Los Angeles 2022 Conference @ BEVERLY HILLS SOFITEL LOS ANGELES

Speakers

• Alexandra Ramirez Director of Sales, SellersFunding
  

  Alexandra Ramirez

  Director of Sales, SellersFunding

  Alexandra “Alie” Ramirez has over 8 years of experience working with global fintech companies in the ecommerce space. She is multilingual and holds an MBA specializing in International Business. As the Director of Sales at SellersFunding, she is responsible for helping business owners grow their business by offering a full suite of tailored financial services in addition to funding.

• Amy Wees CEO, Amazing at Home E-Commerce Consulting
  

  Amy Wees

  CEO, Amazing at Home E-Commerce Consulting

  Amy Wees is the CEO of Amazing at Home E-Commerce Consulting, a world-renowned company that has helped thousands of brands launch private label products on Amazon and beyond! Amazing at Home provides education and consulting to help brands develop unique products, validate them in the marketplace, source at profitable margins, and launch with amazing brand messaging, copywriting, and search engine optimization.

  Amazingathome.com courses and consulting are ranked among the best in the world in the Amazon Seller Poll, and Amy shares her skills teaching entrepreneurs around the world through virtual coaching sessions and in-person events.

  Her Story: I invented a product from scratch and brought it to the market along with an entire line of products for my brand. I’ve been flipping products as a hobby on eBay and Amazon for over 15 years. Through my experience generating revenue for thousands of brands, I’ve mastered market research, business planning, copywriting, and advertising. My goal is to discover your passion, build your confidence and help you build a brand that will knock your customers’ socks off!

• Brandon Nutter Co-founder & CTO, Ampd
  

  Brandon Nutter

  Co-founder & CTO, Ampd

  Brandon is passionate about building technology that solves hard problems for e-commerce sellers with over a decade of experience driving this passion. He co-founded and built out the Ampd platform to do just that. Today he and the team at Ampd are premier partners with both Amazon and Google respectively, and are delivering the most cutting technology to Amazon sellers at the best price possible.

• Chris Anderson Owner, Superhero Sellers
  

  Chris Anderson

  Owner, Superhero Sellers

  Chris was born about 500 feet from the original Burlington coat factory, coincidence? Probably.

  Chris got his start in business at the age of 13, when he found a lawn mower from the trash and started mowing lawns. Within a couple years he had a thriving landscaping and snow removal business. He then found eBay and never looked back. He was selling yard sale finds on eBay, even buying scrap machine equipment and stripping them down to parts to sell on eBay. Around this time Chris got his first real job and realized, it really wasn’t for him. But Chris has worked a lot of jobs over the years, from grocery stores, to selling jewelry. He Even worked in the pharmaceutical process industry designing printing presses.

  While in high-school Chris started building battle-bots (No he was never on the show, yes he made robots and won competitions). In order to fund his hobby he started making titanium wedding rings and engagement rings and selling them on Etsy. Around 2007 Chris was one of the top 10 sellers on Etsy by gross sales, and was a featured seller several times. His jewelry business was so successful that he dropped out of college, where he was studying engineering, to pursue jewelry full time.

  After several years making engagement rings Chris did a Kickstarter, which was very successful and ended up more than triple funded. At that point Chris was trying to figure out what to do with his success and investigated selling his engagement rings on amazon. After a little research it turned out the be a terrible idea, but he found out about retail arbitrage, and he was hooked. Since then Chris has been doing amazon full-time, but is still active with jewelry making and engineering. You will often find Chris in his workshop tinkering with CNC equipment and 3D printers or some invention.

  Chris is working to finally bring a jewelry product to amazon, along with several private label products. His business is currently a small warehouse with 2 full-time employees and shoppers all over the country. Chris also runs the consulting group Superhero Sellers which does everything from Private label consulting to running a BOLO group for almost two years. He has done RA from coast to coat and will continue to do so, because he loves it so much, despite growing his wholesale portfolio.

• Don Henig Co-Founder, AccrueMe
  

  Don Henig

  Co-Founder, AccrueMe

  Don Henig, Co-Founder of AccrueMe®, was the former president of 3 of 4 divisions of NYSE listed company w/ 7,000+ employees. He and his teams funded well over $100 billion in mortgage financing and Don produced 8 feature films.

