BWG Connect's Future of Digital Commerce Forum
Mar 21, 2023 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM EST
Vorys eControl is a top 150 law firm that has an expertise in implementing legal strategies to stop unauthorized re-sellers, control MAP pricing, eliminate channel conflict which all ultimately lead to online marketplace sales growth.
Connect with Vorys eControl
Treasure Data Customer Data Cloud helps enterprises use all of their customer data to improve campaign performance, achieve operational efficiency, and drive business value with connected customer experiences.
Connect with Treasure Data
ProductWind is a developer of an influencer marketing solution designed for brand promotion. Their platform facilitates brands to find, negotiate, review, track and rate influencers and help them to launch their influencer marketing campaigns, enabling clients to improve their online retail business.
Connect with ProductWind
Their behavioral analytics & behavioral intelligence platform detects fraud & protects you from online threats.
Connect with NeuroID
Gorgias helps build a multi-channel helpdesk integrated with e-commerce merchants' back-office. It allows merchants to manage all their support from one place. It connects all business apps and all communication channels to provide support agents a unified view of their customers.
Connect with Gorgias
Flowcode is the offline to online company, building direct connections for brands and consumers. By unifying data-driven design with the latest in QR technology, Flowcode enables contactless connection with speed, security and ease.
Connect with Flowcode
5 New Digital is a retail, digital commerce and consumer growth and strategy agency that provides brands, CPGs, retailers and manufacturers with cutting-edge research, strategies, technologies and execution to help them get unstuck from the present by tapping into the future. Key focus areas include THE NEW RETAIL MODEL; UNIFIED COMMERCE; IMMERSIVE COMMERCE.
Connect with 5 New Digital
Co-Founder & Managing Director at BWG Connect
Aaron Conant is Co-Founder and Chief Digital Strategist at BWG Connect, a networking and knowledge sharing group of thousands of brands who collectively grow their digital knowledge base and collaborate on partner selection. Speaking 1x1 with over 1200 brands a year and hosting over 250 in-person and virtual events, he has a real time pulse on the newest trends, strategies and partners shaping growth in the digital space.
Partner at Vorys eControl
Jessica Cunning is a Strategy Leader and Partner at Vorys eControl. In this role, she advises brands on go-to-market online strategies, intellectual property matters, and antitrust considerations. Jessica also counsels brands and manufacturers on removing unauthorized sellers and MAP violators and expanding online sales control globally. In addition to this, Jessica is a member of Vorys’ drone and autonomous vehicle working group and thought leader on drafting and implementing minimum advertised price policies.
Senior Digital Strategist at BWG Connect
BWG Connect provides executive strategy & networking sessions that help brands from any industry with their overall business planning and execution. BWG has built an exclusive network of 125,000+ senior professionals and hosts over 2,000 virtual and in-person networking events on an annual basis.
VP, Marketing Reactivations at HelloFresh
Accomplished marketing and analytics leader with 20 years’ experience driving growth in the digital and retail sector. Proven track record in shaping strategy, driving profitability and optimizing user experience. Expertise in digital and omni channel lifecycle customer journey, CRM, marketing strategy and optimization, ecommerce operations, analytics and customer loyalty. In depth operational knowledge across marketing channels; optimization methodologies including A/B testing and personalization.
SMD, Business Development & Payment Strategy at Fanatics
Payments and Financial Services executive focusing on alternative payment solutions, card network partnerships, mobile, digital and crypto-currency options.
Retail Industry Principal, Treasure Data
Irene Sibaja is the Retail Industry Principal for Treasure Data, a leading enterprise Consumer Data Platform (CDP) provider. Prior to joining Treasure Data, Irene was VP, Sam’s Club Customer Success for NielsenIQ. She brings over 25 years of retail, strategy and operations experience to this role. At her core, Irene is customer obsessed, and she uses this focus to drive innovative ROI solutions across diverse customer centric organizations. She has a BA in English Literature from Rice University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Founder of 5 New Digital
Michael Zakkour is the founder and CEO of 5 New Digital, a digital commerce and retail strategy and execution firm. He is also currently the Interim International Marketing Lead at Unilever, where he is implementing cutting edge marketing, technology and digital commerce strategies and tools in overseas markets. Michael is a veteran in the industry with more than twenty years in eCommerce, digital commerce, retail and international expansion. He has been named a Top 100 Retailer Influencer by Rethink Retail in 2022 and 2023. He was named by Alibaba Group as a “Top Ten eCommerce influencer” in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.
Agency Partner Manager at Gorgias
Shivani is a Growth Partner Manager at Gorgias. She works on activating all new agencies that join the Gorgias Partner Program. She's passionate about creating and building meaningful relationships while helping brands scale. Shivani graduated from the Schulich School of Business at York University with her BBA. In her free time, she loves to travel and is currently learning how to crochet!
Director at The Hawkers Club
Peter Beke is the Co-founder and Director at The Hawkers Club. He has held positions at Amazon, 4C Associates, the Cranfield School of Management, and Microsoft. While at Amazon, Peter focused on vendor operational excellence, seasonality tracking, and vendor experience.
Director at The Hawkers Club
Hannah Blackburn is the Co-founder and Director of The Hawkers Club, a company that helps vendors and sellers solve their most pressing challenges and navigate eCommerce marketplaces, including Amazon and Target. In her role, Hannah advises online sellers and vendors on how to directly position their brands and value offerings as Amazon partners to increase profitability and revenue.
