Top 50 influencers in ecommerce and shipping

Welcome to the top 50 influencers in the UK covering ecommerce, shipping and delivery. These experts and commentators are the people that most industry professionals follow and listen to online. For the full methodology behind this data skip to the end of the post.

The profile text is taken from each person’s Twitter bio.

If you spot any errors or missing details please email us and let us know.

1 Mark Pigou

Co-Founder Internet Retailing Magazine, eDelivery Magazine, Entrepreneur. Dad. Keeps busy with @etail, @edeliverynet, @tamebay

Website: internetretailing.net | Twitter: @mark_pigou | Linkedin: Profile

2 Andrew Busby

Retail Analyst, Writer & Keynote Speaker | Contributor @Forbes | Founder @RetailReflect | @IBM Futurist | Top 20 Retail Influencer | Contributor @RetailWeek

Website: retail-reflections.co.uk | Twitter: @andrewbusby | Linkedin: Profile

3 Ian Jindal

eCommerce and Multichannel Retail. Consultant, publisher, speaker, NED. http://InternetRetailing.net @etail @retailx @edeliverynet @tamebay

Website: ianjindal.com | Twitter: @ianjindal | Linkedin: Profile

4 George MacDonald

Executive Editor of Retail Week and Harringay enthusiast. Most tweets will be about retail but this is a personal feed so all views my own etc etc.

Website: | Twitter: @GeorgeMacD | Linkedin: Profile

5 Chris Brook-Carter

Managing director of Retail Week and World Retail Congress. Always on the side of retail and passionate about its ability to do good. Posts are all my own

Website: retail-week.com | Twitter: @CBC90 | Linkedin: Profile

6 Ruth Waring FCILT

Multi award-winning Transport Consultant. Founder of Women in Logistics UK, member of #theLogistics100 top influencers & SilkThread compliance web app CoCreator

Website: labyrinthsolutions.co.uk | Twitter: @RuthWaring | Linkedin: Profile

7 John Ryan

John Ryan is a retail specialist and journalist

Website: newstores.co.uk | Twitter: @newstores | Linkedin: Profile

8 Priyanka Asera

Head of #Retail, @eyefortransport & run the @d3summit in NYC! Talk to me about #omnichannel #supplychain or spicy Mexican food!

Website: d3summit.com | Twitter: @PriyankaAsera | Linkedin: Profile

9 Gemma Goldfingle

Features editor of Retail Week and freelance business journalist. Professional cynic/Geordie.

Website: | Twitter: @gemmagoldfingle | Linkedin: Profile

10 Mary Portas

It’s time we made this happen. No more excuses. No more acceptance. We can and we will do this. Join me in helping us all #WorkLikeaWoman

Website: worklikeawoman.co.uk | Twitter: @maryportas | Linkedin: Profile

11 Dan Barker

I'm a big fan of ecommerce, emarketing, ebusiness, & selected other words beginning with e.

Website: barker.co.uk | Twitter: @danbarker | Linkedin: Profile

12 Nicola Harrison

Retail Week head of creative insights. Northerner living the Tottenham dream

Website: retail-week.com | Twitter: @NicolaRHarrison | Linkedin: Profile

13 Nick Bubb

The legendary Retail Guru and author of The Daily Retailer. Also cricket lover, racing tipster, bookworm, gardener, weather expert and avid newspaper reader!

Website: | Twitter: @NickBubb1 | Linkedin: Profile

14 Lawrence Jones MBE

Entrepreneur | CEO @UKFast, @UKFastSpace & @Secarma | Owner of @FarinetVerbier | MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS PODCAST: http://apple.co/2JEoSsE | DBA #CEO #speaker

Website: lawrencejones.co.uk | Twitter: @Lawrence_Jones | Linkedin: Profile

15 Jennifer Creevy

Content Director at Retail Week. All views expressed are my own.

Website: | Twitter: @JenniferCreevy | Linkedin: Profile

16 Laura Hare

Marketer, History Enthusiast, Geordie and all round chatterbox enjoyably living my life aided by red lipstick, lots of yoga and great chat.

