THE DIRECT 60 LIST Of 2026

Eleni Makriannis

SVP, Global Ecommerce & Merchandising | App Group

PREVIOUS COMPANIES: Fendi, Elie Tahari, Michael Kors, Prada Group

Insights

“The biggest risk to a brand besides bad product, is good product built in a silo. When e-commerce messaging sits downstream of design instead of parallel, you end up with a story that gets told twice, once by the product and once by the site, and they rarely match. The teams that win are the ones who build the story together from the start.” 

2026_ Eleni Makriannis
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