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Ajay Kapur, Chief Global Strategist, Mirae Asset
Ajay joined Mirae Asset, the world's largest investor in emerging market equities, in 2008. Prior to joining Mirae Asset, he was CIO of First Horse... |
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Allan Leighton, President, Loblaws Ltd
Allan started his career in Mars Confectionery as a Salesman in 1974. He worked his way up through the company before leaving in 1991. He... |
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Amadou Diallo, Chief Executive Officer, DHL Global Forwarding South Asia Pacific
Amadou Diallo is Chief Executive Officer of DHL Global Forwarding for South Asia Pacific, and is a member of the DHL Global Forwarding/ Freight Executive... |
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Andrew Jennings, Managing Director Retail , Woolworths SA
Andrew Jennings began his retail career in London with Debenhams and has held senior positions at premium department and specialty stores such as Stuttafords and... |
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Andy Mooney, Chairman, Disney Consumer Products
Andy Mooney was named chairman of Disney Consumer Products in May, 2003, after having served as its president since joining The Walt Disney Company in... |
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Andy Park, Retail and Consumer Products Industry Leader for IBM Northern Europe, IBM Global Retail Industry
Andy Park leads the Retail and Consumer Products Industry teams for IBM in Northern Europe. In this role he is responsible for ensuring that IBM... |
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Arvind Singhal, Chairman, Technopak
Technopak is the leading management consultancy firm in India focusing on the Fashion, FMCG, Retail, and Healhcare sectors. Arvind is acknowledged as one of the... |
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Bernie Brookes, CEO, Myer
Bernie has 30 years' experience in retailing, the majority of which have been with Australia’s largest retailer, Woolworths where he acquired significant experience in senior... |
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Betsy McLaughlin, Chief Executive Officer, Hot Topic
Betsy McLaughlin is the Chief Executive Officer of Hot Topic Inc. The Company has three divisions – Hot Topic, a mall specialty retailer focused on... |
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Bijou Kurien, President and CEO, Lifestyle Division, Reliance Retail
Bijou Kurien has about 27 years of experience in Indian Industry. A post graduate in Management from XLRI, India; he joined Hindustan Lever Ltd., as... |
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Cédric Ducrocq, Chairman of Dia-Mart ; member of the Board of Ebeltoft, International retail experts, Dia-Mart
For 15 years, Cedric has been working along with some of the leading French and European retailers, to develop and implement their strategy. Former professor... |
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Chen Ping, Vice President, Wanda Commercial Real Estate
Mr Chen is in charge of Business Planning Research Institute, Development Department, Commerce Department and Commercial Real Estate Research Department of the company, with a... |
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Christine Cross, Non-Executive Director, Next plc & Christine Cross Ltd
Christine Cross is an independent business advisor who combines a mixture of Executive and Non-Executive roles with consulting to retailing and manufacturing businesses, plus academic... |
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Christopher Lee, Senior Vice President , Forever 21
For the past nine years, Chris has served as an integral member of the leadership team at Forever 21 Inc. His current role as Senior... |
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Craig W.Stevenson, Global Portfolio Leader, Consumer Experience Solutions, IBM Global Retail Industry
Craig Stevenson leads the global strategy, direction and management for IBM’s Consumer Experience portfolio. In this role, he is responsible for defining the portfolio vision... |
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Daniel Bernard, Deputy Chairman, Kingfisher, Former CEO, Carrefour and Metro
Appointed Non-Executive Deputy Chairman on 24 May 2006. He was Chairman and Chief Executive of Carrefour, the Paris-based retail group and world’s second largest retailer,... |
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David Roth, CEO, EMEA, WPP The Store , WPP Global Retail Practice
Having started his career working for a Member of the UK Parliament, David Roth became international strategic planning director for a large advertising agency group.... |
