RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List: 50 to 41

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 50 to 41 (check out 100 to 91, 90 to 81, 80 to 71, 70 to 61 and 60 to 51 here, here, here, here and here).

Following that, the full list of influencers will be released here.

Deepinder Goyal

Twitter bio: Founder - @zomato. Favourite word - focus.

Hello twitter, good morning :)

I just want to tell you more about how 10-minute delivery works, and how it is as safe for our delivery partners as 30-minute delivery.

This time, please take 2 minutes to read through this (before the outrage) :D

(1/2) https://t.co/PKKn97NhTf pic.twitter.com/NAfw20K1rF
— Deepinder Goyal (@deepigoyal) March 22, 2022

Alice Chang

LinkedIn bio: CEO and Founder, Perfect Corp - Leading the Beauty 3.0 Revolution through AI and AR

Paul do Forno

Twitter bio: Managing Director / Eminence Lead Commerce Practice @DeloitteDigital. B2B B2C Commerce DigitalTransformation Expert. Alum: @uofwaterloo.

Andrew Busby

Ron Thurston

LinkedIn bio: Amazon #1 Best Selling Author of RETAIL PRIDE, host of RETAIL IN AMERICA, 2022 Top 100 Retail Influencer.

Sebastian Siemiatkowski

Twitter bio: Co-founder and CEO of @Klarna. Smoooth shopping! Trying my best to be the nightmare of the bank establishment worldwide! Do all I can so customers will love us.

Now the press is asking me, whats the impact of Ukraine war on Klarna.

The answer is simple:

We don't care how it impacts Klarna’s business. It's irrelevant!

If there are any consequences from the war, on Klarna, we are happy to take them, that is the very very least we can do
— Sebastian Siemiatkowski (@klarnaseb) February 28, 2022

Warren Richmond

Warren is CEO and Founder at Situ Live, an experiential retail destination at Westfield London and 2021 RTIH Innovation Awards winner.

Emily Pfeiffer

Twitter bio: E-Commerce and brand strategy geek. Casual weight lifter. Chocoholic. Easily bored... (and my opinions? just mine).

Shannon Ryan

Twitter bio: EVP North America @Valtech. Former founder & CEO of non-linear (1995-2017). Interested in #retail, #digitalstrategy #digitaltransformation & the #metaverse.

David Polinchock

LinkedIn bio: Helping retailers and brands understand the emerging tech impacting the physical space, including AR & the metaverse. Proud Bucknell parent!

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.

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