Ira Golthi is the senior manager of university relations and programs at the NRF Foundation. In this role, she is responsible for managing operations and logistics for key NRF Foundation university and early careerist programs, including the NRF Foundation Student Program and NRF Foundation Emerging Leaders Summit. She manages the development of university partnerships designed to meet industry needs and promote retail as an industry of opportunity.
Golthi previously served as the manager of event production and operations with the content team at the National Retail Federation. In this role, she collaborated with content leads, speakers and production crews to bring NRF curated content to life on stage. She spent five years in this role, working on NRF’s signature conferences, including Retail’s Big Show, NRF PROTECT and NRF Nexus.
Golthi joined NRF as content team coordinator in 2019 after an internship with the NRF Foundation in 2018. She is a native of the greater Philadelphia area and holds a B.S. in marketing from The Pennsylvania State University. She currently resides in Washington, D.C.