Americas largest e-retailing event, 5,000 attendees, 400 exhibiting companies, 175 speakers

Hear the Nation's Top Retail Experts

The speaker roster for the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition 2010 represents the largest group of expert speakers ever assembled in online retailing. The 175 speakers at IRCE 2010 represent all industry segments that conduct e-retailing operations. Such diversity of speakers is one of the hallmarks of IRCE, and it explains why its conference agenda appeals to all players in e-retailing. Simply put, the IRCE agenda covers e-retailing from a wide variety of perspectives and shows bias toward none.

Speakers are chosen by the editorial staff of Internet Retailer, who base their selections solely on the speaker's expertise. No speakers were chosen for any commercial consideration.

This year's Internet Retailer Conference keynote speaker is Imran Jooma, Senior Vice President and General Manager, E-Commerce, Sears Holdings Corp., who will discuss Sears' extensive e-commerce strategy, which includes not only web sites but also mobile commerce and a far-reaching social media effort. He will tell attendees how that approach prepares Sears for today's always-connected but careful spending consumer—and how that strategy will enable Sears to take market share in the new retailing world.

Featured Speaker Dennis McEniry will talk about how Estee Lauder took its premium worldwide beauty brand to 300 web sites in 29 countries with $100 million in annual sales and grew it to become Estee lauder's fastest growing sales channel and a major contributor of bottom-line profits.

Featured Speaker Geoffrey Robertson will discuss how the century-old auto-parts retailer Whitney Automotive became an Internet business as a way to shore up its fading prospects. Featured Speaker Tony Ellison will talk about how he leveraged the advantages of being a small online-only retailer to grow sales in the recession while his bigger office supply competitors were shrinking.

IRCE 2010 Conference Speakers

Listed below are all Speakers at the Internet Retailer 2010 Conference & Exhibition. Click on each column heading to reorder the table. To view a speaker's bio, click the corresponding row.

