Accomplished IT leader with 15 years experience in technology development. From my debut as a COBOL software developer to my current role at Transport for London, I’ve occupied multiple functions in various environments and acquired a rare skill set covering the entire spectrum of system development and management practises. I have strong technical and management skills and ability to lead large, multidisciplinary technical teams in complex technical, contractual, political environments. I am focused, passionate, agile and embrace novelty and change with enthusiasm. I have a passion for engineering and always oversee solution design processes and outputs with care for detail. I always promote working practises where talented people can flourish in a true diverse environment and where innovation is a key priority.

A senior ecommerce professional, I have a wide range of experience in all aspects of ecommerce, from design, to content production; from managing high availability infrastructure to user experience testing. I have experience in managing teams to deliver the above, as well as other areas such as development testing and PCI compliance. I work within the fashion industry.

I have particular interests in page performance, conversion rate optimisation, usability, responsive web design, customer experience and order fulfilment.

My goal is simple: I want to be responsible for the best-in-industry ecommerce website that does everything right, every last detail.

Richard George was appointed to the role of Director of Digital for eircom Group in October 2014. He is responsible for eircom’s digital & omnichannel vision, strategy and change programmes, as well as managing all of the digital touch points of eircom and Meteor’s sales and service.

Prior to his appointment, Richard was Head of Online Sales for O2 Telefónica in the UK, and was integral to the team that delivered a new website for O2, which went on to win 2014’s websiteoftheyear.co.uk. Before that he worked as part of O2 Telefónica’s digital transformation programme, owning the development of self service capability online and within retail.

Richard has also worked for Marks and Spencer where he held a number of retail management, eCommerce and multichannel business development positions. 

Eddie heads up QVC UK’s digital merchandising operations including the TV channels QVC Beauty, QVC Extra and QVC Style, and all digital platforms, qvcuk.com and mobile apps. During his three years there, the company’s digital landscape has changed significantly with the re-platforming of its website, the launch of iPhone, Android and iPad apps as well as the launch of two new TV channels on the Sky and Freeview platforms.

Experienced data, insight and CRM professional, expertise built across variety of sectors including retail and financial services, both supplier and client side. Worked for a range of different companies developing strong skills in data, data management,analytics, customer insight and CRM.

Well established as Asda data expert supporting business on any initiatives capturing and using customer data, leading the relationship with our strategic data partner and Email Service Provider. Key role is delivering value from company data assets within marketing arena, developing SCV and infrastructure to make best use of data and continue to develop marketing ROI. Driving marketing effectiveness across the business, and leading a team of analysts responsible for customer insight, campaign targeting and analysis.

I am a highly accomplished and motivated IT and Ecommerce Professional, with over 26 years’ experience in the retail industry.

I am a skilled project manager and strategist, and have strong business and commercial acumen. I also have excellent leadership skills, and I’m able to empower, motivate and equip others to reach their potential.

I am an expert in online and mobile commerce, and I pride myself on ensuring usability and applying best practice standards across diverse platforms that increase performance and maximise revenue.

I am very knowledgeable in conversion rate techniques, digital advertising, marketing campaigns and SEO optimisation. I also possess a strong track record of developing commercially robust and strategically sound website developments that drive the ecommerce business.

I am passionate about the customer experience, and I am focused on understanding customers’ needs, and translating them into highly optimised marketing channels.

Amee is a consumer and retail executive with a track record of delivering growth and innovation.  Most recently she led the repositioning of NutriCentre, a multichannel wellbeing retailer owned by Tesco.  Previous roles include MD Staples UK, where she led the integration of the direct and retail businesses, VP Biz Dev Wal-Mart and strategy consultant at McKinsey. 

Amee has an MBA from Harvard, an MSc from LSE and a BBA from Simon Fraser University.

