Benjamin is a global director with more than 15 years of experience in various industries and marketing focus areas. He is further known as guest speaker and Co-Author of CRM specialist literature. In his current role Benjamin creates and shapes omni-channel marketing capabilities, which enable the adidas group to become a world-class omni-channel player by 2020.

Karsten Uhlig is Head of E-Commerce and Business Intelligence at bonprix and is responsible for the web shops and mobile shops, internationalization, analytics, personalization, the Integrated Data Driven Marketing platform, email marketing, SEO, CRM and Connected Retail. bonprix is with more than 31 million customers in 27 countries one of the leading fashion retailer in Europe and is among the top 10 German online shops. As a real specialist for direct marketing bonprix is sending out 200 million catalogs and 1.4 billion newsletters every year Karsten Uhlig started 15 years ago after his diploma in business administration at bonprix in the e-commerce team. He developed during his career the own e-commerce platform for bonprix, was responsible for the international rollout of the web shops and mobile shops, built up the e-mail marketing and online marketing and focuses currently on building the Integrated Data Driven Marketing platform to realize the Business Intelligence potentials.

Thilo Bendler Vice President Knowledge Management for Otto Group. Having moved into the role in 2012, Thilo's main responsibilities include consulting of all Otto Group Companies with a focus on Marketing, Sales, Assortment and Strategy. He also oversees organisation of Know-how Exchange for the Otto Group, and development and maintenance of the DACAPOi Best Seller data base.

Since January 2014 Dr. Zores took on the position as CTO of REWE Digital GmbH, responsible for the strategic technical direction and its implementation. Dr. Zores holds a Phd in physics and computer sciences and has extensive experience in the fields of technology and Internet. He started his career at „Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt“ (DLR) before moving into the industrial sector. Dr. Zores has held leading positions at companies like SUN Microsystems, Easynet, AOL and AutoScout24 and was one of the leading architects of the computer language JAVA. 

Tom Haveman is the head of E-commerce Technology at BESTSELLER, one of the largest fast fashion retailers in Europe. Since Tom’s arrival 16 months ago BESTSELLER E-Commerce revenues have increased by over 50%. In 2014 BESTSELLER E-commerce has relocated all its E-commerce innovation activities to the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and changed its way of working to support faster delivery of value to the platform and their customers. In just over six months the technology department went from a waterfall methodology, releasing new features every 16 weeks, to innovate in 5 different value streams releasing twice a week using continuous delivery.

Sebastian will impart his excellent knowledge about how to follow the customer across all devices in a strategic in targeted way that will yeald loyalty. Find out more on the afternoon of day 1.

Simon has over 14 years of consulting experience in the areas of marketing, brand, and business strategy - for both B2B and B2C clients. He has worked with senior management teams at international blue-chip clients (e.g. Allianz, Bertelsmann, BMW, eBay, General Motors, Metro, Siemens, Vattenfall, Volkswagen) in countries across Europe, the U.S., and China, as well as for top players in Germany (e.g. Commerzbank, Deutsche Telekom, Postbank). As Chief Strategy Officer at Saatchi & Saatchi Germany, Simon is driving the development "from a briefing agency to a coaching agency". He is responsible for all strategic engagements of the agency, including the development of brand & communication strategies and all account planning work, as well as new business. Simon has published various articles on marketing and strategic partnership topics and has contributed to several books in these areas, e.g. the German edition of “Brand Relevance” by David Aaker and "B2B Brand Management" by Philip Kotler & Waldemar Pförtsch. Since 2013 he is a member of the jury for the German Association of Communications Agencies' B2B brand management award "GWA Profi".

Dr. Matthias Häsel is Head of Online and Mobiles Sales at Deutsche Bahn, being responsible for bahn.de, bahn.com and the DB Navigator app. Prior to joining Deutsche Bahn, Matthias was Head of Business Development & Innovation at OTTO, where he led the mobile strategy and responsive design program. Previously, he served as a Senior Product Manager at XING. Matthias has a degree in computer science, a master's degree in e-business and a doctoral degree in information systems.

