Joshua Rockoff

Wartime Marketer

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​Retail operator, growth strategist and turnaround specialist with nearly three decades of experience driving transformation across consumer, retail, and manufacturing businesses. A three-time entrepreneur with successful exits, Joshua has led digital and omni-channel strategy for brands including Diane von Furstenberg, Urban Decay, Kmart, and Destination Maternity, and is frequently called in by investors and leadership teams to accelerate growth in distressed, transitional, and high-stakes environments. Today he has revitalized and relaunched four heritage brands: Modell’s, Steinmart, Linens ’n Things, and The Franklin Mint. He brings a rare ability to connect merchandising, marketing, technology, and operations into real financial outcomes. A recognized industry expert and advisor to private equity and venture-backed companies, Joshua combines hands-on execution with strategic insight across DTC, marketplaces, and brick-and-mortar.    ​

Barney Stacher

Chief Conversation Officer​​

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A retail and CPG operator known for translating innovation into real-world execution across both physical and digital environments. His background spans hospitality with Hyatt, where service excellence is operational, not theoretical, to legacy retail environments like Macy’s, and his work with iconic CPG brands ranging from Playboy to Hello Kitty to turn them into part of our social fabric, he has built a career at the intersection of brand, commerce, and customer experience. He is recognized for what he calls “pragmatic innovation”, helping companies integrate AI and digital capabilities in ways that actually work on the ground, not just in strategy decks. Grounded in how customers behave and how businesses truly operate, Barney brings a rare ability to connect cultural relevance with commercial reality. On Retail OCD, he offers an operator’s perspective on how ideas move from concept to execution, and why most don’t.​

DeAnn Campbell

Storewyse CEO & Retail Queen

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A retail strategist, advisor and recognized industry voice, DeAnn brings more than 20 yrs of experience helping global brands like Coca-Cola, Marks & Spencer, PetroCanada, Aramark, CVS, Cirque du Soleil and Nordstrom to translate store experience, technology and operations into measurable performance. With a background in architecture and deep expertise across customer experience, omni-channel strategy and in-store execution, she is a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 brands, a global speaker and a multi-year top retail influencer. Known for uncovering the "store blindness" that quietly erodes profit, and for reimagining physical retail to be as responsive and adaptive as digital, she brings a rare operator's perspective shaped by real-world experience across store floors executive strategy and emerging technology. Her understanding of human design and shoppier psyche allows her to distill A.I.'s implications into today's operational realities.