David is responsible for all marketing functions at Instart Logic. He has 25 years of tech industry marketing experience, most recently serving as Chief Marketing Officer at Ubiquiti Networks, a high-growth, publicly-traded leader in wireless networking systems. Prior to Ubiquiti, David served as Vice President of Marketing for video and emerging technologies at Cisco. In that role he was responsible for marketing Cisco's video portfolio to enterprises, service providers and growing emerging technology businesses across multiple market segments, including Cisco TelePresence. Prior to Cisco, he was the senior marketing officer for three publicly-traded companies — Evolve Software, LBMS, Inc. and WebEx — and a senior executive at Sybase, FaceTime Communications and Marrakech. David has a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Northwestern University.

A senior ecommerce professional, I have a wide range of experience in all aspects of ecommerce, from design, to content production; from managing high availability infrastructure to user experience testing. I have experience in managing teams to deliver the above, as well as other areas such as development testing and PCI compliance. I work within the fashion industry.

I have particular interests in page performance, conversion rate optimisation, usability, responsive web design, customer experience and order fulfilment.

My goal is simple: I want to be responsible for the best-in-industry ecommerce website that does everything right, every last detail.

Carin is Chief Marketing Officer at Usablenet, a global mobile technology company working with major retail, travel and B2B brands. Carin is an experienced marketing executive and brand builder. She’s consulted with brands such as UPS and Johnson & Johnson on their brand strategy, and advised brands like Marks & Spencer, Ritz Carlton and Chanel on mobile strategy and user experience. Carin is based in New York.

I am currently Senior Director for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) at Hotels.com looking after the P&L of the 33 markets in the region. I joined Hotels.com in October 2012 as Senior Manager, Merchandising where I was in charge of value-adds and couponing activities.
Hotels.com is part of the Expedia group, and the Hotels.com EMEA business consists of 33 fully localized websites in 24 languages, offering to travelers more than 325,000 hotels worldwide.

Prior to joining Hotels.com, I worked at LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy) and BCG across several fields (Telecom, Finance, Strategy and Marketing). Originally French, I lived and worked in countries such as France, China, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, UK and fluently speak Spanish, English, Mandarin and French.

I completed my MBA at London Business School and also holds a Master degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

As co-founder and CEO of Global-e, a market leader in cross-border eCommerce services and technology, Amir has gained extensive experience in helping retailers and brands of various sizes in reaching out and selling to their end-customers around the globe.

Amir's expertise in the various aspects of international online trade, from web technology to online payments to logistics, draws on his diverse background and work experience in such roles as SVP and Strategic Advisor to the CEO of Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank, management consultant with McKinsey & Company and commander of the IDF's “Talpiot“ elite technological military-academy program.

Amir holds an MBA from INSEAD, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a B.Sc. in Math, Physics and Computer Science.

As President of Conversant Europe, Oded boasts more than 20 years of leadership and operations experience.  Oded is responsible for leading and driving Conversant’s growth in the European market.

Prior to this role, Oded played a vital role in creating the world’s first integrated personalised marketing platform. He began his career with Conversant as Director and then VP of Client Operations establishing Conversant’s Personalis ation platform and the key services and tools that surround it. As SVP of Enterprise Operations Oded led the integration of operations across the Conversant solution groups into one consolidated platform. Oded also led the inception and launch of Conversant’s CJ Affiliate CRM solution.
 
Prior to joining the company in 2005, Oded held senior roles at Sphera Corp, a web hosting automation provider and Elron, a telecom services company.Oded holds a bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems from Northeastern University in Boston, and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Eric Fergusson has more than 10 years of retail experience, including new category launch and trading roles at Shop Direct Group and strategy consulting at OC&C to retailers including Abel and Cole, Jimmy Choo and The Container Store. Since joining eCommera, Eric has supported the strategic and operational ecommerce plans of Belstaff, Jaeger and Jimmy Choo, ensuring business case expectation is matched by capability whilst driving in-life performance through training, merchandising and trading.

