Jeron Christensen is the VP of Strategy and Innovation of Nu Skin Enterprises, a global integrated beauty and wellness company. For more than 20 years, Jeron has successfully developed business strategies and plans targeted at delivering world class customer experiences. He has led the execution of technology and marketing projects that span the globe. He is passionate about identifying customer needs and leading teams to deliver innovative solutions. Prior to his present role, Jeron has held leadership positions at Nu Skin in Technology, Global Marketing and inside of Nu Skin’s Americas Region. Jeron has an MBA from Colorado State University and a Bachelor of Science in Behavioural Sciences from Utah Valley University. Outside of work, Jeron loves spending time with his amazing wife and three kids, running marathons and searching out the best food the world has to offer.

Amit Kalley is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Infosys Equinox, a human-centric digital commerce and digital marketing platform. Amit has successfully driven digital transformations for over a hundred G2K enterprises across the globe for over 2 decades. His experience spans a wide range of industries including retail, CPG, high-tech, manufacturing, financial services, telecom, energy, and media. With a strong foundation in technology, Amit has created and taken to market several industry-leading products, solutions, and practices. Prior to his current role, he has held leadership positions in the other Infosys products portfolios and at Infosys Labs, and was also the Global Head of Innovation at Infosys for multiple industry verticals. Amit has an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur.

Khurram Khan is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Infosys Equinox and leads the technology direction and the product roadmap. He has spent his career anticipating customer needs, designing the right solutions, and architecting technology that builds trust with end users. Before joining Infosys, Khurram was a leader at Macy’s, fostering their shift into mobile commerce. Khurram brings to the digital commerce domain years of experience in the MarTech industry, where he led early SEM and cross-targeting platforms.

Rahul Ubgade, AVP - Group Manager, Client Services at Infosys, is a digital Leader with over 25 years of experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. At Infosys, Rahul currently leads engagements with key CPG companies supporting their digital transformation journeys across Revenue Growth Management, Route-to-market, Omni-Channel commerce, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Employee Experience. He also leads Data & Analytics portfolio for CPG, Retail, and Logistics industry verticals within Infosys. Before Infosys, Rahul led many business transformation initiatives at Unilever.

Kunal Puri is Vice President and Head of Customer Success, Infosys Equinox, and works closely with clients to ensure they realize business value from their investments in the Infosys Equinox ecosystem and with the Infosys Equinox leadership team to prioritize the platform roadmap and the strategic growth of Infosys Equinox. He also engages proactively with the analyst community to identify trends and white spaces that can help drive disruption and exponential business growth. Kunal has led digital transformation initiatives for multiple Global 2000 enterprises across B2C, B2B, B2B2C as well as marketplaces for retail, CPG, high-tech, manufacturing, telecommunications, and media companies.

Justin Honaman leads the worldwide Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Retail Go-to-Market team at Amazon Web Services. He is also the worldwide segment leader for Food & Beverage. His team’s focus within CPG and Retail is on delivering supply chain, ecommerce, data / analytics and digital engagement business solutions for customers globally. Justin has spent the majority of his career in Consumer Goods and Retail both on the customer side (Coca-Cola, Georgia Pacific) as well as the technology / consulting side (Accenture, EY). Justin lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Erik is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of the Cloverpop decision intelligence platform and creator of the popular Udemy course How To Make Better, Faster Decisions At Work. While building Cloverpop, Erik has been immersed in the science of decision making, performing hundreds of experiments with researchers at Stanford and elsewhere to understand -- and fix -- decision making at work. Our research has been published around the world and featured in Harvard Business Review. Erik is a frequent speaker and writer (Forbes) on both entrepreneurial leadership and the business impact of behavioral science. Erik, an Illinois farm boy turned MIT rocket scientist, Harvard MBA and decorated U.S. Air Force Captain who ended up part of the Silicon Valley tech revolution. Then, 15 years building businesses for Macromedia and Adobe, prior to starting Cloverpop.

