Michael Sansolo
President
Sansolo Solutions LLC
Michael Sansolo is President of Sansolo Solutions LLC. As a consultant, speaker, author, and blogger, he provides with a unique and diverse view of the changing nature of trends impacting shoppers, employees, competition, economics, supply chains and management.
He currently serves as the research director of the Coca-Cola Retailing Research Councils for both supermarkets and convenience stores. In his 13 years as senior vice president at FMI, the biggest food retail association in the United States, he was responsible for all education, supply chain and research activities. Before joining FMI, Sansolo was editor-in-chief of Progressive Grocer magazine. Most recently he authored Business Rules! a collection of diverse and useful lessons in business success.
Eric Savitch
Senior Vice President, Group Brand Director
EnsembleIQ
Eric Savitch is Senior Vice President, Group Brand Director at EnsembleIQ where he is responsible for overseeing the Progressive Grocer and Store Brands publications where he is passionate about supporting the private label community and driving innovation across the retail landscape. In addition, he holds a leadership position with the Path to Purchase Institute where his work emphasizes the evolving shopper journey and the rapid growth of retail media.
Savitch has more than 25 years of experience in B2B media focused on the retail industry, building a career centered on fostering connections between buyers and sellers. Early on, he advanced through the ranks at Drug Store News, ultimately becoming publisher, where he developed a deep understanding of the buyer-seller relationship in the retail space.
Gary Stibel
Founder & CEO
New England Consulting Group
Gary Stibel is the Founder & CEO of New England Consulting Group, a marketing management consulting firm where he focuses on the development and implementation of corporate, division and brand strategies and plans in the consumer packaged goods, health care, financial services, high tech, restaurant, hospitality, retail and private equity practices.
Stibel’s career spans over 30 years of line management and management consulting for businesses including previously leading the management consulting practice of Glendinning and multiple positions of increasing responsibility in marketing and sales management at Procter & Gamble. He’s been equally successful consulting for small, entrepreneurial and large, sophisticated companies ranging from successful start-ups to transformational turnarounds and accelerated growth for the world’s largest corporations.
Sally Lyons Wyatt
Global EVP & Chief Advisor, Consumer Goods & Foodservice Insights
Circana
Sally Lyons Wyatt is Global EVP & Chief Advisor, Consumer Goods & Foodservice Insights with Circana and has more than 25 years of industry expertise leading a team of industry experts, leveraging data to optimize a wide range of strategies with clients from consumer and media to merchandising and supply strategies.
As the leading global consumer packaged goods and foodservice industry advisor and a go-to expert at Circana, Lyons Wyatt is a frequent keynote speaker on future-forward consumer and retail insights, industry trends, and a multitude of topics related to F&B, nonfood, sustainability, emerging categories, and more.
Lyons Wyatt is a two-time “Top Women in Grocery” recipient and a proud executive sponsor of Circana’s Early Career Professionals Business Resource Group.