John Denny

VP eCommerce & Digital Marketing CAVU Venture Partners

John is a recognized industry thought leader on the topic of Amazon, eCommerce & Digital Marketing who has been interviewed and quoted by The New York Times, Forrester Research, the IAB and the Association of National Advertisers. He was invited by Amazon to be a keynote speaker at their annual Vendor Conference three times since 2015, and was chosen to speak at Amazon’s inaugural AdCon in Seattle this fall .  John is also a MasterClass Teacher for Ascential’s Amazon Hackathon Conferences in NYC and Seattle, and currently has an Amazon Advertising MasterClass video series with Clickz/Search Engine Watch.  Prior to CAVU, John was VP of eCommerce & Media at Bai, where over four years he built the brand on Amazon from a tiny niche product to its number one selling beverage, ahead of industry leaders like Coke & Pepsi (the Amazon strategy John built for Bai is currently used as a case study across Amazon’s ad teams on how disruptor brands can leverage the platform’s advanced ad products, technology and machine learning to drive breakout growth).  In recognition of Bai’s industry leading growth and strategic leadership in Digital CPG innovation, Amazon named Bai “Vendor of the Year” for 2015.