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David Shriver, Former Strategic Adviser to the Chief Executive , Carrefour
David Shriver was Strategic Adviser to the Chief Executive at Carrefour Group until January 2009. Before joining Carrefour as director of group financial communication in 2003, David... |
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Deborah Weinswig, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, Retailing/Broadlines, Food & Drug and Home Improvement, Citi Investment Research
Deborah Weinswig leads the Retailing/Broadlines team at Citi Investment Research. She also covers the home improvement retailers, supermarkets, and drugstores. In 2006, Deborah received the... |
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Denny Gerdeman, Co-founder and Principal, Chute Gerdeman Retail
As co-founder and CEO of Chute Gerdeman Retail, one of the top retail design firms in the country, Denny Gerdeman is widely regarded by the... |
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Dr Concetta Lanciaux, CEO, Strategy Luxury Advisors
Dr Concetta Lanciaux is a luxury pioneer and visionary who assisted M. Bernard Arnault from 1985 to 2007 in turning the luxury goods market into... |
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Dr Ira Kalish, Director of Global Research, Deloitte
Dr Ira Kalish is an expert on global economic issues as well as the effects of economic, demographic, and social trends on the global retailing... |
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Dr Joyce Brown, President, Fashion Institute of Technology
Dr. Joyce F. Brown is president of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), a specialized college of art and design, business and technology of the... |
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Dr. Wu Jianzhong, Chairman, Wumart Stores Inc.
Wu Jianzhong is the chairman of Wumart Stores, Inc in China , one of the country’s leading retailers with over 500 stores . He began... |
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Duncan Kendal, Head of Supply Operations, Argos
Duncan is the Head of Supply Operations responsible for supply performance in Argos, part of the Home Retail Group. Home Retail Group is the UK’s... |
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Francis McAuley, International Director, Debenhams
Francis McAuley is the International Director for Debenhams Retail PLC. Debenhams operates 131 department stores in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and... |
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Frank Tworecke, President Sportswear Group, Warnaco
Frank Tworecke joined Warnaco as Group President - Sportswear in May 2004. From 1999 to April 2004, Mr. Tworecke served as President and Chief Operating... |
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Gilbert W. Harrison, Chairman, Financo, Inc
Financo, Inc. is a New York based investment banking firm which specialises in providing merger and acquisition, financial restructuring and other financial advisory services. For... |
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Gordon Richardson, Creative and Design Development Director, Topman
Gordon Richardson is Design and Product Development Director at Topman. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1976, having studied menswear design, he... |
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Guy Champniss, Global Director | Business Insights, Havas Media
Guy is part of the Business Insights team of Havas Media Intelligence, focusing on issues of sustainability and CSR, and their commercial impact on companies... |
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Harminder Sahni, Managing Director, Technopak India
Harminder has been working with Technopak since 1996 on various Strategy, Marketing and Operations projects for Fashion Industry clients.
As Chief Operating Officer, Harminder is... |
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Hiro Harjani, Chairman, Aftershock Group
Hiro Harjani is the Chairman of the Aftershock Group. Aftershock is a luxury British brand and one of the leading designers, retailers and manufacturers of... |
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Ian Cheshire, Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher plc
Ian was appointed Group Chief Executive of Kingfisher plc in January 2008. Prior to this he was Chief Executive of B&Q from June 2005. His... |
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Ian McDonald, General Manager, Global Sourcing, Woolworths Ltd, Australia
Ian has 28 years of retail experience working for Australia’s largest retailer Woolworths Ltd.
