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Episodes

Feb. 7, 2024

Reza Mirza: CEO, Icelandic Glacial Water & Group

Reza Mirza, CEO of Icelandic Glacial, joins Jennifer and Risa on the latest episode of CPG Scoop! Reza Mirza brings over 20 years of consumer product experience as Group CEO of Icelandic Glacial, a leading super-premium natu...

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Jan. 31, 2024

Ian Baer: Founder, Sooth

Ian Baer, Founder of Sooth, joins Jennifer and Risa on the latest episode of CPG Scoop! Ian Baer , Founder and Chief Soothsayer of the strategic insights platform and marketing consultancy Sooth, has been solving marketing’s ...

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Jan. 10, 2024

Katie Gallo & Polly Gleneck: Syndigo

Katie Gallo , Director of Revenue Enablement, and Polly Gleneck , Head of Global Customer Advocacy & Revenue Enablement, at Syndigo join Jennifer and Risa on the latest episode of CPG Scoop! Katie is a dynamic and results-dri...

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Jan. 4, 2024

Hamid Saify: SVP of Digital Retail, Liquid Death

Hamid Saify, SVP of Digital Retail at Liquid Death, joins Jennifer and Risa on the latest episode of CPG Scoop! At Liquid Death, Hamid oversees revenue growth across a wide range of digital partners. Hamid was the first VP of...

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Dec. 27, 2023

John Merris: CEO, Solo Brands

John Merris, CEO of Solo Brands, joins Jennifer and Risa for a "fireside" edition of CPG Scoop! John specializes in scaling the entrepreneurial potential of business, a passion that began with his first startup venture, a hom...

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Dec. 21, 2023

Michelle Sweezey: Digital Marketing & Analytics Manager, Massimo Zane…

Michelle Sweezey of Massimo Zanetti Beverage joins Jennifer and Risa on the latest episode of CPG Scoop! A self-proclaimed numbers nerd, Michelle is passionate about analytics and testing new technologies. Michelle serves wit...

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Dec. 19, 2023

Jen Bryce: Head of Retail Media Partnerships & Investment, Unilever

Jen Bryce of Unilever joins Jennifer and Risa on the latest episode of CPG Scoop! Jen is the Retail Media enterprise lead at Unilever across all brands and partners in the US. She joined Unilever five and a half years ago to ...

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Dec. 15, 2023

Katie Moro: Director of Managed Services, Productsup

Katie Moro of Productsup joins Jennifer and Risa on the latest episode of CPG Scoop! Katie is a collaborative SaaS leader who specializes in helping customers manage digital media assets & product data resulting in a comprehe...

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Dec. 13, 2023

Jonathan Rhyan: Sr. Director of Omnichannel Marketing, KIND Snacks

Jonathan Rhyan of KIND Snacks joins Jennifer and Risa on the latest episode of CPG Scoop! Jonathan Rhyan is the Senior Director of Omnichannel Marketing for KIND Snacks. In this role Jonathan oversees all National & Account S...

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Nov. 16, 2023

KC Glaser: Sr. Manager, Brand Experience, General Mills

KC Glaser joins Jennifer and Risa on this episode of CPG Scoop to talk all things marketing, digital coupons, and, of course, pickleball . KC has nearly two decades of experience helping smart people solve big problems in var...

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Nov. 9, 2023

Kimberly McGee and Lela Davidson: Executive Co-Chairs, NextUp Northwe…

Kimberly McGee and Lela Davidson, Executive Co-Chairs of NextUp Northwest Arkansas join Jennifer and Risa in this extra special episode of The CPG Scoop. In this episode, Lela and Kimberly talk about the opportunities the Nor...

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Oct. 19, 2023

Legendary Leaders: Frank Blake, Former Chairman & CEO, The Home Depot

Frank Blake joins Jennifer, Risa, and special guest host Bryan Gildenberg of The CPG Guys Fast Forward on this "Legendary Leaders" edition of The CPG Scoop. Together, they discuss marketing challenges, data strategy, and the ...