Dr. Eugene Roytburg is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cloverpop, a leader in Decision Intelligence. Prior to founding Cloverpop, Dr. Roytburg’s career spanned three decades in management consulting (Kearney, Strategy, & Nielsen) and in enterprise analytics. Dr. Roytburg pioneered the area of Foresight Analytics as Founder and CEO of 4i inc. (acquired by Fractal.ai in 2017). Dr. Roytburg has advised over 80 organizations across CPG, Retail, Pharma, Insurance and Manufacturing on combining Foresight Analytics/AI, Technology and Business Knowledge to shape the future of business problem solving, decision making and knowledge creation.

Kevin E. McCurdy is Global CPG Segment Lead – APN for AWS responsible for identifying and engaging relationships with strategic ISV and SI Partners for the AWS Global CPG Vertical. Prior to that he served as Vice President, Demand Signal Management at E2open, Inc. He was Co-Founder and Vice President of Strategic Accounts for Orchestro, Inc. which was acquired by E2open. He has leg engagements with leading CPG companies including: The Coca-Cola Company, General Mills, Kellogg’s, PepsiCo, Newell Brands, Scott’s-Miracle Gro, Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, and Kraft-Heinz. He also was Co-Founder and Vice President of Business Development and Services at Mercari Technologies, Inc. which delivered space optimization solutions for CPG and retail companies. Previously, Kevin served as Director of Business Consulting at Blue Yonder (formerly Manugistics). Kevin has 25+ years of experience in supply chain management, category management, and demand signal management working with leading global CPG companies and retailers. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Logistics and International Business from the Pennsylvania State University. He also studied British Economics and the European Union at the University of Manchester in Manchester, England.

Aparna leads CPG Go-to-Market Strategy & Solutions for North America at AWS. She spends a majority of her time with CPG customers, both learning from and sharing with them to build and scale CPG solutions. With close to 15 years serving CPG customers as a strategy consultant at Monitor Deloitte, she has deep experience in helping customers drive benefits across the entire value chain; ranging from driving plant – level productivity improvements to designing new ways to help clients innovate at the edge of their current businesses and entrenched capabilities. She is particularly passionate about helping CPGs activate new capabilities within the Commercial, Technology and HR functions and help them prepare to win in an uncertain and volatile tomorrow.

Justin Honaman leads the worldwide Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Retail Go-to-Market team at Amazon Web Services. He is also the worldwide segment leader for Food & Beverage. His team’s focus within CPG and Retail is on delivering supply chain, ecommerce, data / analytics and digital engagement business solutions for customers globally. Justin has spent the majority of his career in Consumer Goods and Retail both on the customer side (Coca-Cola, Georgia Pacific) as well as the technology / consulting side (Accenture, EY). Justin lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Pascal Houdayer has three decades of experience leading beauty and personal care businesses across both developed and emerging markets. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of NAOS (Bioderma, Esthederm, Etat Pur), a global leader in dermo-cosmetics that develops innovative skin care and personal care products, and as an Executive Vice President and member of the Management Board at Henkel, where he was responsible for the Beauty Care Division, after leading the Asia-Pacific region, Digital, New Business Development, and the global Home Care business. Prior to that, Pascal worked for 19 years at Procter & Gamble holding various international management and leadership positions in the United States, Europe, and Africa. He most recently served as President and Founder of stratosPHere, a global private equity senior advisory and consulting firm. Pascal is married and father of 3 children.

