Nestle Perrier) as well as the Cynopsis Media Social Good Award in 2017 (Nestle Arrowhead).
Roger Mayerson serves as SVP, Industry Principal of Apparel and Soft Goods for Logility, a leading provider of AI-first supply chain management solutions engineered to help organizations build sustainable digital supply chains. Roger is an industry veteran and change agent with a proven record in maximizing top and bottom line revenue and improving shareholder value. He specializes in the creation and implementation of retail and apparel strategies that drive sales, reduce costs, improve customer satisfaction and build successful teams.
John Mazur is CEO of Chatmeter, an intelligence platform that helps multi-location businesses turn customer feedback into actionable insights and search rankings into real revenue.
Allison McCabe is a retail merchandising professional with more than 30 years of experience in omnichannel retail. Her leadership roles include implementing, refining and growing profitable retail businesses both nationally and internationally within specialty vertical retail, department store and innovative content + commerce businesses. Allison has expertise in buying, planning and forecasting, product development and store operations.
On the weekends, you'll find James on the hiking trails or getting tackled by his kids.
Keri is a results-oriented strategist with a wide range of expertise in business development and strategic alliances with top industry partners in technology, insurance, and real estate. She has experience in marketing and corporate communications, including innovative strategy development and program execution of partner and frontline enablement along with growth and retention-focused event strategies. Before Attentive, Keri was a Senior Director at Zillow, where she led the B2B marketing team, and was responsible for strengthening partner loyalty for over 60,000 real estate partners.
Brian has held roles in sales, consulting, and general management. Brian’s experience spans from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies like HP and IBM. Most recently, as General Manager of Intershop’s North American business, Brian led the organization’s recent growth in entering new market segments with B2C and B2B commerce offerings. At Coveo, Brian gets to converge his background in search, content management, customer analytics, and e-commerce into Coveo’s Commerce business.
Stacy McGranor is the experience-obsessed founder of Blueprints & Playbooks, a Customer Experience consulting agency. With 15+ seasons across MLB, NBA, MLS, and NHL—including creating the first-ever Customer Experience function in professional sports—she takes inspiration from Nancy Drew and Curious George while harnessing her MBA and MS in Business Psychology to create experiences that make customers feel seen, valued, and eager to return.
Ms. McGuckin is VP of Customer Advisory at Digital Wave Technology, a software solutions company that transforms retail & CPG business processes through AI, including generative AI, workflow, and automation. From nurturing key client relationships to shaping the product roadmap, Ms. McGuckin's strategic insights fuel both business development and innovation.