Guido has been Chief Technology Officer at Spreadshirt since 2013. Comprehensive experience in the IT sector garnered in several management positions at various leading international companies such as DaimlerChrysler, SAP and Hasso-Plattner-Institute is what Guido brings to Spreadshirt. Before joining the company, he was a figurehead at Software AG, acting as Vice President of their global consulting sector. In his previous position at itCampus, he was Managing Director of its Software AG branch. At Spreadshirt, Guido is responsible for all operational and staffrelated matters of several IT departments ranging from IT service to development. Thanks to his expertise, he guarantees the failure-free operation of our platform as well as its continuous growth by means of optimisation and further development.

Gareth Locke is Head of Marketing & Channel Development at zooplus, europe’s leading onlince Pet Store. Zooplus is present in nearly 30 countries and services over 3 Mio. active clients. Since Gareth’s arrival early 2012 zooplus has boosted Online marketing efficiency and reduced the cost per order by more than half. In parallel the Usability and functional improvements to the online shop have helped achieve a significant increase in conversion rate.

Markus will be offering excellent practical examples of how to best use the single customer view model, and how this has been used at GetGoods.de.

Alexander is responsible for international and strategic management of all international sourcing and design for the fashion and apparel at Madeleine Mode. His specialisms and recent focus is the e-commerce and omnichannel side of the business developing the brands increase in international sales.

Hartmut Deiwick is commercial director at APONEO, one of the top online pharmacies in Germany. He helped evolving the company into a quality leader and a first mover with regard to some innovative customer-related services such as same-day delivery. Together with technology companies, he is currently working on wearable e-health devices. Hartmut will share his expertise about how to best utilise wearables to develop customer loyalty in his session on the last day of eTail Germany.

Daniel is the Head of Online Transformation at Vodafone Deutschland, his passion is revolutionising the Vodafone mobile experience and specialises in creating efficient and customer centric strategies.

Mark is responsible for all commercial activities of 3PAGEN on a national and international scale. Including all the strategic marketing, operationnel marketing, promotion, catalogue business

Mara is responsible for the onsite personalisation of the Otto Group sites and specialises in creating personalised and inspiring pages. At eTail Germany she will sharing her top tips to achieve this on Day 1.

Felix has over 13 years work experience in the various fields of SCM, eCommerce and IT. Felix is currently responsible for responsible for Payment, fulfilment and Customer Service within the PUMA Europe eCommerce business in 23 countries. Attend Felix’s session to develop your business’s consistent brand image across all your touch points.

As a digital marketing native, Roman is in charge of the online marketing activities of one of Germany’s most dynamically growing companies.

Ludger has been with CEWE for 18 years, and has vast experience in delighting customers with sensational in-store developments. His reputable strategies for designing successful digital integration are founded on his ability to create holistic strategies, that motivate the staff, excited the customer and are measurable for management. Attend his session on the morning of day 3 to learn how to implement similar strategies in your business.

As the Managing Director and Founder of Tredex GmbH Sebastian Labud is responsible for sales, product, development and marketing for Tredex is a subsidiary of Runnerspoint and Foot Locker and in charge of the Ecommerce development.

Cengiz Dülger has been the Head of Web Conversion for Sky Germany since July 2012. Cengiz is responsible for the new customer area on the sky.de and responsible for the development of new innovative approaches and concepts to increase conversion. In particular his primary skills range from web analytics, across SEA / SEO through to conversion optimization collect. At eTail Germany 2015 Cengiz will be discussing mobile conversion.

Raphael Beguin is head of business development of Euronics Germany, one of Europe’s largest buying groups for consumer electronics. He used to be responsible for the offline business and the business development of one of the ten biggest e-tailers in Germany and therefore possesses detailed knowledge on how an omni-channel company works. In his trainings for members of the Euronics cooperative society, he gives lectures on how a clever interaction of online and offline trade can generate synergies. Furthermore, he currently supports the e-commerce department in implementing the cross-channel-retailing concept.

As CTO of one of Germany’s most dynamic sports e-retailers, Florian is responsible for the customer experience and onsite delivery.

Daniel Raab is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG since November 2013 and serves as Managing Director of SevenVentures since April 2014. Today he is acting as Managing Director of 7Commerce and is responsible for the expansion of strategic eCommerce investments. Before joining ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, he held several leadership positions with Amazon in Germany and the USA. Among others, he was responsible for the categories ‘Home Appliances’ and ‚Watches & Jewelry’. Prior to this, Daniel was working in the areas of Sales, Buying & Distribution for companies of the fashion / lifestyle industry like Gucci and Hermès.

