Ecomm Breakthrough

Destaney Wishon is the CEO and Co-founder of BetterAMS, a retail media agency aiding Amazon sellers to scale their businesses through optimizing sponsored products, sponsored brands, sponsored displays, and DSP campaigns, which helps increase clicks and sales. Destaney has been in the Amazon space for six years, and her agency manages over $50 million of spend across Walmart and Amazon channels. H...

Norm Lanier is the CEO of a six-figure, family-owned, Texas-based sign company, creating interior graphic art. Norm earned his BS in photography and began a career in graphic design, working for companies such as Exxon, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard. On his 50th birthday, he celebrated by exiting the corporate world to fulfill his dream of owning a business and designing art to share with the public...

Michael E. Gerber is the Co-founder and Chairman of Michael E. Gerber Companies, which helps businesses achieve growth, order, and productivity. Named the World’s #1 Small Business Guru by Inc. Magazine , Michael is an entrepreneurial and small business thought leader who has impacted millions of small business owners and hundreds of thousands of companies worldwide for over 40 years. Michael, the...

Nathan Hirsch is the Co-founder and CEO of EcomBalance and Outsource School. EcomBalance is a monthly bookkeeping service for e-commerce businesses selling across multiple channels. Outsource School teaches business owners effective hiring methods for hiring and retaining top-tier, offshore virtual assistants. In 2015, he co-founded FreeUp.net, scaling it to $12M in yearly revenue before exiting i...

Rolando Rosas is the Founder of Global Teck Worldwide, a tech e-commerce store passionate about providing high-quality communications and telecommunications equipment. His entrepreneurial journey began with a college computer, printer, and an old-school kitchen wall phone. He founded his third startup, Circuit Loops, in 2020 when he grew frustrated with outdated methods of purchasing broadband, wi...

Pat Yates is the President and Owner of Happy Feet Slippers, a novelty business providing high-quality, comfortable house shoes for the entire family. The slippers garnered nationwide attention after a 2014 appearance on Shark Tank, where he struck a deal with Robert Herjavec. Since then, the company’s grown into a multimillion-dollar e-commerce operation. The deal led to licensing agreements with...

Nathan Resnick is the Founder of Sourcify, the fastest-growing sourcing platform that helps hundreds of companies manufacture products worldwide. He has launched dozens of products and, until recently, owned three companies before exiting one of his entities. Nathan has penned several articles for Entrepreneur , The Next Web , and frequents as a guest expert on CNBC. Nathan spent several years liv...

Yoni Kozminski is the Founder of South Col and the Founder and CEO of Escala and MultiplyMii. South Col is an e-commerce accelerator empowering founders to reach peak potential, while Escala offers consulting services for e-commerce companies and Amazon sellers who want to scale their businesses. On the other hand, MultiplyMii specializes in affordable offshore staffing solutions and HR outsourcin...

Shannon Roddy is the Director of Business Development at Avenue 7 Media, a full-service agency helping deserving brands navigate and thrive on Amazon. His expertise in all things Amazon gave him the insight to found Marketplace Seller Courses, a platform offering online courses to educate e-commerce entrepreneurs on strategies to take their products to the next level. Shannon has consulted over 20...

Corey Apirian is the CEO of Davinci Micro Fulfillment, a full-service logistics company partnering with retailers and brands to help market, sell, fulfill, and ship its products. Corey is a 15-year supply chain and operations leader. Additionally, he has over 20 years of experience in the e-commerce fulfillment industry specializing in channel merchandising, aligning operational initiatives with c...

Will Russell is the Founder and CEO of Russell Marketing, an innovative digital agency focusing on e-commerce launch marketing. Russell Marketing has generated over $25M in revenue for over 300 rising entrepreneurs. In November 2022, Will launched the Russell Gives Foundation, a family organization offering grants and mentorship to 501(c)(3) partners committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion....

Amy Wees is the CEO of Amazing At Home, an e-commerce consulting company that has helped over 1000 brands launch private label products on several commerce channels, including Amazon. Amy’s wealth of knowledge and experience in product development and sales and marketing has enabled her to advise upcoming entrepreneurs to develop their own successful businesses. Amy is an entrepreneur, consultant,...