Responsibilities: As the Chief Marketing Officer at GoGo SqueeZ, Mark is responsible for ensuring the sustainability and profitability of the brand in maintaining market shares and positioning. He defines the brand marketing strategy in line with the general strategy of the company and ensures the optimum position of our brands and products. Mark guarantees the brand image is consistent with the marketing, commercial and general strategy by using appropriate communication media and by carrying out efficient promotional actions. In addition, he partners cross-functionally with Sales, Finance, Supply Chain & HR to identify and execute the best Marketing vision and strategy. Experience Mark’s marketing experience spans across multiple categories and a little under 2 decades, his journey with Materne North America began October 2022. Prior to Materne, Mark began his career at Procter & Gamble where he was classically trained managing digital and traditional brands. Mark furthered his career at The Campbell Soup company where he worked for one of the most iconic brands, Goldfish Crackers, succeeding in delivering strong communication and Ecommerce strategies. His most recent experience prior to joining Materne was at Henkel Corporation where he led the Digital, Shopper, and Ecommerce Marketing organization. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a min or Mathematics from Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana. Mark is originally from Florien, Louisiana, a place where he called home with only 600 other people. He grew up on a farm which sourced vegetables and meats for his family’s restaurant, Pearl’s Place. Mark is married to Michael and has a son, Mick, and a dog named Maddux. During his free time, he loves cooking, entertaining family and friends, gardening, sports, and travel. Mark joined Materne due to the diverse and talented individuals who have a passion for their fellow employees, consumers, and the brand.

Imteaz Ahamed works in the digital space for Reckitt, a multinational fast-moving consumer goods company based in London, UK. He was born in Bangladesh and did his studies in Australia. He started his career in Reckitt in Australia and has since worked across Europe and the Americas. He currently heads up Performance Marketing for Reckitt North America. At the tender age of 6, in the early 90's his father bought him a 386 PC for $3000, sparking a continuous curiosity about everything related to technology. Imteaz also invests and mentors early-stage startups & entrepreneurs from all over the world and is an avid fan of hackathons. He is also a StartupBus Mentor and Alumni - the most intense 72 hour startup hackathon in the world & shares his productivity hacks on his personal blog; imteaz.com

Andy Walter is a business results-driven professional with extensive experience in strategy, development, execution, and operations across Shared Services, Analytics, and IT. He led the Commercial Services & Delivery Organization (over 1500 IT and multifunctional professionals) for Procter & Gamble’s Global Business Services (GBS). He was responsible for IT & Shared Services for all Global Business Units and Markets around the world. His team was accountable for developing cutting-edge digital capabilities for Procter & Gamble to win “where it matters most,” with Consumers, Shoppers, and Retailers. This included all eBusiness, Consumer Services, BI/Analytics, Sales Force Solutions, Project Delivery, Business Process Services, and A&D / Company restructuring efforts. He has over a decade of leading top tier Global Shared Services globally and is a Certified Outsourcing Professional (IAOP).

Ravi Parmeswar is a senior Marketing & Analytics leader, who has extensive success and expertise in orchestrating transformational growth for global Fortune 100 companies. Working with C-Suite, Ravi presents an unblemished record of strengthening competitive position, optimizing cost and building world-class teams for his iconic companies – Johnson & Johnson (VP), Citigroup (MD), Blackrock (Sr Advisor), Sara Lee (VP), and Coca Cola (VP). He excels at developing and executing innovative business strategies, transforming businesses through Data & analytics, driving remarkable customer experience, and revitalizing iconic brands across borders and cultures to consistently engage with consumers.

Ujjwal has over 20 years of experience in Advanced Analytics and Market Research with specific focus in the field of R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing, Human Resources, Consumer Insights, Risk and Collections across a wide range of industries. Further, he has experience in client management, one-to-one consulting and services, leading large analytical initiatives and successfully managing delivery for effective business decision-making. In his free time, Ujjwal plays a role in analytics thought leadership, contributing to several industry forums, and mentoring aspiring data scientists. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his friends and family over food, movies and shows, and visiting and exploring new places.

Aakarsh is a career consultant focused on diagnosing business problems and tailoring data-driven solutions to the needs of executive audiences. He has led several challenging digital transformation programs and turnkey data science and analytics initiatives for over 40 Fortune 500 clients over the course of his consulting career. His functional expertise extends from Innovation, New Product Development, Launch Planning and across all aspects Revenue Management including Pricing, TPM and Category Management. Outside of work, Aakarsh likes to read and travel to feed his curiosity about history and geopolitics and their impact on human lives and culture. Aakarsh is a self-proclaimed foodie who lives in West Loop, the #1 restaurant district of Chicago, with his partner and two kids.

