Kyle Monk

Director of Insight | BRC

Kyle Monk leads the team of BRC experts who report on industry trends and act as the benchmark for UK retail. The team produces a regular drumbeat of in-depth analysis on fast moving market developments and longer term structural trends.

Kyle has over 10 years of retail industry experience, with his most recent role involving running the insight function at the New West End Company, a fashion trade body. Prior to that he led the market intelligence function at Planet, a multinational retail Fintech organisation.

Fergal O'Mullane

CEO & Founder - Validify

Co-founder and CEO of Validify, Fergal is an entrepreneur with almost 20 years of retail and retail tech experience. Previously co-founder of  10CMS (now Amplience), a leading B2B headless commerce solution for retailers and brands globally.

Marcus Appleton

Interim Retail Director for Mamas & Papas

Retail director with over 30 years experience extensive leadership in stores across UK, USA and Asia - previous to Mamas and papas retail director at jack wills and prior these senior leadership roles at Debenhams and Topshop/Topman 

Raine Peake

Senior Head of Digital Brands - Arcadia Group

Currently heading up the Digital for Wallis and Evans as well as a leader in the Arcadia Digital Transformation group. Brings over twenty years experience in both e-commerce and bricks and mortar retail including setting up the Merchandising and VM functions at Farfetch.com , International and Branch Merchandising at Monsoon Accessorize and building transactional sites for luxury clients. Expertise in blending art and science with a clear trading slant, projects include developing machine learning to replicate human visual merchandising.