Team

Michelle Peluso
CEO

Michelle Peluso is the Chief Executive Officer of Gilt, an innovative online shopping destination offering its seven million members special access to the most inspiring merchandise and experiences every day at insider prices. Prior to assuming the CEO role at Gilt, she served for over three years on the company's Board of Directors.

Before joining Gilt, Michelle was at Citigroup from 2009 until early 2013, where she was the Global Consumer Chief Marketing and Internet Officer. In that role she was...

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Elizabeth Francis
Chief Marketing Officer

Elizabeth Francis serves as Chief Marketing Officer of Gilt. In this role, she is responsible for the company's new customer generation and retention programs across all channels as well as creative direction, overall brand positioning, and research and analytics.

Elizabeth has over 12 years of marketing and advertising experience—building and scaling emerging brands—in fashion, consumer packaged goods, and financial services companies. She joins Gilt from Intelligent Beauty, a leading e-commerce and brand-building incubator where she was CMO. In addition to her...

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Steve Jacobs
Chief Information Officer

Steve Jacobs serves as the Chief Information Officer of Gilt, where he is responsible for overseeing the company's technology organization and strategy. Steve joined Gilt in August 2009 to build out the data engineering team, after which he quickly rose to the CIO position in July 2010.

Prior to Gilt, Steve headed up the High Performance Computing group at Merrill Lynch, where he managed globally distributed teams that were focused on maximizing grid efficiency for the many thousands of servers used...

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Kathy Leo
Chief Legal & People Officer

Kathy Leo serves as the Chief Legal & People Officer at Gilt, where she is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the company's legal, human resources, and facilities functions. With over 15 years of in-house and law firm experience, Kathy is a highly skilled business lawyer whose practice has included mergers and acquisitions, securities law, corporate governance, intellectual property, employment law, and commercial matters.

Prior to joining Gilt in December 2010, Kathy was, from 2004 to 2010, the General Counsel of United...

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Jyothi Rao
Executive Vice President of Gilt, Women’s and Baby & Kids

Jyothi Rao brings extensive experience in the retail sector to her role as Executive Vice President of Gilt, Women’s & Kids’. Her responsibilities include overseeing the operations of women's and kids’ apparel and accessories for the company.

Prior to joining Gilt in 2009, Jyothi served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Calvin Klein, where she launched the Specialty Retail division. Before Calvin Klein she spent 16 years at Gap Inc., where she held several leadership positions and was responsible...

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Tom Sansone
Chief Financial Officer & Head of Corporate Development

Tom serves as the Chief Financial Officer and Head of Corporate Development at Gilt. In this role he oversees a variety of functions including finance, accounting, treasury, tax, mergers and acquisitions, raising capital, investor relations, managing capital markets and forming astute strategic alliances, investments and joint ventures—for the portfolio of Gilt businesses. During his tenure, Tom has led Gilt through dozens of transactions including debt and equity raises, acquisitions, investments, Joint Ventures, partnerships, and strategic alliances.

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Michael Bryzek
Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Michael brings to Gilt extensive experience in developing user-focused Internet software and a deep passion for leveraging technology. Prior to Gilt, Michael founded Volunteer Solutions, an Internet-application service provider for the philanthropic sector. Volunteer Solutions was acquired by United Way of America in 2001. Michael then served as chief technology officer for United eWay, the United Way of America's technology subsidiary. He holds a BSc and Masters in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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Sarah Chubb
President and General Manager, Gilt City

Sarah Chubb serves as the President and General Manager of Gilt City. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the strategy and operations of the seven hubs Gilt City operates in.

She joined Gilt City in August 2012. Prior to that, Sarah was the President of Condé Nast Digital, a division of Condé Nast Publications. In that role, she led the creation and growth of the company's digital business from its inception in 1996 to an organization comprising 300 people...

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Keith George
SVP of Gilt, Men's & Home

Keith George currently serves as SVP of Gilt, Men’s & Home. He is responsible for driving revenue and innovation through a cross-functional team of merchandising, marketing, technology, operations, and creative professionals. Prior to leading the Men's and Home business, he was responsible for managing inventory investments for all Gilt businesses as Vice President of Merchandise Planning. Keith brings to Gilt retail and operations experience from such notable brands as Gap Inc., Coca-Cola Enterprises, UPS, and Ernst & Young. He holds...

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Peter Glusker
CEO, Gilt Japan & Gilt City Japan

Peter Glusker serves as Chief Executive Officer of Gilt Japan and Gilt City Japan, where he is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of both companies. Gilt Japan, a subsidiary of Gilt Groupe Inc., was launched in March 2009. Today it has over 1 million members, and has worked with over 3,000 brands. Gilt City Japan launched in December 2010.

Previously, Peter was based in New York City, running Business Development and International Operations for Gilt, Inc. He joined Gilt in...

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Chris Halkyard
Chief Supply Chain Officer

Christopher Halkyard serves as the Chief Supply Chain Officer for Gilt, where he is responsible for global supply chain management including international and domestic logistics, product distribution, international shipping, packaging supplies and global customer support . In addition to these responsibilities, he is steering vendor compliance, inventory control and the purchasing program for the company. Halkyard joined Gilt in April 2010 as Vice President of Operations and quickly rose to his current position after bringing over 20 years of distribution, logistics...

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Rachel Jarrett
General Manager, Gilt Baby & Kids and Head of Operations, Gilt Home

Rachel is the General Manager of Gilt Baby & Kids and Head of Operations of Gilt Home. She previously served as the Vice President and General Manager of Kids & Specialty Products at Barnes & Noble.com. Rachel brings extensive knowledge of the children's business and has been recognized for creating innovative online programs, such as the children's program "online storytime" for BN.com. She has also created and implemented strategic plans, which have benefited her companies and their customers. Prior to...

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Alexis Maybank
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer

In 2007, Alexis and a founding team conceived of and built Gilt. She served as Gilt's Founding CEO, later its President, Gilt Home, CMO and Chief Strategy Officer.

Prior to founding Gilt, Alexis was General Manager of AOL's ecommerce businesses. In 1998, she became an early member of the eBay team, where she joined the company's first strategic planning group led by cofounder Jeff Skoll. She launched and ran eBay Canada, which became Canada's largest ecommerce business. She helped found eBay...

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Jennifer Miller
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications

Jennifer Miller serves as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications at Gilt and is responsible for managing the company's messaging and press strategy. She's had a direct hand in helping to propel Gilt from a virtually unknown e-commerce site to a nationally recognized shopping site, garnering coverage for Gilt in virtually every top media outlet. She brings over 15 years of corporate, crisis, and consumer experience to her role.

Jennifer joined Gilt from Condé Nast where she served as the...

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Alexandra Wilkis Wilson
Founder of Gilt and Head of National Sales for Gilt City

With over 14 years of international experience in luxury goods, retail and finance, Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Founder of Gilt and Head of National Sales for Gilt City, is on the forefront of revolutionizing and innovating the landscape of luxury e-commerce. Prior to co-founding Gilt in 2007, Alexandra managed retail operations at Bulgari, overseeing 15 North American stores. Before working at Bulgari, Alexandra managed Leather Goods Sales Planning for Louis Vuitton North America. She had previously worked for retail guru Marvin...

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