  Most notably, at 11 years old Don was awarded the #1 salesperson for the Long Island Press where he built his paper route to an unmanageable size.

• J.R. Andraos Sales Manager, Empire Flippers
  

  J.R. Andraos

  Sales Manager, Empire Flippers

  J.R. is a recovering corporate executive who decided to come out of mini-retirement to join the Empire Flippers team after discovering an interest in digital assets and investments. He has a BS in Engineering and an MBA, and has spent most of his career in client-facing and senior leadership roles. He currently lives in Texas, but calls Southern California and the Mediterranean home. Besides a love for travel and adventure, J.R. is our resident Whisky and Mezcal ambassador.

• Keith O’Brien CEO, Page.One
  

  Keith O’Brien

  CEO, Page.One

  Keith is the Founder and CEO of Page.One—a full-service
  Amazon creative agency offering comprehensive Brand and
  Advertising management, as well as individual creative services
  designed to increase engagement and conversion. Since 2014,
  Keith’s companies have worked with thousands of eCommerce
  businesses, large and small. Keith now leads a team of keyword
  specialists, copywriters, photographers, creative directors,
  designers, data geeks, advertising strategists and brand
  managers to bring Page.One’s solutions to brands looking to
  scale their Amazon businesses. Keith is a Dad, author, golfer, and
  foodie…and is generally easily influenced by great food, a nice
  red, or a tasty bourbon.

• Leo Sgovio Co-founder, Carbon6
  

  Leo Sgovio

  Co-founder, Carbon6

  Entrepreneur with a strong passion for digital marketing and technology innovation. With over 13 years of experience in the e-commerce space, Leo started his career as an SEO specialist in 2007 and soon became Google & Bing Ads certified, focusing primarily on Pay-Per-Click advertising. In 2010 he became Adobe Analytics (former Omniture Site Catalyst) User and Implementation certified. This skill allowed him to fully understand the ranking logic behind search engines such as Google and Amazon. In the next years, Leo spent most of his time ranking websites on Google and monetizing blogs with Google AdSense while mastering additional traffic sources such as affiliate marketing, native advertising and Pay-Per-View. It’s during this period that Leo learns about botnets and develops systems to eliminate bot traffic from his advertising campaigns. In 2015 he becomes an Amazon Seller and brings his knowledge to the space which soon makes him a great guest speaker at different Amazon conferences around the world. From 2017 to 2019 he worked with Viral Launch as Head of Innovation and later that year he founds Convomat, a marketing automation software for Amazon Sellers. In less than two years Convomat generated USD $2M in revenue and keeps serving several 7, 8, and 9 figure sellers in the Amazon industry.

• Lesley Hensell Partner, Riverbend Consulting
  

  Lesley Hensell

  Partner, Riverbend Consulting

  Lesley oversees Riverbend’s client services team. She has personally helped hundreds of third-party sellers get their suspended Amazon accounts and ASINs back up and running. Lesley leverages two decades as a small business consultant to solve the underlying business issues in online retail businesses, resulting in improved operations and profitability. She has been an Amazon seller for a decade, thanks to her boys (20 and 14) who do most of the heavy lifting. A lifelong Longhorns fan, Lesley earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and volunteering for A Wish With Wings, a wish-granting organization for little Texans with life-threatening conditions.

• Liz Downing Ecommerce Marketing Manager, Teikametrics
  

  Liz Downing

  Ecommerce Marketing Manager, Teikametrics

  Liz Downing is the Ecommerce Marketing Manager at Teikametrics. Passionate about educating the seller and brand owner community, Liz writes, speaks, interviews and participates in a lot of discussions to accelerate the success of the 3p and 1p seller. A member of the Prosper Advisory Council, The Ecom Cooperative Advisory Board and e-ComEvents, Liz loves working with other thought leaders in the industry to advocate and amplify the seller’s voice.

