CGT Executive Council Member Insight

Executive Council members discuss the latest industry trends and provide their perspectives on the challenges and opportunities facing consumer goods and retail companies.

Learn more about the Executive Council members in these interviews with CGT editors.

Adapting and Excelling: Insights from Tata Consultancy Service’s Saurabh Atri

As part of the CGT/RIS Executive Council, Saurabh Atri brings a deep understanding and enthusiasm for retail and consumer goods technology to the table, offering a unique lens through which to navigate the challenges of an industry in constant motion.
Thriving Through Change: Insights from NTT DATA's Jeff Van Pelt

As part of the CGT/RIS Executive Council, Van Pelt shares decades' worth of knowledge in the CPG industry with fellow members, offering insights that serve as a compass for staying ahead in a business that is anything but predictable.
Gaining the Agile Advantage: Tips from Accelerate360's Trey Holder

As a member of the RIS & CGT Executive Council, Accelerate360's Trey Holder sheds light on the consumer trends that companies should keep top of mind and provides insight on how to remain agile and ahead of the game.
Tapping Into Retail Partnerships, Consumer Trends, and Emerging Tech: Tips From Digimarc’s Judy Moon

As a CGT/RIS Executive Council member, Digimarc's Judy Moon taps into some of the emerging tech happening in the consumer goods and retail industries, shifting consumer trends that companies should have on their radar, and tips for better leveraging retail partnerships.
Preparing for the Future of IT: Trends and Takeaways From Infosys’ Parag Jain

Jain uncovers some of the most standout trends in the IT evolution, identifying the industry’s state of readiness, the opportunities that still exist (and where leadership should invest additional resources), and other takeaways executives should have on their radar.
Tapping Into Tech: An Inside Look With Google Cloud’s Carrie Tharp

Google Cloud's Carrie Tharp recently shared her thoughts on some of today’s standout topics, including digitizing the store experience and the various emerging technologies brands can tap into to better engage with consumers.
Owning the Cycle of a Promising Future: Up Close With Visionet’s Werner Graf

The CGT/RIS Executive Council member recently shared his thoughts on some of today’s most pressing issues in the CG and retail communities, including what may be the most exciting commerce opportunity on the horizon.
Data Analytics Innovation: Up Close with Alteryx’s Gib Bassett

Bassett has identified patterns among those achieving value from their analytics investments, and he enjoys telling the stories to others wanting to similarly improve. We caught up with the CGT/RIS Executive Council member to learn more about these stories, as well as the data, analytics, and tech innovations on his radar.
Defining the Modern Enterprise: Up Close with Softtek’s David Jiménez

For David Jiménez, managing director, CPG, at Softtek, talent management is a subject he’s quite passionate about. We caught up with the CGT/RIS Executive Council member to learn his thoughts on how brands are shifting their strategies and investments to remain competitive in this new landscape, as well as where more work needs to be done.
Engaging in the Moment: Up Close with Treasure Data’s Danica Konetski

We caught up with the exec to get her thoughts on how companies can prepare for the future of direct-to-consumer, what’s effecting real change in personalization, and the e-commerce metrics worth prioritizing.
Boosting Supply Chain Challenges Through Advanced Technologies: Up Close with Zebra Technologies' Guy Yehiav

We checked in with Guy Yehiav, general manager of Zebra Analytics and a member of the CGT/RIS Executive Council, to get his perspective on the promise of AI in retail and consumer goods, as well as some of the ways companies are leveraging prescriptive analytics right now.
Uncovering Supply Chain’s True Game-Changer: Up Close with SAS’ Richard Widdowson

We chatted with Widdowson, who’s a member of the CGT/RIS Executive Council, about retail’s shifting landscape, the power of collaboration, and the challenges that come with operating within a living, breathing — and ever-changing — supply chain.

Members share their perspective and expertise through thought leadership and editorial coverage that explores today's top-of-mind issues.

