The Digital Deep Dive With Aaron Conant

Jordan Winston is the Founder and CEO of Not Your Dad's Media, a New York City-based creative agency that transforms unscripted, real-world interactions into performance ads for consumer brands. He oversees the ideas, filming, editing, and results behind each campaign. Through street interviews, challenges, and real-life experiences, the agency helps brands connect with customers in a natural way....

Garret Caudle is the Founder and CEO of Influent, a LinkedIn marketing agency helping brands build thought leadership, reach decision-makers, and generate demand. He leads strategies combining executive content, targeted advertising, and audience engagement to turn LinkedIn into a growth channel. With expertise in B2B marketing and trade marketing for consumer brands, Garret helps companies connec...

Jordan Brannon is the Co-founder and President of Coalition Technologies, a full-service digital marketing agency specializing in eCommerce, SEO, paid search, and web development. He leads teams that develop strategies to help brands improve search visibility, attract customers, and grow online revenue. With expertise in AI-powered search and emerging shopping experiences, Jordan helps businesses...

Jordan Brannon is the Co-founder and President of Coalition Technologies, a full-service digital marketing agency specializing in eCommerce, SEO, paid search, and web development. He leads teams that develop strategies to help brands improve search visibility, attract customers, and grow online revenue. With expertise in AI-powered search and emerging shopping experiences, Jordan helps businesses...

JD Sass is the Co-founder and CEO of Axiom Return Solutions, a reverse logistics company helping Amazon sellers and brands recover value from returns. He leads solutions for returns management, inventory inspection, reimbursement claims, product reintroduction, and resale, supported by Axiom's custom returns software. With deep expertise in Amazon reverse logistics, JD helps brands reduce losses,...

Hannah Blackburn is the Co-founder and Director of The Hawker's Club, an eCommerce consultancy that helps brands navigate marketplace challenges, recover lost revenue, and improve profitability across Amazon and other platforms. In her role, Hannah advises sellers and vendors on Vendor Central, chargeback recovery, and marketplace operations. Before co-founding The Hawker's Club, she worked at Ama...

Navi Singh is the Co-founder and CEO of Sohva, a full-service TikTok Shop agency helping consumer brands grow through social commerce. With experience across influencer marketing, affiliate programs, and eCommerce, she leads the agency's strategy and growth. Her expertise spans creator activation, affiliate marketing, live selling, and TikTok Shop performance. Before launching Sohva, Navi's backgr...

Aviv Frenkel is the Co-founder and CEO of Shuttlebase, formerly Moonshot AI, an AI-powered platform that autonomously optimizes eCommerce websites for conversion. Drawing on his experience running an eCommerce website, Aviv leads the company's efforts to remove guesswork from CRO by identifying friction, generating test ideas, launching experiments, and deploying winning variants. His expertise sp...

Lucas Tieleman is the Co-founder and CEO of Optiversal, an AI-powered eCommerce platform helping retailers improve product discoverability and conversion through richer product data and dynamically generated content. Previously Chief Product Officer at Bazaarvoice and a serial entrepreneur, Lucas brings deep expertise in eCommerce, AI search, product strategy, and digital shopping experiences. He...

Jonny Waite is the Co-founder and CEO of RECHO, a full-service Reddit marketing agency helping brands grow through organic community management, paid advertising, and Reddit-native strategy. With 17 years of agency-side digital experience, Jonny built SEO, paid search, Amazon, and omnichannel programs for Fortune 500 companies and high-growth startups. He helps brands navigate Reddit authentically...

Rohan Philip is the Product and Strategy Lead at MetricsCart, a digital commerce intelligence platform that helps brands monitor and improve performance across online retailers and marketplaces. In his role, he shapes product strategy around pricing, availability, content health, search visibility, ratings, and reviews, translating complex shelf data into practical actions for brands. Rohan specia...

Lauren Livak Gilbert is the Executive Director of the Digital Shelf Institute, a community of more than 11,000 brands and retailers navigating eCommerce and the digital shelf. She leads research, education, and industry collaboration on emerging commerce trends. Lauren specializes in agentic commerce, product content, citations, measurement, and helping brands turn complex digital shifts into prac...

