Marie Driscoll
Adjunct Professor The New School
Marie Driscoll, CFA is a noted subject matter expert on beauty, fashion, luxury goods, retail, and sustainability. She is a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert 2021-2026 and an NRF Voice of Retail in 2025 and 2026. Marie is founder of Driscoll Advisors, providing advisory services to retailers, brands and retailtech firms, an adjunct professor at Parsons The New School and CUNY Baruch College, and a frequent contributor to The Robin Report, Inside Retail and media. She has served in key analytical and business development roles in leading financial research firms and was recognized three times in The Wall Street Journal’s “Best on the Street” analyst survey, including first place ranking in the Clothing & Accessories industry. Marie is X-Coresight and X-S&P/CapIQ. Marie is the President of the Retail Marketing Society and sits on the board of the NRF’s (National Retail Federation) Industry Partnership Council (IPC) and an advisor to startups including Haut AI.
2026 Agenda Sessions
Ask Me Anything
Shoptalk Ask Me Anything sessions feature a senior industry leader onstage and ready to answer your most pressing questions about the future of the industry. We’re curating a mix of retailer and brand executives, leading analysts, tech leaders, and more. AMA sessions are facilitated by an Emcee, who ensures the questions stay on point and that the session keeps moving. We’ll crowdsource some AMA questions in advance of the show, but bring your curiosity and questions to the session, too!
Thursday 01 October 13:40 - 14:00 Studio A