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Oct. 5, 2023

Adam Russack: Director of Agency Partnerships, Bazaarvoice

Adam Russack, Director of Agency Partnerships at Bazaarvoice, joins Jennifer and Risa to talk about the opportunities and challenges in the CPG space, including retail media networks and omnichannel marketing. Adam discusses ...

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Sept. 15, 2023

Michael La Kier: VP of Brand Development, Independent Grocers Allianc…

Michael La Kier, Vice President of Brand Development for the Independent Grocers Alliance (IGA), joins Jennifer and Risa to discuss the current landscape of the CPG and retail industries. Michael has helped build some of the ...

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Aug. 8, 2023

Eugene Adamson: Sr. Shopper Marketing Manager, The Coca-Cola Company

Eugene Adamson, Sr. Shopper Marketing Manager at Coca-Cola, joins Jennifer and Risa to discuss the challenges in the current CPG marketing space. Prior to working for Coca-Cola, he worked for several other CPG companies, incl...

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May 30, 2023

Tony Fung: Director of Shopper Marketing & eCommerce, Bob Evans Farms

Tony Fung joins Jennifer and Risa for a discussion covering a lot of ecommerce ground. He leads shopper marketing and ecommerce at Bob Evans Farms, a Post Holdings company. He started his career on the agency side supporting ...

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May 23, 2023

Sam Nehme: Performance Lead, Mediacom

Sam Nehme, Performance Lead at Mediacom, joins Jennifer and Risa for a great conversation talking about the evolving state of commerce marketing. Sam chats about tapping into new and exciting ways to tap into data to improve...

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May 1, 2023

Lee Dunbar: SVP, Head of Retail Media, Starcom

Risa & Jennifer welcome Lee Dunbar, SVP of Retail Media at Starcom. Lee talks about his experience tackling and troubleshooting retail media and commerce over the last decade with curiosity and humility. Lee looks at "effic...

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April 10, 2023

Bob Waibel: Sr Director Commerce Marketing, Conagra Brands

Bob Waibel joins the CPG Scoop to chat all things Commerce Marketing with Risa and Jennifer. Bob chooses 'Evolving' to sum up the marketing landscape and the changes that it is undergoing. Bob, Risa, and Jennifer talk about...

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March 14, 2023

Drew Ingram: Director of Portfolio Media Strategy, Pepsico

Drew Ingram from the Frito Lay Media Team joins Risa and Jennifer on the Scoop. The conversation covers a ton of ground---from discussion about balancing retail performance with brand goals, making magic while being efficien...

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March 10, 2023

Suzanne Skop: Head of Agency Partnerships, Instacart

Suzanne Skop, Head of Agency Partnerships at Instacart, joins us for a great discussion about the latest growth and innovation within retail enablement and how that is transforming how shoppers navigate the online and offline...

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Jan. 24, 2023

Chris Perry & Oskar Kaszubski: Co-Founders of firstmovr

Co-founders of firstmovr and CPG veterans Oskar Kaszubski and Chris Perry drop in for the latest CPG Scoop discussion with Risa and Jennifer. Oskar and Chris discuss how the 'The Sea' and 'Insanity' are great descriptors for...

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Jan. 17, 2023

Mert Damlapinar: Principal, CPG Business Consulting, EPAM Systems

Mert Damlapinar, Principal of CPG Business Consulting, Digital Commerce Acceleration at EPAM Systems, joins Jennifer and Risa to talk about the impact and evolution of Channel-less Commerce as we head into 2023. Mert also ta...

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Jan. 3, 2023

Imteaz Ahamed: Director of Performance Marketing, Reckitt

Imteaz joins the CPG Scoop from sunny Sydney, and talks about his journey to his current role as Director of Performance Marketing at Reckitt. Imteaz gained broad experience covering sales, ecommerce, DTC, retail media, and ...

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