Derrick is Commercial Director with StayinFront, an organization that provides a Retail Optimization Platform (ROP) with advanced analytics driven by machine learning and AI.

He brings extensive experience to this role from CPG industry where he has held various Director level positions responsible for Customer to Cash, Sales Planning, Retail and Key Account Sales Systems, Big Data Analytics, Post Merger Integration, and Transformational Change Project Implementations.  Scope of his roles have included both Canada and North America. 

Stuart has recently retired from Mondelez International where he most recently held the position of Senior Director Global Sales Execution & Analytics, where he was responsible for the strategic development of Sales execution program to drive efficiency of sales through the greater use of integrated data. Previously he had been responsible for deployment of Sales Automation solutions to over 50 countries in a 4 year period, working with a single provider but matching a single process with adaptation for local business needs.

In his 38 years in FMCG he has managed integrations, revenue management programs across regions and previous experiences working in business units across all sales roles including Category Management, channel Marketing and Senior sales leadership roles.

Michael Marzano is currently a Visiting Professor of Food Marketing at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, PA where he brings over 30 years’ experience in the food and CPG industry to the classroom. Mike has had success developing creative approaches leveraging data and analytics to stimulate interest, curiosity and engagement leading to data-driven process improvement.  He has delivered improvements and efficiencies across Category Management, Shopper Insights, Retail Execution and Supply-Chain initiatives.  

Mike holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Binghamton University (NY) and a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from NYU-Polytechnic University (NY). Mike is a POI Certified Collaborative Marketer™ and is currently an Advisory Board member at the Promotion Optimization Institute (POI).