The Endless Aisle Podcast takes an inside look at the world of retail from the people living and breathing it every day. You’ll hear from brand leaders, innovators on the tech side, store associates, and more. Endless Aisle is presented by NewStore.
Emma Taylor is the VP of North America for Reiss. She's also one of the organizers behind Shop the Village, an event designed to celebrate retail, local businesses, and to bring people back to the West Village during June 2021 and beyond. You can find more information about Shop the Village here: https://www.shopthevillage.nyc/
Jonathan Barouch is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Local Measure. Local Measure is a customer experience platform for the hospitality, tourism, retail, and entertainment industries allowing businesses to receive real-time customer intelligence whenever customers are on-premise, helping them to identify, understand and retain customers.
Adam is the COO of Marine Layer, a San Francisco-based apparel brand. www.marinelayer.com
Steve Dennis is a consultant, keynote speaker, and author focused on retail growth and innovation. He has been named a top global retail influencer by multiple organizations and his thoughts on the future of shopping are regularly shared in his role as a Forbes Senior Contributor. Steve's best-selling book-- "Remarkable Retail: How to Win & Keep Customers in the Age of Disruption"--will be released in a completely revised and expanded 2nd edition this Spring. He is also the host of the Remar...
Jeff is the founder of Shop Bréda (www.shopbreda.com), a purpose-driven marketplace that supports youth development. He is also the CMO of 9Tailors (www.9tailors.com), a renowned custom clothing for men and women based in Boston, as well as an adjunct professor at the School of Fashion at Lasell University.
Kaitlin is currently the director of sales and clienteling at UNTUCKit, and formerly its director of stores. She held similar roles at REISS, and Bloomingdale's, and is a graduate of Parsons School of Design.
Ted McCaffrey is an omnichannel enthusiast and business development consultant for Sensormatic. In his role, he helps brands realize the value of omnichannel, and solve for it with IoT using RFID.
Donny Askin is a veteran retail technology entrepreneur with over four decades of experience founding, leading, and growing successful retail technology companies. He is currently the EVP & Partner at NewMine, retail technology and consulting firm, as well as the chairman of the NewStore advisory board. Previously, Donny held founding and executive roles at CommercialWare, OrderMotion, Arigo, and more.
Erik Holm is a leader in product management. In his role at NewStore, Erik works as the Sr. Director of Product Management. Before joining NewStore, he worked at Salesforce as the VP, Product Management, he also held similar roles at Carbonite and ATG.
Joseph is a sales manager at Lekker Home, a home decor retailer. He has 15 years of retail experience, with a focus on innovative sales management and design blending the interpersonal finesse of leading a sales team with creative intuition and an eye for interior design.
Michael is the CEO of SmarterHQ, a Wunderkind company. SmarterHQ makes it easy for marketers to increase revenue now and customer relationships over time by powering highly personalized, cross-channel experiences. Trusted by leading brands such as Bloomingdale’s, Hilton, Santander Bank, and Finish Line, SmarterHQ activates real-time, multichannel data, identifies audiences quickly based on customer behavior and information, and automates personalized content across outbound and online channels. ...
Alper Aydemir is the co-founder and CEO of Volumental, a footwear technology company. A technologist turned entrepreneur, Alper has a deep passion for building and scaling companies and solving hard problems.
Peter Stubbs is an experienced product manager with a passion for retail software. He has order management and store applications in his blood with roles at Sterling, Yantra, and IBM. Now, as the senior director of product management at NewStore, he helps brands solve retail challenges and business problems in innovative ways.
Kalim Sheikh is the senior manager of retail excellence, in his role he serves as a key partner to internal teams and external customers of NewStore. Rachel DelGrande is the senior retail success manager, and in her role, she serves a champion and resources for NewStore customers.
Jill Manoff is the editor-in-chief at Glossy, and host of the Glossy Podcast which features honest, in-depth conversations with the brand founders and leaders moving fashion-forward.
Andrew Smith is the co-founder of ThinkUncommon. In his role, he helps brands solve problems and embark on transformational change. He's held a number of roles designing digital and physical customer journeys, frontline experiences, IT systems enhancements and transformation, channel capacity planning, retail strategy, store design and merchandising, sales planning, and customer experience, as well as behavioral economics and human behavioral focused design.
Ben is the co-founder and CCO of Personify XP. The mission at Personify XP is to help brands personalize online shopping for their customers. Personify is the first platform to focus exclusively on anonymous visitors, and its AI technology connects great products and content with visitors by automating how content and products are shown to visitors, providing unique insights into how anonymous customers shop while ensuring customer data stays private.
Lauren Bitar is the head of retail consulting and customer experience insights at RetailNext. She's an experienced retailer with a passion for creating the new paradigm of customer experience and the brand organizations that support it.
The 2021 Omnichannel Leadership Report , a critical assessment of the industry’s omnichannel competence. The report looks at over 200 retail brands and the availability and seamlessness of 14 core omnichannel capabilities–from contactless payments and store pickup to remote selling and appointment booking. Michelle Grant is the Senior Manager, Strategy & Insights, Retail and Consumer Goods at Salesforce. Amanda McLaughlin is the Senior Manager, Content Marketing at NewStore....
Jane Cannon is the Chief Product Officer at NewStore. She's a seasoned product leader in the OMS and POS spaces, with experience leading start-up and enterprise-level teams across many functions. Scott Matza is the Senior Director, Product at NewStore. He's an accomplished product management leader with experience in technology and software development, specializing in the retail, hospitality, and IoT industries.
Tori Dresch is a retail operations, and strategy consultant. She's based in New York City with a passion for store and customer success. She's worked in retail for such brands as Bonobos, AYR, and more.
Ron Thurston loves retail. And he's proud of it. Ron has led the retail teams for some of America's most prominent brands, inspired thousands of store employees, and traveled relentlessly across the country to sit and listen to what they have to say. From a part-time sales associate to a vice president of stores, Ron has put in the hard work that a retail career requires and wrote this book to share what he learned along the way. Ron is a fourth-generation Californian, but he and his husband now...
Dave Hartenstein is a retail guy through and through. At NewStore he is the Sr. Director of Omnichannel, working closely with customers to ensure their success. Previously, Dave led major omnichannel initiatives at both Modell's Sporting Goods, and Michael Kors.
Schambach is a serial entrepreneur and commerce pioneer. He is credited with inventing the first-ever standard software for online shopping at Intershop, and later revolutionizing e-commerce by offering it as a cloud service with Demandware (now Salesforce Commerce Cloud). As founder and CEO of NewStore, he's solving the omnichannel problem facing so many retailers and brands.
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