2024 Grocery Industry Icons & Innovators

Frans Muller

President & CEO

Ahold Delhaize

Claire Peters

Worldwide VP

Amazon Fresh

Gregory Guidotti

Chief Marketing Officer

Ferrara

Fidji Simo

CEO & Chair

Instacart

Stuart Aitken

SVP, Chief Merchant & Marketing Officer

Kroger

Anton Vincent

President, North America & Global Ice Cream

Mars Wrigley

Ram Krishnan

CEO, North America Beverages

PepsiCo

Chris Nicholas

President & CEO

Sam's Club

Carla Vernón

CEO

The Honest Company

Lisa Ingram

President & CEO

White Castle

Raghu Mahadevan

EVP, Logistics, Demand Chain & Chief Digital Officer

7-Eleven

Iman Nahvi

Co-Founder & CEO

Advertima Vision

Helene Drolet

VP, Operations Excellence, North America

Alimentation Couche-Tard

Rulynn Hansen

SVP, Account Director

Arc Worldwide

Soche Picard

CEO

Arc Worldwide

Ross Finman

Founder & CEO

Augmodo

Naomi Alford

Partner

Bain & Company

Chelsey Alexander

VP, New & Emerging Channels

Bayer Consumer Health

Seth Marks

SVP, Extreme Value Sourcing

Big Lots

Krystyna Kostka

Senior Vice President, Operations

BJ's

Michael Craig

VP Marketing, Innovations Brands & Portfolio Partnerships

BlueTriton Brands

Sara Ahmed Holman

Chief Commercial Officer

Bobbie

Jorge Risquez

Co-Founder & CEO

bops

Caroline Israel

Managing Director & Partner

Boston Consulting Group

Lara Koslow

Senior Partner & Managing Director

Boston Consulting Group

Penney McTaggart-Cowan

VP, Marketing & Member Experiences

Calgary Co-op

Michelle Morale

VP, Digital Commerce & Omni-Shopper Marketing

Campbell Soup Company

Danielle Nicoll

SVP of Marketing

Cann Social Tonics

Lindsey Mazza

Global Retail Lead

Capgemini

Justin Coaldrake

Head of Omnichannel Guest Experience & Media

Casey's

Brian Bell

VP, IT Strategy & Planning

Church & Dwight Co., Inc.

John Andrews

CEO

Cimulate.ai

Sally Lyons Wyatt

Global EVP & Chief Advisor, Consumer Goods & Foodservice Insights

Circana

Jenny McLean

Managing Partner & Retail Industry Lead

Clarkston Consulting

Melissa Repko

Retail & Consumer Reporter

CNBC

Amy Benford

VP, GM Integrated Marketing & Advanced Advertising

Colgate-Palmolive

Aron Bohlig

Founder & Managing Partner

ComCap LLC

Matt Nichols

Partner

Commerce Ventures

Deborah Weinswig

Founder & CEO

Coresight Research

Andrew Thomas

VP of Marketing

Country Archer Provisions

Nick Affatato

VP of Sales, Target & Amazon

Danone

Danny Edsall

Global Grocery Co-Leader

Deloitte

Adgild Hop

EMEA Retail Lead Partner

Deloitte

Shelly Rupel

Co-Founder & CEO

Devour

Declan Kearney

Founder & CEO

Digital Commerce Global

Carman Wenkoff

EVP & Chief Information Officer

Dollar General

Rod West

EVP, Global Supply Chain

Dollar General

Toby Espinosa

VP of Ads & Growth Services

DoorDash

Fuad Hannon

VP, New Verticals

DoorDash

Matteo Ceurvels

Principal Analyst, Latin America & Spain

EMARKETER

Benjamin Thompson

Head of Global Insights & Strategic Partnerships

Endeavour Group

Tony Ward

Partner - Retail Leader

Ernst & Young

Ariel Schabas

CTO, Digital Commerce

Falabella

Lindsay Rowles

General Manager, Retail & Property

Foodstuffs North Island Limited

Nitin Murali

VP, Supply Chain Excellence

Gallo

Raquel Navarrski

Customer Vice President, NA eCommerce

General Mills

Chris Edwards

Head of GetGo Technology

Giant Eagle

Justin Weinstein

EVP, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer

Giant Eagle

Neil Stern

CEO

Good Food Holdings

Jose Gomes

Managing Director, Retail & CPG Google Cloud

Google

Adam Houston

SVP, Event Director

Groceryshop

Joe Laszlo

Head of Content, U.S.