Markus has over 20 years of management experience ( marketing, sales and e-business ) in the FMCG sector in international branded companies Nestlé, Brita and in Consulting. Markus is responsible for the Nestlé brand in Germany and leads the consumer platforms nestle-marktplatz.de and ernaehrungsstudio.nestle.de . With his particular focus on growing the Social elements of the Nestlé brand.

Claus’s latest efforts with the ROLLER eCommerce strategies have focused on profit driven online marketing, multi channel tracking, customer journey attribution, including sea, seo, RTA, DMP, and realtime prediction engines, facebook advertising, youtube advertising, e-mail marketing

Andre Schoenherr is a digital enthusiast and is going to be discussing the B2B perspective of e-commerce, looking specifically at customer engagement and how B2C companies can learn.

As the Director of Marketing, Sales and e-commerce, Thomas is expertly placed to discuss the move to mobile and Doc Morris’ very successful responsively designed mobile webshop.

Henrik Voss is Head of E-Commerce and Marketing at GRAVIS (Freenet Group), one of Germany???s leading digital lifestyle providers. Since he started working for GRAVIS (May 2014), revenues at gravis.de more than doubled and the Click&Collect rate increased by 70%. GRAVIS managed to combine their services to provide customers a great Omni-Channel experience.

Dr. Oliver Breiden currently heads the program office and innovation team at METRO PROPERTIES, the real estate subsidiary of METRO GROUP. With its sales divisions, METRO Cash & Carry, Real hypermarkets, and MediaMarkt Saturn electronics stores, METRO GROUP operates over 2,000 retail and wholesale stores in more than 30 countries. Oliver will explore the future role of brick-and-mortar stores in an eCommerce era. He will be showcasing store projects realised with different online retailers as well as the finding from THE INSPIRATION STORE project by METRO GROUP, eBay, and PayPal.

As the Founder of a rapidly growing webshop, Sebastian has hands on experience of growing a successful luxury retailer and expanding into new markets.

Werner manages GANT’s e-commerce strategy and has responsibility for the sales performance, budgets, analytics, online markeing activities, customer service, managing developers, systems integrations, and third-party warehouse operations. Werner has impressively generated double-digit revenue growth YOY for the past three years, improved on all key metrics.

Maximilian is the Founder & CEO of Finimize.com, the fastest growing finance platform for millennials. Prior to that, he was Co-Founder and VP Strategy at DeinDeal, which is the biggest multi-category e-commerce player after Amazon in Switzerland with more than 150 employees and 100m revenue. At DeinDeal, Maximilian was mainly responsible for business and corporate development, business intelligence and data, strategy, and supply chain management. Prior to DeinDeal, Maximilian advised firms in the Telecommunications, Media, Technology (TMT) sectors as a strategy consultant in London. Maximilian holds an MA (Hons) in Economics and International Relations from the University of St. Andrews in the UK and studied abroad at the University of Virginia. He was a scholar of the German National Scholarship foundation (Studienstifung des Deutschen Volkes).

Since recently Head of the Digital Customer Experience (Web & Mobile) at Voyages-SNCF.com (4 billion turnover), Pascal Lannoo founded in 2011 the Mobile Business department of the Top 1 French e-merchant Voyages-SNCF.com whose mobile sales currently represent 25% of the global bookings. Pascal Lannoo counts as one of the pioneers of Digital in France. Already from 1999 he joined online sales structures (Uniondream.com, Clust.com, …) before becoming consultant in e-commerce and digital marketing (Ford, Redcats, Advancia Negocia, IRSN, Cengeps, Lapeyre), topics on which he spoke in France and abroad. He is the author of French Digital Marketing top sellers.

One of Rocket Internet’s greatest success stories, as the Founder and Global CEO, Charles is uniquely placed to discuss how GLOSSYBOX has grown internationally and offer some isightin to how you can learn from this experience.

