Endless Aisle Podcast

Liza Amlani is the principal and founder of Retail Strategy Group. She is the go-to expert in merchandising, product creation, and accelerating speed to market and is one of RETHINK Retail's Top Retail Influencers of 2022. With over 20 years of retail insider experience, we help companies in the retail space dramatically improve profitability and increase organizational effectiveness. (https:...

Jennifer is the senior manager, retail platform strategy & commercialization at Orium. Formerly known as MyPlanet, Orium is North America's leading composable commerce consultancy & systems integrator. She is also a strategic advisor for Tomorrow Retail Consulting. Additionally, in her career, she spent time working in various capacities for retail brands like Hudson's Bay Compan...

Amanda McLaughlin is the Sr. Manager, Content Marketing at NewStore. She led the launch of the 2023 Omnichannel Leadership Report, now in its eighth edition. The report analyzed over 300 brands and their omnichannel shopping experiences across mobile, online, and in-store. https://www.newstore.com/resource/2023-omnichannel-leadership-report/

Tony is the founder and Chief Cheerleader at Hammitt (https://www.hammitt.com/). After earning his MBA, Tony spent over a decade managing successful businesses in construction, real estate, and home finance sectors. In search of a venture that celebrated his creative passions, Tony took the reins at Hammitt in 2008, overseeing its transformation from a best-kept hometown secret to a digital and re...

Andy is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for Clutch (https://www.clutch.com/). He's responsible for product vision, corporate strategy, and the overall commercialization of our Consumer Management platform, as well as, its consumer-facing mobile wallet application "CLUTCH Shopping" (iOS & Android). 

Thijs is the General Manager, Consumer Apps at NewStore. Previously, he is the founder of Touchwonders, and Highstreet Mobile.  At Touchwonders, he built best-in-class apps for tablets and smartphones with the belief that simple, smart and delightful software can make life better. He worked with companies like ING, Rabobank, Volkwagen, Audio, Zoover, and many more. In 2014 he launched Highstreet M...

August Kuhling is an Operations professional with over 15 years of progressive experience in a variety of high-level roles. August enjoys a challenge and has built a diverse body of experience that spans E-commerce operations, omnichannel retail, large-scale fulfillment/logistics, and high-level brick and mortar retail leadership. In each of these neighboring industries, August has seen success, g...

Michelle is a  retail success manager at NewStore. Passionate, customer-focused, and collaborative retail leader she previously held management positions at Apple and Target. 

As a retail leadership executive, board member, and Amazon best-selling author, Ron Thurston loves retail. And he's proud of it. Ron has led the retail teams for some of America's most prominent brands, inspired thousands of store employees, and traveled relentlessly across the country to sit and listen to what they have to say. Ron was also recognized as one of the Top 100 Retail Influe...

Amanda McLaughlin is the Sr. Manager, Content Marketing at NewStore. She led the launch of the 2022 Omnichannel Leadership Report, now in its sixth edition. The report analyzed over 250 brands and 50 omnichannel capabilities.  www.newstore.com/resource/2022-omnichannel-leadership-report/

Dustin Jones is a retail leader and recognized omnichannel authority with expertise in directing global consumer-centric brand and retail strategies to drive the growth of major retail businesses, brands, and partners. He's currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Unified Commerce Group, a company whose purpose is to acquire and operate the next generation of incredible Global Retail Brands. Unifi...

Jeremy is a partner at The Maze Group. He is an accomplished omnichannel executive with more than 20 years of experience in digital and ecommerce balancing the art and science of branded commerce. He previously has held roles at The Vitamin Shoppe, Global Brands Group, Michael Kors, VF Corp, and more. 

Emma Taylor is the VP of North America for Reiss. She's also one of the organizers behind Shop the Village, an event designed to celebrate retail, local businesses, and to bring people back to the West Village during June 2021 and beyond.  You can find more information about Shop the Village here: https://www.shopthevillage.nyc/

Jonathan Barouch is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Local Measure. Local Measure is a customer experience platform for the hospitality, tourism, retail, and entertainment industries allowing businesses to receive real-time customer intelligence whenever customers are on-premise, helping them to identify, understand and retain customers.

Adam is the COO of Marine Layer, a San Francisco-based apparel brand.  www.marinelayer.com

Steve Dennis is a consultant, keynote speaker, and author focused on retail growth and innovation. He has been named a top global retail influencer by multiple organizations and his thoughts on the future of shopping are regularly shared in his role as a Forbes Senior Contributor. Steve's best-selling book-- "Remarkable Retail: How to Win & Keep Customers in the Age of Disruption&quo...

Jeff is the founder of Shop Bréda (www.shopbreda.com), a purpose-driven marketplace that supports youth development. He is also the CMO of 9Tailors (www.9tailors.com), a renowned custom clothing for men and women based in Boston, as well as an adjunct professor at the School of Fashion at Lasell University. 

Kaitlin is currently the director of sales and clienteling at UNTUCKit, and formerly its director of stores. She held similar roles at REISS, and Bloomingdale's, and is a graduate of Parsons School of Design. 

Ted McCaffrey is an omnichannel enthusiast and business development consultant for Sensormatic. In his role, he helps brands realize the value of omnichannel, and solve for it with IoT using RFID.  

Donny Askin is a veteran retail technology entrepreneur with over four decades of experience founding, leading, and growing successful retail technology companies. He is currently the EVP & Partner at NewMine, retail technology and consulting firm, as well as the chairman of the NewStore advisory board. Previously, Donny held founding and executive roles at CommercialWare, OrderMotion, Arigo,...

Erik Holm is a leader in product management. In his role at NewStore, Erik works as the Sr. Director of Product Management. Before joining NewStore, he worked at Salesforce as the VP, Product Management, he also held similar roles at Carbonite and ATG. 

Joseph is a sales manager at Lekker Home, a home decor retailer. He has 15 years of retail experience, with a focus on innovative sales management and design blending the interpersonal finesse of leading a sales team with creative intuition and an eye for interior design. 

Michael is the CEO of SmarterHQ, a Wunderkind company. SmarterHQ makes it easy for marketers to increase revenue now and customer relationships over time by powering highly personalized, cross-channel experiences. Trusted by leading brands such as Bloomingdale’s, Hilton, Santander Bank, and Finish Line, SmarterHQ activates real-time, multichannel data, identifies audiences quickly based on custome...

Alper Aydemir is the co-founder and CEO of Volumental, a footwear technology company. A technologist turned entrepreneur, Alper has a deep passion for building and scaling companies and solving hard problems. 

Peter Stubbs is an experienced product manager with a passion for retail software. He has order management and store applications in his blood with roles at Sterling, Yantra, and IBM. Now, as the senior director of product management at NewStore,  he helps brands solve retail challenges and business problems in innovative ways.