Christian Rich is the Founding US Sales Lead at Azoma, an agentic commerce optimization platform that helps brands improve visibility across AI-powered search and shopping experiences. Working with consumer brands, he focuses on how product content is discovered, interpreted, and recommended by ChatGPT, Amazon Alexa, Walmart Sparky, and other AI assistants. Christian specializes in digital shelf s...

Kevin Williams is the Founder and CEO of Ascend AI Labs, an AI enablement firm that helps organizations build AI literacy, governance, and implementation strategies. A serial entrepreneur with roots in DTC brand building and digital marketing, Kevin helps companies align leadership, improve workflows, and implement practical AI strategies. His expertise spans enterprise AI adoption, governance, ag...

Megan Harmon is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of ThornCrest, a brand protection firm that helps brands recover revenue, enforce IP, grow sales, and expand across retail and eCommerce channels. In her role, Megan advises emerging and enterprise brands on channel control, MAP policies, authorized reseller agreements, warranty strategy, counterfeit takedowns, and supply chain leaks. She brings...

Nicole Reich is the Chief Growth Officer at Blue Wheel, an omnichannel digital commerce agency that helps brands grow across Amazon, Walmart, DTC, social commerce, and retail media through connected strategy, performance marketing, and data-driven execution. In her role, Nicole leads growth strategy across sales and marketing, helping unify channels and reduce fragmentation across the eCommerce ec...

Jonny Waite is the Co-founder and CEO of RECHO, a full-service Reddit marketing agency helping brands grow through organic community management, paid advertising, and Reddit-native strategy. With 17 years of agency-side digital experience, Jonny built SEO, paid search, Amazon, and omnichannel programs for Fortune 500 companies and high-growth startups. He helps brands navigate Reddit authentically...

Aaron Conant is the Co-founder and Chief Digital Strategist at BWG Connect, a leading platform for executive strategy and networking sessions. He is an eCommerce expert with over a decade of experience in digital commerce, providing advisory services to brands on Amazon sales strategies, retail media, DTC platform selection, and SEO. BWG Connect, in conjunction with BWG Global, has built an exclus...

Corey Apirian is the CEO of Davinci Micro Fulfillment, a full-service logistics company that uses technology and partners with brands and retailers to help market, sell, fulfill, and ship their products. As an accomplished supply chain and operations leader, Corey has over 15 years of senior management experience. With more than 20 years of experience in the eCommerce fulfillment industry, Corey h...

Aaron Conant is the Co-founder and Chief Digital Strategist at BWG Connect, a leading platform for executive strategy and networking sessions. He is an eCommerce expert with over a decade of experience in digital commerce, providing advisory services to brands on Amazon sales strategies, retail media, DTC platform selection, and SEO. BWG Connect, in conjunction with BWG Global, has built an exclus...

Wesley Wilson is the Head of the US and Canada for The Consumer Goods Forum (CFG), a CEO-led global organization advancing the future of retail and consumer goods. With a background in consumer goods investment and experience at Walmart and Mars, Wesley helps industry leaders collaborate on innovation, standards, intelligent commerce, adaptive value chains, and evolving consumer needs. He brings a...

JD Sass is the Co-founder and CEO of Axiom Return Solutions, a reverse logistics company that helps Amazon sellers and brands recover value from returns and improve post-purchase performance. He built the company after identifying inefficiencies in how returns are managed across marketplaces. JD leads a team that inspects, grades, and resells inventory while uncovering actionable data insights to...

Gautam Kanumuru is the Co-founder and CEO of Yogi, a product sentiment analysis platform that enables brands to gain deeper visibility into customer feedback and the voice of the customer. With a background in AI and natural language processing, he played a crucial role in developing Microsoft products, including Cortana and Xbox. Before co-founding Yogi, Gautam was the Vice President of Engineeri...

Aaron Conant is the Co-founder and Chief Digital Strategist at BWG Connect, a leading platform for executive strategy and networking sessions. He is an eCommerce expert with over a decade of experience in digital commerce, providing advisory services to brands on Amazon sales strategies, retail media, DTC platform selection, and SEO. BWG Connect, in conjunction with BWG Global, has built an exclus...

Jessyca Dewey is the Founder of The Y Collective, a social-first digital marketing agency focused on CPG brands. With 16-plus years of experience in content and digital marketing, she has worked with brands like L'Oréal, Hasbro, and Califia Farms. Jessyca specializes in aligning social strategy with business goals, helping brands move beyond vanity metrics to drive meaningful engagement and real-w...