Khurram Moiz has spent the past 12+ years successfully driving strategic, customer-centric, media optimization and analytics capabilities for Fortune 100 companies across Retail, Consumer Products, Food and Beverage, and Financial Services. In his current role at BlueConic as the Lead Principal of Retail Customer Success, Khurram is tasked with guiding and enabling customers as they navigate through their own digital transformation journeys. Having worked client-side at both Home Depot and AutoZone, and as a prior strategy consultant at Accenture, Khurram has first-hand experience in leading and influencing executive-level decisions with respect to marketing technologies and audience intelligence capabilities that serve cross-functional teams. As many of his core verticals accelerated digital transformation during the pandemic, Khurram further enabled brands to develop true one-to-one conversations with every customer - with a key focus on leveraging first-party data to develop strong, lasting customer relationships. Off the clock, Khurram is often found outdoors with his scouting family around metro Atlanta and usually in the middle of an intense deep dive on Marvel superheroes with his kids.

Pablo Nill is a Sr. IT Product Group Manager at Nestle. He brings over 20 years of experience involved with international and local Customer Service organizations. He´s convinced that the best CX solutions are enabled by end-to-end integration between the front office and the back office. His primary focus is to facilitate solutions that help Nestle to optimize their integrated supply chains to achieve the best Customer experience. Pablo has focused his whole career on satisfying the ever-changing needs of customers.

Harris runs SAP’s Consumer Products Business Unit and has 30+ years in the industry starting at P&G.

Deepak Jose is a leader in digital transformation, commercial strategy, data sciences, and analytics. Deepak leads a global end-to-end analytics solutions team of data scientists, engineers, DevOps, product strategy managers, and business translators. Before Mars, Deepak was part of global brands like Coca-Cola, ABB, Asurion, and Mu Sigma in strategic roles driving business growth. He is a member of the Retail & CPG Executive Advisory Forum for Amazon Web Services, a Client Advisory board member for Fractal AI, an Executive Data Council member at BCI Summit, and an advisory board member for start-up organizations in robotics. He is an MBA from George Washington University School of Business and a mechanical engineer from NIT Calicut, India. Deepak is originally from India and has worked and lived globally. He co-authored the international bestselling book, Leading through pandemic - Unconventional Wisdom from Heartfelt leaders. Deepak was 2022 Global Top 100 Innovators in Data & Analytics by Corinium Intelligence. He is an industry influencer in Data & Analytics. He has spoken at multiple Retail and CPG industry summits focusing on Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, and sustainability (Consumer Goods Forum, Grocery Shop, Amazon Innovator Summit, Microsoft Webinars, Salesforce/ Tableau conferences, Databricks AI summits, Institute for Business Forecasting events, Promotion Optimization Institute and CDAO Summits, etc.). He believes in leveraging the power of technology to solve complex problems.

Dipita Chakraborty is Chief Practice Officer, CPG, at Fractal. A passionate analytics leader who drives capabilities towards better decisions, she has extensive CPG expertise in revenue management and marketing mix. Chakraborty is an industry-acknowledged thought leader, as well as a people leader, coach, and mentor.

Danielle Maurici-Arnone is the Global Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Combe International, the most personal personal care company in the world. She has served in global technology leadership roles for more than 20 years and is an industry leader in business and technology transformation. Prior to Combe, she was Chief Information Officer at Reckitt, producer of hygiene, health and nutrition products, where she led the technology function for the North America Health and Nutrition businesses and sat on the Global Council for Diversity and Inclusion. Before joining Reckitt, she was Global Executive Director at the Estée Lauder Companies, global prestige beauty manufacturer, where she led technology and innovation for the global brand portfolio. She has also founded and held leadership roles in a variety of technology start-ups. She holds a MS degree in Public Policy from Rutgers University and a MS degree in Information Systems from the Steven Institute of Technology.