Beginning his career as a Management Trainee, Ian has trained in... |
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Isak Halfon, Executive Vice President of International Expansion, Mango
Isak Halfon was an original member of the Mango team, having joined the company in 1975 as Logistics Director. In that role, he developed the... |
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Jacques Levy, CEO, Sephora Global
Janvier 2003 : SEPHORA
- Since 2005 : CEO Sephora Worldwide
- 2003 – 2005 : President and CEO Sephora Europe
2000 – 2003 : STAPLES
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James Tippmann, Chief Executive Officer, FRCH Design Worldwide
As Chief Executive Officer at FRCH Design Worldwide, Jim Tippmann is responsible for setting the company’s strategic direction, guiding the business and directing its planned... |
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Javier Chércoles, Head of CSR, Inditex
Javier has been director of the Corporate Social Responsibility department at Inditex since 2000. Prior to joining Inditex, he was Local Partner at PriceWaterhouse Coopers,... |
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Jim Stengel, Former Global Marketing Officer, P&G
Jim Stengel is the former Global Marketing Officer of $83B Procter & Gamble, where he oversaw an $8B advertising budget and had organizational responsibility for... |
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Jin Zhao, Chairman and General Manager, Rizhao Department Store Co., Ltd
Jin Zhao woked as the general manager of Rizhao Department Store from 1996 and then went into the position of chairman in 1999. Rizhao Department... |
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Joe Gromek, President and CEO, Warnaco
Joseph R. Gromek is President and Chief Executive Officer of Warnaco, a post he has held since April 2003 From 1996 to 2002, Gromek was... |
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John Demsey, Group President, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc
John Demsey was promoted to Group President, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., in July 2006. In this role he oversees the Estée Lauder, M•A•C, Tom... |
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John Donahoe, President & CEO, eBay Inc
John Donahoe became President and CEO of eBay Inc. on March 31, 2008. In this role, John has global responsibility for growing each of the... |
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Joseph Wan, Chief Executive, Harvey Nichols
Joseph Wan, a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Arbitrator, became Chief Executive of Harvey Nichols in August 1992, having previously been the Group Finance Director for... |
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Juliet Warkentin, Content Director, WGSN
Juliet is an editor and a marketeer with experience spanning consumer and business-to-business sectors and has worked on Canadian, UK and international projects.
She began... |
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Lewis Allen, Director of Environments, Portland Design
Lewis joined Portland in May 2006 as Director of Environments and has over 20 years of design consultancy experience working for leading creative agencies in... |
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Li Wei Long, Chairman and President, Liaoning Xinglong Happy Family Business Group
Li Weilong is deputy to the People's Congress of Liaoning Province, a torchbearer of the 29th Olympic Games and the leader of China retail industry.... |
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Lord Alan Watson, Chairman, of the Advisory Board, Havas Media
Alan Watson is Chairman of CTN Communications and for over 10 years was European Chairman of Burson Marsteller. He advises many major UK and international... |
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe, Corporate and Legal Affairs Director, Tesco
Lucy Neville-Rolfe, CMG, was appointed Executive Director (Corporate and Legal Affairs) of Tesco Plc in 2006. Since she joined Tesco it has moved from its... |
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Lucy Wu Ruiling, Vice Secretary-General, Chief Director of International Relation, China Chain Store & Franchise Association (CCFA)
Wu Ruiling is in charge of the Committee of Cooperation between Chain Brands & Shopping Center,Modern Retailing,International Affairs and Government Relations for the China Chain... |
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Maciej Dyjas, President & CEO, Empik Media & Fashion S.A. (EM&F Group)
Maciej Dyjas has served as President and CEO of EM&F Group since March 2004, responsible for the development and execution of the company’s business and... |
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Madam Zhang Lan , Chairman of the Board, South Beauty Group
Madam Zhang Lan, the founder of South Beauty, currently serves as Board Chairman and CEO. In 1987 she graduated from the Beijing Technology and Business... |
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Marc Dietz, Vice President, Marketing, DemandTec, Inc.
Marc is responsible for all worldwide marketing at DemandTec including market definition, industry strategy and positioning, brand development, marketing communications, and sales enablement.
His expertise... |
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Maria Janssen, Global Managing Editor – Youth, Street & Sport and Think Tank
Maria is a creative thinker with a strong product background, experienced in translating visionary ideas into strategies and everyday reality.