• Max Hofmann Co-Founder BidX - Master Amazon Ads
  

  Max Hofmann

  Co-Founder BidX - Master Amazon Ads

  In 2015 Max started selling on Amazon. The business grew and so did the effort to manage its ads. He was desperate and agonized over the problem to manually optimize each single campaign and their keywords. However, he was not alone – all seller friends had the same problem: Neglecting would mean a loss in visibility and ranking as well as wasting a lot of money on unoptimized campaigns.
  In 2017 he teamed up with Nadine Schöpper who studied computer science (later should even marry each other) to start BidX, the first software to support Amazon sellers to grow and scale their business by automating ads.
  Today the team of 35 member helps more than 2,000 sellers around the world to optimize more that $200MM ad spend each year with an office in Darmstadt, Germany and New York, USA.

• Mina Elias CEO, MMA Nutrition LLC
  

  Mina Elias

  CEO, MMA Nutrition LLC

  Mina is a multiple seven figure seller in the supplement industry, investor, Amazon PPC expert and founder of Trivium Group, and Amazon Advertising agency. Mina excels at developing cutting edge supplements for different target audiences and combines his passion for supplements, his background in chemical engineering and chemistry, and his expertise in PPC to crush the competition on Amazon. His goal is to change the way people perceive Amazon PPC, and empower them to take back control and dominate their ads.

• Nathan Neeley Chief Executive Officer, A02 Marketing
  

  Nathan Neeley

  Chief Executive Officer, A02 Marketing

  Nathans leads the team on vision, growth initiatives, and proprietary software development. With a background in corporate Amazon consulting and wearable technology, Nathan brings instrumental algorithmic insights and processes to the firm. Nathan holds a Bachelors of Business Management from Brigham Young University Hawaii.

• Rob Stanley Chief Marketing Officer, GETIDA
  

  Rob Stanley

  Chief Marketing Officer, GETIDA

  Rob Stanley, former founder of two successful 7-Figure online eCommerce brands with 20+ years of experience in eCommerce and marketing. Stanley is also a successful Podcast host, a YouTube certified expert with a previous channel that had over 48 million views, a China sourcing expert who has visited over 100+ factories, Google AdWords certified, and has sold on eBay since 1998. Stanley is currently Chief Marketing Officer at GETIDA which is the global leader in Amazon FBA reimbursements and refunds.

• Thomas Smale CEO & Founder, FE International
  

  Thomas Smale

  CEO & Founder, FE International

  Thomas Smale is the Founder and CEO of FE International. He is a serial business entrepreneur and M&A expert, having built the industry-leading firm in the $1-100M global technology sector. With experience dating back to the early 2000s, Smale offers invaluable technical, diligence and negotiation advice to early-stage and seasoned business owners alike, which has resulted in over 1,100 successful exits. Smale can be regularly found speaking at industry events where he enjoys meeting like-minded entrepreneurs and investors.
  Alongside his duties at FE International, Smale is a sought-after author and keynote presenter for
  leading industry events worldwide. He has been interviewed on top podcasts and blogs on a variety of topics, including business strategy, buying and selling businesses, negotiation tactics and more. He
  writes a business column regularly on entrepreneurship, growth, and business management for Entrepenur.com and is a Young Entrepreneurs’ Council member.

• Tim Jordan CEO & Founder, Hickory Flats & Private Label Legion
  

  Tim Jordan

  CEO & Founder, Hickory Flats & Private Label Legion
• Vanessa Hung Founder, Online Seller Solutions
  

  Vanessa Hung

  Founder, Online Seller Solutions

  Vanessa is a problem solver, passionate about eCommerce, Amazon, and finding solutions to manage businesses in an efficient and meaningful way. Also, she is a catalog Ninja and a geek of stranded inventory.

  She fell in love with Amazon when she started working for an eCommerce as an Account Manager and single-handedly scaled one client to 7 figures in under one year. She discovered that skills like determination and resourcefulness are precious for business and especially on Amazon.

  That is why she founded Online Seller Solutions, to help sellers focus on the things that matter for their business and grow their accounts while handling the
  management side of things.

  In Online Seller Solutions, they specialize in Catalog, Inventory and Account Health, and solve daily issues with Seller Central.

  At the same time, she is Co-Host at the podcast Wizards of Ecom en Español, is a podcast that was born with the idea of helping Spanish speakers sellers to improve their businesses, and is Co+Director at Startup Grind in Fort Lauderdale; where they are building a community of sellers, entrepreneurs, founders to share knowledge with the community.