thursday, january 19th, 2012 | dumbo spot, brooklyn, new york


Divya Gugnani is co-founder and CEO of Send the Trend, which offers curated fashion accessories for women online. She also serves as CEO of Behind the Burner, a culinary media brand focused on tips, tricks and techniques for food, wine, mixology and nutrition.
Richard Guest is President of Tribal DDB's US operations and works with clients including Diageo, Johnson & Johnson, Hiscox, H&R Block, Merck and NBCUniversal.
Doug Stephens is a retail industry futurist. His work and research have influenced numerous top-tier retailers and brands including Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Hudson's Bay Company, Air Miles, Disney, Loblaw, Benjamin Moore and TD Bank.
Matt Edelman is the CEO of ThisNext, the leading publisher of social shopping resources for women, operating the websites ThisNext, StyleHive and StyleDiary, reaching more than 6 million visitors per month. Before ThisNext, Matt co-founded PeopleJam.
Aliza Freud is the founder and CEO of SheSpeaks and the newly launched Cravebox. SheSpeaks & Cravebox help women discover, try and share products. SheSpeaks has helped clients like P&G, Pepsi, American Express, Citibank, Heinz, L'oreal and others.
Joshua Dern is co-founder and CEO of Reqoop, a new kind of fashion magazine, curated by users while they shop. Before founding Reqoop, Joshua Dern was SVP & GM of Social Media at MTV Networks.
Michelle Crames is founder and CEO of SkuLoop, a technology solution that empowers retailers to create exciting limited-time, limited quantity sku-level promotions on their own terms.
Ryan O'Donnell is the co-founder of Let's Gift It, a social gifting platform. Prior Ryan held management positions at Right Media and Yahoo!
Marcus Whitney is co-founder and CTO of Moontoast, a social commerce platform for musicians, retailers, publishers and celebrities.
Kimberly Skelton is co-founder of Have to Have, a social commerce platform that is designed to save shoppers time and money.
Zoe Nightingale is co-founder of The Monocle Order, a membership club for designer eyewear that integrates e-commerce, event marketing, and pop-up stores into a unified operation.
Eric Koester is the Founder and COO of Zaarly, a location-based, real-time commerce platform. Zaarly enables people to ask for anything from people nearby.
Alexis Fenton is the CMO of Independent Retailer Month, an intitiative fom Nolcha, a promotional, events and retail platform specializing in independent fashion designers.
Rick Weinstein is VP Merchandising, Sales and Marketing at Searle, a half century old Madison Avenue retailer, designer and e-tailer.
Andrew Ferenci is director of product development at Buddy Media and was the co-founder and CEO of Spinback, a New York-based social commerce and analytics platform acquired by Buddy Media in May of 2011.
Ashley John Heather is co-founder and CEO of dotbox, a New York-based agency that builds next-generation digital experiences at the intersection of ecommerce & social media.
Bo Fishback is the Founder and CEO of Zaarly. Bo was previously the vice president of entrepreneurship for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the president of Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation.