John O'Kelly

A pioneer in the mobile-powered industrial carts industry, founder and CEO John O'Kelly began Newcastle Systems in 2005. John has since grown the company to 40 employees and was recognized as a 2022 Supply Chain Brain Top 100 Supply Chain Partner. To meet growing demand, the company moved from Haverhill to a larger location in Amesbury, MA. The mobile carts are used in manufacturing, retail, and shipping and receiving applications by companies including Walmart, UPS, DHL, Wayfair, Tesla and Amazon.

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Kurt Oleson

Kurt Oleson, COO and Owner of Custom Channels, has been with with the company for 10+ years, contributing to and overseeing growth as an engineer, operations manager, and COO.

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Oded Omer

Oded Omer is the CEO and Founder of Wasteless AI, an AI-based markdown optimization software for grocery stores and supermarkets. A technology entrepreneur with 22 years of experience in high-tech start-ups, Oded previously served as CTO at WeissBeerger, a big data/IOT company acquired by AB InBev. Oded has a proven track record in building technology from ideation to maturity to scale-up.

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Paige O'Neill

Paige regularly appears on top marketing lists from publications such as OnCon , MarTech Series and Top Rank Marketing. She is also one of the top 20 female tech marketers according to B2B Magazine. Paige recently launched a series of chats with other professionals on her LinkedIn page, discussing marketing and leading amid a pandemic, which LinkedIn Learning highlighted as a best practice use case. 

Prior to Sitecore, Paige served as CMO for digital workplace platform provider Prysm, marketing and translation software company SDL, and early-stage startups Aravo Solutions, Greenroad Technologies and PHH Arval (NYSE: PHH). She also served as VP of Marketing for integrated marketing leader Aprimo, and held marketing and global PR positions for Oracle and IBM’s Internet division.

She holds both a master’s and bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Kentucky, and spent a year in New York University’s Media Ecology Ph.D. program studying how technology impacts culture.

Scott Opiela

As Acoustic’s Chief Marketing Officer, Scott plays a crucial role in enhancing customer engagement through personalized and efficient digital experiences. Under his leadership, Acoustic has significantly influenced the marketing landscape, managing over 120 billion customer engagements globally. Prior to Acoustic, Scott was the CMO at CommerceHub (NASDAQ: CHUB), where he expanded the company’s market presence and helped achieve $30+ billion in Gross Merchandise Value in 2020.

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Michael Ouliel

He has been an active leader in the technology sector for more than 20 years. BlackSwan Technologies is based in London, England with offices in the United States, Israel, Poland and Germany.

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Nilay Oza

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Robert Passikoff

Robert Passikoff, Brand Key’s founder/president, is a thought leader who has pioneered work in loyalty and emotional brand engagement, creating the Customer Loyalty Engagement Index, the Loyalty Leaders List, the Sports Fan and Women’s Wear Daily Fashion Brand Indices. 

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Mandela Patrick

Dr. Mandela Patrick is a trailblazer at the intersection of artificial intelligence and consumer technology. As the CEO of VYBE, he’s applying his deep expertise in AI to integrate AI into everyday experiences seamlessly. Before founding VYBE, Dr. Patrick earned a PhD from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he conducted groundbreaking research in multi-modal AI as part of the world-renowned VGG computer vision group. His work in AI-driven video and image understanding has been cited over 1,600 times and published at top AI conferences worldwide.

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Kyle Payton

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Zack Peng

Zack Peng is the founder and CEO of Seel. As a technical founder with an engineering background, Zack identified the opportunity to create an AI-powered solution that helps retailers offer risk-free shopping experience to their customers at affordable cost. He founded Seel with $25 million in venture funding, and is now powering the risk-free shopping experience at 2,000+ brands & marketplaces.

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Joseph Perello

Joseph Perello is CEO of Props, a performance-driven creator content platform. He previously served as New York City’s first-ever chief marketing officer, and he served as VP of business development for the New York Yankees. He also co-founded the agency Catch New York.

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Mario Peshev

Mario Peshev is the CEO of Rush.app and DevriX, a global WordPress agency serving industries from publishing to fintech, healthcare, ecommerce and more. Peshev focuses the majority of his time on running his business and leading distributed tech teams at DevriX of 50+ people crafting high-scale WordPress solutions optimized for revenue. He is a Core contributor to the WordPress project, an Inbound Certified marketer, and a multi-disciplined business owner with a wide scope of skills. Follow him on Twitter @no_fear_inc and connect on LinkedIn.

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Elery Pfeffer

Elery Pfeffer is the CEO & Founder of Nift Networks, a marketplace transforming how consumers discover and engage with brands. HelloFresh, Liquid I.V., Thrive Causemetics, Tripadvisor, and Afterpay have partnered with Nift to get exclusive access to millions of unique, super-engaged customers and reliably hit acquisition goals. Under Elery’s leadership, Nift has more than doubled annually. Previously, he co-founded Pursway, serving Fortune 500 clients. Elery holds a degree from Tel Aviv University and was a research fellow at Harvard. 

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