Ozgur Dogan is the Chief Marketing Officer of Hepsiburada, which is the leading e-commerce company in Turkey. As the Chief Marketing Officer, Ozgur is responsible for increasing customer value, improving marketing ROI and maximizing effectiveness of all digital and offline channels at Hepsiburada. Prior to joining Hepsiburada, Ozgur held General Manager positions at Merkle, which is largest privately-held customer relationship marketing agency and the fastest-growing agency of any discipline in the U.S for 2013. At the event, he will be talking about the winning e-commerce growth strategies in the Turkish market

Dr. David Hoeflmayr is CEO of Thomas-Krenn.AG, The fast- growing online server manufacturer has received numerous innovations and awards for customer experience - the online shop, in processes and products. He brings over 20 years of multi-channel experience. Previously, he served as CSO / COO at Apple dealer GRAVIS during its transition from a steady dealer to multichannel player. Prior to that, he built the Berlin cable operator Tele Columbus as COO a powerful multi-channel sales team. Dr. Hoeflmayr holds degrees in psychology, sociology , business administration and law. He teaches at the University of Munich and is an active member in the Munich district.

Daniel Röthlin is the CEO of Ex Libris AG. He has been working for the Migros subsidiary since 2007 as Head of Retail. The experienced retail professional has built his professional career in several companies. Among other employers he worked in different positions at Jelmoli, Globus, Charles Voegele and diax Telecommunications.

Luca’s proudest business achievement is the re-launch of Swiss.com into a revolutionised customer experience featuring responsive design, digital travel guides, personalised information, responsive design and innovative customer experience

Erik Meierhoff has been working in the digital industry for over 15 years and is more than familiar with processes in the B2B2C sector. Already during his studies, he was responsible for the technical integration of a leading eprocurement marketplace in the chemical sector, cc chemplorer. After graduating in political science (M.A.,) he filled leading positions in marketing, business development and consultancy. At Rakuten Deutschland, Erik was in charge of the strategic and operational development of the marketplace. Since 2015 he is heading the business development for Rakuten Europe, focusing on financial services and the further expansion of Rakuten’s fully integrated ecosystem in Europe.

Frank Seemann is Division Manager Digital Print and Direct Business at Erfurt & Sohn KG, located in Wuppertal, Germany. Erfurt is global market leader in producing and distributing wallpaper for the professional and DIY markets. 7 years ago Erfurt launches its wallpaper for digital printing an won several prices. As an online-channel for the B2C- and SOHO-markets Erfurt operates the company JuicyWalls (www.juicywalls.com). Frank is the CEO of JuicyWalls and will show the audience the omnichannel strategy of Erfurt & Sohn. In addition he will explain why the E-commerce business strenghtens the brand value of Erfurt's core businesses.

Markus is a digital leader with 15 years experience in B2B and B2C industries and a strong track record in multiple specialisms including advertising, fashion & luxury, media, politics, retail and tourism. Markus is in charge for the Swarovski group's digital marketing agenda and leading an inter-divisional ecommerce project team.

Mirko finds that through doing strong, data driven market research he has been able to drill into the core target group as Mr. Spex, thus improving his customer’s lifetime value. This way he can cater to the existing customer base based in a more strategic fashion. In particular he has achieved triple digit growth as a result of these new strategies.

Stephen has been at AO World for over 9 years and has held a number of roles. He is currently Director of Logistics for AO.de and is responsible for ensuring that AO customers get an exceptional delivery experience in its international business. AO’s philosophy is built around the customer experience and their in-house logistics is a key component of delivering that moment of difference for AO’s customers

Tu-Lam is an entrepreneur, professor and expert for digital business models. He is the founder of digital IQ, a training and consulting firm for digital business models, online marketing and social media. He is also a professor for e-commerce, digital marketing and entrepreneurship at the International School of Management in Munich. Prior to that, Tu-Lam was the Head of Performance Marketing at ProSiebenSat.1/SevenVentures (the digital ventures portfolio of one of Europe's largest media companies) and Director Performance Management at NETRADA (a leading e-commerce service provider for the fashion industry, now part of Arvato/Bertelsmann). Tu-Lam was also the founder and CEO of ENAMORA, a leading German online retailer for lingerie and swimwear. Tu-Lam studied economics in Mannheim, Toulouse, Munich and Cambridge and holds an MSc and PhD in Economics.

