Alan M Lerner

Director - Advisory, consulting at KPMG Argentina Professor at EICOM

Angela Cearns

CEO at TrueTwins Former Executive Amazon, Symantec, and Pizza Hut

TrueTwins CEO, Angela has a very successful career in the field of digital commerce. She has previously held positions as Executive Director of International Expansion for Amazon Business, GM of Amazon Global Selling Business and Head of the Prime platform, which allows users to join Amazon Global Prime. Angela brings true expert knowledge to the table. As Chief eCommerce Officer and General Manager at Pizza Hut Digital Ventures, she led the business through a revolutionary period of digital transformation. She is a leading expert in Management, Strategy Development and Business Growth through Digital Transformation. Her exceptional knowledge and 20+ years of experience have also made her a professor at the EICOM Institute, which teaches international executives on digital transformation strategies and provides guidance/advice on execution.

Dr Charles Hancock

ZMET Researcher & Programee Leader MSC Marketing Management

Dr. Charles Hancock leads the MSc Marketing Management programme at the University of Derby which runs in the UK and also at our partner college, Mediterranean College in Athens. He leads both undergraduate and postgraduat programmes as well as the undergraduate Independent Studies module for students undertaking Marketing, Finance and Accounting and Logistics programmes. He teaches the industry led marketing executive module where students work on live projects with employers. Additional he leads the the postgraduate module Marketing Strategy and Leadership. He has previously taught postgraduate programmes across the UK and Africa.He also supervises postgraduate MSc dissertations and doctoral students in the Marketing discipline. He was awarded the Business, Computing and Law 'Lecturer of the year award' by the students Union in 2013/14 and was also shortlisted for the same award in 2018.

Eduardo Terra

President of SBVC (Brazilian Society of Retail and Consumption) Business Advisor and Speaker

Brazil

Business Advisor. Managing Partner of BTR Education and Consultancy. President of SBVC (Brazilian Society of Retail and Consumption) and Specialist in European Retail Manchester, Business School and Retail Management and Youngstown State University.

Eric Day

Senior Vice President, Small Business at Dell Technologies

Ian Jindal

Founder & Editor in Chief at Internet Retailing CEO at RetailX

Ian Jindal is a consultant, publisher, and advisor in eCommerce and multichannel retail. Ian co-founded and is Editor in Chief of InternetRetailing, providing insight and research for Europe’s etailers and multichannel retailers.

Mariano Gomide

Founder and Co-CEO at VTEX. Programme Director at EICOM Institute

Mariano Gomide de Faria has 20 years of experience in digital commerce. He founded the global commerce technology company VTEX in 2000 with his college friend, Geraldo Thomaz. His sought out lectures and presentations around the world include IRX (UK), Shoptalk (Copenhagen), eShow (Barcelona), among others. He was one of the few private-sector speakers in the UN eCommerce week conference and is the programme director of a Digital Transformation course in EICOM Institute at the Moller Center, Cambridge University.

Pablo Arteaga

Lead Partner Latam Pipeline Capital

Prof. Doctor Christian Stummeyer

Scientific Director at AININ. Founder / Managing Director at BestPrax GmbH.

Professor Christian Stummeyer is not only holder of the chair of Business Informatics and Digital Commerce at the Technical University of Ingolstadt but also ranks amongst Germany‘s leading digital experts. Working for large corporate businesses like the Boston Consulting Group and the global management team of Siemens AG, and as an ecommerce entrepreneur he has shaped the growth strategies of several leading online retailers. He has also lead the consulting business of the UDG United Digital Group, Germany‘s largest digital agency for several years. He is also the scientific director of AININ, the Bavarian Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Ingolstadt, a visiting professor at the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou and an international keynote speaker.

Rodrigo Dellacqua

CEO EICOM Institute

Software engineer with 20 years of experience in the digital commerce ecosystem. Specialist in end-to-end solutions development, he founded two technology development companies for ecommerce, the last one, Primordia, sold to VTEX in 2014. As an executive focused on transforming his customers with technology products, in 2021 he assumed the position of Chief Customer Officer at VTEX and then moved to London to develop the Customer Experience Enablement area, playing a key role in the company's IPO in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:VTEX). Passionate about education and people development through practical challenges, he takes over as CEO of the EICOM Institute in 2021 with the aim of accelerating the digital transformation of companies through the development of executives, researchers, professors and students in the field of digital commerce

Zia Daniell Wigder

Chief Content Officer at Insider Intelligence

USA

As Head of Content for Insider Intelligence, the recently named parent company of eMarketer and Business Insider Intelligence, Zia manages a team of 100 international researchers, analysts, forecasters, and editors focused on digital transformation. In her role, she oversees the company’s renowned research in retail ecommerce, advertising, marketing and media, financial services and digital health. Prior to joining Insider Intelligence in August 2020, Zia was Chief Global Content Officer at Shoptalk, a large-scale event focused on digital innovation in retail which became the fastest-growing retail conference ever. She also co-founded Groceryshop, an annual conference focused on innovation and technology within the field of grocery and CPG. Zia and the other executives sold the combined business to Hyve Group plc for $145 million at the end of 2019. Zia also spent 7 years as a VP and Research Director at Forrester Research where she focused on international digital expansion strategies. She therefore shares valuable knowledge with our participants and gives exceptional advice based on her own experiences.