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Rob Antolin recently joined Orca Pacific as business manager and is now the director of business management. His career includes a position as a senior vendor manager at Amazon. Antolin, who specializes in strategy, supply chain optimization and management, also worked at Cision and the NHL.  

Corey Apirian is CEO of Davinci Microfulfillment. He is an accomplished supply chain management professional with more than 15 years of senior management experience. Apirian specializes in ecommerce and channel merchandising, aligning operational initiatives with corporate objectives; and building and leading high-performing teams that succeed through a culture of inclusion, collaboration and engagement. Davinci Microfulfillment provides an end-to-end solution for a client to ensure that appropriate products will be offered for each dot-com channel, merchandised effectively (content, pricing, promotion), placed into Davinci micro-fulfillment centers at ideal U.S. locations, in optimized quantities and fulfilled to consumers through processes that minimize lead-time and cost.

Jordan Brannon, president & COO of Coalition Technologies, is a 20-year veteran of digital marketing with a special focus on ecommerce. He has helped hundreds of small brands achieve scale through direct-to-consumer ecommerce strategies focusing on platform selection, UX, performance marketing and more. 

Aaron Conant is co–founder and managing director of BWG Connect, a networking and knowledge sharing group used by thousands of brands to collectively grow their digital knowledge base and collaborate on partner selection. Speaking one-to-one with more than 1,200 brands a year and hosting more than 250 in-person and virtual events, Conant has a real-time pulse on the newest trends, strategies and partners shaping growth in the digital space. Prior to this, Conant was head of ecommerce sales at Perrigo, launching its Amazon business D2C and B2B websites. He began his career as a synthetic organic chemist at Pfizer. 

Alex de Vigan is the founder and CEO of Nfinite, a France-based startup with offices in Europe, USA, Asia and Taiwan. The company’s mission is to help brands, retailers and ecommerce players create the best visual content online or offline to enable sales and increase consumer engagement.  de Vigan has a decade of experience in the digital space and marketing content area. Before creating Nfinite four years ago, he was a lawyer with Gondran de Robert Avocats and an associate with Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier. 
 

Chad Epling is founder and CEO of Mamenta, a global commerce platform that enables brands and retailers from every continent to expand internationally. The Mamenta solution uses artificial intelligence to automate the complexity of global trade enabling brands and retailers to sell their merchandise direct to consumers on marketplaces around the world.

Kelly Ferris, senior director of sales for the Small Business Team, has been with BigCommerce for four years. In her role, she leads a large team of sellers who connect with thousands of small businesses every month to share why BigCommerce is the best ecommerce platform for launching and growing an online business. Prior to joining BigCommerce, she spent 11 years in sales at IBM in a variety of sales and management roles.

Daren Garcia is a partner in Vorys eControl. His practice is focused on protecting companies’ brand value by helping them to control their online sales.