Simone Henneberger is responsible at the K-Mail Order group for the group wide category management/buying as well as catalog and online sales activities of living and home textiles assortments in 11 countries for the brands Klingel and Wenz. Furthermore she is responsible for developing the group wide online marketplace business of fashion/living/electronics assortments, managing selection, evaluation, negotiation, technical integration of partners to the websites as well as their growing business performance.

A new Rocket Internet company, Sedat is the founder and lead of this new start up. Renowned for it’s dynamic content marketing activities and pop up shops.

Erik has been a professional athlete in canoe slalom with his biggest achievement being world champion. Directly out of business school he turned his sports passion into business and founded www.vaola.de (formerly known as mysportworld.de), Vaola has the largest selection of online sporting equipment in Germany and Erik will discuss how to accurately analyse the relationship between a customers behaviour and their basket purchases.

Dirk Lauber is currently responsible for all of the e-commerce activities of the Baur Group in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with an online demand of approximately EUR 1 billion. In addition, he currently leads the fourth largest German e-commerce agency with in-house service for approx. 40 Otto Group companies around the world. As CEO of the online advertising and consulting firm Octobo he supports about 20 companies of the Otto Group in online store activities. Among others Baur.de were nominated imwalking.de for the E -Commerce: "Online Shop of the Year," "Innovation Award" and "Best Mobile Shop."

As Director Performance Marketing, Dorothee leads the online marketing team at Project A and decisively influences the marketing of their portfolio companies, acting either as a sparring partner or as the interim CMO. Dorothee can build on ten years of experience in online marketing. During this time, she was responsible for the sales team at Zanox, where she led the T-I-M-E-S department, before helping to grow the business at Zalando, almost from its start.

Dr. Remi Smolinski is responsible for Business Development and innovations at Combank Direct. Before joining Comdirect Bank, he worked at OTTO Group, Lycos Bertelsmann, eBay and mobile.internationa and researched at Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and Aarhus University.

Stefan Tobel has been working at ABOUTYOU since 2014. As Head of Shop he is responsible for the operation and further development of aboutyou.de. His responsibilities include the areas conception, design and programming of the shop-features as well as A/B Testing. Since launch in May 2014, ABOUTYOU has won several awards for its UX and innovative features. Stefan Tobel is graduate of ESCP Europe. Before joining ABOUTYOU, he's been working as strategy consultant for Otto Group, one of the World’s largest e-commerce players.

Ingo Heinrich is founder and CEO of stylefruits GmbH. He founded the recommendation platform stylefruits together with Michael Vietze and Mathias Ziegler in 2008. Ingo Heinrich has extensive Internet, (social) media, and e-commerce experience. Previously, he acted as Head of Investment Management Multimedia of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. Prior to that, he worked as Director of Portal Sales at Tiscali GmbH, Head of Marketing Consulting at ID-Media AG as well as the Head of Ad Sales & E-Commerce at Gruner+Jahr BerlinOnline GmbH. Ingo Heinrich holds degrees from Freie Universität Berlin and from the London School of Economics.

Thomas is an experienced professional within the e-Commerce world. Thomas has always had a strong focus on solving difficult tasks in the area between crafting strategies and operationalising them and is supported by a broad knowledge regarding system-selection and building high-performance teams. Thomas is currently implementing new infrastructure company wide (ESB, PIM, BI, ECom) as basis of the execution of new niche shop strategy for Parumarie Douglas. This includes a new subscription model DOUBOX using self-developed project management model MAIP - massive agile and integrated project execution. Implementation of business case of new subscription model DOUBOX as a club model.

Linh Nguyen is the Co-Founder of Kisura.de, the first personalized clothing service for women in Europe that digitalizes the shopping experience of a traditional fashion boutique. With a strong background in finance and e-commerce combined with a great passion for fashion and entrepreneurship Linh and her Co-Founder Tanja managed to establish a complete new and innovative commerce concept with the potential to disrupt a billion EURO market. At eTail Linh will outline the current challenges in online retail and will share the key success factors of curated shopping.

Lorenz co-founded photography community and marketplace EyeEm along with three other photography enthusiasts in 2010. He currently serves as the company's Chief Innovation Officer where he focuses on product, design and digital innovation. Prior to EyeEm, Lorenz launched a search engine that helps build schools in Africa. He received a MSc from Copenhagen Business School and a BSc in International Business from Maastricht University. He spends his free time DJ'ing his way around Berlin.

