Renee Hartmann
Founder,
CLA
Renee Hartmann has spent nearly 30 years at the intersection of retail, technology, and global markets.
She began her career as an equity research analyst at Putnam Investments covering consumer and retail companies, moved into investor relations at Ogilvy in San Francisco and Beijing during the dot-com era, and then spent over a decade in China as a founder and entrepreneur — building ENO, a lifestyle retail brand recognised by Fast Company as one of China's Top Ten Most Innovative Companies, from zero to 25 stores.
Since founding CLA in 2012, she has advised some of the world's leading retailers and consumer brands on growth, international expansion, and technology adoption — including Bergdorf Goodman, El Corte Inglés, Coach, L'Oréal, and Fendi. She currently serves as a Non-Executive Board Director and holds multiple advisory positions with retailers and retail technology companies across Europe and the US.
She is the co-author of Next Generation Retail (Kogan Page, 2023), a ReThink Retail Top 100 Expert for three consecutive years, and a frequent keynote speaker at NRF, Luxury Outlook, VivaTech, and DMEXCO. She is based in Sintra, Portugal.
Sessions
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23-Sep-2026The Intelligent Data & Customer Insights StageData to Decisions: How Insight-Led Brands Create Smarter Marketing - Panel Session
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