A Note from Our New President, Travis Hess

Hello, I’m Travis Hess, the new President at BigCommerce. My teams are responsible for our regional and global sales, marketing, customer success, agency partnerships, and business operations. Our purpose is to deliver to you the world’s best enterprise platform for B2C, B2B, and composable commerce. I’m thrilled and honored to serve you!

By way of background, I’ve been in ecommerce for almost 20 years. Most recently, at Accenture, BVA, and The Stable, I ran the largest Shopify Plus agency in the world for the past five years that served some of their largest customers, including Kylie Cosmetics, Spanx, UNTUCKit, SKIMS, Tommy John, NOBULL, Netflix, and more. I was also a member of Shopify’s inaugural Advisory Board and have been deeply involved in their product and go-to-market strategy. Before that, I was the global CRO and GM for LiveArea/PFSWeb, the largest independent SFCC/Demandware agency in the world as well as a leading SAP/Hybris and Magento partner where we focused on enterprise ecommerce implementations globally.  

Commerce has been my career passion, and I’ve been selling, marketing, implementing, and scaling leading global brands on leading global platforms for two decades now. Most notably, I’ve been able to effectively recognize market capabilities and customer demands and build award winning agencies that are mapped specifically to the best-in-class commerce platforms to meet and exceed such demands at scale. From Oracle Commerce/ATG and IBM Websphere, to SAP/Hybris and SFCC/Demandware to Adobe/Magento and most recently Shopify — I’ve truly seen it all over the past two decades. 

Why am I staking my career and reputation on BigCommerce? Simply put, I believe it possesses the best commerce platform and strategic vision, both now and increasingly in the years ahead for where the market is going. In particular, I think BigCommerce has extraordinary competitive advantages in the following areas:

1. Industry-leading MACH approach for both composable and fully-hosted sites, offering unmatched optionality to brands' evolving implementation needs

2. True enterprise functionality, including multi-storefront, multi-geography, and native support for complex catalogs, promotions, and customizations

3. The world’s best B2B buyer portal functionality and user experience, now open-sourced for unprecedented customizability and flexibility

4. The world’s leading omnichannel enablement solution, Feedonomics, which on average improves its customers’ traffic, sales, and conversion by 20% through the world’s leading advertising and marketplaces channels

5. Breadth and depth of innovation, as highlighted by our recent Next Big Thing, which is further extending our leadership at a pace only one platform globally can compare with

If you are open to learning more about whether BigCommerce might be best for your business’s future growth, success, and profitability, please connect with my team and me! We’d be excited to discuss the value and fit of BigCommerce’s capabilities, TCO, and customer-centric service model. 

I look forward to building the future of ecommerce together. 

Travis Hess President, BigCommerce