Ecommerce & Marketing Leader | Merchandising Strategist
Ilan Tito spent the past 20 years focused on retail innovation, with an emphasis on ecommerce leadership, digital strategy, marketing and merchandising. His consulting work centers on interim leadership: melding into the executive team of a brand to profitably scale its DTC business while developing and executing a transformational digital roadmap. In the early online days, Ilan launched and managed ecommerce for many leading fashion and luxury brands at Neiman Marcus including Michael Kors, Valentino, Salvatore Ferragamo, David Yurman and Juicy Couture. He later joined YOOX to start and run their Monobrand Division globally. He has held interim leadership roles for clients including Cartier, MAC Cosmetics, John Hardy, Robert Graham, Mud Pie, Theory, Vera Bradley and Love Wellness. His strategy work includes developing a global ecommerce assortment strategy for Baccarat, creating a third-party brand curation strategy for Bonobos, executing a content-to-commerce strategy for Refinery29 and developing a new assortment architecture across all channels for Vera Bradley. Ilan has been an advisor to a number of digitally native brands including: Stantt, Snowe, MouthMedia Network, LiveStory and Refinery29. He loves helping brands tell their unique and compelling story through product, content and technology.
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Ilan Tito spent the past 20 years focused on retail innovation, with an emphasis on ecommerce & marketing leadership and digital strategy. His consulting work centers on interim leadership: melding into the executive team of a brand to profitably scale its DTC business while developing and executing a transformational digital roadmap. As SVP Digital & Ecommerce at Love Wellness, he rebuilt the martech stack, reorganized the team and realigned agencies, turning the women's wellness brand's DTC business from negative to 20%+ year-over-year growth. He has held interim leadership roles for Cartier, MAC Cosmetics, John Hardy, Janie and Jack, Robert Graham, Vera Bradley, Theory, Mud Pie and BEL USA. In the early online days, he launched and managed ecommerce for Michael Kors, Valentino, Salvatore Ferragamo and David Yurman at Neiman Marcus before forming and growing YOOX's Monobrand division to $40M+. Ilan has been an advisor to a number of digitally native brands including: Stantt, Snowe, MouthMedia Network, LiveStory and Refinery29. He loves helping brands tell their unique and compelling story through product, content and technology.
Focus areas
Advisor at VC Partners SGR
Interim CMO at Mud Pie, LLC
Interim CMO at BEL USA
Advisor at Stantt
Executive Advisor at MouthMedia Network
Mentor at XRC Ventures
Interim Head of Ecommerce at Janie And Jack
Interim VP Ecommerce at Robert Graham Designs
Interim Head of Intelligence for North America at Global Luxury Jewelry Brand
Merchandising Strategy at Vera Bradley
Operating Partner at Overton Venture Capital
Mentor at TrendSeeder Corp
Mentor at The Ember Co.
Board of Advisors at SNOWE
Refinery29, Inc.
Director of Merchandising at Henri Bendel
Director of Buying & Merchandising at kate spade new york
Neiman Marcus Online
Director of Business Development at Xanga
Alloy Media + Marketing
Lehman Brothers
Chameleon Collective
Digital Strategy & Advisory at Hirshleifers, Inc.
Principal at Full Grain Focus Partners
Director of Designer Sites at Neiman Marcus
SVP Digital & Ecommerce at Love Wellness
General Merchandise Manager at YOOX
Columbia University - Columbia Business School
MBA
Columbia Business School
MBA
Dartmouth College
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Dartmouth College
Bachelor of Arts (BA) - French, Psychology
Ilan loves to travel - photographing, tasting and sipping his way through different cultures. He also loves hot sauce and makes his own. Want some?
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