Website: | Twitter: @Laura_Hare_ | Linkedin: Profile

17 Graham Soult

Retail consultant, high street champion and @PlaceManagement Fellow. #Retail insight and #digital marketing at @CannyInsights; online promotion via @CannySites

Website: cannyinsights.com | Twitter: @soult | Linkedin: Profile

18 Natalie Berg

Retail analyst & founder @nbkretail. Tweeting about global retail trends through an Anglo-American lens 'Amazon’ out in 2019 https://amzn.to/2RPs1K0

Website: nbkretail.com | Twitter: @Natalie_Berg | Linkedin: Profile

19 Glynn Davis

Business Writer - covering the retail industry along with pubs, beer and restaurants. Founder of http://Retailinsider.com and http://www.Beerinsider.com

Website: retailinsider.com | Twitter: @GlynnDavis | Linkedin: Profile

20 Richard Wilding OBE

Supply Chain & Logistics Expert | Professor at Cranfield, U.K. | Consultant | Author | Speaker | OBE for service to business | #supplychain | #logistics |

Website: richardwilding.info | Twitter: @SupplyChainProf | Linkedin: Profile

21 Ben Sillitoe

Freelance business editor/journalist/copywriter, specialising in retail & tech. Founding ed @EssRetail & @retailgazette. Tweets: retail/tech/travel/LFC/running

Website: | Twitter: @BSillitoe | Linkedin: Profile

22 Charlie McBroom

Presenter of @SellerHubTV - Co-Founder of http://FittedCommerce.com - Leading Ecommerce Expert & Advisor. Former Product Manager of @Linnworks #Ecommerce

Website: sellerhub.tv | Twitter: @McEcommerce | Linkedin: Profile

23 Chloe Rigby

Business journalist, ecommerce/multichannel specialist. Editor, http://Internetretailing.net. All views my own. @etail

Website: internetretailing.net | Twitter: @Chloe_Rigby | Linkedin: Profile

24 Miya Knights

Twittering Head of Industry Insight at @WeAreEagleEye & @RetailTechUK Publisher

Website: | Twitter: @mazzaknights | Linkedin: Profile

25 Martin Newman

Chairman, Practicology, Advisory Board Member, Yext, Afterpay. Author of "100 Practical Ways to Improve Customer Experience" buy here https://goo.gl/PYiyUs

Website: Practicology.com | Twitter: @martinnewman | Linkedin: Profile

26 Neil Ashworth

Retailer, Logistician, Seasider. All views my own etc etc

Website: collectplus.co.uk | Twitter: @ashworn | Linkedin: Profile

27 Laura Heywood

Commercial editor at Retail Week, interested in all things retail especially property, tech, supply chain, multichannel & innovation.

Website: retail-week.com | Twitter: @LauraH_RW | Linkedin: Profile

28 Claire Prance (Muir)

Fashion, beauty and consumer products global retail and eCommerce logistics. Commercial Director @SEKO_Logistics

Website: sekologistics.com | Twitter: @ClaireMuir | Linkedin: Profile

29 Martin Shaw

Lover of technology, research, ecommerce, and the Oxford comma. Head of Research @RetailX & @etail

Website: | Twitter: @etail_martin | Linkedin: Profile

30 Chris Dawson

Editor and cofounder of http://www/TameBay.Com Full time eBay seller

Website: tamebay.com | Twitter: @cidawson | Linkedin: Profile

31 Alex Mortimer MSc CSCM

Commercial Director @supplychainacad | #AwardWinning #SupplyChain #Business & #Organisational #Development | #Disruptive #Technologies |

Website: supplychainacademy.org.uk | Twitter: @thealexmortimer | Linkedin: Profile

32 Mike Butcher

(MBE) Editor-at-large @TechCrunch + @TechForUK @ThePathfounder @Techfugees @Tech_Vets @TechHub @Coadec @TheEuropas Insta: mikebutcher Telegram: mike_butcher

Website: mbites.com/contact | Twitter: @mikebutcher | Linkedin: Profile

33 Maureen Hinton

Retail analyst - UK, global, all views expressed are my own

Website: globaldata.com | Twitter: @maureen_retail | Linkedin: Profile

34 Paul McCorquodale

COO | CTO | Founder & CEO | Helping Businesses Develop Strategy | Empowering High Performance teams | e-commerce | telecoms | FoodTech | Tech disrupter

Website: | Twitter: @paul_MccQ | Linkedin: Profile

35 Mike Bainbridge

Digital innovation at @awscloud, speaker, writer, prolific reader and full of ideas. I help companies innovate and transform using cloud. Views are my own.

