Announcement: CommerceNext’s New Advisory Board

👉 Register now for the 2025 CommerceNext Growth Show in NYC on June 24-26, 2025

We know retailers and brands attend several conferences every year. And we fully embrace the challenge of ensuring CommerceNext becomes the go-to customer acquisition summit for ecommerce and retail marketers. To ensure we cover the most relevant topics and invite the top industry thought-leaders to speak at CommerceNext, we work closely with our amazing board of advisors:

Amy Africa (CEO @ Eight by Eight)

Anurag Kadyan (VP eCommerce @ Tourneau)

Charlie Cole (Global Chief Ecommerce Officer @ Samsonite)

Craig Elbert (Cofounder & CEO @ Care/of)

Dave Cost (VP Digital Marketing & Ecommerce @ Rainbow)

Elyse Burack (Marketing Director @ Boxed)

Emily Hickey (Principal @ Emily Hickey Growth Consulting)

Jason John (CMO @ Publishers Clearing House)

John Mandell (Senior Vice President, Consulting @ Teneo)

Lev Peker (CMO @ Adorama)

Melissa Grillo Aruz (VP of Platform @ Forerunner)

Peter Francis (VP Digital Growth & Acquisition @ T-Mobile)

Pini Yakuel (CEO @ Optimove)

Qun Wei (Director of Marketing Analytics @ Casper)

Scott Ableman (Venture Partner @ NextGen Venture Partners)

Shawna Hausman (VP of Ecommerce @ Mission)

We carefully curated our board of advisors to include traditional retailers, digital growth heavy hitters, VCs and innovative marketing consultants. Their decades of collective industry experience ensures CommerceNext will have the content everyone is buzzing about and speakers everyone clammers to see.

Sign up for our newsletter to get more information about our board, conference agenda, and speakers for this year’s CommerceNext customer acquisition summit.

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