2025 Speakers

Marie Driscoll, CFA is a noted subject matter expert on beauty, fashion, luxury goods, retail, and sustainability. She is a frequent speaker at fashion, retail and luxury events, cited in business publications and contributor to retail industry media, and was recently named a Retail VOICE by the NRF in partnership with Women in Retail and RETHINK Retail. Marie is a RETHINK Retail’s Top Retail Expert in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. She is the President of the Retail Marketing Society (RMS). She has served in key analytical and business development roles in leading financial research firms and was recognized three times in The Wall Street Journal’s “Best on the Street” analyst survey, including first place ranking in the Clothing & Accessories industry. Marie is a professor at Parsons The New School, FIT and CUNY Baruch and sits on the boards of the Retail Marketing Society and the NRF’s Industry Partners Council, and founder of Driscoll Advisory. Marie is X-Coresight and X-S&P/CapIQ.