Tina has more than 12 years of experience working in digital marketing. Prior to joining Quantcast as Head of Account Strategy, she managed a department of 10 digital specialists, responsible for advertising budgets of more than £30 million per annum, across a portfolio of clients including Vodafone, Post Office, Easyjet, Boots, HMV and Eurotunnel and has also previously worked as a Sales Director at Valueclick Europe.

As head of UX at Shop Direct, Sam is responsible for delivering the most engaging and innovative shopping experience to millions of customers across all devices. He and his team ensure that the key objectives of the business are met by continually optimising customer journeys to drive improved customer satisfaction and business performance.

Shop Direct is the UK’s leading multi-brand online retailer, with sales of more than £1.7 billion and digital department stores including Very.co.uk, which is now a £800 million brand. Around 86% of Shop Direct’s sales are now online, with over 50% of those from mobile devices. The Shop Direct brands receive more than a million website visits every day.

The business prides itself on making good things easily accessible to more people – a purpose it’s well-placed to fulfil thanks to its department store range, market-leading ecommerce and technology capabilities and unique financial services offer. In 2013, Shop Direct unveiled a new strategy aimed at becoming a truly world class digital retailer, with personalisation at the heart. In 2014, the business went on to unveil a 512% increase in profit.

Follow Sam on Twitter at @sam_barton and Shop Direct at @ShopDirect, and find out more at www.shopdirect.com.

Maya Moufarek is a multi-cultural and multi-lingual marketing and business development professional with 10 years experience across EMEA, APAC and the USA. She has a track record driving strong ROI cross-functional projects in highly innovative environments and is also known for her capacity to combine both analytical and creative approaches.

Most recently she joined Chemist Direct where she leads marketing & customer experience efforts. Before that at American Express she lead the international product expansion of the Digital Offers coming from notonthehighstreet.com an award winning online marketplace for small creative businesses where she led the international expansion strategy and acted as CMO.

Prior to that Maya Moufarek spent almost six years at Google where she was a founding member of the EMEA Emerging Markets team ensuring users in such countries as Israel, Russia, Turkey, Poland and Egypt had high visibility within the organisation and embraced Google products. She also worked in Russia as a founding member of the Moscow-based marketing team and in San Francisco where she led the international launch of the acclaimed Google Chrome browser.

She played key roles in initiatives that received the Google Founders and Executive Group Awards.

Outside of work she is an avid landscape & night photographer as well as a world explorer.

She has lived and worked in Moscow - RU, Paris - FR, Amsterdam - NL , NYC, San Francisco - USA, and London - UK

Gareth Bray is Head of Solutions Engineering for Moxie, heading up the EMEA team which works with customers across all sectors to realise their business objectives with multichannel engagement. He's been with Moxie for 9 years and previously worked in the call centre industry so brings experience of the reality of customer engagement from a wide base.

Brendan Lowry is part of the founding team and Marketing Director at Curalate, the world’s leading platform for monetizing imagery. More than 600 of the world’s most loved brands, including Gap, Neiman Marcus, Urban Outfitters, Swarovski, Nordstrom, and Michaels, rely on Curalate’s advanced image-analytics algorithms and robust marketing tools to understand visual conversations, increase fan engagement, and monetize both brand and fan images across Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook.

Jose de Cabo is the co-founder and GM of EMEA for the leading visual marketing content engine in the U.S. and Europe. Drawing on his expansive global consulting background, Cabo and his team successfully introduced Olapic’s visual commerce technology to European market and have secured client partners including Asos, Desigual, Karen Millen, Pepe Jeans, Selfridges, Tag Heuer and Zalando.

As Managing Director of VoucherCodes.co.uk, Claire is responsible for driving the strategy and growth of the online, mobile and in-store offerings for the site, which boasts over seven million registered members.
 
Claire joined VoucherCodes.co.uk in January 2014 from eLearning start-up FutureLearn, where she acted as Commercial, Marketing and International Director for the organisation’s global launch. During her 20 year professional career, Claire has held a number of leadership roles including Chief Commercial Officer at Bigpoint, Chief of Staff at Skype and Head of Strategy for RTL Group, Europe’s largest broadcasting company. Prior to entering the world of corporate management, Claire worked as investment banker for Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan.

