Speakers - Salesforce Live for Retail & Consumer Goods - 15 July 2020- Salesforce ANZ

Speakers

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Katie McNamara
Chief Strategy and Customer Officer, Super Retail Group

Katie is passionate about bringing the voice of the customer to life across all areas of the value chain. She joined Super Retail Group, a leading Australian retailer, in April 2019 from IBM where she was leading Digital Strategy & iX across Asia Pacific. She has responsibility for corporate and business unit strategy, analytics, marketing and customer strategy.

Katie has over 20 years of consulting and senior executive experience, focused on developing and implementing strategy, growth, innovation and large-scale transformational change. Katie has worked extensively across Asia, developing market entry strategy, defining and implementing digital transformation with a particular focus on the customer facing elements of the business, primarily in Retail, FMCG and Pharma, through her time at McKinsey & Company and as Chief Strategy Officer for Foster’s Group / Treasury Wine estates.

Kylie De Vries
B2B Digital Product Manager, Foodstuff NZ

Kylie de Vries is the Salesforce Platform owner & B2B Commerce Product Manager at Foodstuffs North Island. Kylie has spent the last 8 years at Foodstuffs with a passion for implementing solutions that enable true customer-driven experiences. She is currently focused on re-inventing the digital customer experience for the Foodstuffs wholesale brands, and developing the enterprise roadmap for Digital Customer Service using Salesforce. She was recently responsible for leading the first implementation of Salesforce B2B Commerce in Australasia. Today, her team are busy enhancing their digital capability for Gilmours and have recently launched Salesforce Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, Pardot and their second B2B Commerce storefront for Trents.

Nishant Menon
Co-founder and CTO, My Muscle Chef

Co-founder and CTO of My Muscle Chef, a functional food business that has been delivering high quality prepared meals to consumers since 2013. My Muscle Chef, is one of Australia’s top rated ready meal delivery services on Product Review, providing high protein meals to active Australian's with a range of over 50 meals catering to all customers with vegan, breakfast and low carb options in addition to the core range.

Tushar Menon
Co-founder and CEO, My Muscle Chef

Co-founder and CEO of My Muscle Chef, a functional food business that has been delivering high quality prepared meals to consumers since 2013. My Muscle Chef, is one of Australia’s top rated ready meal delivery services on Product Review, providing high protein meals to active Australian's with a range of over 50 meals catering to all customers with vegan, breakfast and low carb options in addition to the core range.

Brian Solis
Global Innovation Evangelist, Salesforce

Brian Solis is Salesforce's Global Innovation Evangelist. He's also an 8x best-selling author, international keynote speaker, and digital anthropologist. Forbes has called him “one of the more creative and brilliant business minds of our time."

Brian’s research explores digital transformation, CX, experience design, innovation and disruption, the cognitive enterprise, and "the future of" industries, trends and human behaviour.

His insights on the state and future of technology and business trends have made him a go to resource among media and market experts. He has published over 60 research papers and also actively shares his work in industry-leading publications including Forbes, ZDNet, CIO, eWeek, Fast Company, Adweek, Singularity University, among others.

Brian's book, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, explores the importance of experiences and how to design them for customers, employees and human beings everywhere. www.xthebook.com.

Susan Mizrahi
Chief Sustainability Officer, Australia Post

Susan Mizrahi is a senior sustainability strategist and has over 20 years’ experience working in Asia, Europe, and North America, as well as domestically, on international, business and human rights issues. She is committed to leading positive, systemic change on social and environmental issues and has achieved this through working collaboratively across and within the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.
Susan has particular expertise in business human rights obligations, sustainable supply chains, forced and child labour, and the China-Tibet issue. She is skilled in strategy, communications, public policy and advocacy, and is actively committed to advancing the UN Global Compact principles and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Susan joined Australia Post in 2015 as Head of Corporate Responsibility and became their first Chief Sustainability Officer in 2019. She acts as Chair of the London Benchmarking Group (‘LBG’) and is a member of the UN Global Compact’s Modern Slavery Community of Practice.

Andrew Pattison
ManagerDigital & CX Department, Honda

Andrew is an experienced strategic marketing leader adept in leveraging technology to drive business objectives and improve customer experiences.

He’s currently helping Honda Australia’s Motorcycle, Rider Training, Power Equipment and Marine businesses put the customer at the centre of everything they do, in order to increase customer satisfaction, advocacy and loyalty for the purpose of driving sustainable competitive advantage, reduced revenue risk and increased profitability.

Prior to Honda, Andrew worked for a number of global companies including the German industrial giant Siemens, and the Ford Motor Company. He also holds a Professional Certificate in Business Administration, and a Masters of Marketing degree from Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne.

Alison Covington
Founder & Managing Director, Good 360

Alison Covington is an innovator, passionate about creating change that disrupts industries, empowers communities and creates a better world.

As a Director of a multi-million dollar public transport business, Alison developed a record for innovation and raising standards, increasing profitability in loss-making companies and guiding them through the obstacles of major industry reform.

Alison’s success in business has become a platform for her philanthropic ideals. Today she uses her considerable corporate expertise to make a positive social difference as the Founder and Managing Director of Good360, an Australian Not for Profit organisation. Good360 is a matchmaker, connecting the brand new goods donated by businesses to Australians most in need. Since Good360 launched in 2015, businesses have donated over $129M worth of goods and connected over 12.7M items providing hope and dignity to people most in need.

