Founder and CEO of LOVESAC Author of Let Me Save You 25 Years, Mistakes, Miracles, and Lessons from the Lovesac Story Host of the Let Me Save You 25 Years Podcast Husband and design dad.
Ariela Nerubay is the dynamic Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Curacao, known for her innovative approach in the retail landscape. With over a decade of experience in marketing, she's adept at crafting strategies that resonate with diverse audiences. Ariela's expertise lies in driving brand growth and customer engagement, particularly in the Hispanic market. Her visionary leadership has been pivotal in Curacao's transformation into a retail powerhouse, cementing its status as a champion for community empowerment and financial inclusivity.
Eric Netsch is the co-founder and CEO of Tapcart, a codeless mobile app builder that helps Shopify’s fastest-growing brands to create an owned marketing channel so that they can reach, engage, convert, and retain their audience. Eric has been featured in TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Verge, etc.
As a woman leader in retail technology with a background in marketing and psychology, Red Ant's Head of Client Success Emma Newman offers unique insight into what drives tech transformation from the perspective of the people using it. Using her experience working with retailers including Charlotte Tilbury, Chalhoub Group and Furniture Village, she shares expertise in implementation, adoption and how to drive ongoing success.
He has worked on strategy and projects for leading ecommerce companies worldwide, including Amazon, eBay, Google and many others.
Todd has an extensive 25+ year tech industry background working in executive level sales, marketing, and product management roles for small emerging startups and large enterprise IT industry leaders including IBM, EMC, and Gartner.
Erik Nieves is the co-founder and CEO of Plus One Robotics, an AI software company developing robots for warehouse automation. Prior to Plus One, Erik was Director for Yaskawa Motoman Robotics where he was responsible for the technology roadmap and emerging applications. During his 25+ year tenure at Yaskawa, Erik held a variety of leadership positions in the U.S. and abroad. Erik serves on the board of directors of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) and is a frequent speaker and contributor to public policy on robotics.
Jonathan Nikols is the Senior Vice President, Global Enterprise Sales, Americas for Verizon Business. He leads a team focused on delivering meaningful outcomes for enterprise customers leveraging innovative technologies such as 5G, mobile edge computing (MEC), cloud, security, and software-defined networking. With deep industry expertise, Jonathan has a true understanding of how outcome-based solutions and the strategy that goes into deployment creates sustained growth and prosperity for customers.
Juned Noonari is the director of solutions for engineering enterprise networking at Black Box. He has 20+ years of leadership experience in data networking, IP infrastructure, product management, network deployment, and operations.
As Senior Vice President of Customer Success at GS1 US, Melanie Nuce-Hilton leads the teams that help businesses across 25 industries, including apparel, general merchandise, foodservice, retail grocery, and healthcare, unlock the power of GS1 Standards to support supply chain visibility, efficiency, collaboration, and regulatory compliance. Nuce-Hilton oversees GS1 Standards offerings, the GS1 US Innovation team, industry initiatives, education and training, product management, and customer support functions.
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.
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.
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.