Honest Ecommerce

Scott Ohsman has been working with brands for over 29 years in retail, online and has launched over 200 brands on Amazon.  Owning his own sales and marketing agency in the Pacific NW, is now VP of Digital Commerce for Quickfire LLC.  Scott has been a featured speaker at national trade shows and has developed distribution strategies for many top brands.  In This Conversation We Discuss:  [00:41] In...

Amanda is the Co-Founder and President of Dormify, the first to market retailer in the specialty dorm category. She founded Dormify as a college student after facing the challenges of trying to shop for her own college dorm room decor prior to her freshman year.  She and her mom, Karen, who’s also the co-founder, worked together to create what is now the largest retailer of college dorm and apartm...

Amelia Trumble is the CEO and one of the three Founders of Retold Recycling. Amelia is an Australian native who moved to New York 15 years ago to work as an ecommerce professional.  While at Estee Lauder running ecommerce for MAC Cosmetics, she met her 2 Retold co-founders, Alan Yeoh and Noelle Sadler. Together the 3 ideated on starting a business that would do good things for the world and get th...

Matthew Holman is a leading expert in the ecommerce subscription industry, with extensive experience in optimizing customer experience, retention strategies, and data-driven decision-making.  He specializes in fractional subscription leadership, where he helps brands understand the complexities of subscriptions so that they can scale.  Matthew currently lives in Utah, where he enjoys time with fam...

With over 10 years of experience in consumer marketing and digital transformation, Kelly Deen is passionate about creating and executing data-driven strategies that drive growth, loyalty, and innovation for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and entertainment brands.  As the Chief Commercial Officer/CMO at kencko, Kelly leads a world-class marketing team that is transforming the way people consume...

As the CEO of Eric Javits, Dario Markovic has successfully generated over $50 million in revenue over the past four years, exclusively through eCommerce.  A visionary entrepreneur, Dario Markovic is also the founder of multiple companies, including a SaaS platform designed to help businesses grow organically.  Dario Markovic's innovative leadership and strategic foresight have consistently driven...

Alexa Tietjen is the Content Director at Shoptalk, where she helps shape the annual Spring and Fall agendas and recruit speakers for both shows.  Prior to Shoptalk, she was a beauty editor at WWD, the fashion and beauty industry trade publication known as “the fashion bible.”  She wrote about beauty’s business boom and the rise of the creator economy. She has appeared on Good Morning America for h...

Chris manages the business strategy, marketing, and financials of Perfect Herbs. Under his leadership, the company has grown revenue 50%+ year-over-year, transforming from a startup into a leading national brand.  His company has licensed herbalists who can consult with you free of charge, make you samples to try, and help you launch your herbal product with high-quality herbs at a low cost, and w...

Alesia Klimau is the owner of Heart Printed, a custom photo magnet printing service. It is a family owned business proud to be manufacturing and shipping from Columbus, OH. They are all passionate about photography and are big fans of Instagram. Founded in 2014, Heart Printed creates high quality custom photo magnets using the best materials and ink to print photo magnets. They are printed on high...

CEO and Creative Director at SeaMonster Studios, Wes Buckwalter manages a small team of geniuses, keeps them paid, and fights for their rights as employees of what he hopes is the best job they've ever had. He advocates for the creativity of my employees and contractors, managing day to day operations, finance, and client relations.  SeaMonster Studios have delivered over 1500 websites to clients...

Erin is the VP of Business Development at August, where she manages their retail, e-commerce, and B2B sales channels.  Prior to August she consulted with Deloitte at companies such as Twitter, Fitbit, and Silicon Valley Bank. Later joining Uber, Erin worked in growth and operational roles for four years, helping UberEats expand from 10 to over 600 cities.  She made the jump to August in April of 2...

Kristen Pumphrey & Thomas Neuberger are the co-owners of California-based fragrance brand, P.F. Candle Co. and authors of “At Home with Fragrance.”  Now a 63-person company, P.F. Candle Co. started as a one-woman Etsy shop in 2008 out of Kristen’s second bedroom. As fragrance experts, Kristen and Tom have scaled the business over the course of several years on their own with no formal business deg...

Chris Timmer is the Chief Executive Officer of Linnworks. As a respected CEO and industry veteran, Chris brings three decades of leadership experience spanning sales, marketing and operations in supply chain management and software.  He is responsible for leading the company’s overall operations, with direct oversight of sales, marketing, professional services, research, development and strategy....