Tyler Jefcoat is the Co-founder and CEO of Seller Accountant. Seller Accountant is a financial company dedicated to helping e-commerce sellers maximize their profitability by supplying bookkeeping and financial coaching services. With his help, Tyler’s clients have sold over $100M in e-commerce sales in one year. Tyler heads the Seller Accountant Roundtable, a private mastermind club for seven- an...

Bradley Sutton is the Chief Evangelist and the Director of Training at Helium 10, an e-commerce sellers’ platform to help Amazon entrepreneurs capitalize and dominate the marketplace. A passionate e-commerce seller and Amazon expert, he’s launched over 100 products on the popular platform. Because Bradley is so well-versed in all things Amazon, he hosts the most-listened-to podcast for Amazon sell...

Dr. Pradeep Kumar Sacitharan is the CEO of Donsfield, an international business and trade development firm. Dr. Sacitharan is a trained scientist by trade, holding a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Medicine from Oxford University. Before his tenure at Donsfield, he was the Vice President of Business Development at GemPharmatech, a global biotech company. After starting his Amazon e-commerce business...

Scott Deetz is the Founder and CEO of the Northbound Group, a Minneapolis-based financial advisory firm, providing strategic finance, corporate development, and merger and acquisition services to the e-commerce industry. After selling his first business, an eight-figure brand, Scott realized his passion for helping entrepreneurs and companies sell their businesses. Northbound’s 30-plus-members tea...

Afolabi Oyerokun is the Co-owner of Honu Worldwide, a Pennsylvania-based company that streamlines business practices for optimum efficiency and profitability. Afolabi’s 20 years of experience as an expert in logistics and streamlining strategies and relationship building led him to found Honu Worldwide. Because he has such a talent and passion for finding high-quality products at bargain prices, A...

James Thomson is the Managing Partner at Equity Value Advisors, where he supports private equity and branded product leaders with due diligence and strategy consulting to accelerate equity value through eCommerce. He is a Board Member and Investor in Mamenta, Davinci Micro Fulfillment, and MAVI.io. Before his current roles, James was the Chief Strategy Officer at Buy Box Experts, a company that of...

Brian Johnson is the Co-founder of Canopy Management, a full-service digital advertising agency for Amazon brands. In addition to Canopy Management and his 20-plus years of experience, Brian has helped over 20,000 brands grow $1 billion in Amazon sales via his Amazon advertising consultancy. As a result, his products and services continue to keep him in high demand with small and large market comp...

Norm Farrar, AKA “The Beard Guy,” is a podcaster and the host of the Lunch with Norm Podcast , a medium to discuss Amazon, e-commerce, digital marketing, social media, and more. Norm’s goal for the podcast is to arm small business owners with the tools and resources to achieve the success they desire. Additionally, Norm is an entrepreneur heading many companies. He’s the President of the AMZ Club,...

Howard Thai is the CEO and Founder of Signalytics, an e-commerce consulting firm, which helps e-commerce sellers generate more sales through strategies such as keyboard ranking and advertising optimization. His company is the brainchild of his expertise and talents as a former Amazon top 50 seller. As a way of giving back and educating new sellers on the platform, he became an educator, training C...

Marketing entrepreneur Ryan Deiss is the Founder and CEO of The Scalable Company, a community of “accidental” entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs who take what they’ve learned and apply it to other ventures. Ryan is also the Founder and CEO of Digital Marketer, a cohesive program combining all of your digital marketing methods into one. In addition to founding multiple companies that collectively hi...

Simon Hammer is the VP of Product at Vimbly Group, a New York City-based business-growth company that scales and invests in technology-enabled businesses. Simon runs nine of Vimbly’s business units, including e-commerce. With combined studies in human biology, health, and society, pre-med, and finance at Cornell University, where he holds a bachelor’s degree, he was able to use all of his talents...

Dr. Travis Zigler is the Founder of Profitable Pineapple Ads, a consulting agency for Amazon sellers who want to grow their business through advertisements. Before founding Profitable Pineapple Ads, Dr. Zigler honed his selling chops as an Amazon PPC coach. Dr. Zigler is also the CEO and Co-founder of Eye Love LLC, an eye health and wellness company he co-owns with his optometrist wife, Dr. Jenna...

Brad Allen is an Amazon Seller who started on Amazon with creative retail and online arbitrage strategies in 2015. He sold everything from toys to high-end skincare on his Amazon business while living remotely in South America and Africa. After his account got suspended, Brad went into $400,000 of credit card and loan debt but eventually built two private label brands that are on track to earn eig...