Topic: E-Commerce

Brian McBride

Brian McBride is Chair at Trainline PLC, NED at Standard Life Aberdeen, and NED at Kinnevik AB, the long established Swedish public company which invests in digital businesses like Zalando, Tele2 and Babylon. He is also Lead Non-Executive Director on the Board of the UK’s Ministry of Defence, a UK Government appointment.

He is a also Senior Adviser with Scottish Equity Partners.

Brian was Chairman of ASOS from 2012 to 2018. He was CEO of Amazon.co.uk from 2006 to 2011. He held senior roles at IBM in USA and UK, Dell Computers and as Managing Director of T-Mobile (UK). He has been a Non-Executive Director of Celtic Football Club PLC, SThree PLC, Computacenter PLC and AO.com, and has served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of the BBC, a member of the UK Government Digital Advisory Board and a Senior Adviser to Lazard’s Global Financial Advisory business.

Robert Tucker

Robert B. Tucker is president of The Innovation Resource, and an internationally recognized leader in the field of innovation. Formerly an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Tucker has been a consultant and keynote speaker since 1986.

His pioneering research in interviewing over 50 leading innovators was published in the book Winning the Innovation Game in l986. Since then, he has continued to publish widely on the subject, including his international bestseller Managing the Future: 10 Driving Forces of Change for the New Century, which has been translated into 13 languages. In his most recent book, Driving Growth Through Innovation describes the emerging best practices of 23 innovation vanguard companies, and was released in a revised edition in 2008. His latest book, Innovation is Everybody's Business, was just published by John Wiley in 2011.

As one of the thought leaders in the growing Innovation Movement, Tucker is a frequent contributor to publications such as the Journal of Business Strategy, Strategy & Leadership, and Harvard Management Update. He has appeared on PBS, CBS News, and was a featured guest on the CNBC series The Business of Innovation.

The Innovation Resource, based in Santa Barbara, California, is a consulting firm devoted exclusively to assisting companies seeking to improve top and bottom line performance via systematic innovation.

Tucker is a much sought after keynote speaker at conventions, company management meetings, and industry conferences. Clients include over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies as well as clients in Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Australia.