Groceryshop

Rocquan Lucas

VP, Content

Groceryshop

Ben Miller

VP, Original Content & Strategy

Groceryshop

Zahra Mohamed

Content Director

Groceryshop

HG O'Connell

Senior Content Director

Groceryshop

Sophie Wawro

Global President

Groceryshop

Sean Ransenberg

Managing Director

H-E-B

Molly Hop

EVP & Head of Havas Market

Havas Media Network

Prabash Coswatte

Chief Operating Officer

Heritage Grocers Group

Emily Steele

Co-Founder & CEO

Hummingbirds

Wajeeha Ahmed

CFO

Hungryroot

Bryan Leach

CEO & Founder

Ibotta

Tom Wakeman

Insight Director

IGD

Cristian Arcangeli

VP, Digital & Customer Experience

illy Caffè

Prashant Agrawal

Founder & CEO

Impact Analytics

Gaurav Pant

Co-Founder & Chief Insights Officer

Incisiv

Ruby Singh

Co-Founder

Indellia

Sarah Mastrorocco

VP & GM, Health

Instacart

Wendy Wallner

EVP, Client Officer, Retail & Restaurants

Ipsos

Riana Lynn

CEO

Journey Foods

Rachel Dalton

Head of Retail Insights, North America

Kantar

Julie Craig

VP, Shopper Insights

Kantar Retail

Katherine Black

Partner

Kearney

Ramesh Kollepara

Global VP & Chief Technology Officer

Kellanova

James Avery

Founder & CEO

Kevel

Oisin Hanrahan

Co-Founder & CEO

Keychain

Mike Zayonc

Co-Founder

Kodif

Ashley Becker

VP, Global eCommerce Capabilities

Kraft Heinz

Jenna Vondrasek

Head of Omni Shopper Marketing

Kraft Heinz

Jorge Alfonso

Head of Digital Merchandising

Kroger

Olivier Roy

Co-Founder & CEO

Leav

Frank Kerr

Chief Customer Officer

Lidl US

Chad Petersen

SVP, Digital & eCommerce

Lowes Foods

Victor Chan

Co-Founder & CEO

Machyna Inc

Josh Evertsen

SVP, Customer Development

Mars Pet Nutrition North America

Amy Andrews

Chief Business Strategy Officer

Mars United Commerce

Michele Roney

EVP, Retailer CX

Mars United Commerce

Michelle Nadeau

Chief Marketing Officer

Martie

Udyan Khanna

VP, Marketing, Digital Commerce & Channel Marketing

McCormick & Company

Amy Bett

Co-Founder & CEO

Melo

Alicia LeBeouf

Head of Industry, Retail, Grocery & Marketplaces

Meta

Keith Mercier

GM, Worldwide Retail & Consumer Goods

Microsoft

Mustafa Bartin

Retail CEO

Migros Turkey

Neha Mallik

Head of Connected Commerce

Mizkan America

Francesca Hahn

VP, Digital Commerce

Mondelēz International

Cristina Marinucci

Global Head, Shopper Excellence Insights & Analytics

Mondelēz International

Erin Cabrey

Senior Reporter, Retail Brew

Morning Brew

Amishi Takalkar

Co-Founder & CEO

Nailbiter

Juan Arrieta

VP of Ecommerce

Nature's Way

Danielle Lay

Partner

NEA

Michal Geller

President, eCommerce & Digital

Newell Brands

Art Sebastian

CEO

NexChapter

Deepak Jose

VP & Head of Data Science & Business Intelligence

Niagara

Sherry Frey

VP, Product Insights

NielsenIQ

Anne Mezzenga

Co-CEO

Omni Talk

Chris Walton

Co-CEO

