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Barbie Cameron

Chief Stores Officer

Macy's Inc.

Barbie Cameron was appointed Macy’s Chief Stores Officer in February 2025.

In this role, Cameron leads the store operations across the Macy’s nameplate, from flagships to small format stores. She is responsible for overseeing in-store experience, staffing and call center operations. Cameron spearheads initiatives to modernize Macy’s, to improve the shopping environment and elevate the customer and colleague experience.

Cameron most recently served as the senior vice president and regional director of stores, East Region and was interim chief stores officer since August 2024. She began her career at Macy’s in 1987 as a sales manager, quickly advancing to store manager and continued to take on more responsibility within the stores organization. Cameron has also held numerous leadership positions across Macy’s, including roles in merchandising execution and buying.

Cameron holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virigina.

Max Magni

Chief Customer & Digital Officer

Macy's Inc.

Max Magni is chief customer and digital officer of Macy’s, Inc. appointed in August 2023.

In this role, Max guides the strategic long-term vision and growth of Macy’s, Inc.’s digital business, aligned on customer-centric strategies that leverage data and analytics to enhance the consumer journey across touchpoints.

These include the company’s e-commerce sites, mobile apps, marketplace, loyalty, and gift registry programs – all focused on presenting great products and differentiated experiences that provide customers with more choice, discovery and inspiration.

At the center of the customer journey, this team enables seamless, personalized, convenient engagement across the digital platforms of Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s and in-store with mobile app enhancements that make shopping more relevant and interactive.

With extensive experience working across a host of iconic brands in apparel, beauty, consumer goods, hospitality, and grocery; Max brings best-in-class e-commerce/digital transformation practices to Macy’s, Inc.

A more than 20-year veteran of McKinsey & Company, Inc., he was most recently a senior partner co-leading McKinsey’s NeXT Commerce and the global leader of the Consumer Growth Practices helping clients develop customer-centric and data-driven initiatives to drive profitable and sustainable growth.

Max has a B.S. in International Economics from Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Nicola Mendelsohn

Head of Global Business Group

Meta

Nicola Mendelsohn is the Head of Global Business Group at Meta, where she leads the company’s relationships with top marketers and agencies. In this role, she also oversees our business engineering, marketing science and creative shop orgs. Nicola previously served as Vice President for Europe, Middle East and Africa for Meta, a role she held from 2013 to 2023. During that time, Nicola spearheaded the growth of EMEA into a multibillion dollar business and led Meta’s expansion into countries like Israel, Norway, Austria and Denmark. She currently sits on the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board, and is co-president of the charity Norwood. In 2019, Nicola founded and launched the Follicular Lymphoma Foundation, a charity focused solely on raising funds to help the thousands of people living with Follicular Lymphoma to live well and get well. Prior to joining Meta, Nicola worked in advertising for 20 years at BBH, Grey and Karmarama. Her previous roles include: first female President of the IPA, trustee of The White Ribbon Alliance, chairman of Women’s Aid Development Board, and president of the WACL. She was also a director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, member of the UK government’s Digital Economy Council and co-chair of the UK Government’s Creative Industries Council. Previously, she served as a director of Cosmetic Executive Women and The Fragrance Foundation in the UK. In 2015, she was awarded a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the creative industries in the UK. Her greatest joy in life comes from her husband Jon and her four children Gabi, Danny, Sam and Zac.

Niraj Shah

CEO & Co-Chair

Wayfair

Niraj Shah is the CEO and Co-Chairman of Wayfair. Niraj co-founded Wayfair with Steve Conine in 2002 and the pair rapidly grew the business to become the largest online retailer of home furnishings, housewares and home improvement goods in the U.S., generating $11.9 billion in net revenue for full year 2024. Wayfair has extensive operations in North America and Europe and employs approximately 12,000 people. Wayfair's family of brands include Wayfair, Joss & Main, AllModern, Birch Lane, Perigold, and Wayfair Professional. Before founding Wayfair, Niraj served as CEO and co-founder of Simplify Mobile, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Greylock Partners, COO and a member of the board of iXL, and the CEO and co-founder of Spinners, which was sold to iXL in 1998. Niraj has been included in Fortune Magazine's 40 Under 40, and has won the Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award. Niraj is on the board of the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership, the Cornell Tech Council, the MIT Presidential CEO Advisory Board, and the MGH President’s Council. He is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Niraj holds a B.S. in engineering from Cornell University.