Website: thehostinginsider.net | Twitter: @DgtlMike | Linkedin: Profile

36 Bryan Roberts

Insights director at tcc global. Personal tweets about shops, Haribo, burgers & football.

Website: tccglobal.com | Twitter: @BryanRoberts72 | Linkedin: Profile

37 Rebecca Thomson

Head of commercial content at Drapers, covering technology, digital, innovation and supply chain in UK fashion

Website: | Twitter: @Rebeccathomson_ | Linkedin: Profile

38 Tom Enright

@Gartner #Retail Supply Chain Research Director. I tweet about my latest research and anything new happening in global Retail

Website: | Twitter: @TomFromGartner | Linkedin: Profile

39 Clive Flucker

Qualified to instruct on the complete range of fork lift trucks, loading shovels, lorry loaders, mobile platform & agricultural machines. http://aftt.co.uk
Website: aftt.co.uk | Twitter: @CliveFlucker | Linkedin: Profile

40 Chris Hoskin

Regional Director of Marketing, EMEA @Narvarinc Trying to do things that matter for people who care #loyaltybeyondreason #ecommerce #postpurchase

Website: | Twitter: @chrishoskin | Linkedin: Profile

41 Graham Charlton

Editor in Chief at SaleCycle. Covering ecommerce and related topics. Which is quite a lot.

Website: blog.salecycle.com | Twitter: @gcharlton | Linkedin: Profile

42 James Gurd

Owner of Digital Juggler, Ecommerce + Digital Marketing consultancy & co-host of #EcomChat weekly ecommerce discussion on Monday. Please join in!

Website: digitaljuggler.com | Twitter: @JamesGurd | Linkedin: Profile

43 Rob Gregory

Respected and experienced analyst on global retail. A Research Director for leading international retail research firm. Specialise in global and future trends.

Website: | Twitter: @RobGregOnRetail | Linkedin: Profile

44 Richard Wishart

Enterprise Architect - Implementing disruptive business models. tracking technologies - barcodes, QR codes, active and passive RFID, WSN and RTLS

Website: del-mgt.com | Twitter: @Richard_Wishart | Linkedin: Profile

45 James Hayes

Director of Business Development | Parcelhub, part of Whistl Group #ecommerce #parcel #delivery kids, incredible wife, loving life!

Website: | Twitter: @ParcelJames | Linkedin: Profile

46 Liz Morrell

Freelance retail & business journalist/ content creator, research editor for @etail and camping and cycling writer. Shopaholic, chocaholic and wordaholic!

Website: lizmorrell.wordpress.com | Twitter: @LizMorrell | Linkedin: Profile

47 Steve Dresser

Former retailer - now insight provider for execs worldwide. 'The man Supermarket CEO's turn to' (BBC). Charity trustee for a nursery (kids, not plants).

Website: groceryinsight.com | Twitter: @dresserman | Linkedin: Profile

48 Chloe Thomas

I help eCommerce biz get more customers. Speaker, Author, Consultant, Host @eComMasterPlan #podcast http://bit.ly/1KS8XBo Book http://CustomerPersuasion.co.uk

Website: eCommerceMasterPlan.com | Twitter: @chloethomasecom | Linkedin: Profile

49 Tom Jones

#B2BMarketing #bizdev consultant at @RetailWeek Contributor @NPLHmag Fan of THFC, WRU & live music.

Website: retail-week.com | Twitter: @JonesTP | Linkedin: Profile

50 Chris Druce

Group news editor of Commercial Motor & Motor Transport and a business news junkie (http://Motortransport.co.uk)

Website: commercialmotor.com | Twitter: @RTM_ChrisDruce | Linkedin: Profile

About this data (Methodology)

Over a couple of months we built a sample list of 1000 high profile industry professionals active and working in the e-commerce and delivery space.
From that sample list, we ran it through our custom research code and statistical tools to find out who are the people, publishers, and companies that most of these industry professionals follow and listen to.
This list is then ranked according to how many of the 1000 follow them.
The tens of thousands of results were then filtered down to the top 50 individuals and researched for additional profile data. This document also contains 15 additional influencers who just missed making the top 50.
Sources: The data is based on Twitter research and of course not all influential people are on social media (but most of them are).