BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. announced the company has hired veteran ecommerce and technology industry leader Travis Hess as its president. Hess will serve as BigCommerce?s go-to-market leader to drive top-line growth and profitability. He will lead BigCommerce?s global strategic and operational expansion with full responsibility for the operations that market, sell and service the company?s ecommerce platform, professional services and agency partner relationships.

Hess is an ecommerce industry veteran with more than 15 years of senior leadership positions across several top commerce agencies and consultancies. He served on partner advisory boards for Shopify, Klaviyo, SAP/Hybris and Rackspace and was recognized as one the 30 Most Influential in Ecommerce by Signifyd in 2022. He most recently worked at Accenture as a managing director leading their direct-to-consumer commerce offering and go-to-market strategy.

He also managed Accenture?s Shopify partnership globally. Previously, he was an executive vice president at The Stable, a leading omnichannel commerce agency that was acquired by Accenture in August 2022. Prior to that, he was the chief commercial officer and then chief executive officer of BVA, one of the most globally recognized DTC and Shopify agencies which was acquired by The Stable in December 2021.

Prior to BVA, Hess held numerous senior leadership roles including at LiveArea, a global commerce agency now part of Dentsu/Merkle, where he served as chief revenue officer and general manager, and at Amplifi Commerce.