Season One

Expert Voices from the Consumer Goods Industry

Leaders across the consumer goods industry share their expertise to help you drive growth across your retail and ecommerce business, and grow your career in Sales, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Finance.

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EP06: What Black Friday Sales Say About Consumer Spending This Holiday Season with Joel Beal, CEO of Alloy.ai

EP05: Using Data to Drive Sales, Supply Chain and Product Decisions with USAOpoly’s Eric Richardson

An in-depth discussion on making data driven sales, supply chain and product decisions. As a data expert, Eric shares how consumer brands can harness data without extensive resources, how to bring and present data to retail buyers to influence replenishment and how to recognize and utilize sudden surges in consumer demand.

EP04: Modernizing Your Supply Chain is Faster and Less Expensive Than You Thought with Professor David Simchi-Levi from MIT

We sit down with world-renowned supply chain guru, Professor David Simchi-Levi. This MIT professor and head of the MIT Data Science Lab, shares his insights on supply chain digitization, and how with moderate financial investment, you can swiftly digitize your supply chain while reaping the rewards.

EP03: Navigating Trends, Retail Partnerships and New Product Launches with Vitaliy Simonian, VP of Finance at Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare

Peek behind the curtain of one of the beauty industry’s most successful companies. Vitaly Simonian, the Vice President of Finance at Dr Dennis Gross Skincare, takes us on a journey through a business that’s quadrupled in size and expanded into 16 markets.

EP01: A Deep Dive into the Evolving Consumer Goods Industry with John Buckley from SAP

John Buckley discusses planning for supply chain disruptions, the sometimes contentious dynamic between retailers and consumer brands, and how to stay closer to consumer demand.

Dave Henderson

Chief Commercial Officer

Melissa & Doug

Vitaliy Simonian

Vice President, Finance

Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare

Eric Richardson

Manager of Forecasting and Data Analytics

USAopoly

David Simchi-Levi

Author, Professor of Engineering Systems and Head of MIT Data Science Lab

MIT

Anna Linden

VP, Global Head of Supply Chain Planning

SAP

Tod Stenger

Director, Digital Supply Chain

SAP

Zach Horton

Sr. Director, Logistics, Supply & Demand Planning

Ember

Vivek Gurusamy

Chief Operating Officer

What Do You Meme?

Matthew Bergum

Country Business Director, Canada

Bosch Power Tools

Bill Sinacore

VP, National Accounts

PlayMonster

Lasse Holmstedt

VP, Engineering

Alloy.ai

Khanh Lam

Engagement Manager

Alloy.ai

Joel Beal

CEO & Co-Founder @ Alloy.ai

Joel started Alloy.ai to help consumer goods brands to make faster and smarter supply chain, planning and sales decisions. Alloy.ai is the platform of choice for leading consumer goods brands – including Bosch, Crayola, Ferrero, Melissa & Doug, Valvoline and many more – across multiple industries.

Logan Ensign

Chief Customer Officer @ Alloy.ai

Logan is an expert in predictive analytics, AI and supply chain. As Chief Customer Officer, his team works closely with customers to help them solve their retail, ecommerce and supply chain data challenges. Before joining Alloy.ai, Logan worked for InsideSales.com, an AI and predictive analytics platform for sales operations.

Abby Carruthers

Product Manager @ Alloy.ai

Abby manages Alloy.ai’s predictive and prescriptive products, including forecasting, simulations, replenishment recommendations and more. She has a background in Client Solutions; helping customers get value from B2B SaaS products across the supply chain and retail analytics space.

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