Mark Pybus has been involved in the strategy, design and delivery of custom software solutions for nearly 20 years, now serving as Ensighten’s Director of Strategic Services (EMEA).  The Strategic Services team are a best practice consultancy for companies seeking to develop more sophisticated capabilities and optimise the return on their digital marketing stack.

Across all his consulting roles Mark has been fortunate to work with enterprise organisations across all verticals, enabling him to develop a deep understanding of the unique challenges they face and many common themes and solutions.

Mark takes great pleasure in being involved in the creation of elegant solutions for seemingly complex problems.  The ongoing evolution of the digital marketing world continues to provide challenges that inspire and energise him.

Phil is a passionate tech marketer, avid web analytics geek, and so believes in the power of data that he once delivered a keynote that explained with heatmaps why his girlfriend broke up with him. Through his work at Decibel Insight he’s been lucky enough to meet, work with and learn from some of the world’s best web analytics professionals.

David leads IBM’s e-commerce software business in Europe. David has extensive understanding and experience of the global retail industry having spent his entire career buying and selling retail solutions. Over the last years years he has worked with major European retail and distribution companies to re-platform their E-Commerce systems and deliver Omni-channel capabilities. He has held senior positions with vendors including Kewill Systems and Transora (1Sync), where he was the Director of Business Development for Europe. David has presented at many seminars throughout Europe and Asia Pacific. He is involved in the CPG Global Upstream Supply Initiative.

David has worked exclusively in retail throughout his career. Starting out in Store Management roles at Argos, he quickly progressed into IT roles focusing on store systems and processes. He joined The Burton Group and worked in a variety of technical roles until becoming Business Systems Controller at Debenhams in 1998. He has held senior IT roles at Debenhams including operating at CIO level. David has extensive experience in multi-channel, ecommerce and stores systems as well as back of house implementations in Data Warehousing, HR and Finance. An accomplished and adaptable IT professional with proven skills in stakeholder and supplier management, David has a passion for solving business problems and delivering effective solutions. David has managed IT teams through periods of rapid and sustained growth, whilst delivering high availability IT services and solutions.

Ian, Head of UK Account Management, joined Adyen in April 2013 and has many years experience within payments, finance and loyalty. Ian manages a portfolio of large international merchants across different industries and drives their growth across different continents and payment channels. Ian provides consultancy advice about the international payments market and helps clients improve acceptance rates whilst minimising fraud.

Adyen is at the heart of the fast moving payment revolution and many of the world’s largest businesses use their technology. Adyen’s unique approach makes it easy to accept payments worldwide from all sales channels via connection to a single and scalable payment platform.

Jamie Peach is Head of SEO at House of Fraser, currently enjoying his 8th year in the SEO industry and voted one of the UK's most influential individuals in Search Marketing & SEO. He has worked both client-side and in the agency world during this time but in the last couple of years has been focused on SEO and Content Marketing in the retail/ecommerce vertical specifically.

Dan Patmore is responsible for development of the long-term search strategy for multi-channel retailer Argos. Looking after both the paid and natural search channels, Dan is deeply passionate about search and Argos’ opportunity within it.

Kestrel Lemen is a marketing strategist at Bronto Software in London. Kestrel works with international e-commerce clients, providing strategic advice and detailed tactical guidance to ensure that their email marketing programs drive revenue and customer engagement. As an experienced marketer, Kestrel guides her clients in developing and refining lifecycle marketing campaigns, list growth techniques, preference centers, segmentation strategies, and message design. Kestrel frequently speaks at industry events and is a regular contributor to the Bronto Strategy blog and other e-commerce publications.

Jamie has been working in the retail space since joining kitbag in 1999. From there, he moved on to manage ecommerce departments for Brora and, more recently, american golf, where he selected Demandware  as its ecommerce platform. In addition to these roles, he has worked as a consultant across a number of retail businesses and technology suppliers within the sector.