John Thomas is in his fourth season with the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx. As Vice President of Basketball Development, Thomas is responsible for managing and growing the organization’s Basketball Academy and NBA Alumni program. Thomas came to the Timberwolves and Lynx after spending four years as the National Training Manager for Life Time Fitness. Among Thomas’ duties during his tenure at Life Time was leading the basketball training division for Ultimate Hoops, which included the oversight of all programming, financials, operations, marketing and strategic partnerships for the program. Thomas has also worked in conjunction with the National Basketball Retired Players Association (NBRPA) to help former NBA, WNBA, ABA players and Harlem Globetrotters transition into life after the game. This is Thomas’ second stint with the Timberwolves after a professional playing career which included a season with his hometown Timberwolves (2004-05). A Minneapolis native and graduate of Roosevelt High School, Thomas was a four-year standout for the Golden Gophers (1993-97). Thomas logged a professional career that included NBA stops with Boston, Toronto, Minnesota, Memphis, Atlanta and New Jersey, in addition to playing professionally overseas in several countries. He was originally taken by the New York Knicks with the 25th overall pick in the 1997 NBA Draft. Thomas remains active in the Twin Cities community by volunteering his time to coach and mentor youth. He also serves on the executive board of Boys and Girls Club Twin Cities and Elevate Foundation. Thomas and his family currently reside in Eden Prairie, MN.

Evan Perkins currently serves as a Senior Account Executive on the Large Enterprise Solutions team at BigCommerce, where he's worked for nearly five years. His technology sales career spans over a decade across a variety of SaaS solutions ranging from digital marketing and social media, agile development management, to online retail and ecommerce. Evan enjoys helping merchants find and validate scalable, long-term ecommerce solutions for their use case. A native Texan, Evan lives in Austin, TX with his wife of 14 years and their two children. He likes naps, comedy, and eating.

As Director of Alliances for Attentive, Eric Feuerstein has nearly a decade in the e-Commerce space helping create and accelerate high-performance partnerships between platforms, practitioners and end-users for the likes of Microsoft, eBay, Magento, Adobe and Attentive. When he is not focused on work, you will find him spending time with his wife and children in the greater Chicagoland area.

Chloe is the Director of Agency Partnerships at Clyde, where she works with digital agencies of all sizes to help them drive revenue for their merchants and increase the agency’s longevity of relationships with those brands. Originally working in ecommerce as an individual contributor within a startup sales organization, Chloe was bitten by the partnerships bug. Since then, she has spent the last several years working on small partnerships teams experiencing rapid growth in the ecommerce sector, where she’s seen more than 100% growth year over year. When she’s not working, Chloe can be found traveling, brewing craft beer, or spending time with her dog.

Jordan has spent the last 3 years with Avalara working with their partners as well as merchants to ensure they have a solid understanding of sales tax and how the ever-changing rules impact them. He is passionate about the space and admits he is a bit of a sales tax nerd.

Krish is the Head of Industry Relations and Strategic Partnerships for ShipStation where he is focused on long-term relationships between e-commerce merchants and e-commerce marketplaces. A respected expert in cross border & marketplace e-commerce, Krish is often quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Yahoo!, Bloomberg and the New York Times. An industry leader with over 20 years of experience, Krish brings perspectives from FedEx, Pitney Bowes, Neopost and ShipStation. In addition, Krish serves as the Vice President of the Package Shippers Association (PSA), which serves as the voice of the package shipping industry.

Lee has been working in the enterprise space for more than 15 years, serving various roles ranging from technical support to product management to technical pre-sales— spanning across leading organizations such as BlackBerry, Elastic Path and now Bold Commerce. Lee’s diversity of experience in a variety of roles and industries allow him to understand a customer’s unique needs working equally with business and technical peers. In his current role as the Manager, Solutions Consulting and Advisory, he is responsible for building Bold’s Technical Pre-Sales practice and the various teams supporting that practice. Outside of Bold Lee is active as a reserve with the Royal Canadian Navy as a Marine Technician.

