Ranjan Roy is the VP of Strategy at Adore Me, helping drive the DTC womenswear brand’s expansion into new categories, satellite brands, and sustainability initiatives.

Before Adore Me, he spent time in a variety of media and technology roles, running a content personalization startup and working as a Director at the Financial Times. Ranjan earned his MBA at INSEAD, and is incredibly thankful to work at the intersection of retail + media + technology at a transformative time like this.

Jim has spent over 20 years in ecommerce, starting at sears.com when they were just getting started.  Currently he owns a holding company with 4 consumer websites and a wholesale fulfillment business. All offer personalized gifts and products that are produced in a company-operated facility near Chicago, IL. They’re listed below:

• Giftsforyounow.com – maker of personalized gifts for all occasion
• Beau-coup.com – provider of personalized wedding and party favors and supplies
• 800bear.com – maker of personalized plush animal gifts for get well, new baby, romance and more
• Mywalkgear.com – maker of apparel for cause-related events (such as breast cancer walks)
• ProGiftSource.com – drop-ship fulfillment of personalized gifts

Outside work, Jim loves adventures, travel, binge TV and competitive swimming. And dogs.

With over 9 years of frontline material handling management experience, John Sauer understands supply chain. In 2013, John spearheaded OPEX’s implementation of OPEX’s homegrown Goods-to-Person robotic picking technology, Perfect Pick®, to handle their service parts distribution.  In his role as a senior business development manager, John worked closely with clients, educating, and supporting them in their pursuit of improved workflows through automation. Promoted in 2020 to Director of Partner Development, John leads a team of business development managers who work with OPEX’s resellers and integrator partners.

Brian joined VARGO® in July 2018 as a manager of solutions development and data analytics. In that role, Pulfer leads the supporting analysis and creation of new solutions along with continuous improvement within existing customer facilities through working with both internal and external customers.  He also oversees the end-to-end implementation and monitoring of data analytics for all potential and existing VARGO® customers. Before joining VARGO®, Brian worked for 17 years at Exel/DHL Supply Chain with a primary focus on operations and engineering, most recently in the capacity of general manager, industrial engineering manager and senior supply chain analyst.

James Melton is a research analyst at Digital Commerce 360. His main task is to put data in context for readers – in the form of research reports, along with website and magazine stories. A long-time business writer and editor, he started out covering local business in the Detroit area. James has a B.A. in journalism from Wayne State University.