Alcott Global

Leaders in Tech and Ecommerce

We interview some of the best entrepreneurs, experts and executives in the tech and eCommerce space. We want to share their perspective on the current trends, their stories about success and failure and how they attract and recruit talent. Our aim is to keep it real and simple - share the relevant lessons and have an open conversation. Follow-ups on our website for more details: https://www.alcottglobal.com/

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Jul 2, 2026

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#75: Anticipate and Act - the new norm in Supply Chain 25.10.2023

David Warrick is a thought leader and industry expert in the field of Global Supply Chain and is currently the Executive Vice President, Enterprise at Overhaul. In his current role, he is responsible for the strategy and growth of the Enterprise business, as well as being a key member of the Executive Team.  Overhaul, is a software-based, supply-chain visibility, integrity, safety and security sol...

#74: Johanna Småros, Co-founder at RELEX Solutions 01.06.2023

 Johanna Småros (PhD) is one of RELEX Solutions’ three co-founders. Before founding RELEX, Johanna conducted ground-breaking research on retail supply chains. Johanna received the Young Scientist Entrepreneur Award in 2014 and the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award in 2017. In 2021, Johanna was recognized as one of the Top 100 Women in Supply Chain by Supply Chain Digital. Discover more details h...

#73: Ami Daniel, CEO and Co-Founder at Winward 13.03.2023

Ami Daniel is the CEO & co-founder of Windward.  He developed his passion for the sea during his seven-year veteran in the Israeli Navy and founded Windward with the mission of bringing Predictive Intelligence and big data analytics to the maritime ecosystem. In the last two decades, Ami has harnessed innovation and a relentless focus on driving transformative change to build successful organi...

#72: Martin Thaysen, Chief Commercial Officer and Board Member at Controlant 25.01.2023

Martin Thaysen is the Chief Commercial Officer of Controlant. Prior to Controlant, he held a number of C-level positions as a CEO, CCO and Board Member within Supply Chain, Logistics, Shipping, Manufacturing, Professional Services in publicly listed and privately held companies.  Martin is passionate about making a difference to businesses through Customer Experience, Digitalisation, Talent and Su...

#71: Matt Petot, Founder and CEO at CargoAI 02.11.2022

Matt Petot is Founder and CEO at CargoAI. He has a creative and out-of-the-box thinker, pragmatic and proactive, has strong leadership, and team management, has good communication abilities, result driven mindset, fast learner, is multicultural and a team player, and is well-organized. He also has experience in analytics, operations performance improvement, and global business strategy. Discover m...

#70: Simon Borg, Group CEO & Co-Founder of Navia 12.10.2022

As co-founder and CEO of Navia, Simon Borg is committed to making people’s lives easier through innovative freight solutions. He works with a world-class team, that continues to find ways to exceed our customers’ expectations and future-proof our offer through constant innovation. From one side of the world to the other, they take the complications out of it through their freight and logistic solu...

#69: Terry Chan, Founder & CEO of JUSTT GROUP 11.10.2022

 Terry Chan is an eCommerce Supply Chain Leader with 25 years of experience in driving business growth. Awarded the "Most promising business leader of Asia 2019" by Economic Times in Singapore, featured by Forbes in 2018 in Vietnam, and invited by World Bank as a speaker in 2018 in Vietnam. An entrepreneur and executive: JUSTT GROUP (eCommerce Enabler), JUSTT BEAUTY (Healthcare), EC-POST...

#68: Stephan Sieber, Chief Executive Officer of Transporeon 23.09.2022

Since 12 November 2019, Stephan has been CEO of Transporeon. His professional focus has always been to use his wealth of experience to help organisations grow – and that is also his goal at Transporeon. Stephan spent 13 years working for SAP, including his role as managing director of SAP Switzerland and as chief operating officer for the DACH region. After his time at SAP, Stephan successfully sh...

#67: Nick Bartlett & Chris Crutchley, Director of Wayfindr 18.08.2022

About Nick Bartlett : Nick Bartlett is a Co-Founder & Director of Sales & Marketing for Wayfindr.  Nick brings 12+ years of experience across logistics, e-commerce, marketing, supply chain, and traditional retail across multiple from Asia pacific to US and UK. Nick who founded Wayfindr in 2015 and saw a unique opportunity in the market for approaching logistics services differently.  About...

#66: James Chin Moody, Founder and CEO of Sendle 21.07.2022

James Chin Moody is co-founder and CEO of Sendle. Sendle builds shipping that is good for the world that helps small businesses thrive by making package delivery simple, reliable and affordable and is the only 100% Carbon Neutral Delivery Service in Australia and the United States. James is an experienced senior executive and board member. He was a member of the Executive team at Australia’s natio...

#65: Johnny Slattery, Chief Executive Officer of SCNX 18.05.2022

Johnny Slattery is the Chief Executive Officer at SCNX.  He is a seasoned technologist and has been building software for 20+ years. Verticals of focus include derivatives trading, management consulting and logistics. Johnny has rich experience building and running companies and maintains a passion for developing novel technical solutions that solve real problems. Discover more details here. Some...

#64: Jamil Khan, President & Amanda Cole, Co-Founder and CEO of Sayurbox 04.05.2022

About Jamil Khan: Jamil Khan is the President of Sayurbox. Jamil is an International Logistics Leader, bringing almost 30 years of Operational & Supply Chain experience, having lived in 6 and worked in 11 countries across Europe & Asia. He is an experienced senior leader, with a great career as EVP of Logistics at Lazada, and VP of Operations of Redmart, Jamil has also worked in Tesco, MET...

