RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List: 60 to 51
The latest edition of the RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List has arrived! Here are the people who made a splash in 2021 and are set for a barnstorming 2022.
RTIH has scoured the retail technology world to find the most influential figures for this comprehensive list of people and trends that shaped the industry in 2021 and will continue to drive it further in 2022.
2021 was a year like no other.
With Covid-19 continuing to drive a seismic change in shopping habits, and the likes of checkout free stores, rapid delivery services, the metaverse and NFTs breaking through to the mainstream, it was one of the most eventful years in the history of retail tech.
But behind all the news headlines stood the people who worked on and contributed to the development of the retail tech space.
Enter the RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List. Profiles will be published daily in batches of ten, with this article running through 60 to 51 (check out 100 to 91, 90 to 81, 80 to 71 and 70 to 61 here, here, here and here).
Following that, the full list of influencers will be released here.
Jo Hickson
Jo is Head of Labs, Tesco Technology, Group Innovation. Check out her Twitter account here.
Matt Taylor
Matt is Technology Transformation Leader at EY, Retail and Consumer Products.
Frank Beard
Twitter bio: Marketing + CX at @StandardAI | Retail speaker, writer, analyst | Once spent a month eating at gas stations and lived to tell the tale.
Bryony Elliott
Bryony is co-founder of Hullabalook, a UK-based e-commerce startup which recently secured $8.2 million in a Series A funding round led by Nauta Capital and supported by existing investors Conviction VC and Passion Capital.
The cash will support the firm’s growth in the UK and new markets in North America and Europe.
Glenn Faulkner
Twitter bio: Proud father of 4, adopted Yorkshire man Technical Program Manager at AiFi. Views expressed are my own
Deborah Weinswig
Deborah is CEO and Founder of Coresight Research.
Paul Wilkinson
Twitter bio: Product Manager, Alexa Shopping - formerly @TescoLabs and “an unlikely Tesco employee” according to Wired. Own opinions.
Steve Dresser
Twitter bio: Insight and advisory for retail execs worldwide. "The man supermarket CEO's turn to (BBC) "Let's make retail great again", #10. SEN Tribunal vet.
Rebekah Kondrat
Twitter bio: Retail Believer | Former @Apple, @WarbyParker, @OutdoorVoices, Joybird | Founder at Kondrat Retail | Ballerina | Retail is Alive™
Celia Van Wickel
LinkedIn bio: eCommerce | Retail | CPG | Insights Thought Leader.
How do we identify the top 100?
We use a variety of sources to select our top 100, including feedback from industry observers, research within our own networks, direct or third party nominations via our website, and social media tools.
In addition to social presence, we also take into account award winners, event speakers, books published, media appearances, and people building innovative companies, solutions etc in the retail space.