As Managing Director, Ben has overall responsibility for HookLogic’s business in Europe, which includes growing both the supply and demand sides of the business, partnership development, staffing and business administration activities. Prior to joining HookLogic, Ben acquired a broad skill base from several roles within Xerox Europe. During his tenure as eBusiness & Sales Systems Development Manager, Ben was responsible for leveraging Internet technologies to optimize business processes and generate operational efficiencies within the sales organization following the Lean Six Sigma methodology. Ben also gained experience in a Senior Account Business Development role, where he had direct account and revenue growth responsibilities. Earlier in his career, Ben supported business and product development initiatives at the Cambridge-based technology start-up PageCam. Ben earned a Bachelor’s degree in Geography from the University of Sheffield, England. Outside of work, he is an active traveler and sportsman.

Cecile is the founder of Rebelle, an innovative online platform which deals with second-hand fashion from luxury labels. Rebelle is a great example of the new marketplace model. Attend her session to hear how Cecile has concerquered the german Luxuary market.

Ingrid Hochwind is an account executive at Google Germany. As a key account holder of global FMCG companies she is responsible for shopper marketing, EMEA. Previously she took care of large trade companies in Germany and in the United States, which were focused on digital solutions in retail advertisement. Before her time at Google, Ingrid used to work in the marketing sciences department at Accenture.

For over 10 years now, Timo von Focht is working in the field of Big Data, Web Intelligence and Digital Marketing. In the beginning of 2015, Timo von Focht joined TagCommander as Country Manager DACH. In this position, he is in charge of the Munich office and the German speaking customers of TagCommander. Before that, he was working for Adobe in Germany as a Senior Enterprise Account Manager. Other fields of activity were in Website Optimization and Analytics, where he successfully introduced 2 other solution vendors into the German market.

Michael Klein is the Director of Industry Strategy for the Adobe Marketing Cloud. He leads a team of subject matter experts who work with Adobe’s global commerce clients to help them develop best-in-class digital marketing strategies. Michael regularly contributes thought leadership to industry events, and is an active member of Shop.org and the Global Retail Marketing Association. Prior to joining Adobe, Michael spent over 25 years as a Senior Merchant and Marketer for brands such as the LVMH Group (eLuxury.com), William-Sonoma, Harry & David, Discovery Channel Stores, and wine.com.

Bol.com opened its doors on 30 March, 1999. Almost 16 years later bol.com is the largest (web)shop in the Netherlands and Belgium and market leader in the field of online sales of books, entertainment, electronic devices and toys, with over 5 million active customers. 

Feike Groen started at bol.com in 2006 as the IT development manager and succeeded in transforming the IT department to a lean set of teams with a strong focus on delivering business value every sprint. Before joining bol.com in 2006 Feike worked in IT for more than 10 years, as a hands-on, agile project manager eager to communicate and bringing business and IT together. This also has focus in his current role, IT Director Architecture & Shopping Experience, and is the key to excelling in innovation in the short as well as the long term.

Joachim has over 17 years of experience in the areas of international marketing, sales and ecommerce strategy - for both B2B and B2C clients. He holds an Executive MBA in Media Management and had director positions in leading companies in Germany (e.g. Deutsche Bahn, BBDO, iBrams). His current role in Lionbridge is Senior Business Development Director for Global Digital Marketing Solutions in the EMEA region.

Dirk Bartels is the Chief Product Officer of idealo internet, he will speak about various data streams that are available to an eTailer, offering insight on what purpose and business benefits the data and how this can be used to analyse the data.

Formerly of Project A Ventures, Arthur is an expert on growing companies and reaching new audiences. In his new role of CMO of idealo internet, he will be looking at how you can create a 360 degree view of your customer.

Frederieke Ubels has been working for bol.com for 10+ years. She started as the manager of the book department, and switched to IT in 2007. Her background in the marketing department has played a key role in aligning the IT organization with the business departments within bol.com. As a Director IT Innovation she is responsible for continuous improvement of the innovation process at bol.com, alignment with business departments and for the transition to a DevOps way of working, to ensure scalability of the IT organization. This helps bol.com grow, stay ahead of the competition and hold its leading role in (e)commerce in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Guy is a passionate advocate for intelligent use of customer data to drive responsive email programs. With a knowledge base that now spans nearly 15 years, he is a global e-mail expert and thought leader. Leading Return Path’s International Professional Services consulting team, Guy has worked with a broad range of clients across 5 continents to improve their email delivery, subscriber engagement and revenue generated. Outside of work, Guy has had long-term involvement with both the DMA and IAB email councils, as well as being a regular contributor to the industry press.