Before co-founding The Hawkers Club, she joined Amazon as a brand specialist with an initial focus on vendor excellence and marketing before transitioning to stock management and profitability. Since she’s written the business logic powering some of the algorithms that run Amazon, Hannah knows how you can systematically make profitable decisions that Amazon’s algorithms reward.
VP of Product & Strategy at NeuroID
Mitul Parmar has 7+ years of experience in scaling technology companies. Before his current role as VP of Product & Strategy at NeuroID, Mitul was VP of Product Strategy at Incode. Prior to Incode, he held leadership positions across product management, partnerships, and corporate development to help scale Prove from a startup into a leading identity verification player. He actively mentors startup founders and has previously served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at WeWork Labs. Mitul holds a BS degree from NYU Stern in finance and management.
Enterprise Account Executive at Flowcode
Channel & Partnerships Manager at ProductWind
Co-Founder & Managing Director at BWG Connect
Aaron Conant is Co-Founder and Chief Digital Strategist at BWG Connect, a networking and knowledge sharing group of thousands of brands who collectively grow their digital knowledge base and collaborate on partner selection. Speaking 1x1 with over 1200 brands a year and hosting over 250 in-person and virtual events, he has a real time pulse on the newest trends, strategies and partners shaping growth in the digital space.
Partner at Vorys eControl
Jessica Cunning is a Strategy Leader and Partner at Vorys eControl. In this role, she advises brands on go-to-market online strategies, intellectual property matters, and antitrust considerations. Jessica also counsels brands and manufacturers on removing unauthorized sellers and MAP violators and expanding online sales control globally. In addition to this, Jessica is a member of Vorys’ drone and autonomous vehicle working group and thought leader on drafting and implementing minimum advertised price policies.
Senior Digital Strategist at BWG Connect
BWG Connect provides executive strategy & networking sessions that help brands from any industry with their overall business planning and execution. BWG has built an exclusive network of 125,000+ senior professionals and hosts over 2,000 virtual and in-person networking events on an annual basis.
VP, Marketing Reactivations at HelloFresh
Accomplished marketing and analytics leader with 20 years’ experience driving growth in the digital and retail sector. Proven track record in shaping strategy, driving profitability and optimizing user experience. Expertise in digital and omni channel lifecycle customer journey, CRM, marketing strategy and optimization, ecommerce operations, analytics and customer loyalty. In depth operational knowledge across marketing channels; optimization methodologies including A/B testing and personalization.
SMD, Business Development & Payment Strategy at Fanatics
Payments and Financial Services executive focusing on alternative payment solutions, card network partnerships, mobile, digital and crypto-currency options.
Retail Industry Principal, Treasure Data
Irene Sibaja is the Retail Industry Principal for Treasure Data, a leading enterprise Consumer Data Platform (CDP) provider. Prior to joining Treasure Data, Irene was VP, Sam’s Club Customer Success for NielsenIQ. She brings over 25 years of retail, strategy and operations experience to this role. At her core, Irene is customer obsessed, and she uses this focus to drive innovative ROI solutions across diverse customer centric organizations. She has a BA in English Literature from Rice University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Founder of 5 New Digital
Michael Zakkour is the founder and CEO of 5 New Digital, a digital commerce and retail strategy and execution firm. He is also currently the Interim International Marketing Lead at Unilever, where he is implementing cutting edge marketing, technology and digital commerce strategies and tools in overseas markets. Michael is a veteran in the industry with more than twenty years in eCommerce, digital commerce, retail and international expansion. He has been named a Top 100 Retailer Influencer by Rethink Retail in 2022 and 2023. He was named by Alibaba Group as a “Top Ten eCommerce influencer” in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.
Agency Partner Manager at Gorgias
Shivani is a Growth Partner Manager at Gorgias. She works on activating all new agencies that join the Gorgias Partner Program. She's passionate about creating and building meaningful relationships while helping brands scale. Shivani graduated from the Schulich School of Business at York University with her BBA. In her free time, she loves to travel and is currently learning how to crochet!
Director at The Hawkers Club
Peter Beke is the Co-founder and Director at The Hawkers Club. He has held positions at Amazon, 4C Associates, the Cranfield School of Management, and Microsoft. While at Amazon, Peter focused on vendor operational excellence, seasonality tracking, and vendor experience.
Director at The Hawkers Club
Hannah Blackburn is the Co-founder and Director of The Hawkers Club, a company that helps vendors and sellers solve their most pressing challenges and navigate eCommerce marketplaces, including Amazon and Target. In her role, Hannah advises online sellers and vendors on how to directly position their brands and value offerings as Amazon partners to increase profitability and revenue.
Before co-founding The Hawkers Club, she joined Amazon as a brand specialist with an initial focus on vendor excellence and marketing before transitioning to stock management and profitability. Since she’s written the business logic powering some of the algorithms that run Amazon, Hannah knows how you can systematically make profitable decisions that Amazon’s algorithms reward.
VP of Product & Strategy at NeuroID
Mitul Parmar has 7+ years of experience in scaling technology companies. Before his current role as VP of Product & Strategy at NeuroID, Mitul was VP of Product Strategy at Incode. Prior to Incode, he held leadership positions across product management, partnerships, and corporate development to help scale Prove from a startup into a leading identity verification player. He actively mentors startup founders and has previously served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at WeWork Labs. Mitul holds a BS degree from NYU Stern in finance and management.
Enterprise Account Executive at Flowcode
Channel & Partnerships Manager at ProductWind
