
Gabi Viljoen is a global commerce leader and transformation strategist with over a decade of experience scaling digital businesses across both challenger brands and enterprise CPG organisations. Most recently, she serves as Vice President and Head of eCommerce for Nestlé Health Science U.S, where she leads digital commerce strategy across Amazon, omnichannel retail, social commerce and emerging platforms for a multi billion dollar portfolio. During her tenure, Gabi has built and led high performing teams, modernised operating models and driven enterprise level digital shelf and retail media transformation, and is known for translating complexity into clear strategic roadmaps that show organisations where and how to play. Prior to Nestlé, Gabi worked alongside digitally native brands disrupting their categories online and using eCommerce success to expand into in store retail, giving her a rare blend of entrepreneurial agility and enterprise scale. Her expertise spans eCommerce strategy, retail media, digital capability building and organisational design, combining operational rigour with a deeply human leadership style to help companies grow profitably while building teams that think boldly and execute with clarity. She is also the co host of Coffee, Commerce & Cabernet, a candid podcast exploring the real behind the scenes conversations shaping industry leaders and operators today.