Endless Aisle Podcast

Donny Askin is a veteran retail technology entrepreneur with over four decades of experience founding, leading, and growing successful retail technology companies. He is currently the EVP & Partner at NewMine, retail technology and consulting firm, as well as the chairman of the NewStore advisory board. Previously, Donny held founding and executive roles at CommercialWare, OrderMotion, Arigo, and more.  

Erik Holm is a leader in product management. In his role at NewStore, Erik works as the Sr. Director of Product Management. Before joining NewStore, he worked at Salesforce as the VP, Product Management, he also held similar roles at Carbonite and ATG. 

Joseph is a sales manager at Lekker Home, a home decor retailer. He has 15 years of retail experience, with a focus on innovative sales management and design blending the interpersonal finesse of leading a sales team with creative intuition and an eye for interior design. 

Michael is the CEO of SmarterHQ, a Wunderkind company. SmarterHQ makes it easy for marketers to increase revenue now and customer relationships over time by powering highly personalized, cross-channel experiences. Trusted by leading brands such as Bloomingdale’s, Hilton, Santander Bank, and Finish Line, SmarterHQ activates real-time, multichannel data, identifies audiences quickly based on customer behavior and information, and automates personalized content across outbound and online channels. They have been recognized by Forrester’s Total Economic Impact study to deliver 667% in ROI. Learn more at SmarterHQ.com.

Alper Aydemir is the co-founder and CEO of Volumental, a footwear technology company. A technologist turned entrepreneur, Alper has a deep passion for building and scaling companies and solving hard problems. 

Peter Stubbs is an experienced product manager with a passion for retail software. He has order management and store applications in his blood with roles at Sterling, Yantra, and IBM. Now, as the senior director of product management at NewStore,  he helps brands solve retail challenges and business problems in innovative ways. 

Kalim Sheikh is the senior manager of retail excellence, in his role he serves as a key partner to internal teams and external customers of NewStore. 

Rachel DelGrande is the senior retail success manager, and in her role, she serves a champion and resources for NewStore customers.

Jill Manoff is the editor-in-chief at Glossy, and host of the Glossy Podcast which features honest, in-depth conversations with the brand founders and leaders moving fashion-forward. 

Andrew Smith is the co-founder of ThinkUncommon. In his role, he helps brands solve problems and embark on transformational change. He's held a number of roles designing digital and physical customer journeys, frontline experiences, IT systems enhancements and transformation, channel capacity planning, retail strategy, store design and merchandising, sales planning, and customer experience, as well as behavioral economics and human behavioral focused design. 

Ben is the co-founder and CCO of Personify XP. The mission at Personify XP is to help brands personalize online shopping for their customers. Personify is the first platform to focus exclusively on anonymous visitors, and its AI technology connects great products and content with visitors by automating how content and products are shown to visitors, providing unique insights into how anonymous customers shop while ensuring customer data stays private.