RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List: 30 to 21
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 and 40 to 31 here, here, here, here, here, here and here).
Following that, the full list of influencers will be released here.
30 to 21
Steve Gu
LinkedIn bio: Cofounder & CEO, AiFi Inc. (Hiring).
Justine Moore
Twitter bio: @StanfordGSB | Author of Accelerated | Marketplaces, e-comm infrastructure, and Gen Z.
Hani Weiss
Twitter bio: CEO @MajidAlFuttaim - Retail.
Andrey Podgornov and Boris Shkolnikov
Andrey and Boris are CEO and CTO respectively at Qvalon, a member of the RTIH Innovation Awards hall of fame which offers a mobile solution for managing retail operational processes.
Katharine McKee
LinkedIn bio: Fortune 500 E-commerce Strategist l Startup Advisor l Digital Commerce Expert l Increasing Margins and Growth l Founder of Morphology Consulting® l Forbes Next 1000.
Tash Grossman
LinkedIn bio: Start Up Founder at Slip 🚀 Leading the receipt revolution...
Michael LeBlanc
LinkedIn bio: Founder | Strategic Advisor | Keynote Speaker | Podcaster.
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.
Stacey Widlitz
Twitter bio: Chief Int. Store Hunter SW Retail Advisors, Co-Founder @thedealmakehers. Duchess of Retail, NED,Angel Investor, Biz TV reg, fmr sell-side, Perma jet lag, forbes,
Michelle Grant
Twitter bio: Exploring the impact of digital transformation in retail and consumer goods. @Salesforce. Former Head of Retailing @Euromonitor. All opinions are my own.
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.