Albert Guffanti is VP, retail technology group and brand director of RIS News and CGT. He is responsible for RIS and CGT sales and editorial efforts, along with all of the brand's products, services and events. He has extensive experience in the consumer goods and retail technology industries and is passionate about leading the RIS and CGT communities through the challenges of an increasingly disruptive landscape.

Kalindi Mehta is an experienced Insights and Analytics professional, a strategic advisor, thought leader and people manager with a pioneering attitude and passionate advocacy for data driven consumer centricity. She has 20 years of experience across multi geographies. She is seen as a global business, strategy and innovation leader as well as an expert in people & cultural understanding. She has led the transformation of insights functions to be more future focussed, data driven and agile. She currently is the VP, Consumer Foresight and Predictive Analytics at The Estee Lauder Companies. Her role entails driving the transformation of the Insights capabilities to win in this digital world. She drives and leads building on capabilities on trends, consumer insights that drive innovation, consumer centric approach to managing portfolio of 25+ beauty brands and predicting opportunities to drive growth in the fast evolving and dynamic beauty Industry. Her past experience is largely with Colgate Palmolive in leading roles in Insights and Analytics in North America, Asia Pacific, Philippines, India as well as at a Global Corporate team. At Colgate she pioneered new analytics capabilities, helped drive various brand and innovation strategies, built data driven human and culture insighting capabilities, agile insights and analytics and elevation of the market mix & pricing program. Kalindi completed her education in India - with a Bachelor's degree in Statistics and Mathematics and an MBA focussed on International Marketing. She is trained in Design Thinking Catalyst (Stanford Design School Program), Behavioral Science expert (Yale Immersion Program) and agile way of working coach. She has completed the Global Leadership Executive Program Tuck School of Business in 2019. She is currently part of the Harvard Business School Analytics leadership program.

Scott Anderson graduated from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Logistics and Transportation, as well as completing a food executive program at Cornell; before joining HIVERY, he spent 20+ years working with some of the world's greatest companies, including 6 years with The Campbell Soup Company as Director of Supply Chain for Walmart and National Accounts and 10 years with Kimberly-Clark in a variety of supply chain roles across the country. When Scott realized the power of data, he joined several smart retail analytical companies like Retail Solutions and InfoScout, so he understands the importance of making smart business decisions by leveraging data in new ways. What HIVERY has done is different–they are pioneering hyper-local retailing and Scott would love to show you how and why.

Danica Konetski is the Industry Principal for Consumer Packaged Goods for Treasure Data, a leading enterprise Consumer Data Platform (CDP) provider. Previously, she was in insights and analytics at both Kraft and ConAgra. She has also been a vendor-partner with consulting and sales roles at Kantar (a WPP company), and most recently, IBM, where she was certified as a senior consumer industry subject matter expert and worked in Data and Analytic Services and IBM Services for Salesforce. Danica earned her MMR degree from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia.

A result-oriented IT professional with a demonstrated track record, Anil is an industry leader for Retail & Consumer Goods business segment and has been instrumental in the growth of RCPG business for HCL. In a rapidly changing world with evolving priorities and new challenges, Anil has a passion for leveraging digital transformation and Industry 4.0 principles in developing solutions for the Retail and CPG Industry. Over his career spanning two and a half decades, Anil has performed a varied spectrum of roles spanning delivery leadership for global technology programs, solution architecture, deal constructs and business development to managing strategic customer relationships. Over this tenure, Anil experience covers the complete lifecycle of global IT management; managing lean IT operations to transformation programs for a digital and cloud enabled agile enterprise. Prior to taking up leadership roles, Anil has rich experience of working in enterprise systems with a focus on Sales and Marketing, Distribution, Logistics & Warehouse Management, and Supply Chain Management.

