The eCommerce Acquiror Summit
The leading conference for acquirors of eCommerce companies in the lower-middle market eCommerce sector.
Join leaders across corporates, private equity, family offices, and eCommerce aggregators for a high-impact conference exploring the trends shaping the next wave of M&A in the eCommerce sector.
Date & Time: March 9th, 2026, 8am – 6pm
Location: 1 Liberty Street, New York
Who’s Attending: Acquirors of eCommerce Brands, Selected Top Tier Brands
# of Attendees: 150-200
Our Sponsors
Our events have been proudly sponsored by global eCommerce leaders.
The Benefits Of Attending Our eCommerce Acquiror Summit
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Hear From Industry Leading Keynote Speakers
Gain insider insights from eCommerce and M&A thought leaders who reveal real-world valuation trends, deal strategies, and growth drivers shaping the lower-middle market today. Leave with concrete data and foresight to make smarter acquisition decisions.
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Discover How Leading Brands Create Value
Learn firsthand how top-performing eCommerce brands scale profitably, optimize operations, and unlock strategic value pre- and post-acquisition. Understand what investors and operators are doing now to outpace market shifts.
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Connect With High Quality eCommerce Brands
Meet curated founders of 7–8 figure brands actively preparing for partnership or exit. Build direct relationships with operators behind proven products and position yourself for proprietary deal opportunities before they reach the broader market.
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Network With Your Industry Peers [150-200 Attendees]
Join an exclusive network of acquirors, investors, and advisors actively shaping eCommerce M&A. Exchange insights, source partnerships, and discuss deal strategies in a focused environment built for meaningful connections and collaboration.
Our 2025 Acquiror Summit in the New York Convene building.
Speakers
Don Brett
Don “eCommerce” Brett is a seasoned digital commerce and omnichannel leader with nearly two decades building and scaling eCommerce and retail media P&Ls for major consumer brands, including at Newell Brands across Amazon, Walmart and Target. Widely known as “eCommerce Brett,” he is a sought‑after strategist and commentator on Amazon vs Walmart, retail media, and treating eCommerce as a core business unit rather than a side project.
Jeff Lowenstein
Jeff Lowenstein is the co-founder of Free to Grow CFO and a fractional CFO for eCommerce and CPG brands, helping dozens of DTC companies scale with healthy profit and cash flow through fast, insightful reporting, proactive strategic advice, and a proven “Free to Grow CFO Process” spanning M&A, funding, planning and KPI-driven performance.
Jeremy Horowitz
Jeremy Horowitz is the creator of Let’s Buy a Biz!, a media brand and holding company focused on acquiring and operating profitable eCommerce businesses, and a leading voice on DTC retention, unit economics and valuation from prior roles across the Shopify ecosystem and high‑growth brands.
Josh Elliot
Josh Elliott is Insights & Strategy Director at eComplete Group, where he helps invest in and scale DTC brands using data-driven insight, capital and end-to-end eCommerce infrastructure. Previously at Social Chain, Lounge, atai and GMGN Labs, he brings a blend of brand-building, growth and investment expertise to the eComplete platform.
Kevin Fischer
Kevin is the President of Kapoq. Based in Chicago, Kevin previously worked in the algorithmic trading industry for ten years, during which he co-founded Atlas Trading, where he designed and implemented quantitative models and software infrastructure to support algorithmic trading and risk management across hundreds of thousands of financial instruments in the volatility futures and equity options markets. Kevin has a passion for synthesizing actionable intelligence from large, diverse data sets, in building and validating tractable models of complex systems.
Lisa Abel
Lisa Abel is a Sr Partnership Development Manager at Amazon Ads, where she builds high‑impact partnerships that drive revenue growth, product adoption and innovation across Amazon’s advertising ecosystem. With over a decade in marketplace leadership, including VP and consulting roles for iconic brands at Marquee Brands and as founder of AbelConsulting and Motivation Without Borders (acquired), she brings deep, operator‑level Amazon expertise from launching and optimizing thousands of SKUs through to successful brand exits.
Robyn Siers
Robyn Siers is a partner at Jones & Spross and co‑creator of Speed M&A™, a method-driven approach that uses technology, risk assessment and strategic playbooks to execute efficient, cost‑effective deals for strategic and financial buyers and sellers. With over two decades across software, financial services, venture capital and Cooley LLP, she now spearheads the firm’s M&A practice from Austin, advising founders and investors on repeatable, fast, high‑quality transaction execution.
Emmett Kilduff
Emmett is a Co-Founder at The Fortia Group and has been doing M&A transactions since 2000 with >$20bn of deals at Wall Street firms Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse (now part of UBS). Additionally, Emmett is founder of a coaching app (Pitstop). Board member of four companies.
Agenda
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Deal Sourcing
Beyond the CIM
Insights & Strategy Director, eComplete – Josh Elliot
What Buyers Actually Underwrite
Speaker TBA
Brands on the Block
Curated brands actively exploring exits
Lunch & networking @ 12.00pm - 1.30pm
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Value Creation
The First 100 Days After Close
Speaker TBA
How Breakout Brands Scale
Managing Partner, Because Ventures – Jeremy Horowitz
Multi-Channel Fulfillment at Scale
Amazon – Speaker TBA
Ops, Finance, and Forecasts That Survive Diligence
Robyn Siers (Partner, Jones & Spross), Kevin Fischer (President, Kapoq), Jeff Lowenstein (Co-Founder,Free To Grow CFO)
Launch: Beauty Value Lab
Making beauty brands exit-ready to maximize value at sale
Co-Founder, The Fortia Group – Emmett Kilduff
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Successful Exits
Anatomy of 10 Winning Deals
Speaker TBA
Inside an Exit: Founder Edition
Speaker TBA
Inside an Exit: PE Edition
Speaker TBA
Where Multiples Are Actually Clearing
Co-Founder, The Fortia Group – Emmett Kilduff
Deal Structure That Gets Deals Done
Co-Founder, The Fortia Group – Emmett Kilduff