Bob Schwartz

Successful serial company builder and technology leader

Technology is dramatically shifting the way every industry does business, which has created great opportunities for some and fear for many others. Bob Schwartz has spoken all over the world delivering his message focusing on “Building Great Companies and Brands in a Fast Moving Technology Driven World”.

Speaking to leaders of fast growth and fortune 500 companies. Bob delivers high energy keynotes bringing together his first hand experience building and producing over $1Billion+ in exists, his years of advising fast growth and Fortune 500 companies and his personal experience leading companies like Nordstrom.com and Magento to become dominate market players.

This includes insights and keys to succeed in today’s fast moving landscape by understanding of how commerce, technology, and customer experience can come together to build something truly unique to win in this technologically driven world.

Bob’s personal goal is to have entrepreneurs, fast growth and Fortune 500 leaders walk away inspired and thinking differently about what their focus as a leader needs to be to build a business into truly a great company.

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Key Points for Bob Schwartz

Bob Schwartz is a successful serial company builder and leader of technology and consumer-facing commerce companies.
He has created over $1Billion+ in value and exists for shareholders and founders, and series of companies today worth $100’s millions, and two valued well over the $1B mark.
He is co-chairman of DC based non-profit Good360.org that delivers over $400M/year in goods to non-profits.
Bob is managing partner of 47B, a portfolio approach firm building value in growth stage commerce brand and technology capability companies
His career highlights include President of Magento, Founding GM of Nordstrom.com, LiveBid President and numerous other roles serving as Interim CEO / President, Board and active Advisor.

Topics for Bob Schwartz

The Weaponization of Retail and Commerce
Commodity vs Brand
Building a Soul: Brand + Culture
Building Value vs Growth – its just math!
Conversion is the 3%, why do we ignore the 97%? Community matters

Testimonials for Bob Schwartz

Professional Conference Organiser

The team at ICMI offer a fantastic and professional service that allows us (event organisers) to focus on the delivery of our events

Corporate Client

I was very happy with the whole process from initial call through to performance, every question or detail was explained in a professional friendly manner. I will definitely be in touch with ICMI again.

Insurance Client

All ICMI staff I dealt with were exceptionally efficient, collaborative and responsive to ensuring our talent was informed.

Government Client

ICMI were flexible and accommodating, this year finding a speaker for your event that would work in a virtual setting was a challenge, but we ended up with a very successful event and the perfect speaker! Always patient and responsive to my calls or emails.

Corporate Client

Association Client

We were impacted by a COVID-19 outbreak in South Australia that threatened to de-rail our Northern Territory based event, but the ICMI logistics team made it happen when the window of opportunity arose.

NFP Client

ICMI listened to our needs and were very supportive with the change of plans with dealing with the pandemic. They gave great advice and helped us secure the right talent for our event.

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