Stephen Rector is an accomplished retail executive and consultant with over a decade of experience leading merchandise strategy, sourcing, pricing, and curation across numerous channels, including physical stores, e-commerce platforms, and digital marketplaces such as Alibaba's TMall and Taobao, Tencent's WeChat, and Amazon's Marketplace. Rector has a proven track record of generating accelerated growth for digital and physical retail business models in North America and Asia, covering a broad spectrum of categories. He is a well-known figure in the industry, having been interviewed by Bloomberg TV, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, and Digiday, among other media outlets. Rector's expertise and international business network span North America and Asia, where he helps companies build efficient global supply chains for fast fashion, navigate international customs for import and export, establish fashion and trend centers of excellence, recruit and develop talent, and deploy merchandise planning and forecasting tools. Rector's competencies include e-commerce setup strategy, digital marketing and merchandising, brand strategy and positioning, new business development, and China consumer market. He is a co-founder of Hotel Beauty Box and former executive consultant at Iconix Brand Group, Macy's China Limited, rue21, and Macy's Inc.