Tana Davila

Chief Marketing Officer

Dutch Bros

Ms. Davila is the Chief Marketing Officer of Dutch Bros Coffee and has more than 10 years of experience in helping companies connect with customers and drive sales through marketing. Prior to joining Dutch Bros in June 2023, she served as Chief Marketing Officer at CKE Restaurant Holdings, Inc., as Chief Marketing Officer at P.F. Chang’s, and as a marketing leader at Bimbo Bakeries USA. Ms. Davila earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and German from Washington University and a Masters of Business Administration, Brand Management from Emory University.

Matt Baer

CEO

Stitch Fix

Matt Baer is the Chief Executive Officer of Stitch Fix, where he is establishing the online styling service as an apparel retailer of choice by leading the company’s efforts to deliver the most personalized and client-centric shopping experience. Matt brings two decades of retail leadership experience to Stitch Fix. He joined the company in June 2023 from Macy's, Inc., where he was Chief Customer and Digital Officer, leading the long-term digital strategy for both Macy's and Bloomingdale's while driving initiatives focused on deepening customer relationships. Prior to Macy’s, Matt was Vice President of eCommerce at Walmart and played a key role in the transformation of its digital business. Previously, Matt founded digital marketplace Bezar, and held executive positions at two additional retail startups, Quirky and Fab.com. Matt holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and a law degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.

Matt Madrigal

Chief Technology Officer

Pinterest

Matt joined Pinterest as Chief Technology Officer in 2024. Matt leads the company’s product and platform direction, overseeing the product and engineering teams that build our user experiences and the machine learning systems that power them. Previously, he was the Vice President and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google, where he led the product and engineering teams that build Google Shopping’s tools, partner integrations, and infrastructure to help businesses and merchants grow and thrive. Prior to Google, Matt was the Chief Technology and Product Officer at Fanatics, where he played a key role in shaping the mobile strategy, while expanding product development and data capabilities driving significant revenue and customer growth. Before Fanatics, he was the SVP of eCommerce & Marketing for Williams-Sonoma, Inc. He also spent 8 years leading product and engineering for eBay’s growth marketing and onsite advertising technology platforms. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Matt was also a senior consultant with KANA Software and began his career as an analyst at Accenture.

Anu Narayanan

President, Women's & Home

Anthropologie

Anu Narayanan is the President of Women's & Home at Anthropologie Group Anu has profound experience within the women’s retail category and prior to joining the Anthropologie brand in 2018, Anu spent over 20 years focused on Trend Analytics, Merchandise Planning, Buying & Design at other industry leading brands such as Talbots, Ann Taylor, LBrands and Gap Inc. . Anu is a strong merchandising professional with a BS in Finance & Marketing from Boston College of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts at the Carroll School of Management. On a personal note, Anu loves to spend time with her family, vacation in the Bahamas, bake, and indulge in anything on Bravo.    

Steve Huffman

Co-Founder & CEO

Reddit

Steve Huffman is the Founder and CEO of Reddit, an online community of communities. On Reddit, there is a home for everybody and a place for everyone to dive into their interests. Raised in northern Virginia, Huffman discovered his passion for programming at an early age and went on to earn a degree in computer science from the University of Virginia. In 2005, he and his college roommate pitched the then-new startup accelerator Y Combinator with an idea for a food-ordering mobile app called My Mobile Menu. Although the concept was rejected, Y Combinator co-founders Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston invited them back to build the front page of the internet, which soon led to the creation of Reddit. What began as a simple link-sharing site quickly evolved into one of the internet’s most influential platforms, known for authentic discussion, cultural zeitgeist, and communities spanning nearly every topic imaginable. After selling Reddit in 2006, Huffman co-founded the travel search company Hipmunk, where he served as CTO. During that time, he was named to Inc.’s “30 Under 30” list in 2011 and Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list in 2012. Huffman returned to Reddit as CEO in 2015 and has since led the company through major transformation, including international expansion, a comprehensive update to Reddit’s Content Policy, a full platform redesign, and the company’s successful IPO in 2024. Under his leadership, Reddit has grown to more than 121 million daily active unique users globally and generated $2.2 billion in revenue in 2025. In recognition of his leadership, Huffman was named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI in both 2024 and 2025, and to Fortune’s “40 Under 40 in Tech” in 2020. In his free time, Huffman is a longtime mentor at Hackbright Academy, a San Francisco-based coding school for women. He also enjoys skiing, ballroom dancing, and browsing r/WholesomeMemes.

