RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List: 40 to 31
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 40 to 31 (check out 100 to 91, 90 to 81, 80 to 71, 70 to 61, 60 to 51 and 50 to 41 here, here, here, here, here and here).
Following that, the full list of influencers will be released here.
40-31
Marshall Kay
LinkedIn bio: Strategic Advisor to retailers, global brands, investors and others connected to Retail. Speaker. Writer on Retail topics for Forbes. One of 2022's most influential Thought Leaders (as awarded by RETHINK Retail).
Steve Dennis
Twitter bio: Keynote speaker, retail consultant, podcast host, @Forbes contributor, author of "Remarkable Retail: How to Win & Keep Customers in the Age of Disruption."
Ben Zettler
Twitter bio: Digital Marketing & Ecommerce Consultant, @Shopify Expert, @ShopifyPlus Partner | #Terps '12 | @zettlerdigital | …but Dad first.
Vitaly Alexandrov
LinkedIn bio: Food Rocket | Forbes 30 under 30 | Insider: rising star of the rapid delivery industry.
Brendan Witcher
Twitter bio: @Forrester Vice President / Principal Analyst for Digital Business Strategy, Customer Engagement, eCommerce, Personalization, Omnichannel, Retail, Mobile, & AI.
Oliver Guy
LinkedIn bio: Empowering industry leaders to innovate & compete with greater agility. | Microsoft Retail.
Jeff Roster
Twitter bio: Retail Influencer, Orphan advocate with a focus on Senegal. Cohost of #ThisWeekInInnovation. #artificialintelligence #AI #startups #lowcode #blockchain #IoT.
Maria Tikhonova
Maria is Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder at eyezon, a platform that connects e-commerce shoppers with retail sales agents, friends, family and also product and category experts, via live streaming sessions, recently expanded to the UK.
The company, which launched in Russia in 2019, counts Adidas, De’Longhi, Panasonic, The Body Shop, VW and LG as clients.
Scott Thompson
Twitter bio: Founder and Editor @RTIH_RetailTech #retailtech #retailtechnology #retail #retailsystems #payments #onlineshoping #ecommerce #fintech.
Cas Paton
LinkedIn bio: Founder and CEO of OnBuy.com - Where loyalty is rewarded.
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.
