Greg Merrill,
Nike

Greg Merrill Greg Merrill has built his expertise delivering value at the intersection of strategy, technology, innovation, and health. He is passionate about the power of diverse and empowered teams leveraging modern technology and data in innovative ways to fuel exponential growth and competitive advantage.

Greg’s Board experience includes robotics and automation, manufacturing, and B2B & B2C marketplace and technology companies. He currently serves as a Board Advisor for New Black, a unified commerce technology platform, WANTD, the industry’s only management and trading platform powered by proprietary AI, The List, the first social commerce platform for luxury fashion, and Earthscape VR, combining virtual reality and the Overview Effect to improve human performance. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Punks & Pinstripes, a private corporate transformation executive network. He also serves as a mentor and advisor to startups and growth-stage companies within Plug and Play Tech Center, Endeavor, and Stanford’s Latino Business Action Network. He is a fierce advocate and ally for supporting and developing the next generation of women and BIPOC leaders.

Greg leads Nike’s Digital Transformation, responsible for driving the most critical, complex, and cross-functional strategic initiatives that power growth and transformation across the company. With initiatives spanning from Product Creation, Planning & Supply Chain, and Digital Marketing to the front-end Consumer & Marketplace experiences he has a wide purview and influence across the enterprise. His work is reported to the Nike Board of Directors quarterly.

Prior to Nike, Greg co-founded and lead a series of technology development and commercialization start-ups across a wide range of areas including green energy, materials recycling, and a sustainable-focused lifestyle and footwear brand. Before that he ran operations for a health and fitness company in the Washington, D.C. area. Greg received his B.Sc. in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland and his MBA from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.