Sven Gerjets

EVP & Chief Technology Officer

GAP Inc.

Sven Gerjets is the Chief Technology Officer of Gap Inc., where he leads the company’s AI-driven transformation across technology, data science, and digital platforms.

With more than 30 years of technology leadership across seven Fortune 500 companies, Sven has built a distinguished career driving large-scale strategic and cultural change. He is known for building highly inclusive, high-performing teams and for applying continuous improvement and strategic insight to complex global organizations.

Prior to joining Gap Inc., Sven served as Chief Technology Officer at Mattel, where he modernized the company’s direct-to-consumer technology stack and launched multiple award-winning connected products and digital experiences, including Hot Wheels iD, Fisher-Price Smart Connect, and Mattel Creations. Earlier in his career, he held senior technology leadership roles at AT&T Wireless, Time Warner, DIRECTV, Pearson, and Symantec.

Sven holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and completed the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.

Elina Vilk

President & Chief Business Officer

David's Bridal

Elina Vilk serves as the President and Chief Business Officer of David’s Bridal. Elina is a forward-thinking business leader who joined the David’s team in 2024 (previously of Hootsuite, Meta, PayPal, and Visa). Elina oversees company growth and innovation, including leading its strategic initiatives, including the acquisition of Love Stories TV in December 2024 and the newly launched tech and media platform, Pearl Media Network. Elina oversees company growth and innovation across marketing, digital, e-commerce, partnerships, sales and more.

Elina is tasked with expanding Pearl’s vendor services and creating a media network and marketplace to help businesses grow. Elina comes to David’s from Hootsuite, where she was CMO. She brings more than two decades of experience leading high-functioning talent. As a trailblazer in marketing and sales strategy for the world’s foremost brands, and as a digital innovator at the forefront of technology, she firmly believes in the power of customer centricity as the driver to every organization.

Prior to joining Hootsuite, Elina led marketing at WooCommerce, where her team focused on democratizing opportunities for small businesses, developers, and creators worldwide. She previously led Small Business Marketing at Meta, where her team enabled small businesses to build their online presence and meaningful customer connections on Facebook’s family of apps, including Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger. Elina also led Global Marketing for the Large Enterprise team at PayPal and led consumer and digital advertising at Visa, including the award-winning “More People Go With Visa” campaign.

Heather Rivera

Chief Business Officer

Wing (Alphabet)

Heather is the Chief Business Officer at Wing, the world’s leading residential drone delivery company, where she is responsible for overseeing the company’s business functions, including partnerships, marketing, UX, operations, product, and go-to-market strategy.

Heather came to Wing from Instacart, where she was instrumental in leading strategy, corporate development, and partnerships, helping the company achieve sector leadership in an evolving industry. Before Instacart, she spent nearly 15 years at Google, most recently as VP, Global Head of Product Partnerships at YouTube, where she significantly accelerated YouTube's global leadership.

Velia Carboni

Chief Information Officer

SharkNinja

Velia joined SharkNinja as Chief Information Officer in April 2024 from VF Corporation, where she was EVP and Chief Digital Technology Officer, leading digital integration across the company. She joined VF in 2018 after 24 years at Fidelity Investments, where she was SVP of Mobile and Emerging Platforms, driving mobile product strategies for growth and brand awareness. Velia holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Northeastern University and an MBA from Boston University. She resides in the greater Boston, Massachusetts area.

Rafe Colburn

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Etsy

Rafe Colburn is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Etsy. Previously, Rafe served as Chief Product and Technology and Officer at Depop, where he was responsible for driving the vision for Depop's end-to-end user experience while building a high performing product organization. Previous to Depop, Rafe served as Vice President of Engineering at Etsy, and was responsible for Etsy's Ads, Fulfilment, Seller Experience, Marketing Technology, and Landing Experience teams. During his tenure, he established Etsy's Data Engineering team, and was responsible for Payments and Checkout, Compliance, International, Member Services, and Trust & Safety engineering. Earlier in his career, Rafe was the Principal Engineer at IDology and worked as a consultant at a number of firms building custom applications. He has authored numerous articles, papers, and books on Web development.