Biography:

Eric Olson was promoted to Vice President, Education Strategies in March 2010 after joining the National Retail Federation in August 2008 as Senior Director. He has responsibility for aligning, developing and delivering educational content for NRF members and others through the organization’s Annual Convention, conferences, summits, and webinars.

Additionally, Olson works with internal knowledge leaders, company consultants, NRF committee members and industry solutions providers to help identify key trends and topics, relevant, well informed speakers, and appropriate forums for content delivery. He has additional responsibility for optimizing the use of NRF speaker assets across multiple events and educational programs.

Prior to joining NRF, Olson worked with member-based organization Vendor Compliance Federation (VCF) as Director of Content and Programming where he served in a key management capacity with the responsibility for enhancing and expanding events programming and related content. He also spent 13-plus years with Retail Systems Alert Group, an industry research and events company, in various management roles including VP of Content, VP of Products and Services, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of ERI – Extended Retail Industry Journal and Editor of Retail Systems Alert Newsletter.

Olson has an extensive understanding of retail IT, supply chain process, retail-supplier collaboration and international retailing, including Asia-Pac and Europe. He graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

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