RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List: 20 to 11
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 30 to 21 (check out 100 to 91, 90 to 81, 80 to 71, 70 to 61, 60 to 51, 50 to 41, 40 to 31, and 30-21 here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here).
Following that, the full list of influencers will be released here.
20 to 11
Viv Craske
LinkedIn bio: Advisor for retail/FoodTech/online grocery scale ups | Author.
Gary Newbury
LinkedIn bio: 👉 "Senior Exec on Call" 👈 Rapid Performance Improvement Retail Supply Chains & The Last Mile 👉 www RetailAID ca 👈 Rethink Retail's Top 100 Global Retail Influencer 👉Interim CSCO👈
Ryan Breslow
Founder of online checkout technology startup, Bolt. Twitter bio: long live the king!
ShiSh Shridhar
LinkedIn bio: Global Retail Startups Lead | RETHINK Retail Top 100 Retail Influencer 2022 | Advisory Board GMU Center for Retail Transformation.
Shlomo Chopp
Twitter bio: DTC and e-commerce in shopping centers. | Patent Holder | CRE debt restructuring. Opinions have a 5 year investment horizon.
Karoline Gross
LinkedIn bio: Founder at Smartzer, Forbes 30 Under 30.
DeAnn Campbell
LinkedIn bio: Retail strategy & CX expert | Top Retail Influencer | Speaker | RetailWire BrainTrust | RETHINK Retail Advisory Council⚡︎ I help companies elevate customer experiences and profit margins.
Whitney Cathcart
LinkedIn bio: Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, 3DLOOK. The leader in Mobile Body Scanning and Virtual Fit and Try-on for The Fashion Industry.
Andrey Golub
Twitter bio: #DeepTech #Entrepreneur #AI #3D #FashionTech; @ELSECorp - #AI4Fashion #VirtualRetail #VirtualSampling, @ICOLGroup - #RoboFactories #DigitalTwins #CAD2Robotics.
Michael Gabay
LinkedIn bio: Co-Founder and CEO at Trigo.
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.