Arjan Kerkhoff, has a broad experience in delivery management. Before starting at MetaPack in November 2014, he worked 25 years at PostNL where he was responsible for the development of and the relationship with Strategic and Key Accounts, both domestic and international. At MetaPack he is a member of the Group Sales Board and responsible for the company growth in the Central European Region. He has a Master’s degree from the University of Maastricht where he accomplished the Studies International Management.

Abhijit Shome is a Sales and Marketing executive with 25+ years of experience in early stage, mid-stage and Fortune 1000 companies. At MediaMath, he is the SVP of Vertical Strategies with responsiblity for the growth of our global business in specific industries. Before joining MediaMath, Abhijit served as the VP of Marketing at Macy’s where he was responsible for i) curation & activation of customer data & insights in a secure privacy compliant manner ii) building & scaling of a people based advertising platform and iii) Macy's loyalty platform including Plenti - the only multi brand loyalty program in NA. Prior to joining Macy's, Abhijit was the Director of Sales Effectiveness at VWR International. He holds a B.E in Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. In his spare time Abhijit has served as a member of IBM's Customer Advisory Board, the Chair of Carnegie Science Center Awards and as a Trustee on the Board of The Ellis School

With almost 10 years of experience in ecommerce Andreas currently works especially on data-driven eCommerce, profit-oriented marketing & merchandising, multi-channel tracking, and integrated personalization approaches. Prior to joining SDL he worked in the Management Board of an international leader in product search & navigation technology.

Andreas will present best practices and discuss with you how human controlled, visual Merchandizing tactics can boost your multi-channel-sales.

Thomas Ahlers is the Head of Marketing at Brille24, the leading online optician in Germany. He brings over 10 years Marketing and E-Commerce experience from EWE, Reichelt Elektronik and Pilot Hamburg. His main objective: integrated marketing campaigns from the first point of contact until the conversion to CRM.

Ben has been in mobile ad tech since joining Fyber in 2011, helping to grow their mobile business. Recently he headed up customer development and growth of Fyber's advertisers in EMEA. Ben studied Management at the University of Manchester’s Business School.

Liad is a serial entrepreneur with rich experience as a startup founder and as a Fortune 500 executive. He founded information security vendor Onigma (acquired by McAfee) and social search company Delver (acquired by Sears Holdings). Following Delver’s acquisition, Liad served as a VP of New Services at Sears Holdings and on the board of its Home Electronics and Outlets business units. Liad served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Bessemer Venture Partners and teaches at the Entrepreneurship MBA program in Tel-Aviv University and at the Zell Program of IDC Herzliya. He holds a BA Cum Laude from Tel-Aviv University in Computer Sciences and Film Studies.

As a Strategic Consultant Christine Vonhof is supporting brands and retailers to seamlessly integrate Bazaarvoice solutions and word-of-mouth programs into exiting business processes and optimally leverage consumer-generated content. An open ear for consumers and reacting to feedback speedily are main goals to strengthen the dialogue with shoppers. Before being with Bazaarvoice, the Media Economics graduate worked as a consultant at various on- and offline media houses such as Yahoo! and Mindshare.

JUNIQE is the online destination for curated and affordable art prints, apparel, and accessories. As one of the three founders of JUNIQE, Sebastian leads the organization's marketing, business intelligence, and HR activities. JUNIQE champions and supports emerging talent from around the world, and simultaneously shakes up the notion of “traditional decoration” by making exciting and unique art accessible to everyone. Before launching JUNIQE, Sebastian was a Senior Consultant at Roland Berger Strategies in Dubai. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Management from WHU and a master’s degree in Accounting from the London School of Economics.