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Marion Knoche, Global Director, GfK Retail and Technology
Marion Knoche is a Global Director at GfK Retail and Technology and is based at the company headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany. Marion studied International... |
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Mark Olbrich, Director - Supervisory Board, Komex SP.Z.O.O
Mark has been involved with international retailing for over 30 years. He has run – as MD – or advised/assessed retailers on three continents. In... |
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Mark Rollmann, Chief Executive Officer, Prenatal Group
Mark Rollmann – Chief Executive Officer, Prenatal Group
Mark Rollmann is CEO of Prenatal Group, the leading mother-and-child retailer operating 450 stores... |
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Martin Butler, Retail business author & former Chairman of one of London’s leading retail advertising agencies
During a 30 year career Martin has worked in many top international advertising agencies. He recently sold his own advertising and marketing agency in London... |
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Marvin Traub, President, Marvin Traub Associates
Marvin Traub is one of the leading names in American retailing. For twenty-two years he was the CEO and President of Bloomingdale’s where he established... |
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Matthew E. Rubel, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Collective Brands Inc.
Matt Rubel has had a long and accomplished career in retail and brand building. He led a number of premiere brands, including Pepe Jeans, Tommy... |
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Mehmet Nane, General Manager, Teknosa
Mehmet T. Nane has held the position of General Manager at Tecknosa since April 2005. He previously served as Vice Chairman of the Teknosa Board... |
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Michael Jary, Worldwide Managing Partner, OC&C Strategy Consultants
Michael Jary is the Worldwide Managing Partner of OC&C Strategy Consultants and a senior partner with its global retail and consumer practice. He began his... |
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Michael Poynor, Managing Director , Retail Expertise
Retail Expertise provides a wide range of advisory and consulting services to the international retail industry. Founder, Michael Poynor has worked for the past fifteen... |
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Mohammed Alshaya, Executive Chairman, M.H. Alshaya Co.
Mr. Mohammed Alshaya is Executive Chairman of Kuwait-based M.H. Alshaya Co., the retail division of the Alshaya Group of companies.
The Alshaya Group is one... |
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Neil Kearney, Secretary General, International Textile Garment and Leather Workers' Federation
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Oleg Ponomarev, Chairman, Union of Independent Retailers of Russia and CEO, Semya
Oleg Ponomarev graduated from the Russian Academy of Foreign Trade (MBA), Ph.D. in Economics.
Trading House SeMya was founded in 1998. It incorporates more than 50... |
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Oleg Tsarkov, Managing Partner, Svarog Capital Advisors
Oleg Tsarkov has been a Managing Partner at Svarog Capital Advisors (former Renova Capital) since March 2004. Mr. Tsarkov is in charge of strategic development... |
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| Pascal Cagni |
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Pascal Cagni , General Manager and Vice President Europe, Middle-East and Africa, Apple
Pascal joined Apple in April 2000. With the help of the talented management team he has hired, he has transformed Europe into the fastest growing... |
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Patrick Chalhoub, Joint CEO, The Chalhoub Group
Patrick Chalhoub is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Chalhoub Group, a family business which has grown in to one of the leading retailers and... |
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Peter Johnson, Founder, The Milino Group
Peter Johnson is a founder of the Milino Group; a growing China based consumer goods sourcing business.