First Name Last Name Company Title
Imran Jooma Sears Holdings Corp. Senior Vice President & General Manager, E-Commerce
Bernardine Wu FitForCommerce President
Gene Alvarez Gartner Inc. Vice President
Mike Bridge Pasco Scientific Vice President Marketing & Product Management
Eddie Sutton Strand Books Senior Vice President and General Manager
Keith Maddox Parentgiving CEO
Josh Shanas BowlingShirt.com Director of E-Commerce
Neil Kugelman GoldSpeed.com Founder & CEO
Ian MacDonald CenturyNovelty.com Vice President & General Manager
Jason Miller Motorcycle Superstore CTO, Vice President of Technology
Sophia Drivalas W.W. Grainger Inc. Director, Online User Experience, Design and Searchandising
David Goldsholle HardwareAndTools.com Founder & CEO
Marcus Spurrell Reebok Head of Global Digital & E-Commerce
Todd Morris BrickHouse Security CEO
Johnny Lin TravelSmith Vice President, Marketing & E-Commerce
Michelle Stern iProspect Client Services Director
Heather Deschenes Staples Inc. Director, Customer Acquisition
Tony Soric Clickable Analyst
Viktoria Kanevsky Ed Hardy Director of Internet Marketing & E-Commerce
Kevin Lee Didit Chairman & CEO
Christopher Kenney VistaPrint Associate Manager, Search
Andrea Leibof Bare Escentuals Online Marketing Specialist
Kristen Quinn Performics Vice President, Optimization Services
George Michie Rimm-Kaufman Group President
Lori Gatto OnlineShoes.com Senior Online Marketing Manager
David Szetela ClixMarketing CEO & Founder
Steve Elkins WEBS President
Tom Funk Timberline Interactive Vice President
Jeff Pape WrestlingGear.com President
Andrew Wheeler iProspect Managing Director, Chicago
Dennis Boudreau 1st in Video-Music World Inc. President
Anne Baston Indigo Books & Music Director of Online Marketing
Steve Fortson Miles Kimball Co. Inc. Vice President, E-Commerce
Jodi Bresina ShoeMall.com Internet Director
Howard Wyner Scentiments CEO
Tim Ash SiteTuners.com CEO
Jessica Kornacki Endless Vacation Rentals Vice President, Marketing
Ken Cassar Nielsen Online Vice President, Industry Insights
Dean Stier National Business Furniture Marketing Director, Catalog Brands
Michael Jansma GEMaffair.com CEO
Susan McKenna McKenna's Marketing CEO
Greg Fettes 24-7 InTouch President & CEO
Tom Nawara Acquity Group Managing Director, Digital Strategy & Design
Greg Teed Bath & Body Works Direct Vice President, Finance, Merchandise Planning and Operations/Logistics
Jeff McCall GSI Commerce Senior Vice President, Strategy Services
David Lonczak Drugstore.com Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer
Esther Steinfeld Blinds.com Marketing Manager
Pinny Gniwisch Ice.com Executive Vice President
Joe Kassa Deb Shops Chief Marketing Officer
Nick Harris Benjamin Moore & Co. Senior Manager, Marketing & Communications
Darren Orlando Carol's Daughter Vice President Direct
Bill Aicher Musicnotes, Inc. Director of Web and Marketing
Jon Kosoff Wet Seal Inc. Director of Ecommerce & Direct Marketing
Jim Okamura J.C. Williams Group Senior Partner
Jeff Wisot Buy.com Vice President, Marketing
Scot Wingo ChannelAdvisor Corp. CEO
Rodney Joffe NeuStar Senior Vice President and Senior Technologist
Matt Pace Compete Managing Director, Retail and Consumer Products
Paul Boisvert Yahoo Merchant Solutions Lead Product Manager
Pavel Shvartsman OpticsPlanet Inc. Co-Founder and President
Nick Sheth Gap Inc. Direct Director of Business Development
Melissa Rothchild CPA2BIZ.com Vice President, Marketing
Eric Heller FootSmart.com Director, Internet Marketing
Deep Patel GoGreenSolar.com Founder & CEO
Neal Creighton RatePoint CEO & Co-founder
Rob Snell Gun Dog Supply Co-Owner
Julie Swatek Scrap Your Memories Inc. Founder and President
Alan Higley Coolibar.com Vice President, Internet Marketing
Brian Smith SingleFeed President
Jason Roussos Living Direct Inc. President & COO
Annie Xu Alibaba Americas General Manager, America
Sue Cessar Genco Vice President, Sales
Kevin Hickey OnlineStores.com Vice President, Marketing
David Redlich ReStockIt.com President
Eli Katz Ashford.com President
Tammie McKenzie Cruiser Customizing Director of Marketing
Jennifer DiMotta ReStockIt.com Vice President, Marketing
Ken Burke MarketLive Chairman
Steve Winshel Beach Body CIO
Eric Peterson Web Analytics Demystified CEO & Chief Consultant
Dylan Lewis TurboTax Group Manager, Web Measurement
Jon Abt Abt Electronics Co-President
Ross Haskell Bold Software Director of Marketing
Terry Rowinski BuySeasons Inc. Vice President, Operations
Jay Greenberg Spencer's Gifts Vice President, E-Commerce
Dan Rasay Lucy Activewear Business Analyst
Stephan Spencer Covario Inc. Vice President, SEO Strategies
Ethan Giffin Groove Commerce CEO & Founder
Lindsey Kurz Google Manager, Online Sales & Operations
Peter Cobb eBags Senior Vice President of Marketing
Eoin Comerford Moosejaw Mountaineering Vice President, Marketing
Robert Gilbreath Calendars.com / Calendar Holdings LLC Director of E-Commerce Marketing & Analytics
Eric Stockton Exterior-Accents.com Marketing Consultant
Michael Neff SportsUnlimited.com Director, E-Commerce
Shannon Glass Bath & Body Works Vice President, Creative & Web Operations
Kerri Pollard Commission Junction General Manager
Eric Best Mercent President
Shaun Ryan SLI Systems CEO
Tom McFadyen McFadyen Solutions President
Larry Freed ForeSee Results CEO
Mike Rogers Goodmail Systems Senior Vice President, Sales
Bob Cell MyBuys CEO
Bob Pearson WeissComm Group Chief Technology and Media Officer
Michael Fried Strategic Insights 360 Founder
Betsy Emery Martin TELLUS Web President
Jamie Kail Lyons Consulting Group Director of E-Commerce Services
Susan Aplin Bambeco.com CEO
David Manly Keurig Direct and Keurig Away From Home Vice President & General Manager
Vibhav Prasad 1-800-Flowers.com Vice President, Web Marketing and Merchandising
Eric Menhart CyberLaw P.C. Partner
Scott Peterson Streamlined Sales Tax Project Executive Director
Paul Brock CyberSource Global Services Principal
Mercia Tapping Boston Green Goods, Inc. President & CEO
David Blakelock Boston Apparel Group Vice President, Technology and Strategic Development
Deepika Pandey Walgreens Vice President of Online Strategy and Customer Experience
Mike Rombach Channel Intelligence Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer
Kevin Lindsay Omniture Director, Product Marketing
John Squire Coremetrics Chief Strategy Officer
Paul Holstein CableOrganizer.com Vice President & COO
Bill Zujewski ATG Vice President, Product Marketing
Lauren Freedman The E-Tailing Group President
Andrea Gulli New York & Co. Vice President, E-Commerce
Carrie Hammond R.C. Bigelow Inc. Marketing Manager
Jeff Berman Lifetime Brands President, Retail Direct
LB Herbert JCP.com / J.C. Penney Co. Senior Manager, Customer Insights
Amy Smith Usability Sciences Inc. Manager, User Experience
Matthew Poepsel Gomez Inc. Vice President, Performance Strategies
Gina Debogovich Best Buy Communities Manager
David Pohl Equator Estate Coffees & Teas Head Roaster and Online Merchant
David Saville Hallmark Cards, Inc. Innovations Product Manager
Jeremy Lockhorn Razorfish Director of Emerging Media and Video Innovation
Nick Bomersbach J.C. Penney Vice President, E-Commerce
Paull Young Converseon Inc. Social Media Strategist
Tracy Tee Delight.com Co-Founder
Bill Siwicki Internet Retailer Senior Editor, Production
Jay Scannell Skymall Inc. Vice President of Information Technology
Sean Spector GameFly Inc. Co-founder and Senior Vice President of Business Development and Content
David Oldroyd Overstock.com Director of Emerging Platforms
Carol Steinberg ShopNBC Senior Vice President, E-Commerce, Marketing & Business Development
Dave Sikora Digby CEO
Julie Ask Forrester Research Analyst
Kristen Celko David's Bridal Vice President, E-Commerce
Anand Shah Karmaloop COO
Amanda Moskowitz ShopText Inc. Vice President of Client Services
Cindy Brown Blue Moon Works CEO
Tim Sherwin Cardinal Commerce Executive Vice President
Kevin Ranford 1-800-Flowers.com Director of Web Marketing
Kurt Peters Internet Retailer Editor in Chief
Dan Shust Resource Interactive Director of Emerging Media
David Griner Luckie & Co. Social Media Strategist
Dennis McEniry Estee Lauder President, Online
Geoffrey Robertson Whitney Automotive Group General Manager & Vice President, E-Commerce
Tony Ellison Shoplet.com Founder & CEO
Jack Love Internet Retailer Publisher
Craig Johnson Musician's Friend CEO
Stuart Rose Tully & Holland Inc. Managing Director
William Feeley Feeley Capital Markets CEO
Brian Walker Forrester Research Inc. Senior Analyst, E-Commerce
Gian Fulgoni comScore Inc. Chairman
Tim Sailor Navigo Consulting Group President & Founder
Jamie Smith Engine Ready Inc. CEO
Marissa Colwell Build.com Director of Marketing
Hanny Hindi Clickable Consultant
Thomas Heffernan Allied Trade Group Internet Marketing Specialist
David Larkins NetPlus Marketing Vice President of Marketing
Danielle Leitch MoreVisibility Executive Vice President
Georgianne Brown Big Couch Media Group Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Michael Wilburn StubHub Head of Relationship Marketing
Max Harris Gardeners' Supply Director of E-Commerce
Shea Beck SkyMall Internet Marketing Manager
Joel Book ExactTarget Director of E-Marketing Education
Andrew Koven Steve Madden Shoes President, E-Commerce & Customer Experience
register online now
Today's IRCE Spotlight Speaker

