Full Name
Ariel Dalton
Job Title
SVP, Commercial Leadership
Company Name
Danone North America
Speaker Bio
Ariel Dalton is an award-winning and dynamic Commercial & Sales Executive with over 17 years of experience in the FMCG industry. As SVP of Commercial, she led a historic transformation that helped Danone deliver record-setting growth and earn the #1 ranking across all F&B companies in the Advantage Report, the industry benchmark for B2B engagement. She was also recognized at the Makers Conference as one of Danone's game-changing female leaders.
She oversees a team of 145 and a broker network of 4,500+, comprised of Category Commercial, Category Leadership, Channel Development & Strategy, Customer Planning, eCommerce, Omni-Activation, Sales Communication, Sales Development and Training and Retail Execution.
She's been selected to serve on the Executive SteerCo for several critical global and local initiatives, including designing the Danone Way of Selling, which was adopted globally, and representing North America for Sales AI. A passionate advocate for leadership development, she’s a longstanding member of NextUp, a non-profit focused on advancing executive women in business, and currently an advisor for UCCS’s Women in Leadership Executive Education Program.
She graduated with Honors from Azusa Pacific University and studied abroad at the University of Oxford. She’s also an alumnus of IMD’s world-renowned High Performance Leadership Program and USC’s prestigious Food Industry Executive Program. Ariel, her husband Jamie, and their three kids reside in Golden, Co where they enjoy biking, staying active outdoors and traveling.
She oversees a team of 145 and a broker network of 4,500+, comprised of Category Commercial, Category Leadership, Channel Development & Strategy, Customer Planning, eCommerce, Omni-Activation, Sales Communication, Sales Development and Training and Retail Execution.
She's been selected to serve on the Executive SteerCo for several critical global and local initiatives, including designing the Danone Way of Selling, which was adopted globally, and representing North America for Sales AI. A passionate advocate for leadership development, she’s a longstanding member of NextUp, a non-profit focused on advancing executive women in business, and currently an advisor for UCCS’s Women in Leadership Executive Education Program.
She graduated with Honors from Azusa Pacific University and studied abroad at the University of Oxford. She’s also an alumnus of IMD’s world-renowned High Performance Leadership Program and USC’s prestigious Food Industry Executive Program. Ariel, her husband Jamie, and their three kids reside in Golden, Co where they enjoy biking, staying active outdoors and traveling.
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