Santa Baby, One Thing We Really Need ... Some Christmas Commercialism

Stores have used Christmas to drive the economy, and frankly Christmas has used commercialism to, as Ralphie puts it, secure its place as the date around which “the entire kid year revolved.” Learn more about holiday trends from Executive Council member Werner Graf.
U.S. Glass Shortage Putting a Crack in CPG Sustainability Efforts

Glass remains one of the oldest and most-trusted packaging materials, with a history dating back over 5,000 years. See how it has evolved across CPG manufacturing.
The Pride of the Consumer Goods Industry: Innovation

What Werner Graf learned down in New Orleans very early in his career was that there was really only one way to drive big wins — especially in a stoic, mundane business that had been frozen in time: innovation. Learn more.
A Love Letter to Transparency and Communication

This isn't another article on the inflation-adjusted cost of flowers or comparing same-store sales of candy hearts at Walmart. It’s not about flowers and lace-cut cards. It’s about the marriage, not the honeymoon.
A Path to E-commerce Excellence

Today's sellers need to appear in a lot of different places to maximize consumer reach throughout the buying process. While it may seem overwhelming, here are steps to accelerate your brand on the path to e-commerce excellence:
CPGs Are Under Pressure. Is Cloud the Relief Valve?

Companies need to find new sources of efficiencies, and one of the key levers would be to look at unlocking value in the way CPG companies manufacture products.
The Power of Location-Based & Behavioral Marketing In a Hyper-Personalized World

2021 is expected to be the year of hyper-relevant messages as part of the eternal battle to gain consumer’s attention. Building and managing the atomic elements of the creative copy will allow to capture dynamic audiences in the physical space and deliver fast activations contextual to real-life events such as weather forecast.
How CPGs Can Evolve For an Omnichannel Commerce Experience

Over a year into the COVID pandemic, it’s clear that shopping behaviors have shifted dramatically. Digitally influenced sales continue to increase, and digital sales overall have been boosted due to the shift to online shopping.
Why Advanced Technology is the Key to CPG & Retail Collaboration

Now more than ever, it’s essential for CPG and retail to learn from the past, optimize the present and align with the future through unified partnerships.
Systems-Driven Modeling Can Accelerate the Value of Digital Transformation in CPG

Digital transformation as we've been doing it is not enough. It won't deliver the innovation and operational resilience needed to win in today’s constant change and challenge. Companies that can embrace systems thinking will accelerate value from their digital transformations.

Adapting and Excelling: Insights from Tata Consultancy Service’s Saurabh Atri

Thriving Through Change: Insights from NTT DATA's Jeff Van Pelt

Gaining the Agile Advantage: Tips from Accelerate360's Trey Holder

Tapping Into Retail Partnerships, Consumer Trends, and Emerging Tech: Tips From Digimarc’s Judy Moon

Preparing for the Future of IT: Trends and Takeaways From Infosys’ Parag Jain

Tapping Into Tech: An Inside Look With Google Cloud’s Carrie Tharp

Owning the Cycle of a Promising Future: Up Close With Visionet’s Werner Graf

Data Analytics Innovation: Up Close with Alteryx’s Gib Bassett

Defining the Modern Enterprise: Up Close with Softtek’s David Jiménez

Engaging in the Moment: Up Close with Treasure Data’s Danica Konetski

Boosting Supply Chain Challenges Through Advanced Technologies: Up Close with Zebra Technologies' Guy Yehiav

Uncovering Supply Chain’s True Game-Changer: Up Close with SAS’ Richard Widdowson

Santa Baby, One Thing We Really Need ... Some Christmas Commercialism

U.S. Glass Shortage Putting a Crack in CPG Sustainability Efforts

The Pride of the Consumer Goods Industry: Innovation

A Love Letter to Transparency and Communication

A Path to E-commerce Excellence

CPGs Are Under Pressure. Is Cloud the Relief Valve?

The Power of Location-Based & Behavioral Marketing In a Hyper-Personalized World

How CPGs Can Evolve For an Omnichannel Commerce Experience

Why Advanced Technology is the Key to CPG & Retail Collaboration

Systems-Driven Modeling Can Accelerate the Value of Digital Transformation in CPG