Shawn brings over ten years of fashion retail experience to the table. He is the Co-Founder of Electric Eye–our Shopify design and development agency, and a Partner at Feel–a brand studio where art meets commerce. A specialist in design, Shawn has worked with the likes of Abercrombie & Fitch, Gap Inc, Nike, Homage and Only NY. His time in the retail industry, from digital experience to product des...

Rob Schutz is the founder of Snagged, where he helps entrepreneurs, startups and established businesses acquire premium domain names.  Rob is also co-founder of Ro, the DTC health platform, and employee #7 + former VP of Growth at Bark, where he helped grow the company from $0 to a $100M in run rate. He started his career in healthcare consulting, helping hospitals transition to digital EMRs.  Rob...

Nikita Vakhrushev has spent the last 7 years immersed in the digital marketing world. After starting his own ecom brand and quickly pivoting into the agency model, he found his place in ecommerce advertising services.  After amassing all the marketing skills needed to scale brands, he found great success in email and SMS marketing, which is what he specializes in today!  Now after working with ove...

Kris Kaiser and Stephen McCaul met at a pub in Santa Monica, California, and hit it off immediately. A shared interest in sound brought them together. Kris and Stephen's professional paths were quite different, but audio was a common thread throughout their lives.  Kris's PhD dissertation studied the effects of urban noise on the breeding behaviors of frogs. Stephen developed audio software for vi...

Johnny Russo has over 17 years of Digital Marketing, Ecommerce, and Brand experience. He is the Chief Digital and Marketing Officer at Lamour, where he leads the Direct to Consumer division for 4 Ecommerce brands and numerous Ecommerce sites.  He also handles marketing for over 20 licenses. Previous to Lamour, Johnny was at The Kersheh Group as the Vice President of Ecommerce and Marketing, and al...

Bob DeMars is the founder of Blind Barrels, a blind whiskey tasting subscription disrupting the industry’s current distribution model by showcasing American craft distilleries, ones which rarely get the shelf space they deserve.  The recent quarantine brought about blind whiskey tastings with friends, and DeMars saw an opportunity for a startup unlike any other in the alcohol industry.  These blin...

Adam is the founder and CTO of Intelligems, a profit optimization engine for ecommerce brands.  He and Drew Marconi started Intelligems 3 years ago after spending 4 years building dynamic pricing in the ride sharing industry in order to bring that level of sophistication around pricing and economics to DTC ecommerce.  Intelligems today enables brands to A/B test content, pages, discounts, shipping...

Adam is the founder and CTO of Intelligems, a profit optimization engine for ecommerce brands.  He and Drew Marconi started Intelligems 3 years ago after spending 4 years building dynamic pricing in the ride sharing industry in order to bring that level of sophistication around pricing and economics to DTC ecommerce.  Intelligems today enables brands to A/B test content, pages, discounts, shipping...

Tanya Mykhaylova is the Director of E-Commerce at Casa Di Luce, a premier designer lighting and home decor brand based in Toronto, Canada.  For two decades, Casa Di Luce has been a cornerstone of Toronto's design scene, embodying family values and entrepreneurial spirit. Operating multiple showrooms throughout the city, the company eventually established a firm presence in Toronto's design distric...

As an outdoor industry leader for nearly 30 years, Gordon has committed his career to building brands that practice a triple bottom line (people, planet and profit) approach to business. Gordon launched Toad&Co, a responsible lifestyle apparel brand in 1996. Now headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, he remains the CEO of the growing global brand. He also co-founded Planet Access 27 years ago, a soci...

Josh Hadley is not just the founder and CEO of an eight-figure e-commerce brand; he is also a leading voice in the e-commerce space as the host of the Ecomm Breakthrough Podcast.  His professional journey took off at American Airlines' Leadership Development Program, fresh from earning an MBA from the University of Utah.  While maintaining his corporate career, Josh and his wife co-founded a custo...

Brandon Blum is the Cofounder and CEO of For Others, a mission-driven lifestyle brand based out of New York City.  Before For Others, Brandon spent six all-encompassing years inside the marketing wings of three prodigiously large media companies in New York City.  Brandon possesses a blend of experiences spanning branding, marketing, digital, media, content, and publishing.  Through his work, Bran...