RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List: 10 - 1

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, 30-21 and 20-11 here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here).

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

10 - 1

Andy Jassy

Twitter bio: Lead Amazon, married and father of two kids, big sports/music/film fan, experienced buffalo wings eater. Go Kraken!

Elodie Perthuisot

Twitter bio: Chief E Commerce, Digital Transformation and Data Officer at Carrefour.

Tom Goodwin

Twitter bio: Trying to understand the world by asking questions.Curious.I try to be quite reasonable about things. Fan of nuance & progress.

Dan Rose

Twitter bio: chairman coatue ventures / 20 years at facebook and amazon.

Suresh Kumar

LinkedIn bio: Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer at Walmart.

Harley Finkelstein

Twitter bio: @Shopify President // Entrepreneur.

Jennifer Maul

LinkedIn bio: General Manager - Amazon Just Walk Out Technology at Amazon.

Amanda Goetz

Twitter bio: Founder, @house__of__Wise (luxury CBD + community for women) | Single mom x 3 | Midwest. MIAMI | Pick my brain here: https://mentorpass.co/me/amandagoetz

Vala Afshar

Twitter bio: Chief Digital Evangelist @Salesforce | Columnist: @ZDNet | Show: @DisrupTVShow | Book: http://bit.ly/tposbe

Fiona Tan

LinkedIn bio: CTO at Wayfair.

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.