Peter is responsible for procurement partnerships to form... |
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Phil Wrigley, Executive Chairman, New Look Group
Phil Wrigley, Executive Chairman of the New Look Group, has twenty five years experience in retail. He has transformed New Look from a “small cap... |
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Philip Clarke, International Director, Tesco plc
Philip joined Tesco full time in 1981 as a graduate store management trainee having worked part time since 1974 as a student assistant. After training... |
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Professor David B. Grant, Professor of Logistics, Logistics Institute, Hull University Business School
David B. Grant, PhD is Professor of Logistics at the Logistics Institute, Hull University Business School, UK. His research interests include customer service, satisfaction and... |
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Professor Martin Christopher, Professor of Marketing and Logistics, Cranfield School of Management
Martin Christopher is Professor of Marketing and Logistics at Cranfield School of Management. His work in the field of logistics and supply chain management has... |
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Richard Lloyd-Owen, Partner, Deloitte UK
Richard is the Industry Leader for Deloitte UK’s Consumer Business practice - the fastest growing industry group within the UK firm, with over 1,000 industry... |
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Richard Simonin, CEO, Etam
Richard was CEO of Harrods Ltd until January 2005. Previously he held senior positions
at Escada Beaute Group S.A and Escada A.G Munich and has... |
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Rick Darling, President, Li & Fung US
Rick Darling is the President of Li & Fung US and Executive Director of Li & Fung Limited, the world's leading consumer goods sourcing company... |
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Robert A. Willett, Chief Executive Officer, Best Buy International
Robert A. Willett is the chief executive officer of Best Buy International, the strategic business unit of Best Buy Co., Inc., focused on creating opportunities... |
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Robert Bensoussan, Director, Inter Parfums Inc and LK Bennet
Robert Bensoussan, 50, has over twenty five years of international experience in the field of fashion and luxury goods as managing director, advisor, investor and... |
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Ron Marshall, President and CEO, Borders
Ron Marshall was appointed President, Chief Executive Officer and named a Director of the company in January 2009. He brings more than three decades of... |
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Sean Pillot de Chenecy, CEO, Captain Crikey Ltd
A renowned research consultant with over 15years specialist trends experience, Sean is frequently quoted by the media on emerging consumer/brand/marcoms trends. He works around the... |
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Simon Rider, former global President, Speedo and President, Footlocker Europe
Simon's retail career began with Jigsaw before moving to H+M, first as Retail Ops Manager, then as UK General Manager. He moved to the Sports... |
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Stephen Rose, CEO , LaSer 5one
Stephen spent the first part of his career in Whitehall where, apart from sleeping, he acquired valuable technical, analytical and management skills which have served... |
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Stewart Macphail, Group Chief Executive Officer, Fawaz Alhokair
Stewart Macphail is the Chief Executive Officer of Fawaz Alhokair Group and is responsible for the implementation and the day-to-day operational and strategic running of... |
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Teri Agins, Columnist, Wall Street Journal
Teri Agins writes the Ask Teri column at the Wall Street Journal , and is the author of “The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed... |
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Tierney Remick, Global Market, Managing Director, Consumer Market, KornFerry International
Ms. Remick is a Senior Client Partner in Korn/Ferry International's Chicago office and global leader of the firm's Consumer Market Group. She is also a... |
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Tony Stockil, CEO, Javelin Group
Tony Stockil founded Javelin Group 10 years ago, growing the firm into Europe’s leading ecommerce and multi-channel retail consultancy with a team of 80 full... |
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Torsten Hochstetter, Creative Director, adidas Sport Style
Torsten Hochstetter is Creative Director for Sport Style Design for the adidas-Group.
His day to day responsibilities include the guidance and leadership of 80 designers... |
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Vittorio Radice, CEO, La Rinascente
Born in 1957 and brought up near Lake Como, the son of a furniture retailer, Vittorio surprised himself and his family by studying agriculture at... |
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W. Sean Ford, Vice President, Global Business Unit Marketing, Oracle
Sean is the marketing executive with global responsibility for Oracle’s industry verticals including the retail, communications, heathcare, life science, tax, utility, and insurance sectors. He... |
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Wang Jian, Jiangsu Five Star Appliance Co Ltd, EVP
Mr Wang jian has served in Jiangsu Provincial Commercial Department before he joined Jiangsu Hardware Electronics & Chemical General Company in 1998. As the Executive... |
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William FUNG Kwok Lun, Group Managing Director, Li & Fung Limited
Dr William K Fung, SBS, OBE, JP, aged 59, has been Group Managing Director since 1986. Joined the Group in 1972 and became a Director... |
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