Carolyn Bender

Vice President, Retail Strategy

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Carolyn Bender is Vice President of Retail Strategy for Zipline. She came to Zipline with decades of experience building and executing strategic initiatives for some of the world’s leading global retail brands. With a track record of mobilizing teams and helping them successfully navigate transformation with speed and agility, Carolyn’s success can largely be attributed to her skill identifying the levers necessary for driving effective change. Her signature leadership style is inspired by delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Throughout her career, Carolyn has focused on helping brands connect the evolutionary needs of the retail industry with the technologies available in the market. In her role at Zipline, Carolyn combines her passion for driving positive results with Zipline’s robust technology solution to ensure her clients can achieve the operational excellence necessary for next-generation retailing.

About Zipline

Zipline is a mobile-first communications and task management solution that helps organizations improve employee engagement and operational alignment, resulting in better store execution and profitability. Zipline provides a laser focus on employee engagement at all levels of your business, helping brands dramatically outperform their peers resulting in store execution rates greater than 90%. Zipline is Great Place to Work-certified for its employee diversity, culture, and healthy work-life balance, and was named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies. Hundreds of thousands of users from the best brands in the world like Rite Aid, Sephora, Gap Inc., and AEO Inc. depend on Zipline to align and empower their frontline teams worldwide.

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Store Enablement Guides | August 16, 2022

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Retail Communications | April 26, 2021

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