Retail Transformers

Retail Transformers

The crazy ones, the rebels, the bold thinkers, and the disruptors transforming retail.

The Retail Razor: Retail Transformers is your insider’s guide to the visionaries shaping the future of retail! Hosted by Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden, we dive into candid conversations with the crazy ones, the rebels, the bold thinkers, and the disruptors driving real transformation in retail. Whether they’re redefining the shopping experience, revolutionizing supply chains, enabling AI for frontline retail store teams, or championing the next era of agentic commerce, these change makers are revolutionizing retail.


If you're passionate about innovation, leadership, & the future of commerce, Retail Transformers is the podcast for you.


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About Your Hosts.

Ricardo Belmar is an NRF Top Retail Voice for 2025 & a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert from 2021 – 2026. Thinkers 360 has named him a Top 10 Retail, a Top 25 AGI & Careers, a Top 50 Agentic AI & Management, & a Top 100 Digital Transformation & Transformation Thought Leader, plus a Top Digital Voice for 2024 & 2025. He is an advisory council member at George Mason University’s Center for Retail Transformation and the Retail Cloud Alliance. He was most recently the director partner marketing for retail & consumer goods in the Americas at Microsoft.


Casey Golden, is the North America Leader for Retail & Consumer Goods at CI&T, and CEO of Luxlock. She is, a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert from 2023 - 2026, and a Retail Cloud Alliance advisory council member. After a career on the fashion and supply chain technology side of the business, Casey is obsessed with the customer relationship between the brand and the consumer and is slaying franken-stacks and building retail tech! 

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