Himanshu Leads Sales and Commercial service line and has extensive experience in helping organization transform their sales and commercial operations pivoting on revenue growth. He has lead development of market leading sales and commercial IPs such as IOPs and I –margin. Himanshu is based in Charlotte and enjoys spiritual readings

Lisa Johnston is the Editor-in-Chief of CGT. She joined the brand in 2020. Her journalism background includes writing for both business and consumer audiences, specializing in technology, retail, and consumer goods. In addition to moderating panels at a number of industry events and sharing editorial expertise as a media panelist, she's served as a judge for such programs as the Consumer Technology Hall of Fame and the Jesse H. Neal Awards.

Abhishek Ahluwalia has nearly 2 decades of Sales and Marketing experience across a variety of companies like Mondelēz , Bacardi, Philip Morris, YUM Brands and across diverse geographies including India, Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia, and the United States. Abhishek joined Mondelēz India in 2017 as E-commerce Leader, built the business bottom-up including a high performance team. He subsequently moved into the Global E-commerce role in 2019, where he currently leads Global E-commerce Strategy and Growth. Abhishek works with Mondelez’s regional and country e-commerce teams to accelerate e-comm business worldwide. He also oversees high growth channels– i.e., Direct to Consumer, Last Milers aka Quick Commerce, Cross Border and Online Gifting. Abhishek is a firm believer that speed is the key to winning in business, set big goals and move FAST.

Sid Swaroop is the General Manager for the Retail Media Network and Personalization business of Bed Bath & Beyond. His experience is in large consumer facing transformation programs - from Procter & Gamble, his 1st post-MBA employer to consulting McDonald's, SC Johnson, lululemon, Alticor, Verizon, T-Mobile and others. A business builder, Sid’s expertise is in data-driven digital and marketing initiatives, across consumer, media & finance sectors. Sid runs and has completed the Chicago marathon. These days he’s usually found chasing after his 3 young kids in their home in Millburn NJ and hoping they join him for a hike.

Tiffany Pegues currently holds the role of Digital strategy leader responsible for social, search, and CRM across a power portfolio of 20+ brands. Prior to this role she was responsible for using consumer intelligence, social media and macro beauty trends to inform strategic plans and build consumer engagement and advocacy for beauty brands like Batiste, Flawless, Viviscal, Nair and Toppik. At her core, she is passionate about working to build already great brands with a foundation in new & different marketing strategies. Before joining Church & Dwight, Tiffany held the role of Global Director of EcoTools. Where she played a key role in women’s empowerment campaigns like #MyTrueBeauty which culminated in $1MM+ donated to non-profits like The Girl Project. Previously at General Mills, she held multiple positions ranging from growing established and emergent businesses (Pillsbury Biscuits, LARABAR) to new product development (Hamburger Helper, Suddenly Salad, Yoplait). Tiffany holds a master’s degree in business administration from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, and a bachelor’s degree in management science & engineering from Stanford University. She resides in Chicago with her husband Pace, energetic toddlers Princeton and Selah and loving cat Lulu.

Andy Walter is a business results-driven professional with extensive experience in strategy, development, execution, and operations across Shared Services, Analytics, and IT. He led the Commercial Services & Delivery Organization (over 1500 IT and multifunctional professionals) for Procter & Gamble’s Global Business Services (GBS). He was responsible for IT & Shared Services for all Global Business Units and Markets around the world. His team was accountable for developing cutting-edge digital capabilities for Procter & Gamble to win “where it matters most,” with Consumers, Shoppers, and Retailers. This included all eBusiness, Consumer Services, BI/Analytics, Sales Force Solutions, Project Delivery, Business Process Services, and A&D / Company restructuring efforts. He has over a decade of leading top tier Global Shared Services globally and is a Certified Outsourcing Professional (IAOP).