Today's IRCE Spotlight Speaker is Georgianne Brown.

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Thursday, June 10, 2010
Danielle Leitch, Executive Vice President, MoreVisibility
Georgianne Brown, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Big Couch Media Group

Success in search engine optimization means never standing still. Without constant tuning of an optimization program, pages can quickly fall out of search rankings—especially as major search engines continually change the rules of the game. This lively, interactive session—one of the most popular of past IRCEs—features SEO experts who will conduct live, on-the-spot SEO critiques of web sites that attendees volunteer.

How Georgianne Describes The Session

"As new channels, tools and methods continue to evolve in SEO, it is a reminder that we must constantly approach this from an art and science perspective," Brown says. "Some areas to be reviewed include site architecture, use of available tools and analytics, content and the evolution of social media and what that means to SEO."

Why Our Editors Asked Georgianne to Speak

Georgianne Brown brings a retailer's and consumer marketer's perspective to her role as head of Big Couch Media, a strategic consulting and interactive agency focused on supporting entrepreneurial growth companies. Georgianne Brown was president of BabyUniverse Inc. and, before that, held key executive roles at eDiets.com, Certified Vacations Group and Alamo Rent A Car.

Access Profiles of Previous Speakers of the Week

Publisher's Invitation

In his annual open invitation for IRCE 2010, Internet Retailer Publisher Jack Love explains why this year's conference focuses on the urgent need for e-retailers to reinvest and reinvent their online retail businesses in the wake of the recession in order to capitalize on the industry's certain return to double-digit growth. See Publisher's Invitation

IRCE Conference Speakers
Imran Jooma
Senior Vice President & General Manager, E-Commerce
Sears Holdings Corp.
Geoff Robertson
General Manager & Vice President, E-Commerce
Whitney Automotive Group
Tony Ellison
CEO
Shoplet.com
Dennis McEniry
President, Online
Estee Lauder

See All 175 Speakers

Who Attends IRCE

As the world's largest e-retailing show, at IRCE, every key industry is represented—retail, catalog, manufacturing and consumer service companies that specialize in e-retailing. Virtually all of the Top 500 e-retailers attend as well as hundreds of smaller players that fall outside this prestigious group. Of course, all notable vendors in e-commerce are represented along with scores of finance, research, consulting and publishing enterprises. See Attendee Demographics