#63: Lalit Das, Founder & CEO of 3SC 02.05.2022

Lalit Das is a Founder and CEO of SS Supply Chain Solutions Pvt Ltd (3SC).  He worked in the various segments of the Supply Chain Domain and Manufacturing & Services Sector in Supply Chain Functions. He founded 3SC in 2012, the firm holds strong expertise in Predictive, Prescriptive and Descriptive analytics combined with collaborative and consultative approach.  3SC orchestrates organizations...

#62: Jonathan Savoir, CEO & Co-Founder of Quincus 26.04.2022

Jonathan Savoir is the CEO and Co-founder of Quincus. Jonathan grew up in Belgium and Luxembourg and attended colleges in London and in the USA. In college, he studied engineering and economics. Upon completing his Master's Degree at 20, he pursued his Ph. D. and decided to drop out at 21 to make some global investments and build startups. In 2014 he founded Quincus with his co-founder. Quinc...

#61: Kathleen Chan, Founder and CEO of Calico 19.04.2022

Kathleen Chan is the Founder and CEO of Calico, the supply chain OS that powers the $1.4 trillion eCommerce production market from concept to doorstep. Kathleen is a serial founder, previously starting several D2C brands and scaling them from zero to six figures in revenues in the first six months of operations.  Prior to Calico, Kathleen was the youngest professor at Centennial College in Toronto...

#60: Philipp Ortwein,Co-Founder and Managing Director of InstaFreight 24.03.2022

Philipp Ortwein is Co-Founder and Managing Director of InstaFreight, a digital forwarding company. He graduated with a Master in Management from the University of Mannheim and did his executive education at Harvard and Stanford.  During 9 years of work experience at Bain & Company and 2 Startups, he gained expertise in digitization and Industry 4.0. Discover more details here. Some of the high...

#59: John Hefter, Senior Vice President & Founder at Thras.io 07.01.2022

As a founder of Thrasio, John has been fortunate to witness their original team of 4 grow into a 1000 person, billion-dollar powerhouse. At work and in life,  he is a polymath with unrelenting energy and curiosity. He enjoys regularly deploying his expertise in branding, creative, neuroscience marketing, business development, acquisitions, leadership, culture building, and product development acro...

#58: Sandeep Sreekumar, COO & Rolf Knoerzer, CEO of IndustryApps 31.10.2021

About Sandeep Sreekumar: Sandeep Sreekumar is the COO and Co-Founder of IndustryApps. Sandeep has 15 years of digitalization experience. He specializes in Smart Factory, IT/OT Domain, IoT, ML, AI, Plant Engineering, and Process Engineering. Before IndustryApps, he was a Global Head – Digital Factory. About Rolf Knoerzer: Rolf Knoerzer is the CEO and Co-Founder of IndustryApps. Rolf has 25 years of...

#57: David Shillingford, Chief Strategy Officer of Everstream Analytics 22.10.2021

David Shillingford is the Chief Strategy Officer of Everstream Analytics (formerly Resilience360 and Riskpulse), a leading supply chain risk analytics company that enables greater resilience and agility in the supply chains of many of the world’s best-known companies. David has led the development of several industry-wide data and analytics platforms both as an entrepreneur and as SVP Supply Chain...

#56: Evan Smith CEO & Co-Founder of Altana AI 13.10.2021

Evan Smith is the CEO and Co-founder of Altana AI. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Yale University. Before Altana AI, Evan led enterprise solution and strategic partnership at Panjiva, a trades data science company.  Before Panjiva, Evan co-managed a private equity partnership and the family office sponsor and served as the CEO of IMDU Technologies, a wholly-owned portfolio company...

#55: Romain Moulin CEO of Exotec 28.09.2021

Romain Moulin is the CEO of Exotec , a company he co-founded with Renaud Heitz in 2015. As a former robotics architect and technical engineer at GE and BA Système, Romain spent 10+ years immersed in deep technology systems before he shifted his attention to solving the challenge of retail warehouse automation. He was born and raised in France and graduated from a top French engineering university,...

#54: Michael Wax Co-Founder and CEO of Forto 03.08.2021

Michael Wax is the Co-Founder and CEO of Forto, Europe’s first digital freight forwarding company and the largest one as well. They are building the digital backbone for the multi-trillion global trade market and are currently at 1.2 billion valuation. They have raised a number of big rounds with the latest one, backed by SoftBank, which was 240 million. They are present in 14 locations worldwide...

#53: Alok Bhanot EVP & CTO of Cloudleaf 26.04.2021

Alok Bhanot is a seasoned technology and business leader with a stellar career leading large and startup teams across a spectrum of companies like eBay, PayPal, Verifone, Visa, and startups like Inkiru and Qopper. He has built highly scalable platforms, systems, and services for e-commerce, risk modeling, payment transactions, real-time predictive analytics, and IoT-based operations systems. Disco...

#52: Karen Leavitt CMO of Locus Robotics 19.04.2021

In her role as CMO of Locus Robotics, Karen brings over twenty years of experience developing innovative, creative, and effective marketing programs for a wide range of technology companies, from start‐ups to Fortune 1000 public companies. Karen’s outstanding analytical and technical abilities deliver insight and innovative programs that consistently deliver positive marketing ROI. She also serves...

#51: Andrew Hogenson Partner & Global Head of Consumer, Retail and Logistics Practice at Infosys 30.03.2021

Andrew joined Infosys Consulting in 2020 and heads our Consumer Goods, Retail, and Logistics (CRL) practice globally. He is a lifelong consultant with over 30 years of experience driving large transformation programs and high-value consulting work. Andrew has a stellar track record in the turnaround and monetization of practices, holding senior leadership roles previously in EY, Accenture, and Man...

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