Celebrating P2PI's 2024 Women of Excellence
The Path to Purchase Institute honored the winners of its ninth annual Women of Excellence Awards and revealed this year's overall Executive of the Year at a ceremony at P2PI LIVE & Expo in Schaumburg, Illinois, on Nov. 13.
The program recognizes female marketers and executives from brands, retailers, agencies and solution providers for their achievements in influencing the commerce marketing industry and shoppers along the path to purchase.
The 2024 class of 35 women receiving top honors, by category, were:
Business Excellence
- Swati Bothra, Senior Director, Retail Media and Digital Marketing, BJ’s Wholesale Club
- Stephanie Bunnell, SVP, Marketing, Aki Technologies, Media by Inmar Intelligence
- Alicia Crespin, Director, Omni Retail Marketing for Walmart, Mattel, Inc.
- Rulynn Hansen, SVP, Account Director, Arc Worldwide
- Claudia Johnson, Chief Client Officer, Flywheel Digital
- Charel MacIntosh, Global Head of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships, Clinch
- Shannon Randlett-Romano, VP, Sales and Vertical Strategy, Therabody
- Jackie Stone, Chief Marketing Officer, Afia Foods
- Katie Streeter Hurle, Chief Strategy Officer, SMG (Shopper Media Group)
- Pamela Young, Executive Director, Head of Sales, CVS Media Exchange
Industry Impact
- Jill Cruz, EVP, Commerce Strategy, Publicis Commerce
- Christine Foster, VP, Product Strategy and Media Operations, Kroger Precision Marketing
- Melissa Gallo, Executive Director, Head of Operations, CVS Media Exchange
- Sally Tobin, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific, Mars United Commerce
- Alexandra Trott, Director of Insights, 84.51°
Innovator
- Diana Barr, Senior Director, E-Commerce, Coborn's, Inc.
- Kristen DiCorleto, Head of Marketing, CVS Media Exchange
- Molly Hjelm, Head of Ad Sales, DG Media Network, Dollar General
- Erin Mitten, Director, Product Strategy and Engineering, Data Intelligence, Arc Worldwide
- Heather Nichols, CEO, Acorn
- Asha Tantuwaya, Group Strategy and Insights Director, VML
- Tanya Valle, Client Partner, Senior Manager (CPG), Tinuiti
Mentorship
- Susan Bagley, Head of Client Services, Lowe's
- Brittany Billings, Chief Marketing Officer, Trax Retail
- Beth DeBona, VP, Strategy Director, Arc Worldwide
- Jen Hutchings, CEO and Founder, Volt
- Jayme Jansky Beck, Head of Shopper Marketing, Unilever
- Donnalyn Smith, Global CEO, Momentum Worldwide
Technology
- Melissa Hamilton, SVP, Director of Integrated Production and Creative Technology, Momentum Worldwide
- Yenifer Hernandez, Director of Software Engineering, Kroger Precision Marketing
- Margit Kittridge, Advertising Technology Lead, AD Retail Media, Ahold Delhaize USA
- Virginia Lewis, VP, Digital Growth and Development, Miller Zell
- Roli Saxena, CEO, NextRoll
- Lori Schafer, Board Member, Co-Founder and CEO, Digital Wave Technology
- Jackie Shannon, Director, CPG Customer Success, Eversight by Instacart
EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR
The top honor, this year’s Executive of the Year, was awarded to Swati Bothra, Senior Director, Retail Media and Digital Marketing, BJ’s Wholesale Club.
Congratulations to Bothra and all of our winners for their achievements.
The winners were featured in the September/October issue of P2PI Magazine, as well as online at P2PI.com. Bothra will be profiled in the November/December issue.