Lindsey Coleman is the ecommerce manager for Surdyk's Inc., a family-owned and operated wine, spirits, and specialty food retailer located in Minneapolis. Her role has evolved right alongside the business, wearing different hats along the way, resulting in a deep knowledge of omni-channel retail and customer service. Her niche is ecommerce, digital marketing, and content strategy but is happiest when chatting about what you're eating, drinking, and what you should try next.

Julie Flann is the Director of Marketing & Customer Experience at Nordic Ware, a family-owned and operated kitchenware company that manufactures the vast majority of its products in Minneapolis, MN. Her role encompasses the many facets of ecommerce, with an emphasis in growing direct to consumer sales through various online channels. Key initiatives include developing, implementing, and managing engagement with customers by collaborating closely with internal and external partners on both stand alone and integrated digital campaigns for all lines of business, marketing and ecommerce channels. Her progressive and diverse experience in marketing, sales and ecommerce for both BtoB and BtoC has given her a deep understanding of the demands and expectations in a customer’s buying journey.

Co-founded by a mother & daughter team in 2020. Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. Kobi Co. is a candle and wellness brand crafted by and for people who love self-care. Founded to support her college dreams, young entrepreneur, Kobi, curates scents in small batches to create an assortment of luxury products with a personal touch.

Sabrina Denson Jones is a native of Minnesota and graduated with a BA in Psychology in 1997 and a Masters of Social Work (MSW) in 2008 from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Sabrina has over 20 years experience in Child Welfare and specializes in wellness and aromatherapy. She began her company in 2015 after finding a need for healthy and safe alternatives to over the counter medicines while pregnant. Discovering essential oils work, her hobby turned into her business. Body Love is a product line geared towards those seeking to live a healthier lifestyle. Body Love creates products to address issues caused by and associated with stress that are an alternative to over the counter medicines and are safe no matter the age. Body Love is a certified Women Owned Small Business | Disadvantage Business Enterprise | Targeted Group| e-commerce business located in Woodbury, Minnesota.

Eric went to work for Centre Sports LLC in 2017 and joined Mark Fiedler in 2019 as co-owner. Together they have taken their brick-and-mortar store as well as the online store and grown it by over 100% in the last 3 years. Online business was just over a million dollars then and is projected to be over 4 million this year. School History Minnesota State University, degree in Elementary Education (93-98) Work History 1999-2017 Arvig- Broadband/Internet/TV provider- Regional Service manager 2017-current Centre Sports LLC (DBA Centre Powersports & Marine, Skidoooutlet.com, rideoutdoors.com) Owner/President

For 18 years, Let’s Dish! has set forth on a mission to make life a little better by bringing peace of mind to dinnertime for their customers, and a great place to work for their team. Let’s Dish! has been evolving from day one to make life better (and tastier) from one of the original customer meal assembly concepts into a retail company providing wholesome locally made freezer to cook family size meals kits. There are four Let’s Dish! stores in Minnesota (Maple Grove, Woodbury, Apple Valley, Eden Prairie) where Let’s Dish! meals are produced and sold. This October, Let’s Dish! is premiering its newest retail concept in Prior Lake with expanded selection of grab-n-go options available in-store, or to order online for pick up or delivery. Prior to Let’s Dish!, Darcy’s entire career was in the food industry from her first summer job as a grocery store cashier to a 15 year career in the consumer packaged goods industry with The Nestle Food Company, Pillsbury, and General Mills in a variety of Sales, Management, Product Sales Management, and Organization and Training Development. Darcy graduated from Iowa State University where she earned a bachelor's degree in Marketing, with a speech and advertising emphasis. She and her husband live in Savage, MN where they’re now new ‘empty nesters’ with their son teaching in Spain, and their daughter in college. Her favorite place to be is ‘together’ with her family, extended family and friends, whether snuggled around a neighborhood bonfire or on a weekend getaway.

Eric Peterson is in his 4th year as president of Hardware Distributors, Ltd. dba Woodworker’s Hardware (HDL). HDL is a second generation, family-owned distributor of cabinet and woodworking supplies located in Sauk Rapids MN. The business consists of both wholesale B2B and retail B2C platforms selling to all 50 states domestically as well as some international sales. HDL’s recent ecommerce endeavors include two significant website projects and building an internal team from scratch to assist with website, Amazon, YouTube, SEO, and PPC channels. Regrettably, he is not Irish.