Rachel Jonas Gilman

CEO

Mane

Rachel Jonas Gilman is the CEO of Mane, the cute, feel-good hair care brand founded by celebrity stylist and entrepreneur Jen Atkin. Since stepping into the role in early 2024, Rachel has led a full brand refresh—reworking Mane’s strategy, sharpening its voice, and rebuilding a values-driven team culture.

Under her leadership, Rachel helped evolve Mane from a styling hot tools brand into a bold, hair care driven player with a hero-product strategy and buzzy new category launches—starting with 'Stylers' in August 2025. Working closely with Jen, she’s helped shape a brand ethos that feels expressive, connected, and distinctly Mane.

Rachel brings more than 20 years of experience building and scaling omni-channel consumer brands across beauty, fashion, and home. A marketing-first operator to her core, she’s built a reputation as the kind of modern CEO brands seek: customer-obsessed, insights-led, brand-savvy, and deeply invested in building brands and products people truly love.

Before joining Mane, Rachel was the founding President of PATTERN Beauty by Tracee Ellis Ross, where she helped translate Tracee’s vision to life by building the brand from launch into an eight-figure business and cultural force in textured hair care. From retailer expansion to product innovation to shaping the brand’s voice, Rachel helped turn PATTERN into a powerhouse. Earlier in her career, she held senior marketing leadership roles at Beach House Group, Yoobi, Jonathan Adler, Cole Haan, and Juicy Couture.

Known for nurturing founder-led brands and building standout teams, Rachel leads with empathy, curiosity, and a deep commitment to human connection. With a learning mindset and resilience, she brings foresight, gratitude, clarity, and heart to every brand (and every team) she helps build.

Rachel graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Strategic Communications. Currently, she lives in Los Angeles with her family.

    

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Carly Gomez

Chief Marketing Officer

Crocs

Carly Fusaro Gomez joined Crocs in August of 2025 as SVP, Chief Marketing Officer. Reporting directly to the Chief Brand Officer, Carly drives continued brand growth through a forward-thinking, digitally led, social-first marketing strategy. With nearly 20 years of omnichannel marketing experience, Carly brings a reputation for leveraging emerging trends and technologies to captivate markets and drive business expansion.

A graduate of Virginia Tech, Carly spent most of her career in Los Angeles with Vans, a VF company, where she left as VP of Marketing, Brand Management, DTC and Social Media for Global and the Americas. She then joined Fabletics, where she served as Chief Marketing Officer. Drawn to Crocs by the culture it displays internally and with consumers, she is excited to share the passion for the brand and win together.

She enjoys challenges, such as launching Channel 66 at Vans during the height of the pandemic, creating a full digital radio station that would broadcast live from a closed store in downtown Los Angeles. Bringing people together in times of uncertainty and highlighting artists and creative voices, Carly thrives when projects can truly connect with the audience, an incredible fit for Crocs.

Growing up the oldest of three sisters in the D.C. area, Carly went on to spend 25 years in Los Angeles. She now enjoys staying active and discovering new restaurants in the Denver area with her husband Joe. In her time outside of work she supports her sister-in-law's nonprofit, Building Futures and Friends (BFF), which provides programs for children and adults with special needs

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Suze Dowling

Co-Founder

Pattern Brands

Suze Dowling is the co-founder and Chief Business Officer at Pattern and has built her career in the early stage landscape. Her role is the culmination of more than a decade of experience at the forefront of the NY start-up community; working hand-in-hand with entrepreneurs from ideation to, now, multiple exits. Suze works closely with the CEO, the leadership team, and the Board of Directors to ensure Pattern realizes its full potential and its projections. Specifically, she is responsible for all operational aspects of the company, including building new functions within the company to drive sustainable growth. This includes overseeing Brand General Management, Revenue Channels and Core Shared Service Functions. As a seasoned thought leader, Suze frequently speaks on how to scale omnichannel growth, paths to profitability and brand optimization at leading industry events. A trusted source for business and consumer press, Suze is regularly interviewed for her perspective on retail, design and business trends. Prior to co-founding Pattern, Suze was General Manager at Gin Lane, a NY-based independent agency that focused on launching challenger start-ups to market. In her role, she focused on balancing growth, profitability, quality, culture and overseeing the agency P&L. During her tenure, Gin Lane helped to launch over 50 DNVB brands such as: Harry’s, Hims & SmileDirectClub creating $15 billion in aggregate startup value. Suze is originally from Australia and graduated with Honors from the University of Technology, Sydney.  

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Hal Lawton

President & CEO

Tractor Supply

Hal Lawton has served as President and CEO of Tractor Supply Company since January 2020 and is a member of the Company's Board of Directors. During his tenure at Tractor Supply, Hal has led the Company through a period of unprecedented growth while introducing its Life Out Here strategy to drive sustainable growth.

Previously, Hal served as President of Macy’s from September 2017 to December 2019. As President, he had responsibility for all aspects of the Macy’s brand, including merchandising, marketing, store operations, technology and consumer insights and analytics. Prior to that, Hal was Senior Vice President, eBay North America from August 2015 to September 2017. In that role, he oversaw all aspects of eBay’s Americas business unit, including marketing, merchandising, operations, business selling, consumer selling and advertising, as well as global responsibility for shipping, payments, risk and trust. Before joining eBay, Hal spent 10 years in various leadership roles at Home Depot, where he most recently was Senior Vice President for merchandising. Hal was responsible for elevating Home Depot’s Internet business. Prior to that, Hal was an associate principal at McKinsey & Co., providing strategic advice to executive teams in consumer-packaged goods and manufacturing industries.

Hal holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Chemical Engineering and Pulp and Paper Science Technology from North Carolina State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Virginia. In November 2025, Hal was appointed as a director of Wayfair, Inc (NYSE: W). Hal also previously served as a director of Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. from October 2016 to February 2018 and Sealed Air Corporation from January 2019 to February 2026. He also serves as a board member for the National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Business Roundtable.

       

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Jed Berger

CEO

Kenneth Cole Productions

Jed Berger currently serves as the Global President of Kenneth Cole. Formerly, he was the Global Chief Marketing Officer for the Foot Locker family of brands, where he also led business areas such as licensing, digital and product development. Career highlights include creating Foot Locker’s award winning “Approved” campaign and the “Week of Greatness,” launching their loyalty program and their incubator Greenhouse, and many of the company’s investments. Prior to joining Foot Locker, Jed’s professional experience has deep roots in youth culture. After co founding Dime Magazine and building the agency 94x50, he moved on to serve as the Senior Vice President of Marketing for Modell’s Sporting Goods. His marketing acumen has been recognized regularly throughout his career, including being named to SBG 40 Under 40 in 2011, and Footwear News 40 Under 40 in 2018. Jed holds a BA in Sports Management from The George Washington University and is currently based out of Kenneth Cole’s headquarters in New York City. He has two children, Jackson and Jonah, and is a proud special needs parent and advocate. Jed is an avid sports fan despite being a very average athlete but claims to be an exceptional fantasy sports owner.

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