Peter Hall is President U.S. Foodservice / Away From Home and was appointed to the role in April 2021. Prior to that, he was Head of Retail & Foodservice for Kraft Heinz Canada, covering all Retail and Foodservice customers and leading Kraft Heinz Canada’s field sales team since January 2018. While in Canada, Peter has achieved strong results through process improvement projects and the implementation of new rituals and routines, while strengthening existing and new customer relationships. He has been a key player in rebuilding confidence and trust in the Canadian business, reflected in strong retail consumption growth year-to-date in 2019 of +4.3%. Prior to Canada, he was with Kraft Heinz in the United Kingdom, where he led the turnaround of the UK business, returning it to sustained growth. Before joining Kraft Heinz, Peter held Divisional sales leadership roles in Samsung UK Ltd, and spent nine years at P&G holding various sales, category management, marketing and business leadership roles, heading up the UK Beauty business as his last role in that business.

Rob’s background spans more than four decades of domain expertise across all lines of business and consumer industries. Focused on consumer products and retail, Rob has built his own successful companies as well as worked with industry leaders like SAP, Oracle and Capgemini, leading the innovation around consumer engagement marketing, trade promotion, retail execution, category and brand marketing for hundreds of global tier one manufacturers and retailers. He is the author of the new book, “The Invisible Economy of Consumer Engagement,” which is the first book to comprehensively address modern trade channel promotion, retail execution and the new technologies used by the world’s top consumer products and retail companies. As a product innovator, he has created leading edge trade promotion, demand planning, and retail execution solutions across all database and operational software platforms including on premise, cloud and mobile technologies. His work with advanced analytics and data science technology underpins a strong track of success with performance analytics, insight generation and increased promotion spending ROI. Rob is a veteran of the United States Navy and a member of the Trade Promotion Management Association Hall of Fame. He is a long-time musician and an avid sailor. He and his family live in the Texas Hill Country outside of Austin, Texas.

Craig Price is Head of Sales Center of Excellence at Distell. He leads the alcohol beverage manufacturer's SA go-to-market and digital front-office transformation, and he is Head of S&OP.

Experienced Promotions Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the food production industry. Skilled in Microsoft Office, KPI Dashboards, Report Writing, Data Analytics, and Teamwork. Strong sales professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Finance, General from Florida State University.

Carter Jensen is the Ecommerce Innovation Lead for General Mills. Driving forward-looking discovery and investments into emerging capabilities, his international team aims to the pace of change in consumer experiences and commerce — Serving the rapidly changing consumers of tomorrow, while continuing to meet the needs of families today. Carter joined General Mills in 2020 amid ecommerce disruption driven by the Covid-19 pandemic. With a mission to help accelerate ecommerce capabilities, he supported the vision of “Connected Commerce” across the organization, transforming the go-to-market strategy for the company's collection of leading, global brands. Prior to his role within General Mills, Carter led a variety of consumer experience & technology startups in addition to holding leadership positions in some of the country's most influential agencies and consulting firms. Driving breakthrough client success with partners such as Anheuser-Busch, Nike, and Google, has earned Carter a collection of awards, including a “Webby” for experiential technology & commerce innovation.

Joel Layton is leading the digital transformation of a classic American brand as they drive to build awareness and customer delight. Built in Detroit, Shinola is a lifestyle brand that is embracing the power of digital and omnichannel to deliver amazing experiences to its customers.

Mohamed has 20 years of CPG experience across Middle East and North America from Nestle, Ferrero and Grupo Bimbo. He is currently leading Digital and eCommerce at Bimbo Canada where he is driving marketing transformation powered by data, technology and analytics to deliver superior consumer experiences across brands.

Lisa Johnston is the Editor-in-Chief of CGT. She joined the brand in 2020. Her journalism background includes writing for both business and consumer audiences, specializing in technology, retail, and consumer goods. In addition to moderating panels at a number of industry events and sharing editorial expertise as a media panelist, she's served as a judge for such programs as the Consumer Technology Hall of Fame and the Jesse H. Neal Awards.