Viktor Zawadzki is Region Manager of MediaMath Germany. His focus is on the company’s expansion of operating activities in Europe as well as on business development, consulting and product development. Previous to joining Spree7, he worked for Affinitas GmbH, a Rocket Internet portfolio company. He was responsible for Display, Real-Time Advertising, Facebook, Mobile, Remarketing and Online-Cooperations for the eDarling and SHOPAMAN brands. Zawadzki is an economics graduate who lives and works in Germany’s innovation capital of Berlin.

Lars joined Demandware in 2010 and leads Demandware’s European and Asian Customer Success Team that is dedicated to ensure customer satisfaction, digital commerce growth and retention. Prior to joining Demandware, he was founder and Managing Director of the online marketing agency SoQuero, which has been acquired in 2006 by the E-commerce software vendor Intershop. Prior Lars established and ran the German subsidiary of the French Interactive Marketing Agency NetBooster for 4 years and has worked as Regional Manager Europe for jobpilot (now Monster.com) during the European start up and going public phase.

Myles Kleeger has almost 20 years of experience in advertising, media and digital marketing, and is responsible for all customer-facing activities and functions at Appboy. He focuses on developing and executing the company’s go-to-market strategy as well as managing and scaling a number of departments including sales, marketing, customer success and strategic partnerships. 

Before Appboy, he was most recently Vice President, Strategic Sales for Salesforce Marketing Cloud, where he developed and managed many of the company’s largest brand/client relationships. Prior to joining Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), via the acquisition of Buddy Media where he was the Senior Vice President of Sales, Myles ran the digital marketing practice at Publicis’s Kaplan Thaler Group, where he oversaw all digital advertising, promotional and social media efforts for a range of clients including Procter & Gamble, Wendy’s, Aflac and Continental Airlines.

Nima Nourkami as Business Development Director he is responsible for sales operations in DACH focusing on Digital Marketing. With 10 years of experience in the language industry and especially language technology, Nima is helping companies to enlarge their global footprint helping them conquer new international markets.

As Regional Sales Director, Daniel Nackovski is responsible for the international sales operations at inRiver. Daniel, a Swedish national, studied international business at the University of Kristianstad and attained a master´s degree in strategic management from the University of Lund. Daniel has over 10 years of experience working with international companies to optimize their sales activities with the help of language (TMS) and product information management (PIM) technology. Daniel joined inRiver in 2015 and his focus is to advise key account customers on omnichannel strategy and PIM technology.

Julia Kowalczyk has built expertise in mixing marketing and technology. After 3 years focused on the travel industry connectivity challenges she evolved toward web-analytics. She helped 50+ companies in Canada and in Europe implementing the right KPIs and the relevant tools to support their data-driven marketing strategies. She likes to present her-self as an architect of the marketing ecosystem and fully develop her passion since she consults TagCommander strategic accounts in Germany.

Cornelia is leading the DACH business for AB Tasty, the leading European provider for testing, personalisation and user engagement. With over 10 years experience in the Online Markting and Ecommerce industry, Cornelia joined AB Tasty earlier this year. In her previous positions at Digital River she was building and leading the Marketing Consulting Team and setting up strategic digital distribution partnerships. From 2013 onwards she held the position of Director MyCommerce EMEA and as such being responsible for the European client base of the self-service SaaS e-commerce solution.

Cat is EyeEm’s Sales Development Manager where she works on partnerships, business strategy and creativity. Cat has held a number of positions within EyeEm including roles in Partnerships & Missions, and Content & Community. Through her role, she has worked with clients like Motorola, Audi, Ebay, BCG, Spotify and more on creative brand campaigns. Out of the office, Cat is a regular on the English language comedy circuit in Germany and writes for several music websites.

Jana Koch ist als Senior Business Development & Innovation Managerin bei der comdirect bank AG zuständig für die Entwicklung innovativer Produkte und dem zukunftsgerichteten Ausbau des Geschäftsmodells. Zuvor studierte sie International Business mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Strategie und Innovation an der Maastricht University (Niederlande).

Meike Maryska lead Mobile CRM activities for the German TV-on demand app dailyme TV before she joined Rocket Internet as a Mobile CRM Manager. At Rocket Meike advised 20+ portfolio companies on how to optimize retention and engagement of their mobile customers. In Februar 2016 she joined Delivery Hero Holding – the worlds largest food delivery network – as a Senior CRM Tech Lead.
Meike holds a Master of Science and a Master of European Business from ESCP Europe Business School.