Omni Talk

Mike Glaser

VP, Digital Commerce Marketing

PepsiCo

Antonio Escalona

SVP, Emerging Business

PepsiCo Foods North America

Ethan Chernofsky

SVP, Marketing

Placer.ai

Justin Nedelman

CEO

Pressed Juicery

Kimberlie Le

Co-Founder & CEO

Prime Roots

Jason Goldberg

Chief Commerce Strategy Officer

Publicis Groupe

Sabrina McPherson

Senior Managing Director & SVP

Publicis Sapient

Zac Choi

Co-Founder & CEO

Puller AI

Imteaz Ahamed

Head of Performance Media

Reckitt

Emily Xu

SVP, eCommerce & Marketing

Republic National Distributing Company

Dominick Miserandino

CEO

RetailWire

Nicole Bleiwas

VP, Marketing

Riverside Natural Foods

Ben Fisher

Founder & CEO

Rodeo

Jennifer Hopper

Chief Information & Digital Officer

Save A Lot

Caleb Carr

Head of Data Science & Engineering

Schnuck Markets

Dave Steck

VP, IT Store & Emerging Technologies

Schnuck Markets

Mirko Saul

SVP, Innovation

Schwarz Digital (Lidl & Kaufland)

Ken Ninomiya

VP, Ecommerce

Sedano's Supermarkets

Katie Stratton

Chief Growth & Strategy Officer

Shipt

Ethan Sinick

Managing Director

Shirland Ventures

Nathan Mansperger

VP of Digital Supplier Growth

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits

Amy McClellan

EVP & Chief Customer Officer

SpartanNash

Matt Van Gilder

Head of Ecommerce & Digital Experience

SpartanNash

Angie Westbrock

CEO

Standard AI

Tiffany Boyd

VP, Omnichannel Marketing

Talking Rain (Sparkling Ice)

Bryan Moore

Co-Founder & CEO

TalkShopLive

Dr. Oliver Vogt

CEO, Transcend

Tesco

Linara Zakirova

Head of Amazon & Natural Channels

The Coca-Cola Company

Amanda Astrologo

Senior Partner

The Parker Avery Group

Peter Strong

Partner

The Partnering Group

Vibha Tuli

Partner, Digital Commerce Practice

The Partnering Group

Zachary Wilson

Head of eCommerce

The Raley's Companies

Bret Celmer

COO

The Rounds

Tamara Pattison

SVP, Chief Digital Officer

The Save Mart Companies

Rogayeh Tabrizi

Founder & CEO

Theory+Practice

April Lane

Chief Merchandising Officer

Thrive Market

Jordan Berke

Founder & CEO

TOMORROW

Daryl Porter

Senior Partner

TOMORROW

Mette Lykke

CEO

Too Good To Go

Tammy Ackerman

VP eCommerce & Loyalty Marketing

Treasury Wine Estates

Georgina Nelson

Founder & CEO

TruRating

Krystina Gustafson

Chief Content Officer

Trybe

Susan Anderson

VP, Global Head of Grocery & Retail

Uber

Jake Hirsch

Head of Commerce & Retail Media, Personal Care

Unilever

Fred Schonenberg

Founder & CEO

VentureFuel

Brita Rosenheim

Managing Partner

Vita Vera Ventures

Venessa Yates

SVP & General Manager

Walmart+

Jason Melone

Head of Applied Marketing Analytics

Wawa

Greg Zeh

SVP & CIO

Weis Markets

Kristin Popp

EVP

Woodman's Food Markets

Eyal Yair

Co-Founder & CEO

Xpand

Troy Townsend

Co-Founder & CEO

Zitcha