Ryan D’Souza
CRM & Loyalty Manager, Grill'd

As CRM & Loyalty Manager, Ryan is responsible for the Salesforce Platform, which has enabled him to automate the Grill’d community and charity engagement initiative ‘Local Matters’, run the membership programme, Relish, and manage email and app marketing. Ryan has over 15 years CRM experience working for brands such as The English Football Association and T2 Tea.

Roula Psomiadis
Retail & Consumer Goods Sales Director, Salesforce

With more than 20 years sales and sales management experience in the IT industry, Roula is skilled in Enterprise Software, Retail, Solution Selling, Outsourcing, Business Alliances and Software as a Service. She is responsible for helping our most iconic retail and consumer goods brands harness the power of digital transformation to create meaningful experiences for their customers, employees and community.

David Reeve
Chief Information Officer, Metcash

A proven Digital Transformation Executive with the vision to lead; the passion to succeed; the energy to achieve and the tenacity to guarantee the desired outcome. David has consistently demonstrated his ability to deliver improved organisational agility, reduced operational cost, revenue growth and increase customer engagement.

Jimmy Wu
Business Insights Manager, Coffee Club

It is Jimmy's passion to discover new opportunities through data, increase sales, acquire more customers and reduce the operating costs businesses. He is at the cutting edge of data analytics with broad exposure to advanced analytics, data science & BI, delivering projects utilising sophisticated approaches including the use of predictive analysis, machine learning algorithms & Geo-spatial location analysis.

What sets Jimmy apart from others is his diverse real-world industry experience. Demonstrating the end to end process from data to insights and providing actionable goals, he has helped shape the strategic direction for a number of high-profile companies.

Jimmy has over 15 years’ experience in data analytics across a range of industry segments, specialising in retail & FMCG. He has worked with many influential brands including Coca-Cola, Coles, IGA, Subway, Donut King, Michelle’s Patisserie, Night Owl, Tatts lottery - The Lott, UBET, and most recently heading up the Data & Insights Division for The Coffee Club.

Leanne Wall
Marketing & Business Development Manager, Jeanswest

Leanne has had over 25 years experience in senior leadership roles across both buying and marketing for some of Australia’s leading brands. Commencing her career with 12 years with the Myer Department store group, she went on to lead the Marketing for Bang & Olufsen, Jeanswest, Nike Pacific Retail Brand and most recently Emirates Leisure Retail.
Leanne re-joined the Jeanswest brand in June 2020 during COVID-19 under the new ownership of Harbour Guidance Pty Ltd. With an objective of repositioning the brand back to its denim roots and establishing an authentic community connection, Leanne returns with a laser sharp focus on being authentic, prioritising the people and teams in the business, and always allowing the ‘consumer to decide’.

Ken Kennedy
Group Head of Digital ANZ, True Alliance

Appointed Group Head of Digital in March of 2018, Ken is responsible for the management and digital transformation of all international brand e-commerce stores and digital marketing channel performance.

Ken has been working in the digital space for nearly 20 years and in retail B2C for 16 of those years winning multiple awards along the way. Ken is a regular event speaker and lectured in Ireland for a number of years on subject matters such as digital marketing, E-commerce and social media.

Married with two kids, Ken enjoys spending time with family, is an avid soccer player and a huge MMA fan.

Ari Freedman
Senior Manager, Omni UX, Insights & Conversion, Super Retail Group

With a core focus on UX, for the past 10 years at SRG, Ari has incorporated digital design, development and analytics, championing the finer art of data-driven design and the powerful role it plays in creating positive experiences.
Today, he leads a team of designers, analysts and SFCC platform wizards whose primary mission is to drive positive change through a clear testing, insights and data-driven approach within the wider Omnichannel team and enterprise.

Olympia Newman
Technology Consulting Manager and Salesforce Marketing Champion. PwC Australia

Olympia is an experienced technology professional specialising in sales and marketing automation, digital acquisition, and transformation. Starting her career in search engine marketing, she is a 4x Salesforce Certified consultant and co-leader of the Sydney B2C Marketers Group. Olympia is passionate about creating customer-led solutions that deliver automation, growth, and increased profitability to businesses.

Daniele Iezzi
General Manager - Customer Services at David Jones & Country Road Group

With a passion for retail and service driving his professional career, Daniele has over 20 years’ experience in the retail space. After catching the ‘retail itch’ on the selling floor at Grace Bros (now Myer), Daniele spent the next two decades in several roles at David Jones.

During his career at David Jones, Daniele gained experience in store management then made the move to head office to work in areas such as business transformation, customer service, employee engagement, B2B sales and corporate partnerships.

In his current role as General Manager Customer Services, Daniele is taking on the challenge of transforming the customer service experience for both David Jones and the Country Road Group of brands.

Rob Garf
VP of Strategy and Insights, Salesforce

Rob Garf is VP of Strategy and Insights on Salesforce's Retail and Consumer Goods team. With 25 years of global retail experience as a practitioner (Lids, Marshalls, Hit or Miss), an industry analyst (AMR Research), a strategy consultant (IBM), and a software leader (Demandware/Salesforce), he is no stranger to the industry and the challenges retailers face. He currently leads industry research, drives solution strategy, and advises senior executives globally on digital transformation. Rob is also a frequent industry speaker, a member of NRF’s Digital Council, and Chair of the Retail Customer Advisory Board.

Rizwan Hazarika
Chief Digital Officer, SingEx

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