Details of the keynote speakers at The Retail Breakfast are listed below, please click on the links for more details:

Conference Chairman - Clare Rayner, Founder and Managing Director, Retail Acumen & The Retail Breakfast

Opening Keynote Speaker - Hash Ladha, Group Multi-Channel Director, Aurora Fashions.

Speaker - Andrew Rayner, Founder and Managing Director, e-mphasis.

Speaker - Duncan Hallas, Vice President Business Development for the UK & Ireland, Netbiscuits.

The event chairman for The Retail Breakfast is Clare Rayner. Clare is founder and managing director of Retail Acumen and The Retail Breakfast.

Known as 'The Retail Champion', Clare is a retail expert, speaker, mentor, consultant, analyst and trainer.

Clare makes regular guest appearances as a retail expert speaker on BBC Breakfast News and BBC Radio, and speaks at various conferences, events and exhibitions. She has been published in numerous trade publications and has contributed to many retail-focused articles and opinion pieces.

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Hash Ladha is the Group Multi-Channel Director at Aurora Fashions.

Aged 35, Hash lives in London and East Sussex. He studied at the University of Wales and is a Law graduate. In 1995, he joined Evans as a Marketing Assistant, moving to Topman as Marketing Manager in 1997, followed in 1999 as Marketing Manager of BHS Menswear and Home, 2000 Marketing Controller at Austin Reed, 2002 Head of Marketing at Dorothy Perkins, 2003 Business Development Director at New Look and 2004 Marketing Director at New Look. He joined ASOS.com as Marketing & Operations Director in 2007 and has recently been appointed to the newly created position of Group Multi Channel Director for Aurora Fashions which owns Karen Millen, Coast, Oasis and Warehouse.

Aurora Fashions owns, develops and manages the performance of some of the UK's most respected women's fashion brands - Karen Millen, Coast, Warehouse and Oasis, which are all aimed at the higher end of the market. The brands operates out of 1500 stores and out of 45 countries.

The group is focused on providing an environment that enables each individual brand to flourish independently, while optimising economies of scale by sharing a common infrastructure for operations, finance and senior management resource.

Karen Millen brings 'designer-wear' to the high street with a bold approach to clothing for the body conscious cosmopolitan woman. It is a luxury brand delivering high quality, beautifully designed clothing, footwear and accessories.

Coast is a premium brand and stands out in the market by offering style conscious women of all ages a beautiful range of design-led, contemporary and well-made occasionwear.

Warehouse provides 'design for the high street' and is a brand that is aimed at 18-30 year old women who are knowledgeable about trends and fashion, appreciate design and quality, and are body confident, independent and love shopping.

Oasis is well established on the high street as an aspirational fashion brand. Targeted at fashion aware 18-30 year old independent women, it offers a broad spectrum of products comprising clothing and accessories including footwear, jewellery, bags and belts.

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Andrew Rayner is the Founder and Managing Director of e-mphasis Internet Marketing.

e-mphasis was founded by Andrew Rayner, who has been working with internet related technologies since the internet itself came into existence! Andrew is considered to be a search marketing expert and, with the team at e-mphasis, he has developed innovative techniques to enable clients to get found online for their desired search terms, rapidly, and for a fixed monthly management fee.

Andrew recently took e-mphasis to the finals of The National Business Award for the Excellence in Marketing category, and was runner up to Waitrose.

At The Retail Breakfast Andrew will explain the critical importance of focusing on local when it comes to optimising the mobile search marketing opportunity.

Some of e-mphasis retail clients include Coast Fashions, T.M. Lewin, Crabtree & Evelyn and Tesco Phone Shops.

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Duncan Hallas is VP of Business Development, UK & Ireland at Netbiscuits

Duncan joined Netbiscuits in 2010 as Vice President Business Development for the UK & Ireland, his key responsibilities are to run the commercial operation in London and spread the word about The Netbiscuits Award Winning Mobile Publishing Platform both to key local and multi national brands and mobile service providers.

Prior to Netbiscuits he has held a number of senior commercial roles for pioneering international mobile and Internet communications companies including Skype, mBlox, Netsize & Mobile Streams over the previous 13 years. He is happiest when achieving challenging targets and building and executing go to market strategy.

As a regular participant in events about the mobile sector he lends his expertise in creating mobile propositions, understanding of the mobile landscape and hands on experience of integrating mobile in an operational sense.

Duncan studied Marketing at Leeds Met University and his interests include oenology, cycling, windsurfing & sailing.

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